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Future Perfect Archive

Archives for May 2020

Technology
SpaceX finally sent humans to space. What happens next?SpaceX finally sent humans to space. What happens next?
Technology

Privately owned orbital human spaceflights are here. A new era of commercialized space travel begins.

By Sara Morrison
Future Perfect
Scientists are raising questions about a new study suggesting hydroxychloroquine is deadlyScientists are raising questions about a new study suggesting hydroxychloroquine is deadly
Future Perfect

A growing body of research finds the antimalarial doesn’t help hospitalized coronavirus patients.

By Kelsey Piper
Older and immunocompromised people don’t deserve to be second-class citizens
Future Perfect

Here’s how to shorten the isolation of our most vulnerable citizens.

By Sigal Samuel
Tech billionaires are plotting sweeping, secret plans to boost Joe Biden
Technology

Inside the experiments, data wars, and partisan news sites that Silicon Valley thinks can help Biden catch up to Trump.

By Theodore Schleifer
Future Perfect
Demand for meatless meat is skyrocketing during the pandemicDemand for meatless meat is skyrocketing during the pandemic
Future Perfect

Plant-based meat sales are up 264 percent in US grocery stores.

By Sigal Samuel
How chaos theory helps explain the weirdness of the Covid-19 pandemic
Science

The pandemic, chaos, and coming to terms with uncertainty.

By Brian Resnick
Future Perfect
The coronavirus crisis is leading to an immunization crisisThe coronavirus crisis is leading to an immunization crisis
Future Perfect

We delayed our baby’s vaccinations by months. Millions of Americans are in the same dangerous situation.

By Kelsey Piper
Future Perfect
How the coronavirus is changing scienceHow the coronavirus is changing science
Future Perfect

In the face of this crisis, we need research to be shared faster.

By Kelsey Piper
Technology
The pandemic will put billionaires’ commitment to journalism to the testThe pandemic will put billionaires’ commitment to journalism to the test
Technology

Is it a charity or a business?

By Theodore Schleifer
Future Perfect
9 podcasts that can help soothe your coronavirus anxiety9 podcasts that can help soothe your coronavirus anxiety
Future Perfect

These offer wisdom that’ll calm you, not information that’ll agitate you.

By Sigal Samuel
“Our calm is contagious”: How to use mindfulness in a pandemic
The Vox guide to navigating the coronavirus crisis

Meditation teacher Tara Brach offers some tips for calming your coronavirus anxiety — so you can better care for others.

By Sigal Samuel
How exposing healthy volunteers to Covid-19 for vaccine testing would work
Future Perfect

“Human challenge trials” may be able to speed up vaccine testing and rollout — if we clear some hurdles to make them work.

By Dylan Matthews
Explainers
Why meatpacking plants have become coronavirus hot spotsWhy meatpacking plants have become coronavirus hot spots
Explainers

Meatpacking facilities are inherently susceptible to Covid-19 outbreaks.

By Nicole Narea
The president’s job is to manage risk. But Trump is the risk.
Features

Trump was a gamble. It’s not paying off.

By Ezra Klein
Future Perfect
California locked down early and took the coronavirus seriously. Why are its cases still rising?California locked down early and took the coronavirus seriously. Why are its cases still rising?
Future Perfect

How California finds itself in limbo despite doing many things right.

By Kelsey Piper