A human shield of Millennials.
The World Health Organization meets again to consider whether coronavirus—170 dead, 7,000 infected—is a global health emergency. 1/26
Related: Questions about the virus that scientists are struggling to answer. 2/26
Infectious disease mortality rates were declining long before vaccines or antibiotics, thanks to cleaning up the environment. 3/26
Hundreds of millions of desert locusts are swarming in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia, in some of the biggest numbers in 25 years. 4/26
The Guardian becomes the first global news organization to ban ads from oil and gas companies. 5/26
Rolls-Royce plans to build a dozen mini nuclear reactors, each about 1.5 acres in size, over the next 10 years. 6/26
Hundreds of Amazon employees are putting their jobs on the line this week by speaking out against the company’s climate policies. 7/26
An array of data for all known English-language darknet markets from Silk Road 1 (ca. 2011) to Horizon (2016). 8/26
In impeachment news, wavering Republican senators appear to appreciate Trump’s latest legal gambit: that anything he does to win reelection is in the public interest. 9/26
YelloPain provides a music video counterargument to that link we posted the other day (saying your vote doesn’t count): your vote counts for a lot. 10/26
Related/unrelated: “The Bernie Campaign Is Fortified by a Human Shield of Millennials.” 11/26
Unrelated: Weird tweets from Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams. 12/26
Your weekly white paper: Elections are not only stressful on voters, they increase health care costs by as much as 19%. 13/26
"Working percentage goes down while food preparation goes up." From July, how we spent our time in 2018 compared to 2003. 13/26
One reason your car insurance is going up: the cost of new features designed to keep vehicles in their lanes and out of trouble. 14/26
For all its troubles, Facebook now has 2.5 billion customers (on a planet of 7.7 billion). 15/26
New York's Gov. Cuomo is willing to consider helmet mandates for car drivers, because the data on brain injuries is terrifying. 16/26
Unrelated: Which emoji scissors close and which do not. 17/26
The Economist’s Middle East correspondent reveals he was secretly detained in Iran this summer. 18/26
Scenes from a recent reenactment of an 1811 Louisiana slave revolt. 19/26
When architects take jobs from oppressive leaders, do their buildings automatically glorify fascism? 10/26
See also: An annotated case study from 1970 in McMansion design. 11/26
How to unharden your heart toward homeless people: try talking to them or simply listening. 12/26
Director Bong Joon Ho and his production designer explain how they built the layered set in Parasite. 13/26
Skateboarding, about to debut in the Tokyo Olympics, is still frowned upon in Japan, if not forbidden. 14/26
“It’s more like an appetizer than a bread." All hail lard bread.
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