Every time something newsworthy happens, someone digs into an old episode of The Simpsons and finds a joke that seems to predict the real-life incident. But people have recently discovered another coronavirus oracle, whose predictions are even more reliable than a yellow cartoon family: Bill Gates.
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One of the best ways to stay calm is to stay informed. Facts are of utmost importance at this point in the story, and with ever changing facts and reporters eager to jump the gun on a story, it's important to ensure the facts you're getting are reliable and up to date.
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It's probably safe to say that car owners aren't complaining, but what exactly is going on? What could be the real reason why gas prices are plummeting? It's ... it's the COVID-19 virus, right?
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The merest mention of a national quarantine is enough to have the old "What if?" hairs on the back of the neck stand up. Could it really happen?
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If you live on Planet Wasp-76b, then your weather forecast may very well be "Cloudy, with a chance of liquid iron rain."
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There are a few basic facts which filmmakers seem to take great pride in driving home on a regular basis: One is that dogs die.
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In his autobiography, Mark Twain wrote, "A bat is beautifully soft and silky; I do not know any creature that is pleasanter to the touch or is more grateful for caressings, if offered in the right spirit..." But he may have written differently if he knew about the world's largest bat.
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Might as well start with the basics: don't drink vape juice. Nothing that you're about to read will change the fact that drinking vape juice will cement your place as the weird (and unhealthy) dude who drinks vape juice. That sort of social branding doesn't go away.
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Quarantine is the word of the day, and unfortunately, it can do a lot more than just earn us a ton of points in Scrabble. Thanks to the COVID-19 coronavirus strain currently making the rounds, tons of people are getting intimately acquainted with the term, whether they like it or not.
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Unfortunately, there are a lot of myths about coronavirus and about disease outbreaks out there. Here are some myths about pandemics and coronavirus.
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You've read the news, and you've seen the memes: Everyone and their mom has been busy hoarding toilet paper recently. But bottled water is also flying off shelves. Here's why.
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Forget Bruce Wayne, who carries lots of gadgets and emotional baggage. The really impressive bat-creature weighs in at less than an ounce. It's the Chinese horseshoe bat, and by some estimates, according to the New York Times, it's a possible source of the coronavirus.
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At this point, lots of people are afraid of the same thing: You're walking down the street minding your own business, when suddenly, some random person coughs at you, and boom! You now have coronavirus. But is that how it would work? How long does it last in the air?
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Here are some things the virus itself does not like.
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"Pandemics are inherently unpredictable in appearance and severity," so it's by no means guaranteed that waves will occur at all. However, both the Black Death and the 1918 flu had hellacious second waves. So why might these second waves happen?
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It's pretty clear that information about COVID-19 is, well, going viral. As is the virus itself. Health authorities have repeatedly requested that people do their best to stay calm, and wash their hands twenty seconds at a time. Nonetheless, a lot of people have become ill in a short time period.
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COVID-19 is an increasingly worrisome disease for many countries. Sure, the rich might have access to private jets and other means of lowering the risk of contagion, but it looks like everybody else just has to power through and follow the World Health Organization's protective measures.
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Hoping to stem the spread, organizations and individuals are taking steps to get the hell away from each other. With more postal and parcel services will play a vital role in acquiring food and other necessities and paying rent. But what happens if a package handler catches the coronavirus?
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With the novel coronavirus at the forefront of the public consciousness, it's only natural to try and put it into context, filing it away with other potentially deadly diseases. And no illness gets compared more frequently to coronavirus than the flu.
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The beginning of spring typically sees a reduction in flu-like infections, but with the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe could we see a late season resurgence?
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What started as a local skirmish in Wuhan has now reached global status has now escalated to a point where the World Health Organization has classified the outbreak as a pandemic. Still, while we might be dealing with this particular virus for a while, surely it must die down at some point?
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The notion that we are all organic life forms existing in a universe created through natural processes may seem like an unassailable fact. But there's evidence that points to a different possibility: like Neo before he took the red pill, we might be living inside an artificial simulation.
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On April 26th, 1986, the Ukrainian nuclear power plant at Chernobyl found itself quite unexpectedly exploding. With the irradiated area continuing to bring curious visitors from around the world, the question must be asked: how long will it take for it to shed its pesky radioactivity?
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The COVID-19 coronavirus is an increasingly worrisome disease for many countries. How dangerous is the coronavirus for children, and for that matter, young people in general?
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Some things go together like peanut butter and chocolate, like Johnny Depp and a certain level of cultural uneasiness, or turtles and their shells. Unless you're a hunter playing on easy mode, or a startling cartoon character, odds are that you've never seen a turtle outside of its shell. Why?
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Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer decried the fall of the Berlin Wall as a crime. "What they did was awful," she lamented. "They mutilated my husband."
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Passenger pigeons were once perhaps the most multitudinous avians on the planet, numbering as many as 5 billion in their prime. But in 1914, the last known member of the species died at 29 years old in the care of the Cincinnati Zoo. Her name was Martha. Batman would have been furious.
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