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Little Acorns is Nancy Hiller's series of woodworker profiles. [more inside]
posted by zamboni at 2:30 PM PST - 9 comments

How to test every American for Covid-19 everyday What's a rapid test? Existing technology using paper strips allows for contagious-COVID testing that is rapid and inexpensive. Research shows that if done properly, these testing protocols could drive down infections close to zero. Millions of these tests can easily be manufactured and distributed. At as low as $1 per test, you can take a test every day. Tests could be administered at the entrance to schools and offices, and some could be taken at home. [more inside]
posted by bluesky43 at 1:55 PM PST - 94 comments

The refrigerator is the only thing we’re forced to share that we have drastically different views on how to use. And I’m not sure how you turn a person who insists on pickling her own carrots into a person who doesn’t also feel entitled to stack jars of them eight deep on the highest shelf, but that is the person I ended up married to! Has anyone ever gotten divorced citing “too many assorted milks?” Is this the “for worse” I am resigned to? from To Love, Honor, and Share Fridge Space by Samantha Irby
posted by chavenet at 9:33 AM PST - 116 comments

Ethan Zuckerman leaves a note to future occupant of his office in the MIT Media Lab. The window has some...unique features. And attempts to remove them.
posted by MrGuilt at 9:28 AM PST - 42 comments

What if you could talk to your alternate reality selves? Ted Chiang’s novella, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom (OneZero/Medium) explores ideas of choice, responsibility, and fate with consummate style and total precision. [more inside]
posted by adrianhon at 9:18 AM PST - 15 comments

SARS-CoV-2 was Unexpectedly Deadlier than Push-scooters: Could Hydroxychloroquine be the Unique Solution?, a paper published, and then retracted for "serious scientific fraud", in the Asian Journal of Medicine and Health, a suspected predatory journal. Context: Hydroxychloroquine, push-scooters, and COVID-19: A journal gets stung, and swiftly retracts. [more inside]
posted by elgilito at 3:28 AM PST - 12 comments

Homeschooling with Aunt Lil in the Summer of '68. A boy becomes an orphan. 6 years later, he’s failing all subjects and doodling women’s fashions. His childless, widowed aunt responds to this not with anger and judgment, but love and acceptance.
posted by invisible ink at 1:39 AM PST - 14 comments