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China cancels a growing number of flights from the United States because of passengers who later test positive for Covid-19. / Reuters
One woman in a locked-down China city is locked in with a blind date. / BBC News
Kazakhstan's protests in six objects, from a Birkin bag to bitcoin. / 1843 Magazine
Due to supply chain woes, Norway asks conscripts to return their military-issued underwear so other soldiers can wear them. / The Associated Press
Omicron appears to be peaking in places where it first arrived in the US, with dramatic surges flattening. / The New York Times
Working together to control the virus should have been "the ultimate shared goal." Is America too polarized for common sacrifice anymore? / The New Yorker
Nearly half of Kroger grocery workers say they borrowed money last year to afford basic needs. A third skipped meals. / Buzzfeed News
China's Chang'E-5 lander provides the first evidence of in-situ detection of water on the Moon. / Phys.org
Unrelated: The world's only museum of tiny wet wipes runs out of an office in a Michigan planetarium. / CBC Radio
Thirty-nine "presumed combatants" remain at Guantanamo Bay—at a cost of $540 million per year—because no one has yet figured out "a politically acceptable way to deal with them." / Lawfare
A Q&A with Mansoor Adayfi, who wrote a memoir in Guantanamo on scraps of paper hidden under his mattress. / Guernica
"Solo polyamory," recently popularized by Willow Smith, refers to somebody seeing themselves as their own primary partner. / Screenshot
Watch: A pretty video finds giant eagle rays, some weighing over a ton, leaping six feet out of the water. / The Morning News
Some other things we liked on the internet yesterday: drawings of root systems; reviews of chocolate; radio stations around the world. / Wageningen University, Flavors of Cacao, Radio Browser
From 2010, builders compete to construct the best earthquake-proof toothpick towers. / Kottke
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