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"Pandemic Perspectives offers a critical examination of several key societal issues illuminated by the COVID-19 pandemic through the prism of a wide array of international experts in biology, education, history, law, philosophy, politics and more. Examples of societal issues that are addressed in this documentary: - The need to rethink current educational practices - The future of scientific research - The challenges of making evidence-based public...
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Science has taken center stage during the COVID-19 crisis; scientists named and diagnosed the virus, traced its spread, and worked together to create a vaccine in record time. But while science made the headlines, the arts and humanities were critical in people's daily lives. As the world went into lockdown, literature, music, and media became crucial means of connection, and historians reminded us of the resonance of the past as many of us heard...
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In this video seminar, Savanna Flakes teaches adults dozens of practical strategies to increase learning throughout the day. Working, parenting, and teaching from home can be a very stressful juggling act and so employing a variety of wellness practices can help us sustain learning activities for children. Dr. Flakes presents innovative learning schedules and resources for grades K-5 and 6-12, discusses teaching strategies that maximize use of materials...
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In early 2020, a new form of coronavirus caused an outbreak of respiratory illness in Wuhan, China then quickly spread around the world. This new disease, COVID-19, proved highly contagious and capable of causing a range of symptoms from mild, flu-like fever and chills to fatal respiratory distress with some infected people even remaining asymptomatic. The rapid, global spread of the disease led to a pandemic, which governments around the world tried...
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More than a decade ago, in 2008, the financial powerhouse Lehman Brothers collapsed, setting off a severe economic crisis worldwide. Over the next few years, the United States and other countries implemented reforms to prevent such a crisis from recurring. In January 2019, Intelligence Squared U.S. hosted a debate on the motion "Ten Years After the Global Financial Crisis, the System Is Safer" to assess how resilient markets would be in the future....
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"COVID-19 is the biggest public health and economic disaster of our time. It has posed the same threat across the globe, yet countries have responded very differently and some have clearly fared much better than others. Peter Baldwin uncovers the reasons why in this definitive account of the global politics of pandemic. He shows that how nations responded depended above all on the political tools available - how firmly could the authorities order...
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"Journalist Gary Rivlin looks at how COVID-19 and government policies affected businesses throughout the pandemic"--
Americans extol the virtues of small, local, often family-run shops, yet buy from big-box retailers and chains that dominate the competition. Even before the pandemic, small businesses seemed endangered. When COVID-19 hit, the resounding question was: How will they be able to survive this? Rivlin focuses on the first days of the covid...
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Asian American Stories of Resilience: Volume 1 reflects the complexities of Asian American experiences: Queer filmmaker Quyên Nguyen-Le recovers and articulates the legacy of their mother's nail salon for their refugee family, and Filipino-American filmmaker Frances Rubio records and captures the experience of being distanced from her sick father, who has been isolated in his facility during the pandemic.
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Asian American Stories of Resilience: Volume 2 reflects the complexities of Asian American experiences: Filipinx filmmaker Bree Nieves and her cousin grapple with what remains of their dreams, after losing one of their fathers during the pandemic; and Chanthon Bun, who lost his legal protection to live in the U.S. after conviction, must tread carefully after being released - ICE could detain and deport him.
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"How were the events of 2020 experienced in small towns and cities often overlooked by national newspapers? What does the coverage of these events look like when told not by those with long experiences with local communities? And, finally, what is lost as this kind of local coverage disappears as has been happening for the past couple of decades in the United States. These are the questions at the center of The Year of Fear: Four American Towns on...
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Clinical psychologist Professor Tanya Byron teams up with former England footballer Alex Scott, who has suffered from depression, to discover how the latest science can help us gain greater control over our state of mind and improve our mental health and wellbeing. Even in normal times, one in four of us will experience mental health difficulties, but living through a global pandemic has put our mental health under unprecedented strain. Over the past...
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2020 will be remembered for one unprecedented global event: the coronavirus pandemic. Hundreds of thousands have died from COVID-19, and empty parks, streets, and skies were the eerie symbols of nationwide lockdowns which devastated global economies and local businesses. This program introduces Irish researchers using patient samples to analyze the genetic makeup of coronavirus to help minimise the spread and identify changes that may impact on treatments...
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In this video seminar, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, a physician who specializes in posttraumatic stress and author of The New York Times bestseller The Body Keeps The Score, explains how we can best support children and adolescents who have been adversely by recent events - specifically, how to reintegrate back into school and structure after a prolonged and uncertain absence. He teaches how to help children and adolescents achieve emotional safety and...
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"A fiercely argued, keenly insightful, hilarious investigation of the impact of COVID-19 on sexual and romantic relationships, in which the author situates her own and others' coupled lockdown experiences against larger backdrop: the politics of the virus, economic disparities, changing gender relations, the ongoing institutional crack-ups prompted by #MeToo and #BLM"--
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"Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten beautifully moving short stories written mostly over the last year, Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the streets, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient...
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"From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted-author of the brilliant Seasonal Quartet series-a major new novel that promises to capture the present moment with Ali Smith's genius and bold spirit. "A story is never an answer. A story is always a question." Here we are in extraordinary times. Is this history? What happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other? What have we lost? What stays with us? What does it take to unlock our future?...
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