COVID-19 stories:
On the power of friendship during hard times. Beautiful from start to finish. (Globe and Mail, ~9 min.)
This journalist’s main job? Debunking crazy animal stories going viral because people are desperate for good news. (Columbia Journalism Review, ~4 min.)
The pandemic is exacerbating what we already know: Our education system is broken. (New York Times, ~7 min.)
Tracking down coronavirus cases is easier said than done. Here’s what America’s contact tracers have to say about their first days on the job. (MIT Technology Review, ~5 min.)
(Courtesy Yvonne Nguyen via L.A. Times)
How a cool kid and his homemade cooking videos were made for this moment. (L.A. Times, ~4 min.)
What time is it? What day is it? How long have we been sheltering at home? Our relationship to time sure won’t be the same after this. (Mashable, ~11 min.)
Goodbye, small businesses. We hardly knew ye. (The Atlantic, ~9 min.)
One Maryland man is coping by posting a new Dad Joke in his front yard every day. I’m a fan. (Washington Post, ~4 min.)
The best of the rest:
Meet Toshua Parker, the grocer in a remote Alaskan town who’s managed to keep his neighbors fed with an ingenious combination of care, planning, and a Costco card. (The Hustle, ~10 min.)
An indulgent, gossipy read about the individual reasons all the former presidents have for keeping Trump out of their exclusive club. (Vanity Fair, ~26 min.)
Oh, my god, it’s Lord of the Flies come to life. The most incredible story I’ve read this week. (The Guardian, ~12 min.)
Is there any escape from nonstop information overload? Inside one man’s mission to find out. (The Economist, ~16 min.)
The man behind the infamous Pee-Chee folder illustrations barely remembered his legendary work. (Smithsonian Magazine, ~3 min.)
The Tara Reade-Joe Biden accusations are “agonizing,” says a journalist who’s been working on the story for more than a year. Here’s why. (Vox, ~16 min.)
A daughter’s loving tribute to her letter carrier mother, and the Postal Service, is just what the doctor ordered. (New Yorker, ~17 min.)
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