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Letter: Don’t trust COVID-19 vaccines? Research their development Durango, Colorado Currently Tue 5% chance of precipitation 13% chance of precipitation 0% chance of precipitation 0% chance of precipitation Tuesday, April 20, 2021 5:03 AM Toggle font size Escuchar en Español: Loading the Español audio player... Deni Blaisch wrote (April 16, “Don’t be a health follower”) about not blindly being a health follower, and stated, “Research and educate yourself.” I suggest Deni follow that advice by reading Walter Issacson’s new book, T...

Matt Brim $26.95 Brim foregrounds a problem seldom considered by today’s elitist universities. Ivied halls point to well-attended Women’s and LGBTQ+ programs. Even if queer themselves, how many have stopped to consider their position vis-à-vis LGBTQ+ students or allies who are poor, attend “no-name” colleges, whose class and study time are fractured. Many lack a firmly-grounded curriculum, parental assistance; must work extra jobs to continue. Brim speaks from his base at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, one institution among many that educate the disadvantaged, the poor, who may ...

At last summer’s Aspen Ideas Festival, held virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci said he was “cautiously optimistic” that a vaccine would be available by late 2020 or 2021. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was correct, with health care workers some of the first to get vaccinated in December before doses became more widely available this year. Fauci, who also during a March 3, 2020, Aspen Institute podcast warned that a global pandemic was a likely reality because of the virus, returns to Aspen Ideas programming schedul...

Express Briefing: Texas Republicans push ahead with voting bills, despite backlash April 6, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Good morning. This is a look at our daily Express Briefing newsletter. Sign up for Express Briefing here. Subscribers get access to the full version of our Express Briefing newsletter, which includes exclusive insight and links to more of our best stories. To become a subscriber, take advantage of this special offer today. TOP STORIES As businesses and professional sports organizations boycott states that adopt restrictive voting legislation, Republicans in Texas are fightin...

Walter Isaacson at UC Berkeley while researching his book, ‘The Code Breakers.” If you have received either the Moderna or the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, you are benefiting from a biomedical tool called CRISPR. CRISPR technology enabled scientists to create both vaccines in record time, bypassing the clumsy and time-consuming methods employed in vaccine development in the past. The historic breakthrough that led to the now widespread use of CRISPR in biomedical labs around the world came only in 2012. And it won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry eight years later for a remarkab...