A Coronavirus Prayer

“A Coronavirus Prayer,” by James Parker. Read it here.

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The Art of Binding at the GPO

In the age of online documents it’s now called the Government Publishing Office, but many still think of the GPO as the Government Printing Office (founded 1861). The GPO publishes and prints the workaday documents of the federal government, but its hand binders still edge-marble some publications. A CQ Roll Call video.

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Stay Home, Save Lives

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot: “Stay Home, Save Lives.”

More:

“Playing against type, Chicago mayor deploys humor in coronavirus fight,” Mark Guarino, Washington Post

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Nuclear Family Fisson

1950 to 1965: “The period when the nuclear family flourished was not normal. It was a freakish historical moment when all of society conspired to obscure its essential fragility.”

More:

“The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake,” David Brooks, The Atlantic

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Guernica

“In 1937, in one of the worst civilian casualties of the Spanish Civil War, Fascist forces bombed the village of Guernica in Northern Spain. For Pablo Picasso, the tragedy sparked a frenzied period of work in which he produced a massive anti-war mural, titled “Guernica.” How can we make sense of this overwhelming image, and what makes it a masterpiece of anti-war art? Iseult Gillespie investigates.” A TED-Ed video.

Related:

“Picasso’s Guernica: 80 Years Later,” Jacque Venus Tobias, The Artifice

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Vincent Clortho Public School for Wizards

HBO explores the tragedy of America’s under-funded inner-city public schools for wizards.

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Christmas At the Waffle House

“Christmas At the Waffle House,” by David Stephens & Banjolicious.

Get you some cheese grits

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Luftraum

“Luftraum” (“Airspace”). Aerial views of cities and roadways, infinitely spliced and remixed by Dirk Koy.

Dirk Koy website.

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The Invasion of America

“The story of Native American dispossession is too easily swept aside, but new visualisations should make it unforgettable.

Between 1776 and the present, the United States seized some 1.5 billion acres from North America’s native peoples, an area 25 times the size of the United Kingdom. Many Americans are only vaguely familiar with the story of how this happened. They perhaps recognise Wounded Knee and the Trail of Tears, but few can recall the details and even fewer think that those events are central to US history.”

— “The invasion of America,” Claudio Saunt, Aeon

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World’s smallest McDonald’s. It’s for bees.

There’s a McDonald’s restaurant in Sweden that serves thousands every day — thousands of bees. The tiny apian eater, designed and built by award winning set designer Nicklas Nilsson, was purchased by a McD franchisee in Sweden at a charity auction. Several Swedish McDonald’s restaurants have rooftop beehives and bee-friendly landscaping.

More:

“McDonald’s just opened a tiny restaurant for bees — here’s what it’s like inside,” Meredith Cash, Business Insider

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