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COVID-19 vaccines are designed to induce immunity against SARS-CoV-2, significantly reducing the risk of severe illness, hospitalization, and death. Developed at an unprecedented pace, the first clinical trials began in March 2020, with phases run in parallel to speed up approval, leveraging prior research on SARS and ...

An implementation intention is a self-regulatory strategy introduced by psychologist Peter Gollwitzer in 1999 to improve goal attainment through specific if-then plans. Unlike broad goal intentions ("I want to reach X"), these plans specify the when, where, and how by connecting a future cue t...

Vaccine hesitancy—the delay or refusal to accept available vaccines despite strong scientific evidence—is considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be one of the top ten global health threats, as it frequently triggers preventable disease outbreaks and deaths. This complex, context-specific phenomenon has ex...

IonQ is an American quantum computing company headquartered in College Park, Maryland, that develops general-purpose trapped ion quantum computers and software. Founded in 2015 by professors Christopher Monroe and Jungsang Kim, the company grew out of 25 years of academic research, including Monroe's p...

Hugging Face, Inc. is a New York City-based company that creates tools for building machine learning applications, most famously its open-source transformers library for natural language processing and a platform where users can share models and datasets. Founded in 2016 by French entrepre...

Kody Clemens (born May 15, 1996), son of seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens, is a utility player for the Minnesota Twins who previously suited up for the Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Phillies. After undergoing Tommy John surgery in college, he bounced back with a breakout juni...

The Festival of Nations is a free, annual multicultural event held in Tower Grove Park in St. Louis, organized by the International Institute of St. Louis (IISTL). It traces its roots back to the International May Festival of 1920, which drew about 2,000 attendees and ...

The Motley Fool is a private financial and investing advice company founded in July 1993 by brothers David and Tom Gardner in Alexandria, Virginia. Its name comes from Shakespeare's As You Like It, referencing the court jester who could speak truth to the Duke without punishment. The company g...

The Lusaka Securities Exchange (LuSE), Zambia's principal stock exchange, was established in 1993 with technical assistance from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Bank, and opened on 21 February 1994 in Lusaka. Created to drive the country's economic reforms, it facilitated the divestiture of go...

American actor John Cusack (born June 28, 1966) has built an extraordinary career spanning over four decades and eighty films. He first captured audiences in the 1980s with iconic coming-of-age movies like Say Anything... (1989), famously featuring his character holding a boombox above his head, and Stand ...