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The New Yorker
How Anthony Fauci Became America’s Doctor
The New Yorker
5 min · · An infectious-disease expert’s long crusade against some of humanity’s most virulent threats. · Shared by 174, including Rick Powell, Julia Belluz, Arin Basu, Guy Kawasaki, DoctorPeinado, Matthew Herper, Amesh Adalja, Atul Gawande, Steve Silberman, Malcolm Gladwell
My favorite read this past week.
02
sirota.substack.com
Dems Give Unanimous Consent To Trump
sirota.substack.com
3 min · · Traumatized a generation ago, party leaders' default setting during a crisis is fear-driven acquiescence. · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
Subscribe to Sirota's essential newsletter while you're there.
03
Boston Review
Mercy Hours
Boston Review
11+ min · · On being awestruck by literature, and the necessary pleasures of intimacy—near and remote—during quarantine. · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
04
Boston Review
An End to Totalitarianism
Boston Review
12+ min · · Fixating on whether Trump’s response to COVID-19 is totalitarian makes it difficult to have a nuanced discussion about the role government should play in times of crisis. · Shared by 10, including Jason Stanley, Rick Powell
05
Serious Eats
Food Safety and Coronavirus: A Comprehensive Guide
Serious Eats
20+ min · · Questions about COVID-19 and food safety, answered. · Shared by 114, including Pamela J. Hobart, Matthew Bishop, Thomas Power, Tuur Demeester, K. Williams, Zach Weinersmith, felix salmon, Mark Hogan, Rand Fishkin, Steve Silberman, Rick Powell, anildash.com, Neil Lee, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Eithiriel DeMeré 🏴🥀🏳️🌈, Gerd Leonhard, Marcy Sutton Todd
06
Chicago magazine
They Were Warriors
Chicago magazine
20+ min · · Thirty years ago this month, activists — many fighting for their lives — took to downtown in one of the biggest AIDS demonstrations in history. Here’s how that pivotal protest played out, in the words… · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell
I was there and part of ACT UP Chicago at the time. In one of the photos I can be seen taking photos of the die-in in front of the AMA.
podcasts.ox.ac.uk
Critical Reasoning for Beginners
podcasts.ox.ac.uk
1 min · · Are you confident you can reason clearly? Are you able to convince others of your point of view? Are you able to give plausible reasons for believing what you believe? Do you sometimes read arguments… · Shared by 15, including Rick Powell, Aamir Raz
We need this training more than ever.
08
The Guardian
20 photographs of the week
The Guardian
11+ min · · Physical distancing, self-isolation and lockdown – the most striking photographs on coronavirus from around the world · Shared by 15, including Rick Powell, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
Moving images from the frontlines of the pandemic.
09
CNN
Why black Americans are at higher risk for coronavirus
CNN
5 min · · Black Americans have more existing medical issues, less access to health care, and are more likely to work in unstable jobs -- all factors that have made the coronavirus pandemic disproportionately… · Shared by 10, including Rick Powell
10
Serious Eats
11 Essential Tips for Better Pizza
Serious Eats
6 min · · Making pizza is a year round activity for me, whether it's a no-knead, no-stretch pan pizza in the winter, a grilled pizza party in the summer, or a Neapolitan pie baked in my Baking Steel/KettlePizza… · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell
Brush up on your pizza-making skills while you STFH.
11
MEL Magazine
The Game Show Where Straight Guys Compete to Get ‘Gay as Fuck’
MEL Magazine
8 min · · How Matt Rogers and Dave Mizzoni, hosts of Quibi’s ‘Gayme Show,’ made the anti-‘Queer Eye’ · Shared by 6, including Rick Powell
12
newdiscourses.com
The Disneyfication of Critique
newdiscourses.com
19+ min · · Let’s begin with the image of Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon and Judith Butler as Disney princesses. · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell
The Paris Review
from Molloy
The Paris Review
18+ min · · There are people the sea doesn’t suit, they prefer the mountains or the plain. Personally, I feel no worse there than anywhere else. Much of my life has ebbed away before this shivering expanse, to… · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell
Fiction.
