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Masks, you may not have worn them before 2020 but now we?re all at it. With the rise of the Omicron variant countries have scrambled to reintroduce public health policies, among them mask wearing. Health officials and scientists agree that masks help reduce the incidence of covid19 infections ? but by how much is still debated. Several newspapers recently reported that masks could cut Covid-19 infections by 53%, we look at how they came to this number and whether we should be believe it.
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According to the records of the Catholic Church, there have been 266 men who have been pope. However, for centuries it was thought that there was another pope not on the list that was different from all of the others. What made this pope different is that the pope was a woman. Learn more about the legend of Pope Joan, both the fact and the fiction, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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One of the technologies which have helped make the modern world is the internal combustion engine. Without it, the world would be a very different place today. Yet it wasn’t a technology that appeared fully formed. It was developed incrementally over a century. To get it to a point where it was viable for use in vehicles took numerous innovations.
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The omicron variant of the coronavirus is now officially here in the United States and spreading around the world. But there are still a lot of questions about it.
Today we hope to help clarify what scientists do, and don’t know, about this variant. I’m talking with infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist Dr. Céline Gounder.
She’s a practicing physician in New York City and has been a trusted voice throughout the pandemic. She’s the host of the “Epidemic” and “American Diagnosis” podcasts and has even advised the White House about COVID-19.
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The Ottoman Sultan, Mehmet II, has decided to launch an all-out attack on the city of Constantinople. But the brave defenders are prepared. They resist wave after wave of Turkish troops until their luck runs out with a cruel twist of fate.
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