Weekly readings – 23rd May 2020

The ingredients of a long life. Drinking coffee/tea every day, eating in moderation are nurturing the spiritual life are common in areas where people tend to have a long life

For the second week in a row, thousands of South Africans waited in miles-long lines for food, highlighting the human cost of the country’s coronavirus restrictions pic.twitter.com/1m7F6GtGgA
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) May 16, 2020

How GrubHub ripped off restaurants even though customers intended not to use it

A Spectacularly Bad Washington Post Story on Apple and Google’s Exposure Notification Project

In the village of Nashtifan, Iran, some of the oldest windmills in the world, with what may be the earliest windmill design in the world, still spin. Made of natural clay, straw, and wood, they have been milling grain for flour for an estimated 1,000 years https://t.co/FUyoIyELQi pic.twitter.com/zH3aFUqFBM
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 15, 2020

Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage

"We have 4.3 billion unique player accounts, with close to 4 billion unique devices. If each player has owned 3 devices, that means at least 1.3 billion people have played our games.”
— Ilkka Paananen (@ipaananen) May 12, 2020

This is insane.
h/t @sentimentrader pic.twitter.com/eE9CnYfEMK
— Midwestern Hedgie (@MidwestHedgie) May 14, 2020

Why is New Zealand so progressive?

The hidden toll of lockdown on rainforests

Microsoft announced a new competitor to Airtable

Two monetary systems in Yemen

We have released 21-second newsreel clip featuring the last known images of the extinct Thylacine, filmed in 1935, has been digitised in 4K and released.

Be sure to check out the footage of this beautiful marsupial. #NFSAOpenOnline #TasmanianTiger https://t.co/s3JSAnmFck pic.twitter.com/FSRYXCTTMy
— NFSA -National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (@NFSAonline) May 19, 2020

DON’T CONSUME HYDROXYCHROLOQUINE! A new study published on the renowned The Lancet proved that the drug and some other similar had harmful effects on health

The healing power of proper breathing

The story of cheaper batteries, from smartphones to Teslas

‘How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?’. CDC and some states inflated the number of tests to drum up the testing abilities and make it impossible to know the exact infection rate.

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