This week: Context is everything; Back to your regularly scheduled pandemic; COVID has rightfully distracted a lot of science funding, but the train hasn’t stopped entirely; Beef: It’s what’s destroying the Amazon;
• Read: "The Plague Year" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56455590-the-plague-year) by Lawrence Wright
• Read: "Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us" (https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/pandemic-year-two/617528/)
• Read: "2020 Was a Breakout Year for Crispr" (https://www.wired.com/story/2020-was-a-breakout-year-for-crispr/)
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