Tue. 12/8 - Can We Pre-Design Vaccines For Future Pandemics?

The COVID vaccines headed for distribution were developed on the fastest timeline in the history of vaccines. But could we do it even quicker next time? Or even make the vaccine before an outbreak? Speaking of vaccines, William Shakespeare officially got vaccinated for COVID-19 today. Yep, you heard that right. And in other weird news, Mount Everest is taller than we thought. Plus, a website to help you stop judging books by their covers.

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Links:

• We Had the COVID-19 Vaccine the Whole Time (NY Mag)
• Covid-19 vaccine: First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK (BBC)
• William Shakespeare Gets the Covid Vaccine (NY Times) 
• Shakespeare jokes (Preeti Chhibber, Twitter) 
• Mount Everest gets new official height in measurement by Nepal and China (Washington Post)
• Recommend Me a Book 
• The Best Books of 2020 (Kottke)
• A happy news bloopers season to you and yours (A/V Club)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter