Eight Quick Links for Monday Noonish

"Range anxiety is the fear that [an electric vehicle] has insufficient range to reach its destination and would thus strand the vehicle's occupants." (It me.) [en.wikipedia.org]

Ambient Chaos, a fun soundboard from @nealagarwal. Church bells + bees + casino + waves is my jam right now. [neal.fun]

You're Still Exhausted. "Life is still exhausting because the pandemic was and remains exhausting in so many invisible ways – and we still haven't given ourselves space to even begin to recover." [annehelen.substack.com]

Lara Hogan's book Demystifying Public Speaking is now available online for free. I've pretty much retired from speaking in public, but I have heard many great things about this book. [demystifying-public-speaking.com]

Parents feeling the immense strain of guiding their can't-be-vaxxed under-12s through the American Delta variant hellscape. "I feel like we're constantly reacting. There's not enough time to be proactive. It's like a fire alarm every day." [washingtonpost.com]

Haruki Murakami writes about his accidental t-shirt collection. [newyorker.com]

The winners of the 2021 Ig Nobel Prize. "Each winner has done something that makes people LAUGH, then THINK." The peace prize winner studied whether beard growing evolved to protect from face punching. [improbable.com]

In a statement, Pfizer-BioNTech says that their Covid vaccine "has been shown to be safe and highly effective in young children aged 5 to 11 years". They plan to file for emergency authorization by the end of the month. [nytimes.com]

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