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The 4-Day Week Is Flawed. Workers Still Want It

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Business

The 4-Day Week Is Flawed. Workers Still Want It

4 years ago Curated by John Wysocki

Photo credit: Eugenio Marongiu / Getty Images. Article by Caitlin Harrington. Wired - February 3, 2022. Workers say the shortened workweek...

Biden to give away 400 million N95 masks starting next week

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Health & Technology

Biden to give away 400 million N95 masks starting next week

4 years ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo: FILE - Registered nurse Jessalynn Dest pulls on a new N95 mask as indentations remain from another she had...

Like COVID-19, the Black Death had its own "truther" movement, too

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Health & Technology

Like COVID-19, the Black Death had its own “truther” movement, too

4 years ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image caption: 15th-century manuscript illustration of Moses spreading the plague of boils (Historica Graphica Collection / Heritage Images / Getty...

Medical technologies have been central to US pandemic response – but social behaviors matter just as much

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Health & Technology

Medical technologies have been central to US pandemic response – but social behaviors matter just as much

4 years ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image caption: This graph shows the tuberculosis death rate in Massachusetts from 1861-1970 and in the U.S. overall from 1900-2014... Ljstalpers/Wikimedia...