How might we leverage knowing that a particular neurological feature makes someone more vulnerable to autism or Alzheimer’s or more likely to achieve academically?
Tag: Research
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A Door-to-Door Effort to Find Out Who Died Helps Low-Income Countries Aid the Living
Many developing countries don’t keep official death records. A novel effort uses “electronic autopsies” to count deaths, and record their cause.
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Four Americans Were Infected With a Virus Variant Seen in Mink
The cluster is the first known instance of likely animal-to-human transmission in the United States.
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India Is Stalling the W.H.O.’s Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public
The agency has calculated that 15 million people have died as a result of the pandemic, far more than earlier estimates, but has yet to release those numbers.
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We Have a Creativity Problem
Outwardly, we praise innovation. Inwardly, we harbor a visceral aversion to it, studies have found.