Seven nation Barbie.
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to release 296,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine in the coming weeks. / NPR
A roundup of data on the rise and spread of the BA.5 Covid subvariant—what we know, where it's gaining, and how to defend against it. / Ground Truths
The stock market is on track to record its worst six months of the year since at least 1970. / The New York Times
Meanwhile, where are the world's millionaires moving? Mainly Singapore, Switzerland, Israel, the UAE, and Australia. / Visual Capitalist
See also: Why inflation looks likely to settle above "the pre-pandemic norm." / The Economist
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be sworn in today as Justice Breyer's successor. / NBC News
According to intelligence assessments, Russia's invasion of Ukraine is likely to grind on for some time. / BBC News
Washington made support of a Ukrainian victory a litmus test for American democracy—related: a new US base in Poland—but Germany and other allies have other views. / Reuters, Tablet
The auto world is growing wary of CATL, the industry's biggest battery company, and Beijing seems to agree. / WIRED
An Illinois steel plant that Trump "saved" is slated to stop steelmaking. / Bloomberg
A Dutch company releases the first "production-ready" solar-powered car. / dezeen
A new study finds the natural gas that heats your home contains low concentrations of several chemicals linked to cancer. / MarketWatch
Oliver Burkeman: You'll never be free from the present moment. But there are things you can do to feel free in it. / The Imperfectionist
Elif Batuman's new campus novel feels like a guidebook to being "inside a body newly being touched, and touching." / The London Review of Books
"Book women on horses did more than just leave books on people's porches." / TMN
Fran Hoepfner: I really don't want to see any more photos from the Barbie set. (But what about jorts?) / Gawker, Vogue
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