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I hate how they enforce lockdown

Children eating grass with salt in Koiripur village in the Badagaon block of Varanasi district.

Anand Vihar bus terminal

GameStop to employees: wrap your hands in plastic bags and go back to work - The Boston Globe

Biden, Sanders Demand 3-month Freeze on rent payments, evictions of Tenants across U.S.

>4,000 Android apps silently access your installed software

LPT: if a friend makes a recommendation, at least check it out. Worst case scenario is it will give you the opportunity to grow closer to them and maybe even understand them a little better. When you ignore recommendations it communicates a lack of investment in the relationship.

Trafficked pangolins can carry coronaviruses closely related to pandemic strain

A BBC Sports commentator gets bored.

The core of the Milky Way rising, seen from one of the few places in Denmark with minimal light pollution

Senator says White House turned down emergency coronavirus funding in early February

It's a celebration!

Among 6 mothers with confirmed COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 was not detected in the serum or throat swab in any of their newborns. However, virus-specific antibodies were detected in neonatal blood sera samples. The IgG concentrations were elevated in 5 infants

The Olympics will go on!!

TIL in the past century, every year at least one Belgian has died from World War 1 or World War 2 ordinance being accidentally detonated

Joginder Sharma, the man who bowled the last over of the inaugural T20 WC final and led India to victory, is now serving the nation as a policeman in a time of global crisis.

LPT: If you’re working from home, leave your laptop on a hard surface or turn it upside down when not in use.

LPT: If you’re planning on living in an apartment and you have kids or you just happen to step loudly, please, find an apartment on the ground floor. People underneath you can really hear you.

I pointed my telescope at the Phoenix Nebula for almost 12 hours to capture this.

LPT: If you are sitting at home for more than a week without driving your vehicle, you may want to start it and let it run for a bit. The battery may die on you otherwise.

LPT: When you get your stimulus check from the government, spend it on local and small businesses! Give back to your local economy instead of buying from companies like Amazon who don’t need it as much.

The potential for a substantial viral load within the wastewater plumbing system, in combination with the potential for airborne transmission due to aerosolisation of the virus, calls for wastewater plumbing systems to be considered as a potential transmission pathway for COVID-19

TIL, "Genghis Khan" Was just a title meaning "ruler of all", his given name was Temüjin Borjigin.

LPT from someone who caught it, for those who are feeling anxious

Trump says he's directed Pence not to call governors who aren't 'grateful' for federal aid

Or maybe 42 hamburgers.

Isn’t it bad enough that there’s no sports to watch so the ESPN app is endless analyst dribble just trying to keep us interested? Oh NO. Now you force a 30 second commercial on me for a product I can’t even buy!?! Wow. Thanks ESPN.

Why I Wakeboard - Follow your Passion

NASA data shows something has been sucking Uranus’ atmosphere out into space

30 of Hubble's Greatest Photos

Daeth Deneid

7 Year Old Learns Backflip!

Summer Olympics Medal Ranking By Year Since 1896

Thousands of spring breakers traveled from one Florida beach to cities across the US — mapping their phone data shows the importance of social distancing amid the coronavirus outbreak

LPT use ubereats/grubhub to look up a restaurants menu, but call the actual restaurant to order. They eat 20-30% profit from small business owners who are currently struggling

LPT: Every few years, retry the foods that you think you hate.

I miss basketball! And I miss the Black Mamba

Former Sec. State John Kerry tweets that GOP Congressman Thomas Massie has “tested positive for being an asshole” after he pledges to delay COVID-19 relief bill

TIL that the cheese slicer (Ostehøvel) was invented by Thor Bjørklund (Nor). The legend has it that, frustrated at the un-even cheese slices he cut with a knife, he wanted to improve the cheese world. He realized that a carpenter’s plane could do the job and the cheese slicer was born.

TIL in the 40's hundreds of Guatemalans were infected involuntarily with syphilis by Johns Hopkins University, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co and the Rockefeller Foundation. A court case is underway to this day on behalf of 444 victims resulting in 83 deaths.

Decreasing antibiotic use, the gut microbiota, and asthma incidence in children: evidence from population-based and prospective cohort studies (Mar 2020, n=2644) "reduction in the incidence of paediatric asthma in recent years might be unexpected benefit of prudent antibiotic use during infancy"

NBA stars Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell cleared of coronavirus

AOC angrily slams ‘crumbs for our families’ in a fiery speech about coronavirus stimulus on House floor

A sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden has ignited a firestorm of controversy

TIL The US had to abandon construction of a border fort in New York State after realising that they'd accidentally built it on the Canadian side of the border. It was promptly nicknamed "Fort Blunder".

Sad but happy

Hit by backlash over posts on lack of medical gear, doctors go silent on social media | Two doctors who tweeted about shortage of protective gear for medical personnel handling Covid-19 cases were trolled, and accused of political propaganda.

A new look at Voyager's Uranus flyby reveals interesting data about it's atmosphere and magnetic field.

LPT: If you plan on having a gaming PC in the future, it’s always a good time to start building your game library. Epic games and other online gaming stores are constantly offering free games that you can save to your library for future use.

We Now Know Who Society’s Essential Workers Are. And They’re Among The Lowest Paid. | The coronavirus pandemic is putting grocery store and restaurant workers at risk, often with no health protections and just a handful of safety precautions in place.