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francine hardaway
(content marketer, writer, editor, globe-trotter. co-founder stealthmode partners. marketing partner for entrepreneurs.)
Daily Commentary
I tried to choose the best of all the articles I’ve read this week, and even give you some funny stuff. We’re all on this retreat together, and I’m trying to educate and entertain. Less doom and gloom- more humanty
Larry Brilliant says he doesn't have a crystal ball. But 14 years ago, Brilliant, the epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox, spoke to a TED audience and described what the next pandemic would look like. At the time, it sounded almost too…
(CNN) With more and more people working from home, Walmart has picked up on an interesting trend: Tops have seen an increase in sales, while bottoms haven't. That's what Walmart's executive vice president of corporate affairs Dan Bartlett told…
We've made our coronavirus coverage free for all readers. Some of the HBR edit staff met virtually the other day — a screen full of faces in a scene becoming more common everywhere. We talked about the content we're commissioning in this…
francine hardawayYes, we've lost many things that are familiar to us, and that we thought were certain. This is what the practice of Buddhism is for.
As of March 20, more than 8,700 people worldwide had died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Caltech trustee David Ho (BS '74) of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Columbia…
francine hardawayI don’t blame people for not wanting to believe virologists. But I guess I side with science.
A heat map highlighting cellphone location data within the U.S. is providing a frightening insight into the movements of humans amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The data, collected by location technology company X-Mode, was recently plugged…
francine hardawaySo we are under surveillance already!
Townhall.com
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Walter E. Williams
– Mar 24, 9:01 PM
A recent report by Chris Stewart has shed new light on some of the educational problems faced by black youth. The report is titled 'The Secret Shame: How America's Most Progressive Cities Betray Their Commitment to Educational Opportunity for All.'…
francine hardawayThen there's gross fraud practiced by the education establishment. Numbers are always manipulated to be money for the system. I’ve seen this.
An employee checks the production of chloroquine phosphate at a pharmaceutical company in Nantong city in east China's Jiangsu province, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. (Getty Images) Despite the FDA's reluctance to endorse…
francine hardawayThe scientists who analyze drugs are beginning to be alarmed at how Trump talks about medical subjects.
The New York Times
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Nicholas Wade
– Mar 24, 3:00 AM
Researchers at Stanford University report that they can rejuvenate human cells by reprogramming them back to a youthful state. They hope that the technique will help in the treatment of diseases, such as osteoarthritis and muscle wasting, that are…
francine hardawayAlthough this won't help me, I hope it will help you:-)
Not being able to leave the house is boring, particularly if there's no one in the house for you to have sex with. As we all self-isolate amid the coronavirus crisis, it seems we're constantly looking for ways to get off – news which has…
francine hardawayThat's actually a great idea. After all, we have to do something...
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