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Cozy tunes to keep you warm this winter | Liv Listens

Olivia Stapleton January 30, 2025
I curated a playlist of songs that make me feel warm, anticipating that I’d need some soothing music to help me get through the next few months of cold temperatures. 
vaccine injection into an arm

It’s time to get vaccinated

Khadijah Khogeer April 29, 2021
Vaccinations are instrumental in making in-person events possible in the future.
Sophia Flissler/DFP STAFF

Minority Report: Shot for Shot

Lincoln Son Currie April 15, 2021
Mandatory vaccinations are the only option at this point, and I credit BU for a sensible mandate.
Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Distrust in COVID-19 vaccine is understandable, but shouldn’t undermine public health

Editors December 3, 2020
The distrust and vaccine hesitancy among the general public speaks to how long it will take to return to any semblance of normalcy. If we want to see pre-pandemic life restored by the end of next year, we’ll need a unified, national effort to continue wearing masks, practice social distancing and get vaccinated as soon as we’re able.
The race to create a COVID-19 vaccine has opened up greater transparency in the vaccine-making process, also opening the process to public scrutiny. COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Search for COVID-19 vaccine continues with promising results

Daily Free Press Staff October 29, 2020
With more than 1 million people around the world dead from COVID-19, the hunt for a vaccine is underway, and more than 100 countries are aiding its development.
Scientists and public health experts gathered on Sept. 15 to discuss the ongoing public health crisis and the science behind COVID-19 for an audience of Boston University students. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Experts discuss COVID-19 and its consequences

Anuj Sawhney September 17, 2020
From Boston to Hong Kong, experts in public health gathered to discuss the science behind COVID-19.
Electronic musician Jon Hopkins performs in May 2010. Hopkins performed at The Sinclair in Cambridge Wednesday. COURTESY OF FLICKR USER PETER KIRN

REVIEW: Jon Hopkins brings psychedelic sounds, old remixes to The Sinclair

Kai Hellberg September 30, 2018
Intelligent dance music artist Jon Hopkins may produce electronic music, but comparing him to an EDM, or electronic dance music, DJ is like comparing a concert pianist to an MP3 file. Hopkins manipulates his songs’ textures like almost no one else can.
James "Whitey" Bulger's mugshot at Alcatraz in 1959. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

James “Whitey” Bulger attorneys claim violation of constitutional rights in appeal

Amanda Burke July 27, 2015

  Attorneys for James “Whitey” Bulger argued Monday before a panel of judges at the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse to overturn multiple federal racketeering convictions, claiming...

James ‘Whitey’ Bulger not allowed to use immunity claim

Daily Free Press Admin May 2, 2013

In a major blow to James “Whitey” Bulger’s case, U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper ruled Thursday that the mobster cannot claim immunity for his crimes as a defense in his trial. “In response...

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