Crash reporter

For one blissful hour last Thursday, I sat in my living room, enjoying a cocktail, while my preschooler, Ella, attended a virtual summer camp. She participated in a dance party led by a professional dancer from the Alvin Ailey Company and was transfixed by a ventriloquist who trotted out a parade of puppets. It was the best part of both of our days. … [Read more...] about Five things schools can learn from this new Zoom summer camp

In June, the results of the study were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The new methods aren’t yet universally used, but they’re becoming more popular. Some clinics have continued with the older method out of habit, Vojta says, while others may be using up their existing stock of the longer swabs. It also took time for labs to accept the new collection method, although she says that most do now. Already, many drive-through test sites now let people collect samples themselves, and home test providers, like Let’sGetChecked, use the short lower nasal swabs. The longer, more uncomfortable swabs may continue to become less common, which is good news for both healthcare workers and the people being tested. Votja can personally attest to at least one part of that; through her work on the research and development team, she tried a nasopharyngeal test herself. “It was awful,” she says. “It’s torture.” … [Read more...] about How COVID tests are becoming a lot less uncomfortable—and safer for nurses

Artist and designer Phillip Stearns has released a new collection of “glitch” textiles—digitally designed textiles with a pattern that appears to have glitched—in support of organizations against domestic violence. The blankets are $249 with a 53″ x 71″dimension. … [Read more...] about These striking blankets visualize the COVID-19 genome

“We have worked for years to try to minimize the presence of hate on our platform,” she wrote. “That’s why we agreed to undertake the civil rights audit two years ago. Over many years, we’ve spent billions of dollars on teams and technology to find and remove hate—as well as protect the integrity of our platform more generally—and have become a pioneer in using artificial intelligence technology to remove hateful content at scale. We are working hard every day to enforce our policies with ever greater precision and speed.” … [Read more...] about Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook is making changes to fight hate speech—but not because of ad boycott