Where there's smoke, there are mirrors.
The FDA has authorized the use of remdesivir in patients who are severely ill with suspected or diagnosed COVID-19. 1/21
Canada's Trudeau: "Effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade assault weapons in this country." 2/21
Citing a state medical privacy law, Texas nursing homes won't tell families whether COVID-19 has been found in facilities. 3/21
"A largely neglected field of organizational psychology provides an explanation and a roadmap for ameliorating physician burnout." 4/21
Science-backed ways to stay safe if you're worried your state is reopening too early. 5/21
Fewer skyscrapers, smartphone-controlled elevators, bigger desks: what architects think COVID-19 will do to offices and cities. 6/21
"The Postal Service is the designated deliverer in 72 cities to deliver medicine in the aftermath of a biological attack." 7/21
See also: A writer becomes a carrier for the US Postal Service out of a long-held love for the mail. What she discovers are screams, threats, lies, labor violations, and dog attacks. 8/21
How camera lenses and perspectives can make it look like people are ignoring social-distancing rules, when they're not. 9/21
A professor's five books to understand "the politics of information," from the novel Red Plenty to a Silicon Valley memoir. 10/21
A scholar of medieval rabbinical literature finds plenty of precedent for this supposedly unprecedented moment. 11/21
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Attempting to stockpile during quarantine, David Sedaris hopes to live up to his father's hoarding prowess. 12/21
In Renaissance Italy, wine glasses were hard to drink from, by design—so the graceful could set themselves apart. 13/21
The first installment is now available for Robert Fripp's 50-week ambient soundscape series, which hopes to ease listeners through quarantine. 14/21
An architecture firm has published free downloadable activities for children to "think differently about space and buildings." 15/21
On making "quaranzines" as a way to reach out to the world during isolation. 16/21
"The sound of sneaking out and experimenting." Twenty years on, The Virgin Suicides soundtrack evokes teenhood at any age. 17/21
More than 50 songs from 1984 mashed into a single three-minute track. 18/21
This is fascinating: An analysis of the most recognizable hit songs, by generation. 19/21
Legendary drummer and Feli Kuti collaborator Tony Allen, regarded as one of the creators of Afrobeat, has died at 79. 20/21
How to build your own drive-in theater. 21/21
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