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Bill Gates speaks during All In WA: A Concert For COVID-19 Relief on 24 June 2020 in Washington.

How to Prevent the Next Pandemic review: Bill Gates’s timely blueprint

2 May 2022

Bill Gates’s plans to avoid chaos caused by future viruses are sound and well explained, but he omits a key issue
Bored in lockdown? Try a guide to the science of this familiar state

Bored in lockdown? Try a guide to the science of this familiar state

3 June 2020

Many people are experiencing boredom during lockdown. Book Out of My Skull brings together decades of research on this familiar yet elusive feeling, writes Elle Hunt

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