Six Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon

Thinking about kids and Covid this summer, "your unvaccinated kid is like a vaccinated grandma" in terms of risk of infection and serious illness. [theatlantic.com]

"We have also been well-trained to resist inconvenience, even of the mildest sort: I want what I want, I want it this way, and at this cost, and I want it now." [annehelen.substack.com]

"Substack's business is a scam. They claim to offer writers a level playing field for making a living, and instead they pay an elite, secret group of writers to be on the platform and make newsletter writing appear to be more lucrative than it is." [thehypothesis.substack.com]

In a chess match against grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, Magnus Carlsen played an opening known as the bongcloud, a move "you'd have to be stoned to the gills to think it was a good idea". [theguardian.com]

"The Sweden Solar System (SSS) is the world’s largest model of our planetary system. The Sun is represented by the Globe in Stockholm, the largest spherical building in the world, and the planets are lined up in direction north from here." [swedensolarsystem.se]

The Curious World of Animals. "Take a glimpse at the natural world which surrounds us in this groundbreaking documentary that nobody asked for." [vimeo.com]

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