In "Where Are You?" Ash Koosha imagines the lives and futures of NPCs.
In "Where Are You?" Ash Koosha imagines the lives and futures of NPCs (non-player characters) in video games.
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“Stupid coup Groundhog Day.”
The FDA says it will rapidly work toward approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine now that federal advisers have endorsed it. / Science The timeline for vaccine distribution keeps slipping. Experts say it will change again. / STAT Emily Oster on how the pandemic will end: slowly, in drips, with a
A film by the McGloughlin Brothers: development and destruction
A film by the McGloughlin Brothers—you'll remember them for "Repetition"—to illustrate how development and destruction go hand in hand.
Half and half not.
On Wednesday, 3,054 people died from the coronavirus in the US—the highest daily death toll in the pandemic so far. / NPR We posted a link to an article yesterday stating that Biden wants "100 million Americans vaccinated in his first 100 days." The president-elect'
Ambient composer Harold Budd has died at 84 from Covid-19.
Ambient composer Harold Budd has died at 84 from Covid-19. Here is "First Light," from The Plateaux of Mirror with Brian Eno.
Black Market Dub and an Alternate History of Popular Music
Turns out that reimagining the music you know and love through a dub filter makes you love it even more.
The answer is Elvis.
More than a third of Americans live in areas where hospitals are running critically short of intensive care beds. / The New York Times Another Trump lawyer tests positive for the coronavirus, stirring fears of an additional White House superspreader event after she attended a party without a mask. / Axios More
Elvis Presley was the answer for the polio vaccine
The success of the polio vaccine was threatened in the 1950s by "vaccine hesitancy." In 1957, as many as 30% of people still had no inoculations, and a third of all new cases were in teens. Elvis Presley became the answer "in what might be the first,
Christmas trees are a multibillion-dollar business. Who’s making the money?
For the children in your house, or perhaps just for you, a year in the life of a Christmas tree, from “teeny two-year-old saplings to ten-year-old giants.” Via TKSST See also: "Christmas trees are a multibillion-dollar business. But who’s making the money?"
The shot felt round the world.
The UK begins the first Pfizer Covid-19 immunization rollout. A grandmother who turns 91 next week was the first person to receive the vaccine as part of the program. / BBC An exhaustive look back at how we got to the vaccines—and the distribution challenges yet to come. / The