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.
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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