The historian Frank M. Snowden discusses the politics of restricting travel during epidemics, how inhumane responses to sickness have upended governments, and how artists have reacted to disease outbreaks.

Серб Йован Савович, создатель культовых интернет-проектов Лепрозорий и dirty.ru, впервые оказался в Москве в самый разгар августовского путча. Йован Савович: Был путч, и мы с папой и младшим братом вышли из гостиницы Белград, а там по Малому Арбату шли танки.…

Nowhere to go, no one to see, and nothing but time on your hands.

SARS-CoV-2 stability similar to original SARS virus.

We give our genes and our environment all the credit for making us who we are. But random noise during development might be just as important.

Like Japan in the mid-1800s, the United States now faces a crisis that disproves everything the country believes about itself