ImageCredit…Illustration by Gray Beltran/The New York Times and Tanner Curtis/The New York Times Like Frankenstein’s creature, they trail us across time and terra. Let’s set ourselves free. May 18, 2020 “I wear the chain I forged in life,” the ghost of Jacob Marley once complained to a former co-worker. “I made it link by link,…
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ImageCredit…Illustration by Aliza Aufrichtig/The New York Times and Rumsey Taylor/The New York Times By Lesley M. M. Blume Why Super Mario Bros. brought me to tears. May 18, 2020 One evening, a few weeks ago, at 8 p.m., my husband and I put our young daughter to bed as usual. At 8:01 p.m., I was…
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ImageCredit…Illustrations by Tom JollyThe New York Times and Tom Bodkin/The New York Times By Max Read May 18, 2020 I’m not, traditionally, a breakfast person. I can house a fry-up, but only when the occasion calls for it — say, hypothetically, an extra drink or six the night before — and, sure, I’ll dip into…
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ImageCredit…Illustration by Rebecca Lieberman/The New York Times By Brian Keith Jackson Scrolling through my Instagram search page is hope for the future, an opportunity to step outside of my isolation, or at least outside the house. May 18, 2020 I’m in Dakar, Senegal. I haven’t left the house since Feb. 27. The airport isn’t expected…
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ImageCredit…Illustration by Shane O’Neill/The New York Times and Adriana Ramic/The New York Times By Aminatou Sow Some people are raising little sourdough bread children. I am learning photography. Learning is learning. May 18, 2020 In a memorable episode of “30 Rock,” Tracy Jordan says: “I’m just going through the classic stages of grief: fear, denial,…
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ImageCredit…Illustration by Andrew Sondern/The New York Times By Ross Gay It started with a mask. May 18, 2020 A month or so back, at the beginning of mask wearing out here in Bloomington, Ind., I was taking a walk and a friend pulled up in her little Toyota pickup truck. We chatted a bit from…
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In influencing the trajectory of the pandemic stage of an emerging pathogen, a population’s susceptibility to a novel disease is more influential than climate factors like humidity. The results – based on a model informed by climate-dependence of known coronaviruses – may inform researchers’ effort to understand the likely trajectory of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,…
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Local variations in climate are not likely to dominate the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Princeton University study published May 18 in the journal Science. The researchers found that the vast number of people still vulnerable to the strain of coronavirus causing the pandemic — SARS-CoV-2 — and the speed at…
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An analysis of genetic studies covering 266,000 women has revealed 32 new sites on the human genome where variations in DNA appear to alter the risks of getting breast cancer. The study lead and senior authors included researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The findings are thought to be the first to…
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Enzymes Edit SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the Body, Perhaps Fueling the Virus’ Evolution Two human deaminase enzymes edit the RNA of the SARS-CoV-2 virus when it enters a patient’s body, with implications for the evolution of the virus and the spread of the infection, according to a new study. The findings provide a first step towards…
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