Monday, April 13, 2020

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The City That Has Flattened The Coronavirus Curve, My Mom Won't Talk To My White Girlfriend After She Compared Veganism To The Civil Rights Movement (And Other Advice Column Questions), 11 Concrete Steps The Government Can Take To Avert Economic Disaster
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AHEAD OF THE CURVE
STILL MORE TO BE DONE
The City That Has Flattened The Coronavirus Curve
theatlantic.com
Mayor London Breed's early and aggressive moves to contain the outbreak have made San Francisco a national model in fighting the pandemic.
GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS
11 Concrete Steps The Government Can Take To Avert Economic Disaster
vox.com
Unemployment is higher than it's been since the Great Depression. Here are 11 steps that could help fix it.
NOTES FROM A LOCKDOWN
I Spent Seven Weeks In A Wuhan ICU. Here's What I Learned
sixthtone.com
A doctor reflects on nearly two months spent treating some of China's most severe COVID-19 cases.
OVER/UNDER
The Wealthy Preppers Riding The Pandemic Out In Bunkers
gen.medium.com
"There's one in Kansas that's built in a missile silo that used to have a nuclear weapon in it, and now has a 15-story inverted condominium. I've been calling it a geoscraper. I don't know what else to call it. It's an inverted skyscraper."
GOOD QUESTION
My Mom Won't Talk To My White Girlfriend After She Compared Veganism To The Civil Rights Movement, And Other Advice Column Questions
digg.com
A roundup of the most interesting, thought-provoking and surprising questions that our favorite columnists addressed in recent days.
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Things Are Uncertain Right Now. Here's How You Can Keep Your Business Healthy
digg.com
While things are looking pretty scary — from extreme stock market dips to navigating working remotely, there are things you can do to safeguard yourself and your business.
ON THE OTHER SIDE
BROKEN RECORD
A Chinese Live-Streamer Fell In Love. It Cost Her Her Virtual World
scmp.com
With thousands of followers, Shanghai live-streamer Nai Nai was a girlfriend to many, until she met Chinese internet legend Jiang Bo. Little did she know the price she would pay for her feelings
SPELLBINDING
The Woman On The Bridge
thecut.com
Estelle knew her fiancĂ© had betrayed her — she had no idea what else he was capable of.
RAD DADS
Dads Are The Butt Of Every Good TikTok Joke Now
insidehook.com
TikTok has been full of wholesome dad content for quite some time now. Like this dad, who quit beer and snacks and replaced his habits with tons of fruit.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
LET THERE BE LIFE
Guy Scooped Up A Jar Of Pond Water And Left It On His Window Sill — What Happened Next Was Extraordinary
youtube.com
As an experiment, a YouTuber gathered a jar of muddy water and weed out of a local pond and placed it in his window. Here's what happened after the first week.
IN THE NEWS
Trump Retweets Call To Fire Anthony Fauci After The Coronavirus Expert Says Earlier Measures 'Could Have Saved Lives'
US Coronavirus Deaths Pass 22,000
Radiation Levels Rise As Fires Burn Near Chernobyl's Former Nuclear Power Plant
Sir Stirling Moss, Legendary Racer, Dies At 90
DIGG PICKS | AFFILIATE
Now That Spring Is In Full Effect, Your Back Yard Needs Some TLC
huckberry.com
Get grilling, start stargazing and partake in play in your back yard.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
MASTER AND SCALPER
The Man Who Broke Ticketmaster (2017)
motherboard.vice.com
The most infamous ticket scalper of all time used bots to buy millions of tickets. Now he wants to stop them.
CIRCADIAN DU SOLEIL
How The Body's Trillions Of Clocks Keep Time (2015)
quantamagazine.org
Cellular clocks are almost everywhere. Clues to how they work are coming from the places that they're not.
THE SURVEILLANCE ENGINE
How The NSA Built Its Own Secret Google (2014)
theintercept.com
The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a "Google-like" search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The Intercept.
Good morning, friends. That's all we've got for you today.