COMIC: What it’s like living with an underactive thyroid
KFF Health News journalist Andy Miller manages the symptoms of his hypothyroidism with a daily pill. When he started researching it, he found out he is one of the lucky ones. Some people affected by the condition struggle to get a diagnosis or don't respond well to treatment. Miller interviewed endocrinologists and several patients their…
COMIC: In the ’90s I survived summers in Egypt with no...
In elementary school, NPR's Malaka Gharib visited her dad in Cairo each summer. It was hot, there was no AC — but she coped. In this age of global warming, she wonders: How are Egyptians getting by? Enlarge this image Malaka Gharib/NPR Malaka Gharib/NPR Enlarge this image Malaka Gharib/NPR Malaka Gharib/NPR Malaka Gharib/NPR Malaka Gharib/NPR…
AI Drew This Stunning Comic Series. You’d Never Know It ...
You might expect a comic book series featuring art generated entirely by artificial intelligence to be full of surreal images that have you tilting your head trying to grasp what kind of sense-shifting madness you're looking at. Not so with the images in The Bestiary Chronicles, a free, three-part comics series from Campfire Entertainment, a New…
This Comic Series Is Gorgeous. You’d Never Know AI Drew the...
You might expect a comic book series featuring art generated entirely by artificial intelligence to be full of surreal images that have you tilting your head trying to grasp what kind of sense-shifting madness you're looking at. Not so with the images in The Bestiary Chronicles, a free, three-part comics series from Campfire Entertainment, a New…
COMIC: How I Cope With Pandemic Numbness
Each week I check the latest deaths from COVID-19 for NPR. After a while, I didn't feel any sorrow at the numbers. I just felt numb. I wanted to understand why — and how to overcome that numbness.(Image credit: Connie Hanzhang Jin/NPR)
COMIC: How One COVID-19 Nurse Navigates Anti-Mask Sentiment
Agnes Boisvert, an ICU nurse at St. Luke's hospital in downtown Boise, Idaho, spends every day trying to navigate between two worlds. One is a swirl of beeping monitors, masked emotion and death; the other, she says, seems oblivious to the horrors occurring every hour of every day. Isabel Seliger is a freelance artist and…
COMIC: You’re Wearing It Wrong! A Face Mask Safety Refresher
How To Wear A Face Mask And Which One Is Most Effective : Shots - Health News : NPR How To Wear A Face Mask And Which One Is Most Effective : Shots - Health News Pleats, filters, fabric. With so many available features and types, we break down which common face coverings are more…
Emerald City Comic Con postponed over COVID-19 concerns
COVID-19 has pushed back Emerald City Comic Con to summer. Suzi Pratt / Contributor / Getty Images Emerald City Comic Con, a comic book and pop culture convention hosted annual in Seattle, has decided to push back the event until summer due to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus. The team tweeted the news…
Just For Kids: A Comic Exploring The New Coronavirus
Kids, this comic is for you. It's based on a radio story that NPR education reporter Cory Turner did. He asked some experts what kids might want to know about the new coronavirus discovered in China. To make this comic, we've used his interviews with Tara Powell at the University of Illinois School of Social…
Check out the comics that information analytics start-up Thinknum utilized rather...
Thinknum, a data analytics startup for financial services, needed to stand out. The overcrowded data analytics space, combined with investor fatigue around financial services, meant the small startup's team had to think outside the box when they started fundraising. "We had happy customers but they didn't want to talk about it, and this is a…
