MeggieM (@megm.bsky.social)

Some of these bettors have sent threats to college basketball and football players because they have lost bets. It is only a matter of time before one of these people are desperate enough to kidnap some athlete’s family in order to recoup money lost on a bet.

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Tim Mak

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5 June 2024

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Boston Review

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8 May 2024

On this day in 1980, the World Health Organization declared that smallpox had been eradicated. In her prescient book The Coming Plague, Peter Godfrey-Smith shows in this review from the archive, Laurie Garret lucidly warned this success story couldn’t be taken for granted.

bostonreview.netCan We Control Disease? - Boston ReviewScience’s victory over bacteria, viruses, and other microbes is far from assured—and we may be part of the problem.

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