Learn How to Play Chess Free Online: Tutorials for Beginners, Intermediate Players & Beyond. [openculture.com]
Clou
How Are You Doing?
As a companion of sorts to the previous post, I ran across this infographic on a site of pandemic resources for Colorad
How to Help a Friend Through a Tough Time
Based on the four separate conversations I had with friends this weekend (and reading/watching assorted social media po
Five Quick Links for Monday Noonish
11 facts about coast redwoods. They drink fog, their bark is a foot thick, and some were alive during the Roman Empire.
Pandemic Stories from Around the World, Fall 2020
My friend Jodi Ettenberg spent a decade traveling around the world, so she’s got friends and followers from all over th
Speculation: Scented Candle Ratings Down Due to Covid-19 Loss of Smell
After Terri Nelson noticed people complaining online about a lack of scent from newly purchased scented candles, Kate P
Two Quick Links for Friday Afternoon
I Spent 11 Years Working on This Line Rider Track. (Wow.) [delu.medium.com]
1000s of cover videos of Billie Eilish's Ba
Four Quick Links for Friday Noonish
55 Ways White People Say 'White People' Without Actually Saying 'White People', including "real Americans", "soccer mom
Rotating Circles Optical Illusion
This is one of the best optical illusions I’ve ever seen: aside from rotating, these circles don’t move.
The left/righ
The Pandemic Is a Marathon Without a Finish Line. How Can We Win?
With the positive news about the Covid-19 vaccine trials, I assume many of you have started to think about the potentia
Five Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish
Legendary football star Diego Maradona has died at the age of 60. [espn.com]
Social Unrest Is the Inevitable Legacy of
Imagining a Covid-19 Pandemic Memorial
Even though we’re still in the midst of it, The Atlantic commissioned three designers/artists to design hypothetical C
Our Friend
That’s the trailer for Our Friend, a movie based on the true story told in this Esquire article by Matthew Teague: The
Two Quick Links for Wednesday Morning
Meghan Markle writes about the grief she felt over her miscarriage this summer and connects it to the grief we're all f
Four Quick Links for Tuesday Afternoon
This video introduced me to NF, a rapper who doesn't swear, doesn't beef w/ others, raps about mental illness, and wear
A Framework for the Equitable Allocation of a COVID-19 Vaccine
Now that the preliminary results of various Covid-19 vaccine trials are coming out (and looking promising), attention i
Raising Baby Grey, a Gender-Neutral Child
In this short film from Alex Mallis, we meet a Bronx couple who are raising their child Grey in a gender-neutral way u
250 Days of Daily Pandemic Drawings
Author and illustrator Edward Carey has been making a drawing a day since the beginning of the pandemic. He recently co
Six Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish
We Do This 'Til We Free Us is a forthcoming collection of essays and interviews "on prison industrial complex abolition
Tracking Pre-Pandemic “Lasts” and Post-Lockdown “Firsts”
For the print version of the NY Times from this past Sunday, information designer Giorgia Lupi created a hand-drawn vi
Two Quick Links for Monday Night
The Birther Myth Stuck Around For Years. The Election Fraud Myth Might Too. "A significant number of Americans currentl
Rebecca Solnit: We Don’t Need to Meet Nazis Halfway
Writing for Lithub, Rebecca Solnit on On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito just complained
The Benefits of Collecting - “One Thing Leads to Another”
This video is a lovely little rumination by Iancu Barbarasa “about collecting, cycling caps, art and design, personal
Five Quick Links for Monday Noonish
Recommended: this You're Wrong About episode about the Electoral College w/ special guest @jbouie. I particularly enjoy
“I Lived Through A Stupid Coup. America Is Having One Now.”
Indi Samarajiva on living through a stupid political coup in Sri Lanka and a warning to Americans.
Two years ago, I li
Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 Vaccine Up to 90% Effective
Preliminary results from the trials of the Covid-19 vaccine jointly developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZene
Two Quick Links for Monday Morning
The NY Times Editorial Board: "What the public interest requires for now is a suspension of indoor dining in areas wher
Tom Stoppard and the Last Crusade
Hermione Lee has written an authorized biography of playwright, screenwriter, translator, and man of letters Tom Stopp
Two Quick Links for Friday Night
The volunteers, coders, designers, coordinators, and journalists behind The @COVID19Tracking Project are some of the ge
The Moral Calculus of COVID-19
You may have heard that MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has been quarantining at home following close contact with a person w
Election Days I Have Known
My birthday is November 3, 1979. This means that Election Day 2020 in the United States was also my 41st birthday. It w
Tomorrow’s Special Guest…
Hey all. I’m taking the day off tomorrow (Friday) to take care of a few things I’ve been neglecting in my life recently
This Village’s Adorable Christmas Lights Are Designed by Kids
In the Scottish village of Newburgh, the Christmas lights hung up around town were designed from drawings done by local
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