I researched poetry written during COVID. Five years on, here's how people say it helped them
Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written ...
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What will we say about COVID-19 in 100 years?
Case in point: the air filter box in the back of the room ... whose teachings tie in pandemics dating back to the bubonic plague in the Middle Ages. “All kinds of health problems inspire us (as a ...
The Pandemic Turns 5. We Are Still Not Prepared for the Next One
Sadly, if anything, we are less prepared than before.
Mumbai’s ‘miracle’ well celebrates tricentenary
Every fire temple houses a well; as did traditional Parsi dwellings, their niche aglow with oil-lamps after dusk, Imagine ...
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The Lost People: how an immersive play became a 1940s British film about wartime displacement
Based on an avant-garde wartime play, The Lost People was scripted by the pioneering filmmaker Muriel Box (who also directed some sequences) and presents an unusual depiction of the turmoil of ...
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The Pandemic Turns 5. We Are Still Not Prepared for the Next One
ranking only behind the 1918 Spanish Flu and the Bubonic Plague (not including the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic). Advertisement Advertisement Thankfully, in 2025, the days of lockdowns and ...
From the Archives: Pandemics, masks and vaccines
As the accompanying photos show, Florida and humanity at large, have suffered many banes of existence, from cholera to yellow fever, tuberculosis, polio, smallpox and measles. All plagues that have ...
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A Century of Care: San Francisco’s Chinese Hospital
We learn how San Francisco Chinatown residents built their own hospital, and meet a healthcare provider that continues to ...
As tuberculosis cases rise in the US and worldwide, health officials puzzle over the resurgence of a disease once in decline
Reports of TB date back to the time of Hippocrates, but the Kansas outbreak shows that the ancient disease is very much a ...
Who is Travis Scott? Rumoured mum-to-be Kylie Jenner’s boyfriend
Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. For further details of our complaints policy and to ...