Saturday Linkages: Corona Borealis

‘Focus on right now’: how to mentally prepare for more Covid-19 uncertainty I Just Flew. It Was Worse Than I Thought It Would Be. Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice Musso & Frank Martini lesson Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures Meet the Coronavirus Profiteers Mike Davis: Reopening the Economy Will Send Us to Hell Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. Outbreaks Bianca about a very, very wide dress...

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Saturday Linkages: Wall of Cats

Albrecht Dürer’s Little Owl (Kleine Eule) from 1508. In the Wake of Systemic Collapse, Only We Can Save Ourselves Should you be buying that online right now? ‘Heads we win, tails you lose’: how America’s rich have turned pandemic into profit California Lessons from the 1918 Pandemic And the award for best pandemic mask goes to . . . The Man Who Built a 40-Foot Spite Fence Around His Neighbor’s Home The Committee to Save the Rich The A to Z of Afr...

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Saturday Tweets: The Chapel Perilous

Two self portraits by Edvard Munch–one during and one after suffering from the Spanish Flu. Make a simple sifter coffee roaster “Black Swan” author Nassim Taleb on warnings over systemic risks from global pandemics Museums reveal their creepiest objects in Twitter battle It Came From the ’70s: The Story of Your Grandma’s Weird Couch The Bread Influencers Flock of sheep visit empty McDonald’s restaurant during lockdown Super-rich jet off to disast...

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