Saturday, April 18, 2020

Oh Pork

The Untold Story Of America's Biggest Coronavirus Outbreak, Why Michael Jordan Was The Best — Visualized, We Are Probably Only One-Tenth Of The Way Through This Pandemic, and more.
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UPDATE: STILL BAD
'CAN YOU PLEASE LOOK INTO SMITHFIELD?'
The Untold Story Of America's Biggest Coronavirus Outbreak
bbc.com
How did the biggest cluster in the US emerge in a corner of South Dakota? Infections spread like wildfire through a pork factory and questions remain about what the company did to protect staff.
IT'S BAD EITHER WAY
We're Not Overreacting To The Coronavirus
vox.com
"It's the paradox of public health: When you do it right, nothing happens."
HOLD TIGHT, DON'T LOSE HOPE
We Are Probably Only One-Tenth Of The Way Through This Pandemic
nymag.com
Getting out of the lockdown and out of your shelter-in-place bunker is not the beginning of the end of the pandemic. It is only the end of the beginning.
WHAT'S YOUR RISK?
The Occupations With The Highest Risk Of Coronavirus Exposure, Visualized
digg.com
According to this chart from Visual Capitalist, some US workers are more susceptible to putting themselves in harm's way.
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PICTURE THIS
Spain's Strangest Hotspots, And More Best Photography Of The Week
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Living inside Brazil's largest apartment complex amid a pandemic, prophetic images of an empty world and other best photos of the week.
SO HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED
BULL MARKET
Why Michael Jordan Was The Best
fivethirtyeight.com
The Bulls legend was — and still is — basketball's GOAT.
'IT IS, IN A WORD, QUIET'
Hear The Soundscapes Of Cities Transformed
atlasobscura.com
The sonic landscape has changed. Even in the biggest, most densely populated cities, amid the uncertainty and suffering of the pandemic, people are beginning to hear something entirely new.
'SHE SPOKE TO THE EMPTY SEATS'
In High School, I Fell For An Actress 25 Years My Senior. She Changed My Life
slate.com
A hopeless teenage crush, an older actress and one extremely uninformed college decision.
BAD FOR THEM, GOOD FOR US
'Too Hot To Handle' Is Netflix's Most Disconcerting Reality TV Show Yet
theringer.com
Ten contestants are invited to an island, prohibited from having sex, and encouraged to become "authentically connected." This is not "Love Is Blind." It is something much, much worse.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
WHAT THE…
Gymnast Breaks The Matrix, Pulls Off A True Standing Double Backflip On Grass
digg.com
Kaleb Cave seems to have pulled off a true standing double backflip on grass. It's wild
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Life Is Stressful — Let's Help Mom Relax
digg.com
The world has gotten pretty stressful lately, so let's use Mother's Day as an excuse to give the gift of chill vibes.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
PROP-AGANDA
The WWII-Era Plane Giving The F-35 A Run For Its Money (2015)
motherboard.vice.com
The war in Afghanistan proved that we can't just rely on new technology, but the Pentagon wouldn't listen — and troops paid the price.
PIPE DREAMS
The Abandoned Plan That Could Have Saved America From Drought (2015)
buzzfeed.com
The North American Water and Power Alliance was an audacious proposal to divert water to parched western states that would have cost hundreds of billions of dollars and pissed off Canada. But what if it had worked?
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