According to a "parasite stress" hypothesis, authoritarian governments are more likely to emerge in regions characterized by a high prevalence of disease-causing pathogens. Recent cross-national evidence is consistent with this hypothesis, but there are inferential…

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Berlin is trying to stop Washington from persuading a German company seeking a coronavirus vaccine to move its research to the United States, prompting German politicians to insist no country should have a monopoly on any future vaccine.

See a real-world example of how Google’s SRE practices can identify and help fix issues, even at the bottom of the hardware stack.

Reports indicate the Trump administration offered large sums of money to secure rights for a prospective coronavirus vaccine 'only for the USA.'

More than 200 scientists write to the government calling for tougher measures to tackle Covid-19.

There's an argument you see around sometimes about Henry Ford's decision to pay his workers those famed $5 a day wages. It was that he realised that he should pay his workers sufficiently large sums to that they could afford the products they were making.…

I’m trying to fund startups/projects helping with COVID-19, because it’s basically the one thing I know how to do that can help.  I think we will soon have enough testing capacity, so now I’d like...

In many authoritarian countries where news sources and books are censored, the video game Minecraft is not

Hi all, I am pleased to announce the first release of Gopcaml-mode, a new emacs library that aims to extend the existing OCaml editing experience with structural editing capabilities. A picture is worth a thousand words, so I’ll cut to the chase, and start…

Vulnerable people should not be exposed to Covid-19 right now in the service of a hypothetical future, says William Hanage, a professor of the evolution and epidemiology of infectious disease at Harvard

Costica Bradatan looks back at, and behind, the life and thought of Umberto Eco, who waged a long war against “dietrologia” (“behindology”)....

There's a great NYTimes interactive graphic w/ a slider you can use to model out various assumptions around when social distancing measures are put into place, and how strong they are. That interactive graphic goes hand-in-hand with this FB Post by Jason…

Communist Party's propaganda efforts powerless in face of coronavirus anger

A team of scientists report the cryo-EM structure of the full-length human ACE2 protein—the point of entry for the SARS-CoV-2 virus into human cells.