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The Covid-19 Pandemic Is a Crisis That Robots Were Built For
Matt Simon//38 views/1 comments
To revisit this article, select My Account, then View saved stories. We humans weren’t ready for the novel coronavirus—and neither were the machines. The pand...
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If Robots Steal So Many Jobs, Why Aren't They Saving Us Now?
Matt Simon//21 views
Modern capitalism has never seen anything quite like the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In a matter of months, the deadly contagious bug has spread around the w...
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An Expert Answers the 50 Most Googled Coronavirus Questions
Matt Simon//39 views/2 comments
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to whip around the world, killing thousands of people and overloading hospitals, you’ve probably turned to Google to answe...
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Mass Panic Is Unlikely, Even During a Pandemic
Matt Simon//38 views
There’s an old trope that when faced with disaster, human beings lose all rationality, running around panicking, looting and trampling one another. But that, as...
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Why the Coronavirus Hit Italy So Hard
Matt Simon//40 views/1 comments
With the world descending deeper and deeper into coronavirus chaos, we all face unnerving unknowns: how long we’ll have to remain in isolation, when the pandem...
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What Is a Quarantine?
Matt Simon//35 views
As the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 continues its relentless spread across the globe—the World Health Organization officially declared it a pandemic Wednesday—g...
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The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Bringing Down Emissions, but Not for Long
Matt Simon//36 views/1 comments
If you’re reading this at home—isolated because your company has mandated that everyone work remotely, lest you all spread the novel coronavirus—know that your ...
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The Teeny-Tiny Flying Dino With a Mouth Full of Needle Teeth
Matt Simon//37 views/3 comments
Some 100 million years ago in a seaside mangrove swamp in what we humans now call Myanmar, a truly bizarre dinosaur flitted about, stalking its insect prey. Its...