Setting my Tinder to Wuhan.

Biden closes in on the Democratic nomination with primary wins in Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi and Idaho. 1/19

Coronavirus cases pass 115,000 worldwide, including at least 1,000 in the US. 2/19

"In most cases, symptoms are mild, and young people are at very low risk." Reasons to be reassured about Covid-19. 3/19

Portraits of delivery drivers in China. One company needs to hire 20,000 additional workers to meet demand from quarantined homes. 4/19

It’s not easy to get uncensored news out of Wuhan—unless you set your Tinder location there. 5/19

Quarantined Wuhan students work together to avoid doing schoolwork by getting their homework app booted off the app store. 6/19

Merkel: Up to 70% of Germany may become infected. 7/19

As universities cancel classes due to virus concerns, Amherst College asks students to simply stay home after spring break, same for Harvard and MIT. 8/19

A coronavirus case study of responses from arts organizations in San Francisco and Seattle. 9/19

Detroit will restore water service to unpaid homes to allow people to wash their hands to avoid Covid-19. 10/19

In case you're not tired of millennial pink or the self-care movement: illustrations by Rosi Tooth. 11/19

Since December, at least nine US citizens and one French national have been kidnapped in Haiti and released after ransoms were paid. 12/19

Putin paves the way to stay in office basically for the rest of his life. 13/19

In case your mind needs soothing this week, some brief footage of bookbinding. 14/19

Related: Typography clinics conducted on Twitter. 15/19

Even better: Austin Kleon explains how to make your own zine with a single sheet of paper. 16/19

Taco Bell Quarterly is "the literary magazine for Taco Bell Arts and Letters." 17/19

If your emails run long, it's likely no one in the office is reading them. Tips on getting your message through the fog. 18/19

Some gorgeous footage of big-wave surfing on a hydrofoil, a surfboard attachment that makes riders look like they’re floating above the ocean. 19/19


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