- The rise of Chinese translation (and listening) AI
- Perfume
- Poorer countries are experiencing a debt crisis that will break records
- Gen Z is getting screwed (again) by coronavirus
- The Netherlands is setting sunshine records due to climate change and coronavirus (fall in pollution). That’s great for suntans but terrible for farmers 🙁
- Quantified: Social science insularity (poor anthropology!)
- Stop the spread by banning large events. Save yourself by remembering the value of touch. Counting deaths by cause is hard.
- A tourist’s guide to Rome in the first century AD
- How Not to Write About Africa
- A photo-journalist friend drive 6,000 miles and talked to many (real, working) Americans about how corona-related policies and behaviors affect them. A quick but insightful read.
H/T to KM