It’s time to admit defeat and take back control — Imagine, if you can, this time last year. Life was good, or at least normal. Then history takes a peculiar turn. Your government decides to forge an “elastic nation” to prepare for life in the future. As a first step, it abolishes the school calendar — no more lazy summers…

Why tiny changes in behavior can have a huge effect If you’ve been following the news about the coronavirus pandemic, you’ve probably heard about the reproduction rate R. For a particular region and time, R is defined as the average number of people infected by each infected person. …