April 28, 2020
Simon Suggested Setting it in a Pie Crust
Helping your children process COVID-19 emotions.
Helping children express, understand and grow from their emotions during Covid-19 is a skill that will last into their adult lives. This article has some great tips for helping parents and children work through feelings around the virus.
Pandemic science is out of control
A toxic legacy of poor-quality research, media hype, lax regulatory oversight, and vicious partisanship has come home to roost in the search for effective treatments for COVID-19.
“When these six destinies entwine, their world will be born anew...”
The Trials Of Mana Remake Proves Square Enix Can Faithfully Redo A Classic '90s RPG [Kotaku] “The second high-definition remake of a 90s-era Square Enix role-playing game coming out this month is much more faithful to the original than Final Fantasy VII. Beneath Trials of Mana’s cartoonish 3D makeover and questionable voice acting, it’s the same simple, satisfying action RPG it’s always been. Trials of Mana began as Seiken Densetsu 3, the 1995 Super Famicom sequel to classic action RPG Secret of Mana. Though Western fans have been playing for two decades via unofficial translations, the game did not see an official English release until June 2019 as part of the Collection of Mana compilation. Now, less than a year since the original was officially introduced to the Western world, we’ve got a high-definition 3D remake.” [Game Trailer] [more inside]
Father and Daughter Growing Up
World's biggest film festivals unite for 10-day streaming event
From May 29 to June 7, the public will be able to stream movies, panel discussions, and events curated by the world’s biggest film festivals. Organized by Tribeca Enterprises and YouTube, We Are One: A Global Film Festival will feature content curated by the following festivals: Annecy (Animation), Berlin, BFI London, Cannes, Guadalajara, Macao, Jerusalem, Mumbai, Karlovy Vary, Locarno, Marrakech, New York, San Sebastian, Sarajevo, Sundance, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, Tribeca, and Venice. All programming will be available for free, and without ads, at youtube.com/weareone. Viewers will be asked to make donations to the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund and local relief organizations all over the world.
Drinking almost killed him; then it became his great subject
Jason Isbell’s Redemption Songs (GQ): A decade after bottoming out and cleaning up, Jason Isbell has become the last of his kind: a guitar-playing, compulsively honest, relentlessly consistent songwriter. Oh, and he slays on Twitter too. Zach Baron goes to Isbell's family home near Franklin, Tennessee, and finds there's no question the four-time Grammy winner won't answer.
Just some oak and some pine and a handful of... good social policies
George Lakey is an American Quaker activist and educator who helped create the Global Nonviolent Action Database. He also co-founded the Earth Quaker Action Team to work on issues of environmental justice. Lakey's two most recent books, Viking Economics and How We Win, seek to map out a realistic and nonviolent path for moving the US toward a Nordic-style social welfare economy. [more inside]
Why Americans Don’t Vote Their Class Anymore
Why Americans Don’t Vote Their Class Anymore — New York Magazine's Eric Levitz on the declining correlation between American voters' socioeconomic class and their partisan voting behavior [more inside]
The practical joke that changed baseball history
How a Boston sports radio prank led to Pete Rose being banned from baseball.
Dinosaurs Is the Only Family Sitcom Grim Enough for This Moment
"I’ve felt something like this before, some adulterated version of the family sitcom that shook me up because the stakes under the veneer of normalcy were off. It finally hit me when Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick suggested some weeks ago that the elderly were prepared to sacrifice themselves for the economy. I was catapulted back to a point in the spring of 1991 when, staring horrified at my television screen, I watched the grandmother in a family sitcom fix herself up beautifully in order to be thrown off a cliff." [more inside]
Just how does Kidz Bop censor songs?
Let's find out. (SLThePudding)
'Try touching two symbols at once and saying "begin begin begin"'
When Adrian Grey started having wifi problems, he hit up his ISP, Veil Broadband, on Twitter, only to get the typical runaround. SL Twitter thread.
Cautiously optimistic?
COVID-19 responses in Africa: Ok, one size doesn’t fit all. Now what?
COVID-19 responses in Africa: Ok, one size doesn’t fit all. Now what? Since the COVID-19 pandemic started spreading, it has been clear that the societies of the developing world face dreadful challenges. Even in wealthy countries, where health systems are relatively strong and foreign reserves are deep, the health and economic impacts of the crisis are daunting. How should governments of poorer, less industrialised countries respond? [more inside]
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