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Business Science Health

“We Are Slowly Being Poisoned.”

How toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on planes.

Kiera Feldman Los Angeles Times Dec 2020 25min Permalink

Best Article Health Travel

We're Here to See the Great Doomed Thing

A husband’s stroke, the Australian bushfires, and a trip to the Great Barrier Reef.

Robert Moor Outside Dec 2020 25min Permalink

Health

Tethered to the Machine

For years, JaMarcus Crews tried to get a new kidney, but corporate healthcare stood in the way. He needed dialysis to stay alive. He couldn’t miss a session, not even during a pandemic.

Lizzie Presser ProPublica 30min Permalink

Best Article Science Health

How Science Beat the Virus

And what it lost in the process.

Ed Yong The Atlantic Dec 2020 20min Permalink

Health

Doylestown family's emails show a ‘sucker punch’ COVID-19 tragedy unfolding in real time

Over three weeks, COVID-19 delivered “cheap shots.” It took hostages. And it left the Malinowski family with with pain, loss and grief.

Jennifer Pignolet Akron Beacon Journal Dec 2020 15min Permalink

Health

What the Chaos in Hospitals Is Doing to Doctors

The ethical burdens of the ICU during Covid.

Jordan Kisner The Atlantic Dec 2020 30min Permalink

Business Health

Tony Hsieh’s American Tragedy: The Self-Destructive Last Months Of The Zappos Visionary

When the business icon died in a fire last week, questions abounded. The answers seem rooted in a Covid-period spiral, where he turned to drugs and shunned old friends.

Angel Au-Yeung, David Jeans Forbes Dec 2020 Permalink

Health

Death at Freedom Square

How could the coronavirus overwhelm a Florida nursing home so quickly?

Leonora LaPeter Anton, Kavitha Surana, Kathryn Varn Tampa Bay Times Dec 2020 25min Permalink

Best Article Health

Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong

Years from now, we will look back in horror at the counterproductive ways we addressed the obesity epidemic and the barbaric ways we treated fat people—long after we knew there was a better path.

Michael Hobbes Huffington Post Highline Sep 2018 30min Permalink

Politics Health

How One of the Reddest States Became the Nation’s Hottest Weed Market

Welcome to Toke-la-homa.

Paul Demko Politico Nov 2020 Permalink

Health Media

The Reigning Queen of Pandemic Yoga

A profile of YouTube yogi Adriene Mishler

Molly Young New York Times Magazine Permalink

Science Health

Covid's Cassandra: The Swift, Complicated Rise of Eric Feigl-Ding

He’s an expert on Twitter virality, but not on infectious disease. Does he do more help or harm?

Jane C. Hu Undark Nov 2020 Permalink

Health

Tainted Earth

In Alabama, entrenched poverty and unusual geology have created a public-health disaster.

Alexis Okeowo New Yorker Nov 2020 25min Permalink

Best Article Health

The Promise That Tested My Parents Until the End

A couple, a caregiver, and a promise.

Christopher Solomon GQ Nov 2020 20min Permalink

Science Health

The Last Children of Down Syndrome

Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.

Sarah Zhang The Atlantic Nov 2020 35min Permalink

Health

‘Like Being Grilled Alive’: The Fear of Living With a Hackable Heart

A device connected to my heart could save my life. It could also be hacked.

Jameson Rich OneZero Nov 2020 Permalink

Business Health

Inside the Chaotic, Cutthroat Gray Market for N95 Masks

As the country heads into a dangerous new phase of the pandemic, the government’s management of the P.P.E. crisis has left the private sector still straining to meet anticipated demand.

Doug Bock Clark New York Times Magazine Nov 2020 25min Permalink

Health

Immune Disorder

At a laboratory in Manhattan, researchers have discovered how SARS-CoV-2 uses our defenses against us.

James Somers The New Yorker Nov 2020 30min Permalink

Health

What to Do About Ahav?

A mother’s fight to save a Black, mentally ill 11-year-old boy in a time of a pandemic and rising racial unrest.

Hannah Dreier Washington Post Oct 2020 Permalink

Politics Science Health

Data Disappeared

Data is the lifeblood of a functioning government. Over the past four years, the Trump administration has destroyed, disappeared, or distorted vast swaths of the information the state needs to protect the vulnerable, safeguard our health, and alert us to emerging crises.

Samanth Subramanian Huffington Post Highline Oct 2020 50min Permalink

Crime Health

Dying to Be Seen

“I watched my friend dying on Facebook. But it was all a GoFundMe scam.”

Sarah Treleaven OneZero Oct 2020 25min Permalink

Science Health

The Tree That Could Help Stop the Pandemic

The rare Chilean soapbark tree produces compounds that can boost the body’s reaction to vaccines.

Brendan Borrell The Atlantic Oct 2020 25min Permalink

Health

‘Something Extremely Bad Is Happening Here’

Teens are dying by suicide at an alarming rate. Public health officials call it a crisis. Researchers have identified several clusters nationwide. The survivors in this Arizona community are fighting back.

Matthew Shaer Esquire Oct 2020 25min Permalink

Politics Health

Inside the Fall of the CDC

How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.

James Bandler, Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella, Kirsten Berg ProPublica Oct 2020 50min Permalink

World Health

On a Bender in the Grecian Isle Where Himbos Reign Supreme

Partying in Kavos during the pandemic.

Ben Munster MEL Magazine Oct 2020 Permalink

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