An interview with James Nestor, author of a recent book on the "lost art" of breathing. Inhaling through the nose "can trigger different hormones to flood into our bodies, how it can lower our blood pressure..." [npr.org]
"Young people with COVID-19 who are asymptomatic are at risk for developing potentially dangerous inflammation around the heart." In a recent study, 1/3 of student athletes w/ Covid showed "evidence of heart abnormalities". [theconversation.com]
A collection of the first words sent by various technologies (telegraph, telephone, ARPANET, YouTube). [interconnected.org]
Critics look back on their reviews that they got wrong. "Daft Punk were incredibly prescient: play Discovery today and it sounds utterly contemporary. My review, on the other hand, has not aged so well." [theguardian.com]
100,000 reported cases of Covid-19 in the US today. A disaster. [theatlantic.com]
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