14
The Paris Review
All Love, All Beauty
The Paris Review
5 min · · Kay Ryan examines a favorite Philip Larkin poem. · Shared by 9, including Rick Powell
Read more poetry.
15
The Guardian
'People think it's magic': how one of Brazil's poorest cities gets its best school results
The Guardian
4 min · · The children of Sobral have overcome disadvantage to top 5,000 districts. Now their success is being replicated across the country · Shared by 9, including Rick Powell
Hope.
16
Undark Magazine
Pollution Kills Nine Million People a Year. How Is That Okay?
Undark Magazine
4 min · · Opinion | Recent studies put the vast human and economic toll of global pollution into sharp relief. Will lawmakers respond? · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell
17
NPR
World Press Photo Winner Captures Poetic Moment At A Protest
NPR
2 min · · Images of a young man reciting poetry at a protest in Sudan and an immersive 360 project from Hong Kong were among the winners of World Press Photo awards. · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell
Inspiration.
18
The Paris Review
How Pop Music Broke the Gender Binary
The Paris Review
14+ min · · There’s no pop music without artists who reveled in lashing out against the gendered expectations levied upon them from on high. · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell
19
The Washington Post
Art is a collective experience. It’s also a deeply private one.
The Washington Post
6 min · · Coronavirus social-distancing measures can teach us the value of solitary contemplation. · Shared by 14, including Barry C Smith, Rick Powell
20
Vulture
Jerry Saltz’s 33 Rules for Being an Artist
Vulture
20+ min · · How to go from clueless amateur to generational talent (or at least live life a little more creatively). · Shared by 118, including Austin Kleon, Galen King, Max Niederhofer, Neil Lee, Florian Hanke 🍎, Loubna Rais, Paul Graham, Jerry Saltz, Liliane Ferrari ™, APKYP, Ethan Anderson, Tom Connor, Rick Powell, Liv 😷, Esther Schindler
Essential reading for all artists.
21
Open Culture
Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.
Open Culture
20+ min · · Discover thousands of free online courses, audio books, movies, textbooks, eBooks, language lessons, and more. · Shared by 84, including David Garner, Minnix, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Frater CEM, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Ryan Boren, ArtRabbit, Matthias Lampe, Chris Sacca 🇺🇸, rohit, Victor Tolosa, Rick Powell, Esther Schindler, Jonathan Haidt
Get smarter in quarantine.
22
Science Magazine
How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes
Science Magazine
20+ min · · The lungs are ground zero for COVID-19, but blood clots may play a surprisingly big role in severe illness · Shared by 239, including Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Lauren Young, Cleavon MD 💉 💉 💉, Mathew Ingram, zeynep tufekci, Roger Highfield, William Gibson, Azeem Azhar, Anita Leirfall, Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Helen Branswell 🇺🇦, Balaji, Richard Dawkins, Eric Topol, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Semil, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, News from Science, Brian Stelter
23
The Intercept
The Moral Calculus of Voting for Biden to Defeat Trump — or Not
The Intercept
20+ min · · Is voting for Biden, a terrible candidate, the only principled position to fight Trump? · Shared by 14, including Rick Powell
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a16z
It's time to build
a16z
7 min · · Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade,… · Shared by 1867, including Michael Arrington 🏴☠️ 🛡️, benahorowitz.eth, Erik Voorhees, Marc Andreessen -- e/acc, cdixon.eth, Barry Silbert, Balaji, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦, Vala Afshar, John Carmack, Paul Graham, OM, Christina Hoff Sommers, The Crypto Dog🫐, Naval, Jonathan Haidt, Brian Armstrong 🛡️, Niall Ferguson, Tim Ferriss, Ryan Selkis 🪳
25
3quarksdaily.com
Pandemic Rituals
3quarksdaily.com
6 min · · by Anitra Pavlico As we continue to distance ourselves from others in the midst of the new coronavirus pandemic, we hear about other people’s new rituals and routines as we formulate our own. As each… · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell