The coronavirus pandemic in the United States has reignited long-standing debates about the relationship between freedom and economic and personal security, Lawrence Glickman, professor of history and American studies, writes in The Atlantic. After barely a week of a partial lockdown in many parts of the country, Donald Trump and others are complaining that overly risk-averse public-health officials are threatening to strangle the economy.
"How did we get to the point where ministers, the president, many Republican politicians, and a variety of media outlets are calling for people to risk death to save the economy?" writes in the artricle. "This rhetoric has a long history."
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Using a new technique, Paul Malinowski and other researchers in Kyle Shen’s lab found that iron selenide’s superconducting “dome” is more closely linked to resistance caused by imperfections in its crystal lattice than to the number of electrons flowing through the crystal.
