Science + politics = politics.
In what's thought to be the first case, a baby contracted COVID-19 while still in the womb (and has made a full recovery).
1/22 | VICE
Echocardiograms of COVID-19 patients show heart damage in 55% of scans. One in seven have "severe abnormalities."
2/22 | The Guardian
Some first-person reporting: “I took every precaution I could, I’m under thirty, and I am infected. Moreover, this is not an easy burden to bear. As I type this, an elephant is sitting on my chest.”
3/22 | Chapelboro
“The day before I boarded a plane from New York, my youngest sister sent me a text message that froze me in place. ‘Brother, it looks like all of the Sandovales have Covid,’ it read in Spanish.”
4/22 | The New York Times
“I stumble past that incinerated cop car, a more suitable replacement for this year’s canceled Burning Man.”
5/22 | Los Angeles Magazine
Vibrant face masks hand-embroidered on vintage photos, by Han Cao.
6/22 | The Guardian
The White House orders hospitals to bypass the CDC and send all patient information to a central database in Washington.
7/22 | The New York Times
Four former directors of the CDC: “No president ever politicized its science the way Trump has.”
8/22 | The Washington Post
The author of The Great Influenza: "When you mix science and politics, you get politics.” See also: takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries.
9/22 | The New York Times, Politico
US government data on PPP is riddled with errors. E.g., it includes at least 35 different spellings of "Chicago."
10/22 | Quartz
A map of hyper-partisan news sites that are focused on local reporting. Some may be legitimate, but it's not easy to tell.
11/22 | Nieman Journalism Lab
Archaeologists and forensic scientists begin digging in search of mass graves from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
12/22 | The Washington Post
America's first suburb, Levittown, NY, was built to exclude families of color, stating as much in its leasing terms.
13/22 | Atlas Obscura
"In the aftermath of the Civil War, they killed free Blacks with impunity." The Texas Rangers weren't heroes. Rename the team.
14/22 | The Washington Post
The Atlanta Braves say their name "honors" Native Americans, but has an advisory board reviewing the "Tomahawk Chop" motion.
15/22 | The Week
Lipstick sales are decreasing during the pandemic, while nail-care and hair-color product sales have increased dramatically.
16/22 | OZY
An ode to the restaurant buffet, which may not return any time soon.
17/22 | The Washington Post
LSD usage has been rising among Millennials and Gen X over the past three years, possibly as "a therapeutic mechanism."
18/22 | Scientific American
Unrelated/related: Disembodied shadows from selfies taken at US national parks, then painted to resemble vintage postcards, by Brea Souders.
19/22 | LensCulture
A psychology study finds that music listeners prefer artists with personalities similar to their own.
20/22 | Fast Company
Take a beautiful, hypnotic journey across recursive landscapes in Theo Tagholm's music video for Lumiere's "Doppler."
21/22 | The Morning News
A medieval-style—aka "bardcore"—cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene."
22/22 | The Morning News
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