Six Quick Links for Tuesday Afternoon

This flooding in China is unbelievable – it rained 7 inches in an hour in Zhengzhou (pop. 10 million). [mp.weixin.qq.com]

To assess the risk of Covid for you & your family, Dr. Katherine J. Wu recommends "checking virus conditions like you check the weather" before you go out into the world and do things. [theatlantic.com]

After a testing & shakedown period, NASA's Perseverance rover has settled in on Mars and is now embarking on its main mission of "probing rocks and dust for evidence of past life". [jpl.nasa.gov]

Today is Apollo 11 day and as usual, you can watch the coverage here "live" as it happened 52 years ago. The TV will flicker to life at 4:10pm EDT for the landing and again at 10:51pm EDT for the moon walk. [kottke.org]

After his short flight into space, Jeff Bezos thanked "every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all this". Which is true, but usually you don't say the quiet part loud? [twitter.com]

This sounds interesting... Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism is a book about "how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power." [bookshop.org]

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