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By Vinay Prasad and Jeffrey S. Flier When major decisions must be made amid high scientific uncertainty, as is the case with Covid-19, we can’t afford to silence or demonize professional colleagues with heterodox views. Even worse, we can’t allow questions of science,...
By Kevin Pang What happens when an aging prizefighter, a quirky gadget, and iconic ’90s marketing combine to take over the world? In case you missed it, this is what the world’s most successful infomercial looks like: George Foreman—buff, bald, and swaggering—sports a...
I found out through Facebook. On a recent Friday evening, I was scrolling through posts and noticed one from a young friend who lives in the U.S., who wrote, “Friends, please send love and healing thoughts. My husband has a high fever, 102 degrees with aches and he’s...
Argentina has banned until September ticket sales for commercial flights, according to a a new measure the government says is part of its coronavirus response. In effect, the move means air travel will not resume in the country until September. The decision,...
More than 60 percent of Ecuadorians will be infected by the Covid-19 virus within 120 days, according to Health Minister Juan Carlos Zevallos. By October or November, he says, the total will reach 80 percent. "These numbers are not meant to shock anyone but to provide...
By Stephy Chung As the world grapples with unprecedented lockdown measures, Ai Weiwei finds himself in familiar territory. The outspoken artist spent nearly three months in a tiny room while detained by authorities in China in 2011. He was later accused of tax...
The Cuenca municipal council has petitioned the government to maintain all Covid-19 health emergency restrictions in the city for the foreseeable future. Mayor Pedro Palacios agrees. "May 4 is too early to make any changes based on current conditions," he said in...
President Lenin Moreno's six-minute address to the nation Friday night provided a broad outline of the government's plan to relax coronavirus health emergency restrtictions but offered few details beyond those provided earlier in the day by Interior Minister Maria...
By Ray Horsley I'd like to thank CuencaHighLife for publishing several recent sketches of mine regarding the coronavirus. This is the third of a three part series. Unlike the other two, it's direct and avoids the use of metaphors. My apologies in advance if it's too...
By Amanda Elizabeth Kowalczyk What do naked mole rats, elephants, bats and whales have in common? They are all exceptionally long-lived mammals, and recent research suggests that studying commonalities in the ways they evolved extreme life spans may provide fresh...
By Giovanni Cambizaca This April we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day. Whether you think our future will be like Greta Thunberg’s nightmares or something more manageable, it is clear that the climate is changing. The closer you are to the planet’s...
Ecuador's lockdown on personal movement and business activity will end Monday, May 4 in what Interior Minister María Paula Romo describes as a "half-way retrun to normalcy." The new phase will emphasize social distancing instead of stay-at-home confinement. "We will...
National and local business organizations say Ecuador's economy faces a "depression" if Covid-19 restrictions are not lifted soon. The national Chamber of Industries and Production says that 23,000 businesses face record financial loses and possibly bankruptcy and...
Jueves, 23/3/2020 Hola, Todos - The spider wishes you a happy Un-April Fool's Day. Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Día del Libro - Book Day was celebrated by the Casa de la Cultura today with a reading of Camus' "La Peste" (The Plague) that started at 9:00 on...
By J. Kenji López-Alt With most of us quarantined in our homes, chances are you’ve been reacquainting yourself with the forgotten spices and fusty beans from the depths of your pantry. But how fusty is too fusty? When is the right time to throw something out? And what...
By Jim Mustian and Jake Bleiberg Coronavirus is dealing a gut punch to the illegal drug trade, paralyzing economies, closing borders and severing supply chains in China that traffickers rely on for the chemicals to make such profitable drugs as methamphetamine and...
The llama could become humanity's new "best friend", perhaps. An unexpected ally in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic that plagues the world. It is not something new, of course. The Incas already made the most of it for its meat, its wool, and also as a pack...
Minister of Health Juan Carlos Zevallos said Wednesday that the Covid-19 outbreak in Guayas Province has peaked. At the same time, he said that the spread of the virus continues in most of the country and that it will be days, maybe weeks, before the "curve begins to...
Miércoles, 22/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Festival "La Cumbre de las Artes" (The Summit of the Arts) - This edition, "El rencuentro. ¡De casa adentro!" (Reunion. ¡From home inside!) was scheduled for 3-30/4 from Colombia and included...
By John Keeble Emergency supplies of food are being taken around to many of Cuenca's thousands of Venezuelan refugees as lockdown rules bite harder every day on those who have lost every means to earn money and buy food. They are part of the wider efforts to help...
