Four Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish

When developing new typefaces, pangrams like "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" are bad for testing out real-world letter combinations & letter frequency. So Jonathan Hoefler wrote some new text that includes dozens of useful common combos. [typography.com]

Ed Yong on America's Patchwork Pandemic. "In a pandemic, the actions of 50 uncoordinated states will be less than the sum of their parts. Only the federal government has pockets deep enough to fund the extraordinary public-health effort now needed." [theatlantic.com]

In less than a week, a grad student casually solved a famous math problem that had gone unsolved for decades. When she told her advisor: "He started yelling, 'Why aren't you more excited?'" [quantamagazine.org]

A Succession insult generator. "FitBit moron whatever people." "He looks waxy, like an unshaven candle." [alexislloyd.com]

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