WIRED
We Can Protect the Economy From Pandemics. Why Didn't We?
WIRED
2 min read · 2020-06-16 · 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.
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Outside
Walking Is Making a Major Comeback
Outside
~15 min read · 2020-06-09 · Many of us have long dismissed this gentle, approachable activity for more adrenaline-pumping forms of exercise. We've been missing out—big-time.
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Quartz
The linked histories of African American freedom struggle and Ethiopia’s war against fascism
Quartz
4 min read · 2020-06-14 · 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.
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Quanta Magazine
The Two Forms of Mathematical Beauty
Quanta Magazine
5 min read · 2020-06-16 · Mathematicians typically appreciate either generic or exceptional beauty in their work, but one type is more useful in describing the universe.
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BBC Breaking News
If it ain't broke: You share your oldest gadgets
BBC Breaking News
4 min read · 2020-06-09 · People share the oldest gadgets they still use, via social media.
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The New Yorker
Punishment by Pandemic
The New Yorker
5 min read · 2020-06-15 · In a penitentiary with one of the U.S.’s largest coronavirus outbreaks, prison terms become death sentences.
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BBC Breaking News
The black British history you may not know about
BBC Breaking News
7 min read · 2020-06-10 · From the black Britons in Roman times, to Henry VIII's trumpeter and our very own bus boycott.
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Guardian Tech
Shopify – the good shop to Amazon's bad shop
Guardian Tech
8 min read · 2020-06-14 · Shopify is the second-largest e-commerce platform in the US, yet remains anonymous. Will its new app change all that?
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Vox
Quarantine has changed us — and it’s not all bad
Vox
10 min read · 2020-06-09 · Here are 8 new habits people want to keep post-lockdown.
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Fast Company
The surprising medical history of vibrators
Fast Company
4 min read · 2020-06-09 · Vibrators were medical quackery—alternative medicine that didn’t deliver on their promises. Yet the electrical cure-alls sold by the millions.
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The Paris Review
Allen Ginsberg, The Art of Poetry No. 8
The Paris Review
From 2016 · 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...
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