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Guest Essay How Covid Stole Our Time and How We Can Get It Back Feb. 25, 2022 Credit... Mikel Jaso By Mr. Urban is the author of Wait but Why , a stick-figure-illustrated blog about almost everything.

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VOZNESENSK, Ukraine—A Kalashnikov rifle slung over his shoulder, Voznesensk’s funeral director, Mykhailo Sokurenko, spent this Tuesday driving through fields and forests, picking up dead Russian soldi

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It’s so simple that it can be easy to overlook: In the commotion of daily life, people forget to thank their partner for the myriad things they do. During the pandemic, significant others have made ev

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As I write about in the philosophy of Westworld , life is really about meaning loops. They’re the structures that make us want to strive and improve, and that make life matter. Everybody has them. For

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CONCORD, N.H. — The omicron variant is rapidly spreading in New Hampshire, health officials said Tuesday, noting that more than 90% of COVID-19 specimens tested Monday showed evidence of the new varia

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A lot is still unknown around Omicron, but a worrying trend has become clear: This variant sure is spreading fast. In South Africa , the U.K. , and Denmark —countries with the best variant surveillanc

Updated at 3:21 p.m. ET on December 9, 2021. Technically, the next attempt to overthrow a national election may not qualify as a coup. It will rely on subversion more than violence, although each will

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For as long as there have been computers, there have been bugs. That’s damn near 100 years and an uncountable number of bugs, some big, some small, some with wings, some that lived for decades. If the

Updated at 5:10 p.m. ET on August 18, 2021 I n September 2020 , just before COVID-19 began its wintry surge through the United States, I wrote that the country was trapped in a pandemic spiral, seemin

Abstract Background There is growing concern about possible cognitive consequences of COVID-19, with reports of ‘Long COVID’ symptoms persisting into the chronic phase and case studies revealing neuro

A remarkable new study by a director at one of the largest accounting firms in the world has found that a famous, decades-old warning from MIT about the risk of industrial civilization collapsing appe

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Jp Valery I can’t begin to count the number of times I have heard development teams say things like this: “We don’t have time to fix that.” “Product won’t let us fix our technical debt.” “All we do is