“4. Let’s face it, there are a few things NYC is really good at. The subway, the bagels, Broadway and opera. Because the Metropolitan Opera is dark right now, they are streaming a different performance from their Live in HD series every day, gratis. “8. Lana Del Rey may scoff at those who play video [...]
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Blogging the blogwaters
“Pop-up shops, student accommodation … ICUs. Two-bed prototype for a fraction of the cost of other options being built in coronavirus-hit Italy.” Architect in Italy turns shipping containers into hospitals for treating Covid-19, by Oliver Wainwright, The Guardian, 27 March 2020 “With lagging political leadership, local community groups like Reclaiming Our Homes are taking the [...]
Plus ça change…
“States like New York and California have made gig workers eligible for jobless benefits and sick days. But the companies have resisted complying.” Drivers Say Uber and Lyft Are Blocking Unemployment Pay, by Noam Scheiber, NYT, 24 March 2020 Plus ça change… “Renowned scientist Terry Hughes says huge swathes of reef have been affected in [...]
New Normal? What New Normal?
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. John Wooden “West coast street artist Hijack Art has created a mural of two soldiers fending off the coronavirus in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood of LA. ‘This particular issue [...]
Inter the Internet
“‘The American healthcare system is a leading example of an institution that, under political protection, redistributes income upwards to hospitals, physicians, device-makers, and pharmaceutical companies while delivering among the worst health outcomes of any rich country,’ the economists write.” Deaths of despair: why America’s medical industry explains working-class suicides, by Chris McGreal, The Guardian, 19 [...]
Blogging, Internets Blogging
“Taylor & Francis has published a microsite that aggregates and organises all recently published COVID-19 research in one portal, including all relevant research articles and book chapters. All breaking research relating to COVID-19 is freely accessible in support of global efforts in diagnosis, treatment, prevention and further research into the virus. New research will be [...]
And the Internets go on and on and on and on
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. Vincent Van Gogh “At the time, my friend Brian argued that if it came down to it, he wanted to be able to defend himself. That if he didn’t have a gun, he was really just [...]
Oh Internet Oh Internet
“A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” Eleanor Roosevelt “In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century’s end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour [...]
Oh Internets!
“As a longtime health care reporter, I see the unfolding coronavirus pandemic as representing everything I’ve read about — from the early days of epidemiology to the staggering toll of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic — but had not covered in my lifetime. “And still, I have been caught off guard by the pushback from [...]
Sure and begorrah the internets
“My Poet loves words in a way that I feel is quite unhealthy and unnatural. She owns a dictionary decades old and so large she uses a small buffet cart to wheel it around our apartment like some invalid relative. For true fiction writers, words are just a kind of filling for the plot. A [...]