Author Correction: Scalable and robust SARS-CoV-2 testing in an academic center.

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Risky Business: Insurance Companies in Global Warming Politics

The paper describes and analyzes the responses of insurance companies to global climate politics. It shows how these responses failed to live up to the initial optimism of environmentalists and commentators about the potential of the involvement of insurers in climate politics. It then attempts to explain why insurers have disappointed environmentalist expectation. It shows that part of this is due to constraints and opportunities within the insurance business itself. But it then shows how much of the reason is to do with a simplistic understanding by environmentalists of the power of insurers. Examining the political-economic contexts in which insurance companies operate provides a clearer picture as to the limits to the role insurers can play in mitigating global warming. Copyright (c) 2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Death of an Infant

The homes of the urban working class and rural laborers were the most hazardous dwellings of the Victorian period, resulting in numerous domestic deaths warranting a coroner's inquest. This article demonstrates how, through coroners' meticulous investigations into fatal household accidents and the provincial press' eagerness in the reporting of such inquests, we are able to open up these homes and explore the domestic practices within. This article reveals how this frequently overlooked source provides unprecedented access to domestic practice in the homes of the Victorian urban working class and the often forgotten homes of the rural laboring class. It will show how these inquests can be used quantitatively to explore trends, patterns, and changes in the spatial organization and domestic practice of these homes, providing minute and detailed descriptions of rooms, in addition to domestic objects, and domestic practices. In summary, this article aims to highlight the potential of coroners' inquests (either the actual documents or accounts of them in the provincial press) to a wider audience and encourage their further use in the study of past domestic practice