Zika Emergency Puts Open Data Policies to the Test
The Zika outbreak comes at a time of ongoing advances in data sharing policy, including a new call by the Wellcome Trust for journals and research funders to support open sharing of Zika research. PLOS Medicine Chief Editor Larry Peiperl and PLOS NTDs co-Editor-in-Chief Peter Hotez call on researchers to make full use of these opportunities.
“You Showed Us What Hope Looked Like”
Hope is a scarce commodity behind bars, but a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor and 25 life-sentence-serving inmates are trying to regrow it.
Sunday Comics
There are no angels left in America anymore! They left after the Second World War, heading west — stopping briefly in Japan during the 60’s and then in Tianamen Square during the 80s. They kept heading west to who knows where…What are they after?
Sunday Comics
Bacharach and David used to write his favorite songs. Never, never, never would he worry; he’d run and fetch the ball — but the hip hop and the white funk just blew away my puppy’s mind!
Vaccinating the World: If We Had Grown Ups in Charge
Dean Baker makes the case for open source COVID-19 research and vaccines.
Three Tacoma Police Officers Charged With Murder Of Manuel Ellis
Mark Taylor-Canfield reports on the Manuel Ellis police murder trial.
Sunday Comics
Democrazy./DEMO-CRAZY/Crazy demo/Demonstration of craze/Crazy demonstration/If it no be craze/Why for Afrika?/As time dey go/Things just dey bad/They bad more and more/Poor man dey cry/Rich man dey mess/Demo-crazy/Democrazy
Existential Road Trip, 1993
Dennis Nyback gets divorced, turns 40, and goes on the road in this reminiscence.

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