March 23, 2022
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We Need A Standard Unit Of Measure For Risk
“[You’re reading a post from my Adjacent Possible newsletter. Sign up to receive more essays and conversations like this one in your inbox.] “The average weekly…”
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COVID Is on the Verge of Becoming a Poor-Country Disease
“Americans, by and large, are putting the pandemic behind them. Now that Omicron is in the rearview mirror and cases are plummeting, even many of those who have…”
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‘Stealth’ Omicron Is Stealthy No More: What’s Known About the BA.2 Variant
“The subvariant of Omicron is not yet causing a new surge in the United States and probably won’t. A nurse administered a coronavirus test at a drive-through…”
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The Omicron sequel no one wanted
“Hi friends, My last email went out in mid-January, just after we brought our kid home from school for a few weeks (it turned out to be just shy of a month) to…”
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Ivan Krastev on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: “Putin Lives in Historic Analogies and Metaphors”
“About Ivan Krastev Ivan Krastev , born in 1965, is a researcher at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. From Bulgaria, Krastev is widely seen as one of…”
March 22, 2022
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“Again she found herself spending her precious morning writing time pacing her lovable sty of a kitchen making no progress at all . Why was she holding a can…”
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Alexander Chee on How to Unlearn Everything
“Photo: New York Magazine “Do you have any advice for writing about people who do not look like you?” I was at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference this summer, on…”
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‘Logan Noir’ and A Brief History of the Black-and-White Cut
“By · Published on May 11th, 2017 The first time I stumbled across a black-and-white promotional still of Stephen Merchant’s Caliban in Logan Noir , I lost my…”
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Why Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect
“The crisis over whether I am getting worse at things, and whether I’ll ever get better, began in the slushy demilitarized zone between the ski resort’s parking…”
March 21, 2022
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There Is No Such Thing As Countries
“As any map will show you, the world is divided by political borders into spaces called countries. People and things can live in, come from, or go to these…”
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“Today’s thread on the ongoing RU invasion. (NB: All of this are just some personal thoughts to contribute to understanding) 3 things: -Difference between…”
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Inside the cutting-edge Switchblade drones the U.S. is shipping to Ukraine
“On Wednesday. the White House announced a new $800 million military support package for Ukraine in a bid to help that country fight back against the ongoing…”
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We witnessed Mariupol’s agony and fled a Russian hit list
“March 21, 2022 GMT MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — The Russians were hunting us down. They had a list of names, including ours, and they were closing in. We had been…”
March 17, 2022
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The World As We Knew It Is Not Coming Back
“I was born during the longest period of global stability. Now, it appears all of that is fleeting. Two-thirds of the way through his claustrophobic 2021 comedy…”
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What If This Is Just the Way Things Are Now
“Past Me was not kind in planning the month of March. Past Me was eager for events, for activity, for opportunity. Past Me had failed to mark the end of Daylight…”
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Tweet from Nguyen Tan Thai Hung
“Vietnamese and other peoples of Southeast Asia have naming conventions very much different from those in the Anglosphere. For us, writing our names overseas is…”
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“One of the most amazing things about the Internet is how it provides a level playing field for everyone: this post that you are reading was written by a single…”
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Moms Are Furious That ‘Turning Red’ Introduces Periods to Their Sons
“If you’ve ever spent a few minutes perusing Quora (or its equally chaotic predecessor, Yahoo! Answers ) on the topics of sex and bodily functions, you know that…”
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“Joe Raedle / Getty Images A man adjusts a clock at Brown’s Old Time Clock Shop on March 6, 2007, in Plantation, Florida. WASHINGTON — The Senate’s unanimous…”
March 16, 2022
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“An uncontrollable plague has left the city in ruins and trapped in perpetual quarantine. A thief hires a guide to lead him safely through the city’s many…”
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“First, he readied the King and the Queen. A quick pass with a Lysol wipe around their molded-plastic surfaces before returning the pieces to their proper place…”
March 14, 2022
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Possible Outcomes of the Russo-Ukrainian War and China’s Choice – U.S.-China Perception Monitor
“English The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most severe geopolitical conflict since World War II and will result in far greater global consequences than September 11…”
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China, Russia, and the inflation situation
“So, I noticed that Neil Irwin tweeted the following: Neil Irwin @Neil_Irwin We’re currently living in the brief moment between when Finance/Econ Twitter has…”
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Slobbing out and giving up: why are so many people going ‘goblin mode’?
“A t some point in the stretch of days between the start of the pandemic’s third year and the launch of world war three, a new phrase entered the zeitgeist, a…”
March 12, 2022
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“Paulie rushes out the elevator doors the moment they part, only to skid to a halt at the sight of his father’s wife. She shakes her head, but he doesn’t need…”
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““The shock is that so much has changed, and yet we’re still seeing this pattern that they can’t escape from,” the Russia expert Stephen Kotkin says. Stephen…”
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“I’m writing this from Skopje, North Macedonia, where I’ve been for the last week teaching one of our Leadership Academy for Development courses. Following the…”
March 11, 2022
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“[You’re reading a post from my Adjacent Possible newsletter. Sign up to receive more essays and conversations like this one in your inbox.] Sometime in the…”
March 10, 2022
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Apple’s big Baseball deal, detailed
“It’s not every day that Apple announces an entirely new Mac model, as it did Tuesday with the unveiling of the Mac Studio. And everyone knows that Apple’s track…”
March 9, 2022
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At the Bottom of an Icy Sea, One of History’s Great Wrecks Is Found
“Explorers and researchers, battling freezing temperatures, have located Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship that sank in the Antarctic in 1915. Endurance in…”