Monthly Archives: August 2020

‘We must trust a Black vision for the future’

Pharrell Williams has written a powerful essay for Time in which he says that the protests sweeping the nation finally made him feel like an American. © Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images North America / Getty Images for Diamond Ball Pharrell Williams performs on stage during Rihanna’s 5th Annual Diamond …

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Engadget The Morning After | Engadget

– Richard A typo created a 212-story monolith in Microsoft Flight Simulator Meet the Melbourne monolith. Ei Ito / Engadget Making a small error while editing the OpenStreetMap database is not usually a major issue. But if you’re nathanwright120, and you have a two-story building in Melbourne tagged as 212 …

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Food trucks hit by virus find new foodies

LYNNWOOD, Wash. (AP) – On a hot summer night, two food trucks pulled up a tree-lined street in a hilltop neighborhood outside Seattle. The smell of grilled meat filled the air, and neighbors slurped on boba tea drinks. Toddlers, teens, their parents and dogs sat in the grass, chatting behind …

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Sweden epidemiologist refuses to recommend face masks

Anders Tegnel, chief epidemiologist at Sweden’s Public Health Agency, told the Financial Times: “It’s very dangerous to believe that face masks would change the game when it comes to COVID-19.” “Face masks can be a complement to other things when other things are safely in place. But to start having …

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