Has anyone tried the 4-7-8 breathing technique to fall asleep? I have no problem going to sleep at night but if I wake after 2am, it's almost impossible for me to get back to sleep. [wellandgood.com]
Over half of all humans on Earth have now received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. [twitter.com]
Nothing makes me miss NYC more than a thread about particularly efficient public transportation, e.g. when the subway is most like the Millennium Falcon. (It's the A/D from 59th to 125th for me.) [twitter.com]
Has anyone tried the 4-7-8 breathing technique to fall asleep? I have no problem going to sleep at night but if I wake after 2am, it's almost impossible for me to get back to sleep. [wellandgood.com]
Pfizer halted the trials for its experimental antiviral pill for Covid-19 early because it was so effective. "Fewer than 1% of patients taking the drug needed to be hospitalized and no one died" vs 7% hosp. and 7 deaths in the comparison group. [apnews.com]
Why are rapid at-home Covid tests still so hard to find (and expensive) in the US? This is INTOLERABLE. FIX IT. [propublica.org]
Some gorgeous photos of the rugged Faroe Islands from photographer Jonathan Nackstrand. [theatlantic.com]
Here are some of the 455 new words Merriam Webster added to their dictionary this year: FTW, digital nomad, dad bod, oobleck, TBH, long Covid, deplatform, and faux-hawk. [merriam-webster.com]
Clive Thompson built a fun web app for right-angle doodling. "It's been pretty well-established that doodling is cognitively useful." [clivethompson.medium.com]
The Root 100, a list of the most influential African Americans aged 25 to 45 for 2021. The list includes NIH viral immunologist Kizzmekia Corbett, 1619 Project instigator Nikole Hannah-Jones, and tech video maven Marques Brownlee. [theroot.com]
China's plan to reduce their carbon emissions hinges on nuclear power. "China is planning at least 150 new reactors in the next 15 years, more than the rest of the world has built in the past 35." [bloomberg.com]
ProPublica has created "the most detailed map of cancer-causing industrial air pollution in the US". "In predominantly Black census tracts, the estimated cancer risk from toxic air pollution is more than double that of majority-white tracts." [propublica.org]
TIL about "antiprimes", numbers that are highly divisible. [npr.org]
Evan Puschak, who does one of my favorite YouTube channels, The Nerdwriter, is coming out with a book in the spring: Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions. [amazon.com]
A long and interesting interactive piece on curves and surfaces. [ciechanow.ski]
Substantially More Monarch Butterflies Have Arrived in California to Overwinter, Bringing Hope For Species. [goodnewsnetwork.org]
Bookshop and Penguin Random House are working with independent book stores to provide copies of The 1619 Project to schools and community organizations. You can donate a copy or two, via your local bookstore, here. [bookshop.org]
9 Ways to 'Rewild Your Attention'. "How to inject more weirdness and randomness into the stuff you read and see." I use many of these techniques in my work here at @kottke. [forge.medium.com]
Which famous old people could identify Nintendo's Mario? "Not only does Rushdie know who Mario is, but also Luigi and, I don't think this is too much of a stretch, Yoshi, Bowser, and the Koopalings." [gawker.com]
These 4 charts explain why the stakes are so high at the U.N. climate summit. "The world is not on track to avoid extreme climate change." [npr.org]
The 20 Most Underrated Movies of the Past 20 Years, including Vanilla Sky, Annihilation, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and The Fountain. [wired.com]
New evidence suggests that Viking explorers reached the Azores hundreds of years before the Portuguese arrived in 1427. [theguardian.com]
The FDA has authorized the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for children aged 5-11. [fda.gov]
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