"My hair needs Xanax."
Republican senators face a historic choice after both sides in the impeachment trial of former President Trump rest their case. / The Hill
A desire to "overwhelm the problem" has become the mantra for President Biden's Covid team. / The Associated Press
Fwiw: Inadequate healthcare killed 461,000 Americans in 2018. / Quartz
Americans, the saying goes, talk like conservatives but want to be governed like liberals. In California, the reverse is true. / The New York Times
"Many of the most aggressive actions against liberals have been taken not by Republican voters but largely by Republican officials, particularly at the state level." / FiveThirtyEight
Web developers, frustrated with vaccine registration systems, are taking matters into their own hands. / Normcore Tech
A vaccine comic about Onesimus, an enslaved African man who saved hundreds in Boston from smallpox. / Vox
From 1936 to 1938, interviewers gathered accounts from 2,300 formerly enslaved people. They've been largely hidden ever since. / The Atlantic
A new database plans to document every slave house in the US. / Open Culture
Facing a winter storm, a city in West Texas has gone days without safe drinking water. / The Texas Tribune
More stories about danger in the snowpack. / The Morning News
Some interesting, tragic interviews with young people trying to save their parents from QAnon. / HuffPost
Related: The QAnonCasualties support group on Reddit. / Reddit
Humans' preference for meaning over facts makes us especially susceptible "in a world constantly flooded with information." / The New York Review of Books
Learning not to fall for urban legends was a rite of passage for early internet users. The world has changed since then. / GEN
The super-rich portray themselves as deserving of their wealth by appearing to strive hard—"a belief in entitlement through work." / ArtReview
NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, a central character in Hidden Figures, is honored with a new spacecraft named after her. / My Modern Met
Paul Ford praises the geography of offices. "The office doesn't so much give meaning to my work as it is the meaning of my work." / WIRED
"Cutouts" of buildings around Japan by photographer Ken Ohyama. / Spoon & Tamago
Sarah Caldwell: My stress-related hair loss stresses me out, "making me the perfect mark for like 80 percent of podcast ads now." / The Cut
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