Here’s the One Thing You Need to Do to Learn More About Anything

Success and being a lifelong learner are pretty much joined at the hip–without learning, it’s almost impossible to adapt to the new demands of the market or world. But if you’re already eating and sleeping right, writing notes longhand, taking time to ponder what you just read and all the other tricks we’ve figured out for learning and memory, how can you crunch even more information into your brain?

WHO unsure antibodies protect against COVID, little sign of herd immunity

GENEVA – The World Health Organization is not sure whether the presence of antibodies in blood gives full protection against reinfection with the new coronavirus, Mike Ryan, the WHO’s top emergencies expert, told a briefing on Friday.
Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/world/who-unsure-antibodies-protect-against-covid-little-sign-herd-immunity

How the Game-Changing George Foreman Grill Made History

IN CASE YOU missed it, this is what the world’s most successful infomercial looks like: George Foreman—buff, bald, and swaggering—sports a maroon boxing robe as he strides into the made-for-TV kitchen of his exceptionally cheerful cohost, a woman named Nancy Nelson. It is 1996, and her mind is about to be blown

Carnival Executives Knew They Had a Virus Problem, But Kept the Party Going

The news, when it reached the Grand Princess early on March 4, barely registered at first. In a letter slipped under passenger cabin doors, Grant Tarling, Carnival Corp.’s chief medical officer, announced that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control had begun “investigating a small cluster” of Covid-19 cases in California that might have been linked to the ship. Thirteen days after leaving San Francisco for Hawaii, the vessel would be skipping a scheduled stop in Mexico on its return voyage and sailing back early to its Bay Area port.

Cryptocurrency: What It Is and How To Get Started

“Just as the global economy was finally recovering from the 2008 financial crash, the emergence of a worldwide pandemic once again pushed humanity up against the edge of financial Armageddon. With millions of people thrown out of work and governments futilely grasping for solutions, the repeated boom and bust cycles of the 21st century have exposed the shaky foundations of the existing monetary system. In the midst of this uncertainty, cryptocurrency can provide a way of “opting out” of an increasingly unstable system and taking advantage of modern technology to build a more transparent, secure, and equitable financial future. This book is a practical beginner’s guide that will explain the many benefits of cryptocurrency and show several simple, effective ways to begin earning your own crypto. ” -Robert Reed, Cryptocurrency, What It Is And How To Get Started

How two US cities responded to the 1918 flu pandemic very differently — and what we can learn from those mistakes


Philadelphia and St. Louis were both hit by the flu outbreak of 1918-19, but one city suffered a death rate of approximately 358 per 100,000 people, whereas the other suffered 748 deaths per 100,000.