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...with any pigs? (No.) That weekend, Texas health officials closed all 14 schools in Hayden's district, sending 11,000 children home. Workers wiped down the school district's 100-plus buses. At Cibolo city hall, employees posted signs asking residents to pay their utility bills at a drop box instead of coming inside. Garbage collectors donned face masks. At the time, no one knew how deadly the virus was - or how many people...
...brain's shortcuts come with certain predictable biases. In experiments, people reliably overestimate the chances of something happening if they can vividly imagine it. If we see something new, we try to fit it into a box that we understand - for example, a box labeled "Mild: The Same as Regular Influenza." Or maybe, more cinematically, "Plague Invading the Heartland," or perhaps another one called "Media Hype." All those boxes contain parts of the story. None is quite right. (See pictures of soccer in the time of swine...
...with all viruses, influenza's only function is to replicate itself. It makes you sneeze so it can infect a new host and reproduce. When it encounters resistance, it changes. For the brain, this is maddening: How do we capture a threat that routinely escapes from one box and reappears in another...
...remarkably doglike. They will affectionately run up to people and even wag their tails. In 2003, Hare traveled to Novosibirsk and ran his pointing test on baby foxes. The ordinary ones failed miserably. As for the doglike ones, "they did just as well as puppies right out of the box," Hare says. As the animals were bred for their affability, a new side of their social intelligence was apparently awakened...
Conigliaro was not to be denied again, as she made another push in the 40th minute. The rookie delivered a short pass to Baskind in the box, who laid it ahead for teammate Katherine Sheeleigh...