Trojan course.
Russian troops pour into Ukraine and launch missile strikes on major cities. Tracking the attack with maps. / The Guardian, BBC News
Matthew C. Klein explains why Europe is at greater risk from Russian pressure than the other way around. / The Overshoot
From 2012: "Putin is a Soviet person who did not draw lessons from the collapse of Russia. That is to say, he did learn lessons, but very pragmatic ones." / New Left Review
Stephen Wertheim says the Biden administration should welcome Ukranians who want to resettle in the United States. / Carnegie Endowment`
Archivists around the world are attempting to preserve Ukraine's digital history. / VICE
See also: The first ever Ukrainian music video, by Kyivan punk band Vopli Vidopliassova. / Twitter
Novelist Marilynne Robinson thinks President Biden has the weight of the world on his shoulders. Meanwhile, Joy Behar would just like to go on vacation. / The Guardian, Twitter
More than half of recent abortions in the US were carried out with abortion pills. / The Guttmacher Institute
California stole a Black pioneer's land in 1949 to create a park. The family would like it back. / National Geographic
Related: The "Black Elevation Map." / The Morning News
Archaeologists in London uncover a Roman mosaic, believed to be part of a dining room, that's thought to date from AD 175-225. / londonse1
"If there was a Trojan horse, this was its entry point." Update from an excavation of Homer's Troy. / Smithsonian Magazine
Austrian architect Adolf Loos thought "ornaments" were primitive, if not criminal—and modern design is still recovering. / Hyperallergic
Some early aerial photography by Walter Mittelholzer (the first pilot to fly over Mount Etna), shot around the Mediterranean. / Flashbak
See also: Eric Ross Bernstein's Parallels chronicles "the travels of an introspective wanderer in search of personal truths in the alternate realities of his parallel selves." / Booooooom
A sense of calm in portraits by France's Didier Viodé. / It's Nice That
Novelist John Green remembers Paul Farmer best for saving millions of lives. / The Washington Post
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