Thu. 02/24 - The Little-Known Women Who Saved Millions of Children

The too-little-known story of the creation of the whooping cough vaccine. Plus, the remarkable initiatives in Taiwan that are helping keep the country clean with a little help from Beethoven. A new Netflix docuseries that uses AI to recreate Andy Warhol’s voice reading his diaries. And a note on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Links:

• The Unsung Heroes Who Ended a Deadly Plague (Smithsonian Magazine)
• How American Conservatives Turned Against the Vaccine (Kottke.Org)
• In Taiwan, When You Hear Beethoven, It's Time to Take Out the Trash (NY Times)
• 'The Andy Warhol Diaries' Trailer Is Here, Queer, and Compelling (The Advocate)
• Watch trailer Netflix's The Andy Warhol Diaries docuseries (Entertainment Weekly)
• The Russian Invasion of Ukraine (Kottke.org) 
• Ukraine standoff, drone strikes, Johnson's woes (Bloomberg)
• Russia attacks Ukraine; peace in Europe ‘shattered’ (AP)
• Biden Speech on Putin, Russia-Ukraine Invasion: Live Updates (NY Times)
• Livefeed of Kyiv (Washington Post, YouTube)
• Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map (Centre For Information Resilience)
• 10 Videos From the Invasion of Ukraine That Are Actually Fake (Gizmodo)
• Understanding the Ukraine Crisis: A Comprehensive Reading List (Literary Hub)
• 4 Meaningful Ways You Can Help Ukraine (Global Citizen)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

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