Author: alex.berezow
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Distribution and analysis of English words by length and number of unique letters
The full project, including a Jupyter Notebook with Python code, is on GitHub.
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Map of U.S. Men’s National Team Records Against the World (1872-2024)
Data is up to date as of January 2024.
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Closed Borders Will Not Keep Out More Infectious Forms of COVID
Border closing efforts serve as a distractions. We need to focus on known methods of disease control — vaccination, masks and social distancing. Read the rest at USA Today.
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Vaccine Administration Is Much Harder than It Seems
Substantial logistical challenges and vaccine refusal by health care providers have contributed to a slow vaccine rollout. Better policies could fix this. Read the rest at USA Today.
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The Geopolitics of Vaccine Distribution
Inoculations are a welcome development, but the public should temper its excitement. Read the rest at Geopolitical Futures.
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Cyberattacks as a Public Health Threat
The first known death from a cyberattack raises the prospect that malware could be more than just a financial crime. Read the rest at Geopolitical Futures.
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The Trouble With a Premature Vaccine
Hope is beginning to fade that the world will have a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine before the predicted “second wave” arrives that will further suppress economic activity and recovery. Despite an unprecedented global effort, a deliverable vaccine might still be months away. Almost certainly it won’t be ready by October as many hoped. Dr.…
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Vaccine Nationalism Is an Exaggerated Threat
Nationalism is all the rage these days. Following decades of globalization, the pendulum has begun to swing back the other direction, triggering fears that nationalist policies will lead to a breakdown in international cooperation and a destabilization of the world order. This, in turn, has led to much hand-wringing over “vaccine nationalism,” the notion that…
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Book Review: Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World
Modern society is far removed from the reality of death. That was not the case for the vast majority of human history, when parents would produce multiple offspring in the hope that a few might survive to adulthood. Well into the 20th century, infectious diseases cut lives tragically short, often in gruesome ways, radically transforming…
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The Geopolitical Importance of the WHO
In 1958, the Soviet Union proposed a global effort to eradicate smallpox, a disease that kills roughly a third of those it infects, including 300 million in the 20th century alone. On Dec. 9, 1979, it was completely eradicated. This public health triumph – perhaps the greatest in the history of mankind – would not have…