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  How To Prepare for the Outside World

  May 21 at 4 a.m.

  Even though Texas experienced a record-high 58 deaths because of coronavirus on May 14, Gov. Greg Abbott thinks it's a good idea to start reopening the state. If willing, bars can open to limited capacity starting Friday. And even though it's only been two months since we've socialized inside a...

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  We Call Them Heroes, but Fictional Heroes Get Better Pay, Sick Leave and Movie Franchises

  May 7 at 4 a.m.

  The word "hero" has been thrown around a lot since the COVID-19 outbreak started creating worries about the operation of our most basic services. It's a word that's been used by political leaders, commentators and people on social media to describe workers such as paramedics, police, firefighters and grocery store...

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  Unmasked: The Illusion of Normalcy Is More Contagious Than COVID

  May 6 at 2:11 p.m.

  Last week, a small band performed outside a restaurant in a Dallas suburb. The live video of the event showed that none of the members were wearing masks, unlike the small group watching. A woman, wearing a mask barely covering her nose, waved at the singer, even though they were...

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  Social Media Spirals Into Panic as Healthcare Expert Predicts Concerts Won’t Return Until 2021

  April 20 at 4 a.m.

  If there’s one lesson we should have learned over the last four years, it’s that human behavior is unpredictable, and even our most formidable experts are capable of flawed analysis. So when The New York Times reports that concerts and other large-scale events are likely to be absent from our...

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  We Are Living in Kylie Jenner’s Year of Realizing Stuff

  April 14 at 4 a.m.

  Remember when Kylie Jenner called 2016 “The year of realizing stuff”? In a now infamous scene from her solo reality show, Life With Kylie, the youngest Jenner declared that she had shifted her focus to the pursuit of emotional maturity, which she meant to acquire through a meditative reflection, allowing...

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  The Coronavirus Challenge: Don’t Be Selfish or Stupid. Stay Home.

  March 23 at 4 a.m.

  It feels like we’ve been training for prolonged periods of social distancing for years: Staring deep into our phones, driving-thru our errands and meals, hoarding online friendships while disposing of our flesh-and-bone ones, morphing into avatars who only exist online. Even phone calls became too intrusive, and we all learned...