The whizzed.
The House of Representatives votes on the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill today. The bill already lost its minimum wage provision. / CNBC, NPR
Anne Helen Petersen: The future of the middle class depends on student loan forgiveness. / Vox
Related: The inhumanity of America's minimum wage, as told by one home health aide. / The Cut
The US military, in the first military action undertaken by the Biden administration, carries out an airstrike targeting "Iran-backed militias" in Syria. / BBC News
An unidentified flying object reportedly whizzed past an American Airlines passenger flight over New Mexico. / Global News
See also: "If aliens exist, here's how we'll find them." / Nautilus
Two new studies find that a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine may offer significant protection for people who have already been infected with Covid-19. / The Hill
Tracking today's FDA advisory panel's meeting on Johnson & Johnson's Covid vaccine. / STAT
Unrelated/related: Chill Room, a YouTube playlist of long nature videos with quiet sounds. / YouTube
Masha Gessen: Amnesty International no longer considers Alexey Navalny a prisoner of conscience, all credit to the Kremlin and its trolls. / The New Yorker
Indian Muslims are segregated by a decentralized network of police and brokers—and roommates who stereotype them as terrorists. / Article 14
A Chinese man is ordered to pay his wife more than $7,000 for the housework she performed during five years of marriage. / The Guardian
Researchers improve solar panels with capsaicin, whose extra electrons make chili peppers hot and panels more efficient. / The Conversation
A pair of Massachusetts teenagers discovered four new exoplanets and published a peer-reviewed paper about them. / CNN
A microbiologist lists 10 ways to be an effective mentor (that also apply outside of science). / American Society for Microbiology
It's a Stanley Tucci moment, so why not a review (admittedly, two years old) of everyone he's loved before? / The Morning News
From 2015, an homage to playing the same song on repeat in a bar (e.g., "The Boys Are Back in Town") until you get kicked out. / VICE
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