Three Quick Links for Monday Noonish

Super-interesting episode of Invisibilia about the transformation of "the entrenched macho culture of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico" and the Russian social norms upended by Moscow's first McDonald's. [npr.org]

Great long piece about how the mRNA vaccines were developed, from the discovery of mRNA in 1961 to the development of gene therapy techniques to the push to develop an AIDS vaccine in the 90s. [nytimes.com]

Meat Loaf Was My Softball Coach. "To the scrappy group of girls he was trying to mold into softball players, he was Coach Meat." [deadspin.com]

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