Four Quick Links for Thursday Noonish

09:57

Man finds a bunch of caterpillars in his supermarket broccoli, decides to keep them as pets w/ predictable and charming results. [twitter.com]

An economist explains why we need to reopen the economy. "Think of our veterans. They went over to other side to fight for yummy yummy oil and you're not honoring them by staying away from Red Lobster." [twitter.com]

Juan Villanueva resigned from the board of directors of the Type Directors Club and renounced his membership. "I'm stepping down because the TDC is a racist organization." [medium.com]

The White House ordered the NIH to cancel research funding for "a long-standing, well-regarded research project on bat coronaviruses" because of a conspiracy theory (and probably xenophobia and racism). [arstechnica.com]

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