In Focus
Breathe Easy
A statue of Saint Teresa has a face mask placed over it on December 19. The city regularly has high levels of air pollution and was recently on par with notoriously polluted Beijing. The culprit is Pristina’s two ageing coal-based power plants, and the use of coal to heat homes. The World Bank once found Kosovo’s polluted air caused 852 premature deaths a year. The EU said it will invest $89 million to improve the country’s air quality.
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Periscope
Depending on where you fall on the red-to-blue spectrum, Durham is either an avenging angel, come to right the wrongs inflicted on Donald Trump—or a deeply untrustworthy partisan hack, tasked to do the dirty work of an allegedly illegitimate president and his attorney general sidekick.
A Global Green New Deal Could Defeat the Far Right—and Save the Planet
Despite its political triumphs worldwide, the radical right has a crucial weakness: it utterly lacks a credible response to the most urgent threat facing the planet.
Horizons
The measles vaccine is incredibly effective, yet recurrences and outbreaks abound.
Mathematician Kit Yates on Anti Vaxxer Movement and Air Travel Germs
A mathematician discusses why math is relevant to everyday life, what he thinks of the anti-vaxxer movement and whether he worries about the transmission of communicable diseases during air travel.
Vaping May Be As Bad As Smoking for Lung Disease Bacteria
"Vaping is often quoted as being less harmful than smoking. But less harmful isn't the same as safe," Dr. Deirdre Gilpin of the School of Pharmacy at Queen's University Belfast told Newsweek.
Downtime
Every country has its own traditions and take on self-care. In Finland, it involves steamy saunas and icy dips; in Tibet, sound vibrations are believed to heal and harmonize the body; and in the United States, floating in darkened soundproof pods to chill out is enjoying a renaissance.