#CoolShit 04.29.20
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Happy Wednesday Morning!
UPDATE: My forceful “like this email 👊🏻” approach is working, thank you!
See you tomorrow!
-Shelby
I couldn’t decide how best to summarize this, so I didn’t
Human trials begin for a promising coronavirus vaccine
In the UK, scientists at the University of Oxford think they’re onto something — a coronavirus vaccine that could be ready by September, rather than in the 12 to 18 months that most experts believe it will take to manufacture a vaccine. [CBS News / Imtiaz Tyab]
The first human trial for the new vaccine began last week with a group of about 500 volunteers; if the clinical trial proves effective, manufacturing is already underway for subsequent testing and eventual wider availability. [ABC News / Guy Davies and Nadine Shubailat]
Initial signs are promising: In an animal trial of the vaccine conducted last month in the US, the vaccine appears to have protected six rhesus macaque monkeys from the coronavirus. [NYT / David D. Kirkpatrick]
The Oxford vaccine isn’t the only one currently in development; dozens of potential candidates in the US, UK, China, and elsewhere are in the works, though the Oxford vaccine is one of the most promising so far. [AP / Lauran Neergaard]
One as-of-yet untried approach that could speed the development of a coronavirus vaccine is “human challenge trials," where vaccinated volunteers are actively exposed to the virus. Vox’s Matthew Yglesias argues that the potential benefits of such a trial could outweigh the risks. [Vox / Matthew Yglesias]
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If you missed it yesterday…
“The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified.'”
World Press Photo of the Year
The whole collection is definitely worth checking out.
A young man, illuminated by mobile phones, recites protest poetry while demonstrators chant slogans calling for civilian rule, during a blackout in Khartoum, Sudan.
YouTube to Host Free Virtual Film Festival With 20 Partners Including Cannes, Tribeca, Sundance
First we got to rent blockbusters at home(which the theater companies are PISSED at), now this. The entertainment industry will definitely look unrecognizable when this is all said and done.
The online festival is set to run from May 29-June 7, 2020, and will be available at youtube.com/weareone. The free-to-watch programming, which will not include any ads, is to include feature films, shorts, documentaries, music, comedy and panel discussions.
Watch Picasso Make a Masterpiece (3:48)
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'Le Mystère Picasso' is a remarkable documentary film made by French director, Henri-Georges Clouzot, in which stop-action and time-lapse photography are used to capture Picasso at work.
Not many of the works he created for the documentary survive – but three hang in the Royal Academy exhibition, 'Picasso and Paper'. Here's how one of them came to be.
This new conversation with Bill Gates (4:32)
Mr. Gates has a way of making me feel comfortable about the most catastrophic scenarios.
youprobablyneedahaircut.com
Oh boy do I miss my barber…
We pair you with a world-class hair stylist or barber via video chat to get your hair through these hard times
“We Got Your Back” A collection of virtual backdrops
If this is your kind of thing…
These “watercolor” tattoos by Sasha Unisex
New spin on something centuries old, I dig it.
Make a mask out of a sock.
This “Money Tape” wallet
What I listened to while curating todays email:
Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour, Episode 3: Drinking
Folks, I’m telling you, this series…
Yesterdays (#CoolShit 04.28.20) most clicked link:
‘the American dream "does not exist" right now’
The marathon continues…
