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Welcome to Sunday! Our top five articles of the week are displayed below.
A good read you may have missed: With COVID-19 deaths on the rise, Americans are facing the coming winter with some trepidation. New advances on vaccines offer hope, but even the luckiest among us will spend the next few months waiting for our turn to get a shot. How to cope? A 2017 story by philosophy lecturer Robert S. Colter looked to stoic philosophy as a means of fighting depression. It’s also good advice for the hard winter ahead.
Happy reading, and enjoy the rest of your weekend.
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Increasingly, Americans seem to have irreconcilable differences over the pandemic, the economy – even the result of the 2020 election.
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Joel Christensen, Brandeis University
Homer and Aeschylus turned to the divine to write their happy endings. But no gods are conspiring above the US, ready to swoop down and save humankind from itself.
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A laboratory technician wearing full personal protective equipment handles live samples taken from people tested for the coronavirus.
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Rodney E. Rohde, Texas State University
The pandemic is placing strain not just on doctors and nurses but the medical laboratory professionals who conduct the billions of medical tests behind the scenes.
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