oversuppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests, and we really need to defuse that bomb by managing our forests and our wildlands in fundamentally different ways.

George Whitesides — TED Radio Hour

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People who die from Ebola remain highly infectious. That's why burial teams are trained to handle them in protective gear, to disinfect the body and keep families from touching the dead. But those rules are breaking down.

The New York Times

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If we're not in crisis mode in health care in the United States, we're almost there.

The New York Times

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