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WIRED
We Can Protect the Economy From Pandemics. Why Didn't We?
WIRED
2 min · · A virologist helped crack an impossible problem: how to insure against the economic fallout from devastating viral outbreaks. The plan was ingenious. Yet we're still in this mess. · Shared by 157, including Christian Hernandez, Eghosa Omoigui, Luca Like, Christian Surchi, Chris Isak, Tim Harford, Tom Connor, Tim, Liv 😷, Mathew Ingram, Kyle Chayka, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), Jochen Burkhard
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Outside
Walking Is Making a Major Comeback
Outside
15+ min · · Many of us have long dismissed this gentle, approachable activity for more adrenaline-pumping forms of exercise. We've been missing out—big-time. · Shared by 184, including Daniel Pink, Christian Surchi, Martina Pugliese, Jane, Steve Case
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Quartz
The linked histories of African American freedom struggle and Ethiopia’s war against fascism
Quartz
4 min · · There is a history that links the African American history of resistance to the African anti-colonial effort in response to the Europe's 19th century “Scramble for Africa. · Shared by 10, including Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Christian Surchi
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Quanta Magazine
The Two Forms of Mathematical Beauty
Quanta Magazine
5 min · · Mathematicians typically appreciate either generic or exceptional beauty in their work, but one type is more useful in describing the universe. · Shared by 97, including Christian Surchi, rohit, Anita Leirfall, Bilal Aslam
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BBC News (World)
If it ain't broke: You share your oldest gadgets
BBC News (World)
4 min · · People share the oldest gadgets they still use, via social media. · Shared by 65, including Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Ian M Calvert, Katja Evertz, Christian Surchi, Carl Robinson 🎙️
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The New Yorker
Punishment by Pandemic
The New Yorker
5 min · · In a penitentiary with one of the U.S.’s largest coronavirus outbreaks, prison terms become death sentences. · Shared by 124, including Heisenberg Report, Luisa Weiss, Mark Armstrong, Christian Surchi, Amesh Adalja, Gregg Caruso, Lauren Leatherby
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BBC News (World)
The black British history you may not know about
BBC News (World)
7 min · · From the black Britons in Roman times, to Henry VIII's trumpeter and our very own bus boycott. · Shared by 55, including Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Christian Surchi, dewang mishra
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The Guardian
Shopify – the good shop to Amazon's bad shop
The Guardian
8 min · · Shopify is the second-largest e-commerce platform in the US, yet remains anonymous. Will its new app change all that? · Shared by 65, including Christian Surchi, Jason Fried, Vikram Dutt, Vladimer Botsvadze 🛫🌎🎙️, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
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Vox
Quarantine has changed us — and it’s not all bad
Vox
10 min · · Here are 8 new habits people want to keep post-lockdown. · Shared by 256, including Liliane Ferrari ™, Antonio Vieira Santos, Christian Surchi, Marsha Collier, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙
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Fast Company
The surprising medical history of vibrators
Fast Company
4 min · · Vibrators were medical quackery—alternative medicine that didn’t deliver on their promises. Yet the electrical cure-alls sold by the millions. · Shared by 36, including Christian Surchi, LARRY ELKAN
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The Paris Review
Allen Ginsberg, The Art of Poetry No. 8
The Paris Review
· INTERVIEWER
Do you feel you're in command when you're writing? GINSBERG
Sometimes I feel in command when I'm writing. When I'm in the heat of some truthful tears, yes. Then, complete command. Other times—most of the time not. Just diddling away, woodcarving, getting a pretty shape; like mos... · Shared by 10, including Christian Surchi