Feb. 16, 2021
Tue. 02/16 - Del Monte Engineered Pink Pineapples for Instagram
The new fruit taking over Instagram. Why the winter storm sweeping the US is causing an energy crisis, especially in Texas. And a new-ish game that lets you take a virtual vacation with your friends.
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Links:
- Instagram Fruit (Grow)
- The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple (BBC)
- Hurricane Harvey vs. now (The Weather Channel, Twitter)
- How Extreme Cold Turned Into a U.S. Energy Crisis (Bloomberg)
- Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes (Bloomberg)
- Texplainer: Why Does Texas Have Its Own Power Grid? (Texas Tribune)
- Storm updates & resources for helping out at the bottom (Texas Tribune)
- City Guesser
- Kottke.Org
- Jackson Bird on Twitter
