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The pandemic must be represented by a graph so that it can be managed figuratively, if not literally. The phrase “flatten the curve” and the inverted U-shaped plot now rule the fate of entire nations. With the rather sordid rates of testing for the novel coronavirus in India, the figurative register can at times seem more necessary to control than the actual disease incidences.
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Were it not for COVID-19, I would be in the United States right now. As a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego, I would be building my own daily routines—alone, by myself—in a foreign city.
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As in many other places, there is a debate now playing out in Japan that frames restrictions on the movement of people as inherently opposed to the economic interests of the nation. Economic revitalization has been the keystone of the second Abe administration…
The Teach311.org + COVID-19 collective and the History of Science ON CALL project are pleased to co-present this Note from the Field from historian Angela Ki Che Leung about the role of the humanities in understanding and dealing with the
概略：1096年の南海トラフ津波地震は駿河と伊勢海の海岸沿いの地域を破壊しました。
Townsville is a city proud of its abilities to handle extremes. Located in Australia’s dry tropics, Townsville depends on seasonal monsoons (often including cyclones) to maintain its water supply. The way Townsville responds to major weather events has become part
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This is the first of a series of Diary Project entries from Zimbabwe written by Constance Myambo and Nomathemba Sibanda, undergraduate students at the University of Zimbabwe and members of the grassroots organization Ear for Africa. The first entry, by
This contribution introduces the pandemic situation in Africa as seen from a student situated in Zimbabwe. This piece serves as the preface to the Diary Project from Zimbabwe, written in alternation by Constance Myambo, an undergraduate student at the University
The 1096 Nankai Trough tsunamigenic earthquake devastated communities along the Suruga and Ise coasts. The earthquake also caused damage to large and symbolically important buildings in the capital in Kyoto
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The previous night, the president made a public statement accusing some governors and mayors of being overly concerned. He also asserted that the lockdown itself is being chaotically implemented and is overall an unhelpful measure, because the economy should not
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With a national daily increase in the number of new COVID-19 infections hitting a record high of 200 on April 7, Prime Minister Abe Shinzo declared a state of emergency for Tokyo, its neighboring prefectures and also Osaka, Hyogo, and
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Of late I have been winning big in the shouting matches with my dear father. The urge of the family patriarch to step out, if only on the pretext of clearing out the garbage, has been manifesting rather strongly after
In the months following the outbreak of COVID-19, schools and universities in China faced the temporary closure of their campuses. In January and February, teaching was carried out in asynchronous methods under new conditions that are now being experienced all
There is no newspaper or television program these days that does not talk about toilet paper. Or, rather, that does not talk about the inexplicable anxiety felt by those trying to secure just one roll, or expressed by those stockpiling
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Today, on March 31, health officials in Chiba Prefecture, just outside of Tokyo, announced that there are now 93 officially recognized cases of COVID-19 linked to a care facility for people with mental disabilities. This large cluster was discovered after
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Today I woke up to the news that the popular comedian Shimura Ken had become Japan’s first celebrity casualty to COVID-19; and to the word, spreading through social media, that the Japanese government would call for a lockdown at the
No hay diario ni programa de televisión que no hable del papel higiénico o, mejor dicho, de las neurosis inexplicables desatadas por conseguir un rollo y acopiarlos en decenas. Aprovecharemos estos días para trazar unas historias del papel y de
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We have to go buy some medicine for my mother-in-law and since we were going out anyway, we asked one of our elderly neighbours if he needed medicine as well. We were thinking about helping people who are part of
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The “janta curfew” that I wrote about a few days back was dress rehearsal. India is seeing a surge in COVID19 cases and a couple of days after the pans and pots being banged, we now have our officially declared
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For this day, our dear Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested a voluntary curfew of twelve hours termed the “janta curfew” (people’s curfew), as one way of initiating “social distancing” to “break the chain” of the ongoing pandemic. Quite typically of