Super weekend.

Around 84,000 people in at least 56 countries have now been infected with the coronavirus, and about 2,900 have died, suggesting a global pandemic is inevitable. 1/22

Whether or not the global economy tips into a recession depends on the coronavirus’s spread, and how governments manage the outbreak. 2/22

A chart helps explain how infectious the new virus is compared to some other diseases. 3/22

From 2016, a list of themes and events that recur across most outbreaks of disease. 4/22

When it comes to quarantines there isn’t much data to show that they’re a good idea. 5/22

An eye test chart designed around 1907 offers a complete vision testing solution for speakers of different languages. 6/22

Scotland passes a bill to become the world's first country to provide free menstrual products to anyone who needs them. 7/22

Voters go to the polls in South Carolina, a springboard for next week’s Super Tuesday. 8/22

Advertising spending in the 2020 presidential race just passed the $1 billion mark. Bloomberg accounts for more than half. 9/22

“Like Elizabeth Warren, I Had My Own Sexist Run-In with Chris Matthews.” 10/22

Nearly 70 countries will have elections in 2020; we're likely to hear about only one. A new site tracks non-US elections. 11/22

Voters who live within one mile of a Shake Shack love Democrats. Not so for voters living one mile from a Tractor Supply. 12/22

Media reports continue to make Trump's press events seem semi-coherent. Transcripts show his ad-libs are actually nearly nonsense. 13/22

An essay pointing out how pointless “late capitalism” essays can be… finds itself pretty pointless too. 14/22

In contrast: A nice audio essay about the wonders of call centers. 15/22

An online game to spend Bill Gates's fortune on books, Big Macs, and Super Bowl ads. 16/22

Your weekly white paper: The number of consumers age 60 and older with student loan debt has quadrupled over the last decade. 17/22

At Madison Square Garden, 18,000 students got to watch the Broadway hit To Kill a Mockingbird for free. 18/22

TikTok fame is an increasingly attainable goal for teens and young adults—but the other side of “TikTok famous” is “TikTok has-been.” 19/22

"Because people have a need to glue things to other things." Advice on how to attach most anything to most anything. 20/22

The treasures of wild Florida may soon disappear to development, or simply be "confined to tiny habitats, surrounded by trash." 21/22

A series of photographs about the silence of dogs in cars. 22/22

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