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Many people go to breeders to find a dog, and others to the pound, but sometimes, especially when it’s really meant to be, the right dog finds you. It was a Saturday evening, about a month later, and Elizabeth had run down to the local deli to get something for dinner. As she left the store, her arms laden with a large salami and a bag of groceries, a mangy, smelly dog, hidden in the shadows of the alley, watched her walk by. Although the dog hadn’t moved in five hours, he took one look at her, pulled himself up, and followed. Calvin happened to be at the window when he saw Elizabeth strolling toward the house, a dog following a respectful five paces behind, and as he watched her walk, a strange shudder swept through his body. “Elizabeth Zott, you’re going to change the world,” he heard himself say. And the moment he said it, he knew it was true. She was going to do something so revolutionary, so necessary, that her name—despite a never-ending legion of naysayers—would be immortalized. And as if to prove that point, today she had her first follower. “Who’s your friend?” he called out to her, shaking off the odd feeling. “It’s six thirty,” she called back after glancing at her wrist.
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
Without a diagnostic test to actually test people for the presence of the virus, that winter, the Coronavirus Task Force relied entirely on syndromic surveillance data that showed mostly flat trend lines that were consistent with historical norms. Based on these data, task force members were told there was little risk that coronavirus could already be spreading widely in America. But a big part of the challenge was that officials at the CDC were applying a flu model to coronavirus.
Uncontrolled Spread
Scott Gottlieb
But for the most part, by 2016 the U.S. intelligence community still assumed that America’s capabilities far exceeded those of the opposition. The Kremlin was testing out the best of its cyber arsenal in Ukraine, and as far as American counterintelligence specialists could tell, Russia was still nowhere close to the cyber skills of the USA. And it might have stayed that way for some time. For how long exactly, no one could predict; but between 2016 and 2017 the gap between the United States’ cyber capabilities and those of every single other nation and bad-faith actor on earth closed substantially. Starting in 2016, the U.S. National Security Agency’s own cyber arsenal—the sole reason the United States maintained its offensive advantage in cyberspace—was dribbled out online by a mysterious group whose identity remains unknown to this day. Over a period of nine months a cryptic hacker—or hackers; we still don’t know who the NSA’s torturers are—calling itself the Shadow Brokers started trickling out NSA hacking tools and code for any nation-state, cybercriminal, or terrorist to pick up and use in their own cyber crusades.
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
Nicole Perlroth
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