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How to Think About Personal Risk When COVID Case Data Can’t Be Trusted
The numbers do still have some use, even if they’re less illuminating than before.
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Planet Observer / Universal Images Group; Getty; The … The Mauna Loa Eruption Is a Gift for Science
Volcanologists have the first opportunity in nearly four decades to examine and measure an event of this magnitude at the largest volcano in the world.
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Marcus Yam / Getty; The Atlantic Tracking the Mountain Lion That Ate a Chihuahua
The wildlife biologist Jeff Sikich talks about the famous cat, its habitat, and how to keep yourself—and your pets—safe.
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Erik Carter/The Atlantic; Getty We Still Don’t Know What Fundamentally Causes Canker Sores
But it’s probably the immune system’s fault.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty When Black Friday Is Your Super Bowl
How the editor of The Strategist plans for the biggest online shopping event of the year
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Andrew Harrer / Getty; The Atlantic The Harvard Business School Professor Who Isn’t Counting Elon Musk Out
Andy Wu makes the case that Twitter was in trouble long before the new CEO came aboard.
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Alfred Gescheidt / Getty No One’s Ever Become a Billionaire Quite Like This
Sudden-wealth expert Robert Pagliarini has some news one person can use.
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Alex Wroblewski / Getty Why Are the Election Results Taking So Long?
Five things to know about the vote count.
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Getty; The Atlantic What Managers Can Do About Burnout
“Folks don’t leave jobs; they leave managers,” says Jakada Imani, the CEO of the Management Center.
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Joe Sohm / Universal Images Group / Getty … The Halloween Scare That Won’t Go Away
For 40 years, Joel Best has tried to debunk the unfounded fear that bad actors might tamper with children’s trick-or-treat stashes.
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Getty One Store’s Decision to Leave San Francisco Over Crime
Cotopaxi’s CEO explains his decision to close its store in the “city of chaos.”
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Wesley Lapointe / Getty; The Atlantic Weirdly, Taylor Swift Is Extremely Close to Creating a True Metaverse
It’s just missing the 3-D space to virtually hang out in.
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Just Stop Oil / AP Just How Safe Is Great Art?
A museum-security expert admits that “it’s pretty darn hard to protect a painting from somebody throwing a can of soup at it.”
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Salvatore Laporta / Kontrolab / Getty The Very Real Lessons America Has Learned From COVID
And the very real ones it has not
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Ricardo Arduengo / Getty Escaping Hurricane Ian
An academic discusses the logistics of evacuating 2.5 million Floridians.
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Allen J. Schaben / Getty 11 COVID Questions People Still Have, Answered
What we know about Paxlovid, how to handle a positive test, and when to get a booster
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Scott Olson / Getty; The Atlantic Is Biden the Most Pro-Union President in History?
The labor historian Erik Loomis discusses the president’s intervention on behalf of railway workers.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty ‘The Cure for Burnout Is Not Self-Care’
Amelia Nagoski discusses quiet quitting.
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Ryan McPherson / BLM Alaska Fire Service Why Alaska’s Wildfire Season Was So Unusual
It’s not about how much burned—it’s about what burned.
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Getty / The Atlantic America Is Going to Have a ‘Heat Belt’
How can cities prepare for more regular extreme heat?
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Getty; The Atlantic ‘The Opposite of a Raid’
A former federal prosecutor explains what might have gone into the search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago.
