The United States resurrects the green-energy loan program that put Tesla on the map. / The Verge

A brief history of the devastating early '90s PR campaign that convinced the media that climate change wasn't real. / BBC News

Some anecdotal theories as to why certain people still haven't gotten Covid-19. / SF Gate

The FBI tracks a pair of Covid swindlers to Montenegro. / The Los Angeles Times

Mark Honigsbaum: Unlike wars, pandemics rarely get memorials. If we want to remember Covid-19, the process should begin now. / Engelsberg Ideas

Ian Leslie: There's a lot of talk about influencers, but not much about how to be influenced properly. / The Ruffian

Radioshack is back from its second bankruptcy with an unhinged Twitter account. / Dirt

The legacy of Steve Jobs's sneakers is a type of ennui worn like "a secret handshake among aficionados and creative types." / Gawker

Your weekly longread: Evan Osnos infiltrates the world of giant yachts. / The New Yorker

Interviews with food delivery drivers who are also YouTube stars. "I can actually live off YouTube revenue, which is quite crazy." / Input

A 24-year-old waitress explains her eating and shopping habits while making $18,000 a year in Durham, NC. / bon appétit

Some footage of Mardi Gras, said to be filmed in 1898. Also, footage of shoppers dumpster-diving for Yeezy Gap. / TMN, Highsnobiety

Restaurant critic Tejal Rao grapples with Diana Kennedy's complicated relationship with Mexican cooking. / The New York Times

A 19th-century Arctic explorer finds himself bored on the ice. "Ugh! I am tired of these endless white plains." / Lapham's Quarterly

From a good round-up of nature livecams, some brown bears in Alaska's Katmai National Park dine on salmon as they swim upstream to spawn. / Explore

Another way to explore YouTube: through phrases used repeatedly in TV and film. / PlayPhrase.me

See also: A round-up of the "most tearjerking, hilarious, satisfying, and shocking death scenes in 2,500 years of culture." / Slate