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The epidemics that almost happened
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Bill Gates
We can make COVID-19 the last pandemic
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How to fix broken supply chains
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Matt Walker
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Jennifer B. Nuzzo
3 ways to prepare society for the next pandemic
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Africans should lead on health care solutions for Africa
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How to end the pandemic — and prepare for the next
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Dec 2021
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Adam Grant
How to stop languishing and start finding flow
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Sep 2021
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Kaitlyn Sadtler and Elizabeth Wayne
How the COVID-19 vaccines were created so quickly
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Aug 2021
9:41
Kevin J. Krizek
How COVID-19 reshaped US cities
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Aug 2021
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Kathryn A. Whitehead
The tiny balls of fat that could revolutionize medicine
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Aug 2021
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Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci
Meet the scientist couple driving an mRNA vaccine revolution
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Aug 2021
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Jonathan Smith
How do governments create money out of thin air?
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Jul 2021
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Dan Goods
How NASA invented a ventilator for COVID-19 ... in 37 days
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May 2021
14:52
Daniel Kraft
How COVID-19 transformed the future of medicine
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May 2021
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Daniel J. Watts
To accomplish great things, you need to "let the paint dry"
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Apr 2021
14:19
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
The global cooperation that accelerated the COVID-19 vaccines
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Apr 2021
15:34
Esther Perel
The routines, rituals and boundaries we need in stressful times
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Apr 2021
14:49
Cara Greene Epstein
How theater weathers wars, outlasts empires and survives pandemics
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Feb 2021
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Sophie Rose
How COVID-19 human challenge trials work — and why I volunteered
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Nov 2020
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Johanna Benesty
What it takes to crush a pandemic
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Nov 2020
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Far Flung
Post-Pandemic Paradise in Rapa Nui
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Oct 2020
10:44
Nora Flanagan
How schools should respond to COVID-19
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Jul 2020
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David Brenner
Can light stop the coronavirus?
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Jul 2020
29:51
Mary L. Gray
COVID-19 unraveled the workforce. Here's how to fix it
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Jul 2020
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Kwame Owusu-Kesse
5 needs that any COVID-19 response should meet
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Jul 2020
29:16
Aaron Maniam
New ways to understand life in a pandemic
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Jul 2020
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Eric Garcetti
How city mayors are taking action on climate change
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Bill Gates
How the pandemic will shape the near future
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Jul 2020
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