| 1. Arnold Schwarzenegger Is No Longer the Governor of California. Right? “He is a more popular political figure today than when he was elected.” 2. From the Past, a Chilling Warning About the Extremists of the Present “They robbed an armored car outside a sprawling Seattle shopping mall. They bombed a synagogue in Boise, Idaho, and within weeks assassinated a Jewish talk radio host in Denver. Then a month later, they plundered another armored car on a California highway in a spectacular daylight heist that netted more than $3.6 million. What initially seemed to F.B.I. agents like distant, disparate crimes turned out to be the opening salvos in a war against the federal government by members of a violent extremist group called the Order, who sought to establish a whites-only homeland out West.” 3. Google’s Plan for the Future of Work “Google is creating a post-pandemic workplace that will accommodate employees who got used to working from home over the past year and don’t want to be in the office all the time anymore.” 4. They Want You Back at the Office “Offices have long been something of a tautology: Companies have needed offices because to be a company, you had to have an office. But more than a year of forced work-from-home for corporate America has upended that truism, leaving some C.F.O.s running the numbers on potential savings in rent and some employees loath to return to life as it was.” 5. Want to Move to Our Town? Here’s $10,000 and a Free Bike. “The idea is that they’ll shop in local stores and pay real estate taxes, but they won’t take jobs away from locals.” 6. The Best (and Worst) States for Remote Work “If I could work from home forever, where would I live?” 7. America, Please Don’t Forget the Victims of Agent Orange “Between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. military employed approximately 19.5 million gallons of herbicides in South Vietnam to clear vegetation that was believed to conceal enemy troops and that provided food for them … The herbicide contains dioxin, one of the most toxic substances known to science, which remained in the contaminated soil and sediment of water bodies for decades.” 8. Make Your Small Talk Big “Small talk is not just something we do with acquaintances, co-workers and people at the store. It’s also how we begin updates with our extended family or longtime friends, people with whom we were once close but maybe now are not so.” 9. How the N-Word Became Unsayable “What a society considers profane reveals what it believes to be sacrosanct: The emerging taboo on slurs reveals the value our culture places — if not consistently — on respect for subgroups of people.” 10. They Survived Covid. Now They Need New Lungs. “Try to imagine: You go to the E.R. with a cough. You’re not even sure that you will be admitted. Days later you are intubated. Consciousness ceases. A month or two pass, and then you wake up with hoses in your neck, and you learn that a transplant and all that comes with it is your only option to stay alive.” 11. Devoted to the Deaf, Did Alexander Graham Bell Do More Harm Than Good? “Immune to the beauty of sign language, Bell never saw deafness as anything more than a deficit, though already in his day deaf people were organizing around the defense of their language and society. The oralism Bell championed was a disaster for the deaf.” 12. What Made Our Species Unique: Walking “DeSilva proposes that our bipedalism is at the root of our uniqueness as a species.” 13. How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life “Human beings have been increasingly protected by an invisible shield, one that has been built, piece by piece, over the last few centuries, keeping us ever safer and further from death. It protects us through countless interventions, big and small: the chlorine in our drinking water, the ring vaccinations that rid the world of smallpox, the data centers mapping new outbreaks all around the planet. A crisis like the global pandemic of 2020-21 gives us a new perspective on all that progress. Pandemics have an interesting tendency to make that invisible shield suddenly, briefly visible. For once, we’re reminded of how dependent everyday life is on medical science, hospitals, public-health authorities, drug supply chains and more. And an event like the Covid-19 crisis does something else as well: It helps us perceive the holes in that shield, the vulnerabilities, the places where we need new scientific breakthroughs, new systems, new ways of protecting ourselves from emergent threats.”
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