Dog on the Road
The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library.
What’s going on with the stock market?
Yanis Varoufakis: “We live under something far worse than capitalism.”
The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library.
What’s going on with the stock market?
Yanis Varoufakis: “We live under something far worse than capitalism.”
How the coronavirus spreads through the air.
A new level of parental anxiety.
Cloud loss could push the climate past a tipping point.
Dark fluid could dominate the universe.
Drinking dark fluid before breakfast is bad for you.
The oral history of Alan Partridge.
I see a little silhouetto of a chicken.
Car design is about to change forever.
A new enzyme eats plastic bottles.
Werner Herzog on Bruce Chatwin.
Matt Berry, fellow Oldfield fan.
The world’s most famous shipwreck.
Britain’s coming Brexit humbling. Ireland will pay the price.
What to do when the future feels hopeless.
Sight-seeing on Flight Simulator.
Restoring a ratchet screwdriver from 1891.
There’s growing evidence that Covid-19 is airborne.
Serious brain disorders are developing in people with mild coronavirus symptoms.
Parenting in the Covid-19 economy.
Those “all over the place” feelings are symptoms of stress. Here’s what’s happening.
Thucydides in times of trouble.
When lies and incompetence collide.
A Caribbean beach could help us slow climate change.
How the virus conquered America.
Brazil faces the worst-case scenario.
Europe’s post-lockdown rules. Telling detail: the UK has had by far the longest lockdown.
Britain has gone completely mad during lockdown.
More madness: We can’t fight covid and Brexit at the same time. But as of midnight last night, we’ll have to.
The UK government’s coronavirus testing statistics are missing most of the current new cases.
Our kids have turned 9 and 13 during lockdown and have been trying to keep up with schoolwork on Microsoft Teams day after day after day, and this short film about lockdown life by Canadian teenager Liv McNeil felt so true that it reduced me to tears.
Les poules rentrent à la maison pour se percher.
You can’t understand the world without learning about empire.
A letter to a granddaughter about Earth’s history.
Villanelle as muppets. David Tennant as thermos flasks.
Papercraft models of vintage PCs. I’m having a go at making the 128k Mac, the first I ever used.
More grouse recipes from Nat’s What I Reckon: Wham Bam Thank You Lamb, Chili Con Can’t Go Outside and Eggs-istential Crisis. Recipes do not involve actual grouse.
Cooking food on the Internet for fun and profit.
Duck eats yeast; man loses eye. It checks out.
It’s almost a month since I last posted any coronavirus links here, so I should do something with the dozens I’ve accumulated before events overtake them.