The quest-a thirst unquenchable..

Quest - a thrust unquestionable..

“You have given me deeper thirsting after life. Surely there is no greater gift to a man than that which turns all his aims into parching lips and all life into a fountain. And in this lies my honour and my reward, – That whenever I come to the fountain to drink I find the living water itself thirsty; it drinks me while I drink it.” – Khalil Gibran

Category: Corona Special

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Corona Special / For members / Quest to share / View from Giants' shoulder

Coronavirus Update With Nicholas Christakis

Yale Sterling Professor Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH returns to JAMA’s Q&A series to discuss the surge in US cases and other recent pandemic developments. Dr. Christakis is author of the recently published book “Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We...

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APOLLO’S ARROW The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live-book Review

A review by David Quammen is the author, most recently, of “The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life.” Nicholas A. Christakis https://sociology.yale.edu/people/nicholas-christakis THE WAVES COME AT US. We are now being hit with the third wave of case numbers in the Covid-19 tsunami and the first...

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How pandemics change the world

COVID-19 is far from the first pandemic to wreak havoc in the world. A long line of infectious diseases have devastated and in some cases destroyed entire societies. Almost all of them started in animals and made the jump to humans. We are terrified of pandemics. And with...

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How coronavirus is changing the world | DW Documentary

How are democracies and authoritarian states reacting to the coronavirus pandemic? An investigative team is looking for clues worldwide and interviewing virologists, health experts and citizens. Where is the fight against COVID-19 working and where isn’t it? Nine months after the new coronavirus first appeared, the documentary “The...

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A moon/candle in the dark night / Corona Special / For members / View from Giants' shoulder

A PANDEMIC OF INCOMPETENCE – A Conversation with Nicholas Christakis

Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, where he directs the Human Nature Lab and is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2006, the...