Plague

“How the Black Death Made Life Better | Center for the Humanities - Washington University in St. Louis Newsroom” plus 1 more How the Black Death Made Life Better | Center for the Humanities - Washington University in St. Louis Newsroom Posted: 17 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT "[The] mortality destroyed more than a third of the men, women, and children … such a shortage of workers ensued that the humble turned up their noses at employment, and could scarcely be persuaded to serve the eminent unless for triple wages. … As a result, churchmen, knights and other worthies have been forced to thresh their corn, plough the land and perform every other unskilled task if they are to make their own bread." — Account of the Black Death in the cathedral priory chronicle at Rochester (written no later than 1350) In its entry on the Black Death, the 1347–50 outbreak of bubonic plague that killed at least a third of Europe's population, this chron...

Chinese regulator yanks popular virus video game 'Plague Inc.' from app store - New York Post Chinese regulator yanks popular virus video game 'Plague Inc.' from app store - New York Post Posted: 28 Feb 2020 12:00 AM PST A popular video game called "Plague Inc." in which players can spread a virus around the globe has been pulled from Apple's App Store in China due to "illegal" content, according to its UK-based developer. The game shot to the top of the charts in the coronavirus-plagued country and gained widespread popularity elsewhere as people sought a diversion — albeit a macabre one — during the real-life epidemic. "This situation is completely out of our control," said developer and publisher Ndemic Creations, which sought to contact the Cyberspace Administration of China to work toward a resolution, according to Reuters. Ndemic said it was unclear if the cyber...

“Teaching a pandemic in real time, part 2 . Princeton professors share how they incorporate the study - Princeton University” plus 1 more Teaching a pandemic in real time, part 2 . Princeton professors share how they incorporate the study - Princeton University Posted: 28 Jun 2021 09:09 AM PDT The pandemic changed not only how Princeton University students were learning after the transition to remote teaching in March 2020, but also what they were learning — especially as the impact of COVID-19 opened new lines of humanistic and scientific inquiry across fields of study. In this second installment about teaching the pandemic in real time ( read part one ), Princeton professors share how they incorporated the coronavirus and the pandemic's effects into their course material during the spring 2021 semester. The Art & Archaeology of Plague Janet Kay, lecturer in art and archaeology Is this a new course or an existing course...

World's Oldest Plague Bacteria Found In 5,000-Year-Old Hunter Gatherer - IFLScience World's Oldest Plague Bacteria Found In 5,000-Year-Old Hunter Gatherer - IFLScience Posted: 28 Jun 2021 04:01 PM PDT The oldest known strain of Yersinia pestis — the notorious bacteria behind the plague that caused the Black Death — has been discovered in the remains of a hunter-gatherer who died over 5,000-years-ago.  This new discovery, reported in the journal Cell Reports  this week,  pushes back the earliest discovery of Y. pestis by well over 1,000 years  and suggests the bacteria strain was likely part of a lineage that emerged about 7,000 years ago, over 2,000 years earlier than other studies have previously found.  "What's most astonishing is that we can push back the appearance of Y. pestis 2,000 years farther than previously published studies suggested," Ben Krause-Kyora, senior study author and head of the aDN...

“How Earthquakes and Weather Contributed to the Black Death - The Great Courses Daily News” plus 2 more How Earthquakes and Weather Contributed to the Black Death - The Great Courses Daily News How the Black Death Made Life Better | Center for the Humanities - Washington University in St. Louis Newsroom World's Oldest Plague Bacteria Found In 5,000-Year-Old Hunter Gatherer - IFLScience How Earthquakes and Weather Contributed to the Black Death - The Great Courses Daily News Posted: 06 Jun 2021 12:00 AM PDT By  Dorsey Armstrong, Ph.D. ,  Purdue University In the Middle Ages, according to the medical faculty at the University of Paris, what contributed to the Black Death was that the air everyone breathe became infected by noxious vapors and spread about through gusts of wind. They suggested poisonous air from places like swamps, lakes, and unburied or unburned corpses probably contributed to the epide...