- What to think about Ukraine? What to do about Ukraine? Timothy Snyder is building a list of ways to help.
- Lots of great, often worrying, information in this story on IKEA’s insatiable appetites. It’s the world’s largest consumer of wood; it’s the largest private landholder in Romania. I also learned the word “edacity”. (trees, passim)
- The NYT’s David Leonhardt, who has consistently argued for a kind of liberal’s relaxation of covid restrictions, has been a loud voice during the pandemic and often an incredibly frustrating one. This New York profile gets into a lot of good material on it. My favorite line: “He was exactly as tall as I expected.”
- Paul Farmer, one of the truly unique forces in global health equity, died this week. I found this tribute one of the most honest and affecting.
- Something else we have endless edacity for? Scam stories. Here’s a new one: a design agency, spun up while everyone works remotely, that never truly existed.
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