This is the 160th post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared among Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week.
Here are the top articles among environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (March 16, 2020 – March 22, 2020):
Monday: “Fact Check: Joe Biden Has Advocated Cutting Social Security for 40 Years” by Ryan Grim, The Intercept
Tuesday: “Learning from Epidemics” by Mary Ellen Gabriel, College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday: “Japanese flu drug ‘clearly effective’ in treating coronavirus, says China” by Justin McCurry, The Guardian
Thursday: “As Italy quarantines over coronavirus, misleading reports of swans and dolphins in Venice canals go viral” by Anagha Srikanth, The Hill
Friday: “Open-Access JSTOR Materials Accessible to the Public” by Orla Murnaghan, University Times
Saturday: “U.S. intelligence reports from January and February warned about a likely pandemic” by Shane Harris, et. al., The Washington Post
Sunday: “A national crisis and a president incapable of empathy” by Paul Waldman, The Washington Post
Top Words
1. Said
2. Security
3. Social
4. Biden
5. people
6. Trump
7. virus
8. public
9. coronavirus
10. officials
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