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June 19, 2020

A Visual Guide to the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus.

Cops and the Culture War.

Why venture capital doesn’t build the things we really need.

Viruses can steal our genetic code to create new human-virus genes.

Is Cruelty Required?

American Stories.

Apple’s App Store Is Due a Reckoning.

Hazel Scott was a pioneering jazz pianist, and the first black American to host her own network TV show.

Just Because They’ve Turned Against Humanity Doesn’t Mean We Should Defund the Terminator Program.

We are now 100 days into the pandemic: A by-the-numbers look at COVID-19’s toll on American lives and livelihoods.

Americans haven’t been this unhappy since Nixon.

The economic legacy of the pandemic threatens to be an extraordinary new concentration of wealth.

June 18, 2020

The Cycle of Civilization and the Twilight of Neoliberalism.

Defunding the Police Is Not Nearly Enough.

Fighting Poverty Accidentally Stopped Deforestation.

Do We Know What We Enjoy? Accuracy of Forecasted Eating Happiness.

How Exactly Do You Catch Covid-19? There Is a Growing Consensus that surface contamination and fleeting encounters are less of a worry than close-up, person-to-person interactions for extended periods.

Mutation may be helping the coronavirus spread more readily.

Disgusted Patio Diner Pretty Sure She Just Saw Coronavirus Scurry Into Bushes.

Florida bars and restaurants close just a week after reopening.

Males Are the Taller Sex. Estrogen, Not Fights for Mates, May Be Why. Interesting, but also sounds like a reductive just-so story, merely the opposite of the other just-so story.

Why Private Charity Will Never Replace the Welfare State.

If Zombie Companies Don’t Die, We’ll Pay a Price.

Coronavirus has come to Trump country.

Life Hatched From Soft Eggs, Some a Foot Long, in Dinosaur Era.

Bring Back the Automat!

How Giant Ships Are Built.

June 17, 2020

Exaggerated meta-perceptions predict intergroup hostility between American political partisans.

How Do We Change America? The quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police.

Texas and Florida, Please Put Masks On or We’ll Never Get Out of This.

The surge in coronavirus cases in some states isn’t part of a ‘second wave.’

What’s antifa? Journalist Talia Lavin on the reality behind the media’s “pernicious lies.”

Political groups use “deeply spooky” protester location data, report finds.

ExxonMobil Simplifies Oil Extraction By Cutting Earth In Half.

Rich Kids Are Eating Up the Financial Aid Pot.

The Strange Artifacts Hidden Inside the Parthenon’s Walls.

Scientists are warning that people with preexisting diabetes have a higher risk of developing serious complications from the viral illness, while the infection may also raise people’s risk of developing a new case of diabetes.

June 16, 2020

We Can Protect the Economy From Pandemics. Why Didn’t We?

Ithaca cancels rent — and capitalism starts to fall apart. Economist Richard D. Wolff tells Salon we are seeing the economic system break down in unprecedented ways.

Coronavirus Cases Spike Across Sun Belt as Economy Lurches into Motion.

A Canal That Opened the Montana Prairie May Soon Dry Up.

Incompetence and Errors in Reasoning Around Face Covering.

Remembering Sara Little Turnbull, Whose Bra Cup Design Became the N95 Mask.

PwC under fire for tech that tracks traders’ loo breaks.

Spectacular bird’s-eye view? Hummingbirds see diverse colors humans can only imagine.

June 15, 2020

NASA names first woman to head human spaceflight.

The effect of large-scale anti-contagion policies on the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Real Economic Catastrophe Hasn’t Hit Yet. Just Wait For August.

Google resumes its senseless attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 85.

‘White privilege’ is a distraction, leaving racism and power untouched.

Night owls have more grey matter in their brains than early birds.

U.S. corporations are ‘virtue signaling’ like crazy on race. But actions speak louder than words.

June 14, 2020

Fears grow of an eviction apocalypse.

Apple, NeXT veteran Joanna Hoffman calls today’s technology leaders ‘remarkably ignorant.’

America Convulses in Pain, Fed Bails Out the Wealthy.

How the Mallen streak became a sign of witchy otherness and alt girl beauty.

Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On — Especially During the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Why Sleep Deprivation Kills.

Low-information ‘investors’ rule the stock market — at least until they lose every cent.

Corporate media is focusing on racism at last — but ducking economic injustice.

Climate worst-case scenarios may not go far enough, cloud data shows.

Prepare for the Never-Ending Coronavirus Plateau.

It’s Just Property.

Plate tectonics vs. erosion—what sets the height of a mountain range?

June 13, 2020

Streaming Is Laying Bare How Big ISPs, Big Tech, and Big Media Work Together Against Users.

The gap between the haves and the have-nots is widening sharply.

Coronavirus in America is *One Hundred Times* More Lethal Than It Should Be. And it’s Going to Get Worse, Not Better.

On the Future, Americans Can Agree: It Doesn’t Look Good.

Asymptomatic transmission of coronavirus appears to be worse than SARS or influenza.

Study: People who hoard toilet paper are just looking for a symbol of safety. Instead, found a symbol of dumbassery.

After the Pandemic, a Global Hunger Crisis.

Most COVID cases don’t spread virus—it’s the superspreaders we need to stop.

Yikes — The private equity crowd wants your 401(k) money.

June 12, 2020

A housing ‘apocalypse’ is coming as coronavirus protections across the country expire.

A long road home. Hugo Sosa survived the ICU. But for coronavirus patients like him, that’s just the start of recovery.

The Looming Bank Collapse.

The Good Small Cars Still Aren’t Coming To The US.

The Long Shadow Of The Future.

There’s a Simple Solution to the Unemployment Crisis: Offer Everyone a Job.

Why is it illegal to walk freely in most of the US?

Yes, America needs to brace itself for a second wave of coronavirus.

Health is about more than simply remaining free of coronavirus infection.

Guy Whose Photo Broke Android Phones.

June 11, 2020

How foxes are domesticating themselves.

Good News and Bad News about COVID-19 Misinformation. The good news is that people don’t necessarily believe it; the bad news is that they don’t necessarily believe valid news about the pandemic either. Experts have failed us.

Why everyone hates the mainstream media.

WHO butchers asymptomatic COVID comments. Here’s what they meant.

The Linguistic Case for Shit Hitting the Fan.

Behind Vietnam’s COVID-19 Response, Deep Distrust of China.

Edward Hopper and American Solitude.

Police have been spying on black reporters and activists for years.

The Fed Just Pulled Off Another Backdoor Bailout of Wall Street.

June 10, 2020

The Police Take the Side of White Vigilantes.

Deep Biases Prevent Diverse Talent from Advancing.

Climate Change is Turning Antarctica’s Snow Green.

The U.S. can get to 90% clean electricity in just 15 years.

Woman Needs To Shut Up And Allow Man To Be Ally.

Watch “Attack the Block” not “Star Wars.” Yes indeed.

Real New Atheism Has Never Been Tried.

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