Mind The Gap

This Is How The Gap Dies, This Scrolling Visualization Of Jeff Bezos's Wealth Is Breaking Our Brains, How Viruses Move Through Airplanes — And How To Stop Them

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WATCH AND LEARN GETTING HARDER AND HARDER TO BREATHE How Viruses Move Through Airplanes — And How To Stop Them washingtonpost.com Industry assurances have blurred the science of cabin air. Biology, physics and pure proximity are all at play. SAFETY CZECHS How These Five Countries Were Able To Reopen gen.medium.com While there is no consensus on when to reopen, other nations who've successfully slowed down the virus can offer a roadmap for the US. KEEP YOUR HEAD ON A SWIVEL COVID-19 Was Here Earlier Than Most Americans Thought. Now What? wired.com Epidemiologists aren't surprised that virus was spreading in the US in early February. But those early days offer lessons for how to catch the next wave. KEEP OUT The Colorado Town That Learned From The 1918 Flu outsideonline.com Unlike many early rural hot spots that shakily weighed difficult decisions between a few positive coronavirus cases and spring-break income, residents in Gunnison Valley knew exactly what to do. PODCASTS WE DIGG | SPONSORED A Podcast Digging Up Environmental Stories In The South brokengroundpodcast.org Hear from author and wildlife biologist, Drew Lanham, on the next Broken Ground talk about his love of birds, his South Carolina home place, and reconciling the South's past with a brighter future. WRONG ON THE MONEY YOU KNOW WHAT'S NOT COOL? This Scrolling Visualization Of Jeff Bezos' Wealth Is Breaking Our Brains digg.com The interactive starts with one pixel equaling a thousand dollars, and escalates rapidly from there. OFFED LABEL This Is How The Gap Dies marker.medium.com Once upon a time, The Gap was *the* brand. But it's possible America's most iconic retailer might not survive this. TOTAL FRAT MOVES Boob Job: How The Chive Built An Empire Out Of Bro-Bait theverge.com The multimillion-dollar lad mag has survived by cultivating a legion of fans who don't want to feel bad about their taste. Now, the founders are trying to grow up — without losing what made them successful. VIDEO OF THE DAY THE CABIN IN THE WOODS Man Explains How He Lived Off The Grid In Northern California For 50 Years youtube.com Charles Bello tells the story of how he built a sustainable home with his wife completely surrounded by 240 acres of redwood forest. IN THE NEWS The US Hits 1 Million Coronavirus Cases, One-Third Of All The World's Cases US Could Be In For 'A Bad Fall And A Bad Winter' If It's Unprepared For A Second Wave Of Coronavirus, Fauci Warns Irrfan Khan, Star Of 'Life Of Pi' And 'Slumdog Millionaire,' Dies At 53 UFO Videos 'Only Scratch The Surface' Of What The Pentagon Knows, Harry Reid Says Journalist Allegedly Spied On Zoom Meetings Of Rivals In Hilariously Dumb Ways DIGG PICKS | AFFILIATE Order These Sweet Mother's Day Gifts Now, And Get Guaranteed Delivery huckberry.com It's not too late to find a great gift for Mom. Get your order in by midnight on April 30th, and Huckberry guarantees delivery by Mother's Day. FROM THE ARCHIVES LAST DAY IN YEMEN How I Escaped A Kidnapping Attempt In Yemen (2014) buzzfeed.com Yemen was like a home away from home for me — until the day I was nearly abducted in broad daylight, and narrowly missed suffering a grim fate similar to other journalists drawn to covering, and living in, the Middle East. TUMBLING DOWN MT. GOX The Rise And Fall Of A Bitcoin Kingpin (2015) rollingstone.com How a bullied geek forged an empire out of digital currency, and became a suspect in a half-billion-dollar heist. We'll see you off the grid. View the Edition atDigg.com »

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How Sweden And Denmark Took Very Different Approaches To Fighting The Coronavirus, Dating A Billionaire Seemed Like Fun Until I Tried It, The World Is Running Out Of Yeast

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Digg Editions Tue, Apr 28

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NEXT COURSE OF ACTION A TALE OF TWO STRATEGIES Sweden And Denmark Took Very Different Approaches To Fighting The Coronavirus. The Data Shows Many More People Are Dying In Sweden buzzfeed.com Sweden has seen a 34.5% increase in excess deaths this month compared to a 6.5% rise in Denmark. IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH How The COVID-19 Pandemic Could End scientificamerican.com Recent epidemics provide clues to ways the current crisis could stop. THE YEAST OF OUR PROBLEMS The World Is Running Out Of Yeast For Literally No Good Reason wired.co.uk Aspiring bakers have emptied supermarket shelves during the coronavirus lockdown and turned yeast into gold dust. ENHANCE! A Very Helpful Illustration Of How Telephoto Lenses Can Make It Look Like People Aren't Maintaining Social Distance nyheder.tv2.dk This article is in Danish, but you don't need to read it to get the picture — if you see news images taken with telephoto lenses that appear to show people clustered too close together, it's fair to be skeptical. TECH WE DIGG | SPONSORED Stop Wasting Money With PayPal's New Money-Saving Tool joinhoney.com PayPal wants to help you save money when shopping online – so it recently bought Honey, the free browser extension that automatically finds coupons at over 30,000 stores. Here's how it works. CLASHING REALITIES THE PICKERS Life On Jakarta's Trash Mountain nytimes.com Even in the pouring rain, in the middle of the night, they are out scavenging, wearing headlamps to scan a mountain of rotting garbage more than 15 stories high. YOLO Dating A Billionaire Seemed Like Fun Until I Tried It vice.com Sure he had a yacht, but he also wrote "I love you" in blood the first night we met. ALL IS NOT RIGHT Searching For The World's Most Endangered Whale outsideonline.com The North Pacific right whale has been spotted only a handful of times in 60 years. A marine biologist from Seattle wants to change that. LETUM ME OUTORIUM! If You're Looking For A Cool Way To Waste Some Time, Try This Harry Potter-Themed Escape Room Built In Google Docs digg.com Yes, you read that right. And it's actually pretty impressive. VIDEO OF THE DAY SPEAKS VOLUMES Fred Armisen Nails An Uncanny Impression Of Every North American Accent You Can Think Of youtube.com The nuances with which he delivers all these impressions is seriously impressive. IN THE NEWS Updated Coronavirus Model Shows Deadly Predictions With Early Reopening A Former Neighbor Of Joe Biden's Accuser Tara Reade Has Come Forward To Corroborate Her Sexual Assault Account A Virginia Preacher Believed 'God Can Heal Anything.' Then He Caught Coronavirus The Largest-Ever Arctic Ozone Hole Developed This Spring. Now, Scientists Say It's Closed FROM THE DIGG STORE Save $20 Off This Smart Wall Safe From Motorola store.digg.com Home security is of paramount importance, and this award-winning Motorola Bolt Smart Safe gives you 24/7 peace of mind. Store all your items safely and access them with ease. Right now, it's $20 off at $109.99. FROM THE ARCHIVES FOLLOWING THE DOTTED LINES The Great Cocaine Treasure Hunt (2015) gq.com If you knew where a million dollars' worth of cocaine was buried, would you go dig it up? Rodney Hyden would. We pick up the story at this critical juncture. NO MAN IS AN ISLAND, EXCEPT THIS GUY The King Of The Islands Of Refreshment (2014) theappendix.net Were the Islands of Refreshment a colonial conquest, the first island micronation — or both? Thank god it's Friday — oops, no, it's still Tuesday. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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