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What are we reading? July 9, 2020

Each week, BIV staff will share with you some of the interesting stories we have found from around the web. Mark Falkenberg, deputy managing editor: Lately the U.S.
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Each week, BIV staff will share with you some of the interesting stories we have found from around the web.


 

Mark Falkenberg, deputy managing editor:

Lately the U.S. media has carried a lot of wistful stories comparing the Trump administration’s abysmal fumbling of the pandemic with Canada’s sober response. This is one of them and makes for some smug reading. – NBC

https://www.nbc-2.com/story/42344834/trump-and-trudeau-how-their-leadership-styles-pulled-their-countries-in-very-different-directions-amid-pandemic

 

New research on how processes inside neurons can go awry could help usher in effective treatments for degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and ALS. – NPR

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/07/08/888687912/new-clues-to-als-and-alzheimers-from-physics

Emma Crawford Hample, online editor:

How resilient are the banks? “When financiers and governments redesigned the financial system in order to make it safer after the debacle of 2007-09, most of them imagined that a shock as bad as the subprime fiasco would be a generation away. In fact it arrived only a decade or so later.” – The Economist

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/07/09/how-resilient-are-the-banks