Four Quick Links for Friday Noonish

How a 14-year challenge to find a person based only on a photograph of him and his name ("Satoshi") was finally solved. Great story but that last line is an *incredible* reveal. [findsatoshi.com]

Wikipedia turns 20 years old today. [diff.wikimedia.org]

Covid-19 cut US life expectancy in 2020 by 1.13 years. "Black and Latino populations are estimated to experience declines...of 2.10 and 3.05 years" compared to 0.68 years for whites. 3 years!! [pnas.org]

Sally Rooney will be out with a new book in September called "Beautiful World, Where Are You". Hot diggity! [nytimes.com]

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