In what might be our nerdiest episode yet, we talk about the recent surges of Covid-19 and street grids, a software engineer who hacked McDonald's to find out which ice cream machines are broken, a French protest via murder hornets, and more.

• Texas is on the cusp of another COVID-19 surge. Is the state better prepared to handle it?
  • How Pandemics Spurred Cities to Make More Green Space for People
• This Site Knows if Your Local McDonald's Ice Cream Machine Is Broken
• In a Land of Cul-de-Sacs, the Street Grid Stages a Comeback
  • The amazing route diversity of street grids
  • The power of gridded streets (contains image of grocery store designed by a traffic engineer)
• Angry French beekeeper delivers more than 1000 'murder hornets' to local government building
• Alexander Hamilton: The father of American economic development incentives