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We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep

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― William James   William was single, in his mid-thirties, had recently moved to a new town, and worked out of his apartment as a freelance graphic designer.   Most of his close friends were drifting away due to marriages and relationships, children being born and raised, and escalating job pressures.  He was not particularly tight with his family.  As a result of this confluence of non-connection, William was lonely.  So when he heard that a nearby community center hosted a “Saturday Night Social” each week,  he summoned his courage, shoved aside his natural shyness, bought some new denim jeans and...

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We can learn a lot by studying the systems that led to the emergence of the novel coronavirus, its fast spread around the world, and remaining effects

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The world will be different afterward. How did we get here? And where might we go? Cocktail Animal-to-animal mixing If you’ve followed the COVID-19 story you’ve probably heard a lot about wet markets. Years ago it was normal practice for me to shop for food in them. I was actually taught to cook by people shopping in wet markets, where you can select a live chicken and return to pick it up, slaughtered. Or pick out a live fish and return to pick it up scaled and gutted. But I’ve never shopped in a place like the Wuhan Huanan wet...

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