Covid-19
Your old radiator is a pandemic-fighting weapon. I’m a nerd. This is fascinating. (Bloomberg, ~7 min.)
What seven ICU nurses want you to know about the battle against Covid-19. Devastating. (Washington Post, ~19 min.)
Quarantine brain: Nothing made sense this year — unless you were on the internet. Ugh, don’t remind me. (Vulture, ~9 min.)
The Olive Garden is open, but Marilyn Hagerty isn’t eating there. At 94, the author of a restaurant review that became an internet sensation is still at work. She’s a gem. (New York Times, ~7 min.)
How will we tell the story of the coronavirus? The Smithsonian curators are on the case. What a strange thing to have to consider at the same time you’re experiencing it. (New Yorker, ~16 min.)
“There was a pandemic?” What life is like in countries without Covid. We’re just the worst. (BuzzFeed News, ~11 min.)
The best of the rest
Wonder women: The fight for female superheroes in Hollywood. An excellent read, and I learned all the things. (Hazlitt, ~28 min.)
The giving apps: How Venmo and Cash App upended a century-old charity model. More compelling than it sounds, promise. (OneZero, ~9 min.)
LinkedIn’s alternate universe: How the professional platform makes networking weird. Pure delight. (Divinations, ~12 min.)
How the violence inflicted upon Black men is persistent across six generations of a single family’s history. Wow. (Alta, ~11 min.)
Volleyball star Hayley Hodson had it all, until blows to her head changed everything. What a story. (Los Angeles Times, ~16 min.)
Am I disabled? With my pen hovering over a form, there is no easy answer: better to provoke stigma with support, or resist classification? I can’t stop thinking about this. (Aeon, ~14 min.)
An interview with the woman whose hair caught fire at Bill Clinton’s 1993 White House Hanukkah Party. She was 6. OMG. (Slate, ~7 min.)
How Compass became the bane of real estate. So this is how they roll ... (Marker, ~21 min.)
America’s most hated garment: Not even a pandemic will silence the sweatpants scolds. Agree to disagree, methinks. (The Atlantic, ~8 min.)
Visible men: Black fathers talk about losing sons to police brutality. Meet the fathers of Michael Brown, Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, Jacob Blake … this is more than worth your time. (GQ, ~32 min.)
“He’s radioactive”: Inside Johnny Depp’s self-made implosion. I didn’t know the half of it ... (Hollywood Reporter, ~15 min.)
The unsung hero who protected a complete stranger from her racist neighbor for 90 Days. Holy schnikes. (Level, ~8 min.)
For 52 years, he delivered the newspaper to customers from Astoria to Seaside. This is what devotion looks like. (The Oregonian, ~5 min.)
If you read one thing this week
She saved her 7-year-old brother’s life. Then the virus threatened to take it. My god. (Washington Post, ~19 min.)
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Kirsten