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5 Things to Remember Before Launching a New Blog Want to start a new blog of your own? Of course you do! Not only is it a great decision, it’s also very simple and easy to get up and running — with pretty much no technical design or programming skills required. No matter what your interests are, why you want to have a site online, or even if you are just playing around with the idea… a blog is a great place to start. In fact, some of the most famous influencers, people, authors, celebriti...

NIAID / The Atlantic A few minutes before midnight on March 4, 2020, the two of us emailed every U.S. state and the District of Columbia with a simple question: How many people have been tested in your state, total, for the coronavirus? By then, about 150 people had been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the United States, and 11 had died of the disease. Yet the CDC had stopped publicly reporting the number of Americans tested for the virus. Without that piece of data, the tally of cases was impossibl...

The Atlantic Yes, all of the COVID-19 vaccines are very good. No, they’re not all the same. Adam Maida / Getty / The Atlantic Public-health officials are enthusiastic about the new, single-shot COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson, despite its having a somewhat lower efficacy at preventing symptomatic illness than other available options. Although clinical-trial data peg that rate at 72 percent in the United States, compared with 94 and 95 percent for the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccin...

The Atlantic A popular theory that some people learn better visually or aurally keeps getting debunked. China Stringer Network / Reuters In the early ’90s, a New Zealand man named Neil Fleming decided to sort through something that had puzzled him during his time monitoring classrooms as a school inspector. In the course of watching 9,000 different classes, he noticed that only some teachers were able to reach each and every one of their students. What were they doing differently? Fleming zer...

The Atlantic Statehood for Washington, D.C., is a matter of justice. February 21, 2021 Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic A couple of years ago, in the halcyon days before the pandemic, I went with a small group of friends to visit Cedar Hill, Frederick Douglass’s house in the southeastern corner of Washington, D.C. On the way there, we drove past the rowhouses of what used to be called Uniontown, the city’s first suburb, constructed in the 1850s in what was then farmland. Uniontown was ori...

Male Sex, BMI, Smoking, Depression Raise Biological Age by Angela Mohan on  February 10, 2021 at 2:30 PM eLife reports. Aging can be measured in different ways. While chronological age is measured by date of birth, scientists have developed a range of measurements to determine our biological age. These include measuring the length of telomeres (little caps on the end of our chromosomes that shorten as we grow older), chemical changes to our DNA (epigenetics), and changes to t...

The CDC has not provided an official definition of what it means for a COVID-19 patient to recover, in the sense of returning to a pre-COVID-19 state of health, but it does provide some guidance on when COVID-19 patients no longer need to be isolated. In its guidance for “discontinuation of Transmission-Based Precautions” for persons with COVID-19, the CDC recommends using a “symptom-based strategy,” which calls for releasing people with mild cases of COVID-19 from isolation 10 days aft...

Its not limited to just giving kids new tools, its really about empowering educators ch in fferent ways, and exposing kids to more active forms of learning. giving technology is not a total solution. teaching technology, now that is.