When memes replaced politics.
To curtail the spread of coronavirus in China—where infections are doubling every four days—officials have ordered house-to-house searches in Wuhan, moving the sick to massive quarantine centers. 1/20
Chinese authorities appear to be trying to censor the news that the doctor who alerted the medical community about the start of coronavirus has himself died of the virus. 2/20
A decade ago, the H1N1 flu flooded US hospitals with patients. Now staff are preparing for what happens if coronavirus takes a similar path. 3/20
Correction: Yesterday's coronavirus dashboard link got screwed up. Sorry about that. You can use this one instead. 4/20
Amid budget cuts and anti-abortion legislation in the US, some OB-GYNs are using Reddit to offer medical advice. 5/20
All the results are now in for the Iowa caucuses, but it's still a virtual tie between Buttigieg and Sanders. The DNC is calling for a "recanvass." 6/20
From the era of Bushisms to Pelosi shredding Trump's speech: A 20-year history of how American politics became a sequence of memes. 7/20
A proposed executive order states federal buildings should use a classical style. Modern designs would need White House approval. 8/20
Mapping where flooding will displace Americans—and where they're likely to move—if sea levels rise by six feet by 2100. 9/20
"The likelihood of a bumblebee population surviving in any given place has declined by 30% in the course of a single human generation." 10/20
See also: On bee space and asking whether "a beehive design that lends itself to industrial production contributed to the precarious state of global bee health?" 11/20
A greenhouse abandoned more than 20 years ago, and where vegetation has taken over, photographed by Johnny Joo. 12/20
Watch: In 1989, the BBC series Tomorrow's World made some surprisingly accurate predictions about what homes would be like in 2020. 13/20
See also: The history of the future of work. 14/20
Password of the Day sends you a daily text with the credentials to a mystery account. Figure out what it's for, and it's yours. 15/20
Related: A profile of MSCHF, the creative group behind Password of the Day, and that has been described as Banksy for the internet. 16/20
"Watching a woman I'll never meet teach me how to clean the oboe I don't own." The gold of accidental ASMR videos. 17/20
To rescue Spartacus, Kirk Douglas hired a screenwriter blacklisted for communist ties, prompting the end of the blacklist. 18/20
Engineers can design planes that fly—but mathematically, there's no consensus for why aerodynamic life occurs. 19/20
An animated visualization of every home run hit in every major league stadium in 2019. 20/20
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