Hints and tips:
...Finally, do read David Wallace-Wells’ bracing NYT essay on whether America is ready for back-to-back pandemics....
...V Vaccination Pretty much the only thing that stood between Novak Djokovic and this year’s Australian Open title. Oops....
...This is not just a recent phenomenon: Adam quotes Mark Jones, former director of London’s V&A, on Richard Wallace (1818-90), founder of the Wallace Collection, who “was an outsider, because of being illegitimate...
...The Internet of (Five) Things 1....
...“After tonight, Donald Trump will have to run against a candidate, not a caricature,” Mr Wallace told his viewers....
...(Annals of Family Medicine) Podcast of the week Criminal treatment Nearly 50 per cent of US prison inmates are mentally ill yet many receive very limited therapy, says Alisa Roth, author of a new book...
...At 1,440 square feet, Albert Woodfox’s new house is nearly 27 times the size of the place he called home for more than four decades....
...Inmates dropped these things there as anonymous charity donations....
...Rather than being put through cold turkey on the floor of a cell, inmates were sent to a 1,500-bed facility in Lexington, Kentucky, where they were slowly weaned off drugs....
...In 2016, he won a significant case contesting a death sentence in Hurst v Florida....
...(TPM) Campaign commentary It is time to panic over the polls (Jonathan Chait, NYMag) Why Trump shouldn’t be president (NYT editorial board) The minivan v the Maserati (Nicole Wallace, NYT) Clinton’s...
...That would leave the door open to 17 possible contenders if Trump and Cruz failed to win 1,237 delegates....
...Two separate samples of Soylent 1.5 were tested. According to the Soylent website, Soylent 1.5 is “designed for use as a staple meal by all adults.”...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...she says, as a V-shaped crack in the island’s cliffs reveals the settlement of Jamestown. “And it’s British!”...
...Wallace’s anxious, perseverating sentences are arguably the most innovative in recent American literature....
...The Bank’s previous issuance off its START platform was the US$1.0 billion START V CLO in July 2008. We bring it up because we expect to see a lot more of these....
...(In Herzog’s remarkably eloquent but accented English, “w” sounds emerge as “v” sounds.)...
...I’m currently en route to the High Court to hear the judge’s musings on Lukes v a-b glöbâl....
...For example: “Several stamps were singled out for investment potential, including the 1929 George V Postal Union Congress £1 and the 1939 George VI …and their price rose astonishingly within two years....
...Indeed, on the face of it Leitz ran a model Nazi corporation, supplying Leicas to the Army and the Luftwaffe, and manufacturing the navigation gear for the V-2 rocket....
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