As the experience of the pandemic has shown, there's usually a lag of a week or two between a rise in cases and hospitalizations, followed by a subsequent lag for deaths. Hancock said the government's strategy is to suppress the virus while keeping schools and offices open before “the c...
On Thursday, 84-year-old Saburo Kawabuchi, the former head of the governing body of Japanese soccer, gave interviews and said he had talked with the 83-year-old Mori and was likely to be his successor. That news — that another elderly man was taking over — exploded Friday morning on ...
I was confused: Is there something wrong with this kid? Then I realized what was happening. He was actually a stranger to books. His father frequently amused the boy with a tablet computer which was loaded with colorful pictures that come alive when you poke them. He thought my storybook...
"There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed," Taylor Swift wrote of her new album. From grapplings with fame to ultra-personal reflections on love lost, her latest set of fountain and quill pen songs marks the end of an era.
Children in Copenhagen play during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Endemic viruses are often first encountered in childhood. Credit: Liselotte Sabroe/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/GettyFor much of the past year, life in Western Australia has been coronavirus-free. Friends gathered in pubs; people kissed and hugged...
Here we go then, another attempt at running a blog. Hole in the Wall Posted on25 March 2020 From this (rotten, been there years and been getting worse, had it ‘repaired’ twice so far). To this (done it myself, over two weeks, bit by bit, don’t care about how messy it looks...
Once the bubble exists, it just sits there until the gas redissolves into the surrounding liquid. 3 A bubble already exists, and it’s easy to stretch it as the joint extends without making another one. 4 This has been revealed, both by systematic scientific studies and by allergist ...
There is also evidence that he was returning to more traditional free-market capitalism towards the end of his life, as he was considering ways to get post-war Britain out of an economic hole. Shortly before his death in 1946, he told his friend, Henry Clay, that he found himself relying...
Say a dilapidated warehouse collapses during an earthquake and injures bystanders. The owner claims an act of God caused the building to fall. However, the insurer will likely deny theclaim, and there may be no recourse in court because the owner did not take reasonable care to maintain the ...
Making predictions about where the economy is headed and the impact of certain events can be tricky. Grey swans are events that have the potential for significant impacts but may not necessarily occur. Though they may not happen, grey swans should not be ignored. Rather, there should be plans...