From Aric Jenkins, a collection of articles on “how race continues to shape the design and infrastructure of American c
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Sun Ra's Full Lecture & Reading List From His 1971 UC Berkeley Course, "The Black Man in the Cosmos" [openculture.c
Anthony Fauci: USA on Track for 100,000 Covid-19 Cases Per Day
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, told a Senate committee toda
See Intricate Details in Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper in a New Gigapixel Image
The Royal Academy of Arts and Google teamed up on a high-resolution scan of a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Sup
The Pandemic and the American Mountain of Dead
For his piece The 3 Weeks That Changed Everything in The Atlantic, James Fallows talked to many scientists, health expe
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"A new strain of flu that has the potential to become a pandemic has been identified in China by scientists." (Note: Th
1947 Film That Eerily Predicted How People Would Use Smartphones
This clip is from a 1947 French film about the imagined future of television called “Télévision œil de demain”. The fi
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Reddit is cracking down on harassment & hate speech. Way too little and way too late. [nytimes.com]
A list of 86 An
A Decade of Sun
For the past 10 years now, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has been capturing an image of the Sun every 0.75 s
The USPS Introduces New Hip Hop Stamps
On July 1, the USPS is introducing a set of four stamps celebrating hip hop. The stamps were designed by Antonio Alcal
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What Activities Are Safe As the Coronavirus Spreads? "It's going to be particularly challenging in a place like the US,
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There's been unusual volatility in the cheese market. [nytimes.com]
Legendary designer Milton Glaser has died at the ag
Caroline Randall Williams: “My Body Is a Confederate Monument”
In an opinion piece for the NY Times, Caroline Randall Williams writes You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Co
Making Music in Excel
Dylan Tallchief created a complete digital music studio app in Excel and in this video, he demonstrates how he used hi
Three Quick Links for Friday Afternoon
As of August 1, it will be illegal for adults to wear a face mask in North Carolina. The state's anti-mask law, intende
Fixing Racial Bias in Journalism
For her series Counternarratives, artist and media critic Alexandra Bell takes newspaper articles and layouts from the
Mass Covid-19 Death in Brazil
My God, this aerial photo of dozens of recent graves in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus, Brazil:
The ph
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Americans Are Actually Drinking Less During the Pandemic. Unfortunately, I have not personally found this to be the cas
Trailer for Season Four of The Handmaid’s Tale
Season four of The Handmaid’s Tale is coming to Hulu in 2021. I found season 3 to be increasingly outlandish — not in
Two Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon
Remember Brexit? Still a terrible idea. "Brexit is set to have cost the UK more than £200 billion in lost economic grow
Law Professor Skillfully Handles a “Black Lives Matter” Complaint From Her Students
For the curious and open-minded, many explanations of what “Black Lives Matter” means and what it doesn’t (e.g. White
Covid-19 Superspreading Events and “Speech Superemitters”
From Christie Aschwanden’s Scientific American article about How ‘Superspreading’ Events Drive Most COVID-19 Spread com
Four Quick Links for Thursday Noonish
Man finds a bunch of caterpillars in his supermarket broccoli, decides to keep them as pets w/ predictable and charming
A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
Since the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency, the editors at McSweeney’s have been keeping track of his various “m
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Rhode Island may change the state's name. "The official name of the smallest U.S. state is Rhode Island and Providence
Pokémon Grandpa’s Incredible Phone Array
Chen San-yuan, a Taiwanese man who has been nicknamed Pokémon Grandpa, has affixed an array of 64 phones to his bike in
A Short History of the Cooper Black Typeface
In this video from Vox, Estelle Caswell talks to Bethany Heck and Steven Heller about the seemingly ubiquitous typefac
It Is Time for Reparations
In a piece for the NY Times called What Is Owed, Nikole Hannah-Jones argues that because of its sanction of slavery and
Three Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish
Why is East Africa experiencing the worst locust outbreak in decades? Climate change -> record-setting rainfall ->
Alicia Keys’ Tiny Desk Concert
Well, this is a treat. In February, before the pandemic lockdown, Alicia Keys recorded a Tiny Desk Concert and NPR rel
Barcelona Opera House Reopens With a Concert for 2,292 Plants
As promised last week, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu reopened on Monday with a string quartet performance of Pucci
Two Quick Links for Tuesday Evening
Aardman Animations and Netflix are teaming up for a sequel to Chicken Run [aardman.com]
American travelers may be barre
How the Pandemic Will Reshape Architecture
For the New Yorker, Kyle Chayka looks at how the pandemic will change how we see our homes, workplaces, and public spac
How to Process Our Collective Global Trauma
Do you feel tired, scared, angry, sad or numb? Are you having trouble concentrating or sleeping? How about all of the a
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
Former NFL linebacker and sports media personality Emmanuel Acho has started a video series on YouTube called Uncomfor
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Finding it hard to reconcile the stuff Cards Against Humanity puts into their offensive party game ("Relax! It's just a
Nile Rodgers Tells the Story of the Iconic Riff on Bowie’s Let’s Dance
In this video from Fender, the legendary producer/composer/guitarist Nile Rodgers sits down with his iconic Stratocast
Who Is Responsible For Climate Change?
In their newest video, Kurzgesagt explores the question of responsibility around climate change: which countries are m
The Pandemic’s Epidemic of Loneliness
In The Price of Isolation for Rolling Stone, Alex Morris writes about how trends toward increasing social isolation in
Two Quick Links for Monday Afternoon
Archaeologists have discovered "the largest prehistoric structure ever found in Britain", a ring of massive shafts 1.2
The Handwritten First Draft of Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing
In March 1988, Spike Lee wrote a first draft screenplay for his movie Do The Right Thing in just over 2 weeks. Four
Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us Available to Watch Online for Free
Netflix has put When They See Us, Ava DuVernay’s 4-episode mini-series about the Central Park Five, in front of their p
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COVID-19 is ravaging America's vulnerable Latino communities. "About 65% of positive tests in the county that is home t
Now Streaming - Recorder: The Marian Stokes Project
For 35 years, activist and archivist Marian Stokes recorded television news coverage on VHS tapes, amassing a collecti
Palo Alto, a Previously Unreleased Thelonious Monk Live Album
A Thelonious Monk live album that was recorded in 1968 is set to be released for the first time on July 31, 2020. You c
Two Quick Links for Friday Afternoon
1 of the 3 police officers who murdered Breonna Taylor is in the process of being fired from the Louisville Metro Polic
Today Is Juneteenth, the USA’s Second Independence Day
Today is Juneteenth, a holiday that started in Texas that celebrates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United
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