“Little fresh meat”
The cost of visiting Hong Kong during Omicron can include being sent to the city's government quarantine camp. / CNN
Helen Branswell: Hong Kong may become a living laboratory in search for Covid-19 answers. / STAT
Headlines of the week? "At Beijing Games, hugs discouraged but condoms available." / Reuters
See also: Men in China supposedly want to look like "little fresh meat" and "puppy dog boyfriend." / Jing Daily
Neil Young yanks his music off Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan's vaccine misinformation. Subsequently, "who is Neil Young" trends on social media. / The Guardian, Forbes
Kurt Anderson: Thanks to the conservative campaign against vaccines, we're experiencing "ritual human sacrifice on a mass scale." / The Atlantic
A tennis fan returns the spotlight to Peng Shuai, post-Novax Djocovid, with a T-shirt that becomes a cause célèbre. / The New York Times
Jon Wertheim: Stars are awesome, but stars are not bigger than the sport. / Sports Illustrated
The Supreme Court's Stephen Breyer says he will step down once President Biden chooses his successor. / The Washington Post
What congressional redistricting looks like in every state. / FiveThirtyEight
A study finds that giving poor mothers a year of cash stipends improves their babies' cognitive development. / Business Insider
Some blankets, scarves, and socks designed to communicate climate data. / Temperature Textiles
A brief video of polar bears occupying an abandoned meteorological station. / The Morning News
A search for the "kingpin" said to dominate the Colombian trade of selling baby sloths to tourists. / National Geographic
Remembering the Mojave Phone Booth (extinct) and the Graham Cinema's answering machine (still active). / The Morning News
Some weirdly gothic society portraits in a round-up of Gerald Brockhurst paintings. / Meanwhile
Two men in Ireland attempt to collect a dead man's pension by propping up his corpse at the post office. / The Associated Press
Related: Susan Orlean profiles one of the last men to serve at Alcatraz. / The New Yorker
"A psychiatrist would have a field day with [his] sexually-inspired fears." When you learn your dead uncle hunted witches. / The Walrus
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