Death-rate row blurs mutant flu debate

Prison's second death row.

Death rate mystery

Knowing the true rate of death from covid-19 will help us fight the pandemic, but for the moment it eludes us, reports Michael Le Page.  

Taxonomic confusion blurs the debate on cosmopolitanism versus local endemism of free-living protists.

There is currently a hot debate whether free-living protists are cosmopolitan, (Finlay 2002; Finlay and Clarke 1999; Finlay and Fenchel 1999; Finlay et al. 1999, 2001) or whether some, and perhaps indeed most, of them have limited geographical distributions (Foissner 1997, 1998, 1999). This question has important implications for the estimates of biodiversity: if free-living protists species ha...

"Death is different": limiting health care for death row inmates.

Religious Coping Mechanisms Among Death Row Inmates

During their stay on death row, inmates have an abundance of free time with which they need to fill. Many inmates will turn to religion in order to preoccupy themselves. This research project set out to analyze the nature of religious coping among death row inmates. I propose that an inmate who is actively involved with their religion while coping will be able to cope with the social setting of...