Links for you. Science:

Novelty Means Severity: The Key To the Pandemic
Some Vaccines Help Nations Exit The Pandemic Faster Than Others
Comparable environmental stability and disinfection profiles of the currently circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern B.1.1.7 and B.1.351
A New, Infectious Coronavirus Is Detected In Malaysia – And It’s Coming From Dogs
The Never-Aging Ants With a Terrible Secret

Other:

IF DEMOCRATS WANT TO BEAT THE MIDTERM ODDS LIKE THE GOP IN 2002, THEY SHOULD ACT LIKE THE GOP IN 2002
Indo-Europeans and the Yamnaya Culture
The South could still become a summertime Covid-19 hot spot
Militias Pose A Serious Threat. So Why Is It So Hard To Stop Them?
Why Your Dentist Might Seem Pushy
Scarred but Resilient, New York City Tiptoes Toward Normalcy
‘Madman … racist, sexist pig’: new book details Obama’s real thoughts on Trump
Holabird & Root, Westport Room Restaurant (1938) Kansas City, MO
An interview with Emily Wilder, recent Stanford grad fired from AP job over criticisms of Israel (apparently, many college-educated Jews under 35, if polling data are to be believed, would not be able to keep a job at the AP. Is there such a thing as ‘structural anti-Semitism’?)
Your Mission, If You Choose to Accept It
The Fall of the House of Gates?
Pfizer’s COVID vaccine can stay in normal fridge for up to a month, FDA says
How awful is Iowa’s Gov. Kim Reynolds? Pretty awful.
Los Angeles Mayor Calls Attack on Diners ‘Anti-Semitic’
Need for annual COVID shots may hinge on how many get vaccinated now, Fauci says (we get flu shots every year; not the big deal people are making it out to be)
Jewish Americans in 2020
Technobabble, Libertarian Derp and Bitcoin
America’s Bluest State Loves Its Republican Governor
Why the Democrats Need an Architectural Vision to Counter the Right’s