The FDA authorizes a Novavax Covid vaccine, in hopes the shot will convince holdouts who fear mNRA technology to get inoculated. / STAT

For two months of intense lockdown, a network of volunteers delivered necessities to Shanghai's vulnerable. Then the bureaucracy shut it down. / 1843 Magazine

A Los Angeles rapper, facing charges of defrauding California's EDD of nearly $1 million during lockdown, probably shouldn't have self-snitched in his music video. / TMN

There are some two hundred thousand Covid orphans in the US—children who lost a parent or caregiver to the coronavirus. / The New Yorker

Ed Yong explains why it feels like we're in a reinfection wave right now. "This is what 'living with COVID' means." / The Atlantic

How much of the air you're breathing is air someone else exhaled? Evaluating hot spots of hazardous air. / RNZ

A Finnish architect explains how he built a reusable wooden concert venue that's held up by whole trees. / BBC News

See also: Some renditions of futuristic homes. / Mossawi Studios

Zurich may soon implement "cargo sous terrain"—underground cargo tube systems full of automated delivery carts. / IEEE Spectrum

An appreciation of Dubai by Zeina Hashem Beck before she leaves. / New/Lines Magazine

Did you know? The Statue of Liberty's arm resided in Madison Square Park for six years, advertising a monument that lacked funds. / Futility Closet

Well-known consumer brands see their images reworked by AI. / Ad Intelligence

Fortune 500 companies are said to be organizing themselves as religious organizations. / Guernica

Rebecca Jennings: There's something that feels of-the-moment about the pursuit of lowbrow pleasure. / Vox

Joshua Hunt explains how growing up poor turned him into a pathological liar. "The fact that I was losing my mind somehow never occurred to me." / The New York Times