Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Nordic Measuring Contest

How Sweden And Denmark Took Very Different Approaches To Fighting The Coronavirus, Dating A Billionaire Seemed Like Fun Until I Tried It, The World Is Running Out Of Yeast
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A TALE OF TWO STRATEGIES
Sweden And Denmark Took Very Different Approaches To Fighting The Coronavirus. The Data Shows Many More People Are Dying In Sweden
buzzfeed.com
Sweden has seen a 34.5% increase in excess deaths this month compared to a 6.5% rise in Denmark.
IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH
How The COVID-19 Pandemic Could End
scientificamerican.com
Recent epidemics provide clues to ways the current crisis could stop.
THE YEAST OF OUR PROBLEMS
The World Is Running Out Of Yeast For Literally No Good Reason
wired.co.uk
Aspiring bakers have emptied supermarket shelves during the coronavirus lockdown and turned yeast into gold dust.
ENHANCE!
A Very Helpful Illustration Of How Telephoto Lenses Can Make It Look Like People Aren't Maintaining Social Distance
nyheder.tv2.dk
This article is in Danish, but you don't need to read it to get the picture — if you see news images taken with telephoto lenses that appear to show people clustered too close together, it's fair to be skeptical.
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CLASHING REALITIES
THE PICKERS
Life On Jakarta's Trash Mountain
nytimes.com
Even in the pouring rain, in the middle of the night, they are out scavenging, wearing headlamps to scan a mountain of rotting garbage more than 15 stories high.
YOLO
Dating A Billionaire Seemed Like Fun Until I Tried It
vice.com
Sure he had a yacht, but he also wrote "I love you" in blood the first night we met.
ALL IS NOT RIGHT
Searching For The World's Most Endangered Whale
outsideonline.com
The North Pacific right whale has been spotted only a handful of times in 60 years. A marine biologist from Seattle wants to change that.
LETUM ME OUTORIUM!
If You're Looking For A Cool Way To Waste Some Time, Try This Harry Potter-Themed Escape Room Built In Google Docs
digg.com
Yes, you read that right. And it's actually pretty impressive.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
SPEAKS VOLUMES
Fred Armisen Nails An Uncanny Impression Of Every North American Accent You Can Think Of
youtube.com
The nuances with which he delivers all these impressions is seriously impressive.
IN THE NEWS
Updated Coronavirus Model Shows Deadly Predictions With Early Reopening
A Former Neighbor Of Joe Biden's Accuser Tara Reade Has Come Forward To Corroborate Her Sexual Assault Account
A Virginia Preacher Believed 'God Can Heal Anything.' Then He Caught Coronavirus
The Largest-Ever Arctic Ozone Hole Developed This Spring. Now, Scientists Say It's Closed
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
FOLLOWING THE DOTTED LINES
The Great Cocaine Treasure Hunt (2015)
gq.com
If you knew where a million dollars' worth of cocaine was buried, would you go dig it up? Rodney Hyden would. We pick up the story at this critical juncture.
NO MAN IS AN ISLAND, EXCEPT THIS GUY
The King Of The Islands Of Refreshment (2014)
theappendix.net
Were the Islands of Refreshment a colonial conquest, the first island micronation — or both?
Thank god it's Friday — oops, no, it's still Tuesday.