Traveling together.

Olympic Games organizers meet via teleconference today to discuss the coronavirus’s impact on the 2020 Tokyo Games. 1/22

How to play tennis in a time of cholera. 2/22

Norway’s leader holds a press conference just for children to reassure them. Also: A nice example of a woman calmly talking her parents through the need to take the virus seriously. 3/22

Other messages: Quarantined Italians record messages for "themself from 10 days ago." Interview with a frontline physician. 4/22

The statistical argument that the US should skip "social distancing" and go straight to containment, ala San Francisco. 5/22

Meanwhile, contrarians (in Wyoming) wonder, is America overreacting? 6/22

Residents of Venice say their canals are now much clearer (because reduced boat traffic allows sediment to sink.) 7/22

As parts of California press pause, homeless mothers "reclaim" vacant houses owned by Caltrans. Camping sites report record numbers. 8/22

Amazon to hire 100,000 more workers and give raises to current staff to deal with coronavirus demands. 9/22

For a decade, the government systematically took on risk while pumping Wall Street with easy money. Is the bill coming due? 10/22

A customer left a $2,500 tip to help a restaurant’s staff in Ohio. A grocery store in Ireland has elderly-only hours. 11/22

With movie theaters closing, Hollywood begins streaming new films. See also: A mind-bending optical illusion by magician Jerry Andrus. 12/22

If you're fed up with sad, bad news: “Sanctuary: Artist-Gardeners 1919-1939.” 13/22

Ultra-realistic 3D renderings of Frank Lloyd Wright's unfinished work, by Spanish architect David Romero. 14/22

Related: The beauty of archi/maps. 15/22

School administrators and parents are said to be confused by the popularity among teens of "Virginity Rocks" apparel. 16/22

Schadenfreude and sadism are “cognitive emotions." They also help explain why so many people like reading gossip online about women. 17/22

In a first-of-its-kind survey, prisoners were polled on their politics, which frequently change the longer someone is inside. 18/22

It is likely there are now more tigers living captive in the US than there are left in the wild. 19/22

RIP, the fascinating Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, avant garde icon and founding member of cult experimental bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV. 20/22

The “Fitzgerald rule,” inspired by late-blooming novelist Penelope Fitzgerald, says there’s no age when people get great. 21/22

A poem for your Tuesday: “Travelling Together” by W.S. Merwin. Found via pome. 22/22


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