We’ve got a throuple!
A hundred new coronavirus cases are reported in South Korea, bringing the country’s total to 204. According to a Chinese expert, patients who think they’re fully recovered may still be infectious. 1/20
Last week, intelligence officials warned House lawmakers that Russia is meddling to re-elect Trump... 2/20
...which explains why a Trump superfan is the new director of national intelligence, despite having “no experience in intelligence or in managing large organizations.” 3/20
Related/unrelated: r/AskTrumpSupporters. 4/20
Political ads are flooding streaming services like Hulu—in part because, since 2016, the US government has made virtually no progress “on bringing more transparency to paid political speech.” 5/20
One man watched 185 Mike Bloomberg ads to figure out “what this weird, expensive, suddenly ubiquitous campaign is trying to do.” 6/20
See also: “This presidential race is a New York hate-throuple of white, 70-something males.” 7/20
Your weekly white paper: A large-scale survey of journalists (and their tweets) finds no bias against conservatives or liberals in the news they cover. 8/20
American universities have a foreign money problem—and it would be foolish to expect Republicans to be sympathetic. 9/20
Tax records show that US Soccer spends much more on men’s coaches than women’s. 10/20
Watch: Some architectural models can cost up to $100,000. 11/20
Home ownership is falling partly because it's not the path to riches that some governments claim, or even good for society. 12/20
Airport retail sales increased 20% in 2019 from just five years earlier thanks to more travelers and better store design. 13/20
See also: The first person to reach the North and South Poles on foot can’t find his way to Logan Airport. 14/20
In Lottie Davies's latest photos, a fictional journey stretches from the south-west of England to the far north of Scotland. 15/20
Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes is a short documentary that resulted from Jon Ronson visiting Kubrick’s house shortly after the director’s death. 16/20
Before 3D glasses, people used “horizontoriums” (by placing their chin on the table) to see images in more dimension. 17/20
An oddly beguiling look at a 17th-century trunk of letters that once belonged to a pair of Dutch postmasters. 18/20
“Robophobia” refers to biased thinking about the costs and benefits of nonhuman decision-makers. 19/20
The user-built "Pinball Map" lists 25,548 machines in 7,456 locations worldwide. 20/20
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