Four Quick Links for Monday Afternoon

Amazon is starting to open checkout-free Whole Foods stores -- you scan your palm, the store watches you & maintains a virtual shopping cart, and you just walk out when you're done. [nytimes.com]

Nice interview with Kenji López-Alt in the New Yorker. [newyorker.com]

A pair of recent preprints asserts that "the Huanan market [in Wuhan] was the epicenter of SARS-CoV-2 emergence" and "SARS-CoV-2 emergence very likely resulted from at least two zoonotic events". Basically: not a lab leak. [twitter.com]

The latest IPCC report on the climate crisis is out and it warns that changes are happening faster and with greater effect than previously predicted and some of the results are now irreversible. [theguardian.com]

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