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Food
‘Tripledemic’ Rages On: Fever-Filled Weeks Lie Ahead
R.S.V. has probably peaked, but flu is still surging and Covid-19 cases are rising. Scientists are hopeful next winter will…
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US
Why Humboldt Is Vulnerable to Earthquakes
The Mendocino Triple Junction generates an average of 80 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater each year.
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News
China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Obsession Is Gone, but the Trauma Lingers
SHANGHAI — For nearly three years, leaving my apartment involved a routine not unlike an aircraft pilot’s before takeoff. Mask:…
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Finance
TikTok Class Is in Session
Those who can go viral do. And they may also teach a class or two while they’re at it.
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News
Was the World Collapsing? Or Were You Just Freaking Out?
What should we make of this year in America? There’s an argument that this is the end, or the beginning…
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World
Dutch Prime Minister Apologizes for His Country’s Role in the Slave Trade
People were “exploited and abused in the name of the Dutch state,” Mark Rutte said, but some descendants of enslaved…
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World
From Zero Covid to No Plan: Behind China’s Pandemic U-Turn
After micromanaging the coronavirus strategy for nearly three years, the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, has suddenly left the populace to…
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World
How Can Tainted Spinach Cause Hallucinations?
A food recall from Australia sheds light on an unusual aspect of brain chemistry.
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World
How Dapper Dan, Harlem Haberdasher, Spends His Sundays
The style icon is a news obsessive, a reader, a salsa dancer and a churchgoer (he skips the sermons, though).
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News
My So-So Encounters with ChatGPT
A mountain man buys his first chain saw. He comes back to the store a week later complaining that it…