The Weekly

Links That Kept Us Reading

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The Social Life of Forests is one of our new favorite reads. “Trees appear to communicate and cooperate through subterranean networks of fungi. What are they sharing with one another?” Dylan Mulvaney, head of design at Gretel, asks: what can we learn from the graphic history of viruses? Read their exploration of how art and design played a part in communicating vital information during the influenza, polio and HIV/AIDS epidemics. Designing data science tools at Spotify, explained. If The Mandalorian were a vintage Gameb Boy game...it would look like this. (If you’re reading, we love you Baby Yoda. And yes, we know their real name. No spoilers!) Who will we be when this is all over? Matt Simon for Wired imagines how certain individual and societal changes might be a silver-lining amongst the pandemic’s incalculable suffering and trauma.

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