In the first segment [1:07-15:20], hosts Eric Jaffe and Vanessa Quirk discuss this week's top stories:

• Covid’s inequitable impact on low-income communities and people of color (Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Denise Lu, and Gabriel J.X. Dance, NYT) https://nyti.ms/2JWySPO / (Robert Samuels, WaPo) https://wapo.st/34p0O8w
• The urbanist’s guide to the crisis and its potential impact on cities (Dan Bertolet, Sightline) https://bit.ly/2RsFTfv
• The power plant of the future is in your home (Daniel Oberhaus, Wired) https://bit.ly/3c5rmhJ

In the second segment [15:46-22:06], the hosts interview Sidewalk’s Head of Engineering, Craig Nevill-Manning, about the resilience of the internet. (Will Douglas Heaven, MIT Tech) https://bit.ly/2y46h8I

And in the final segment [22:12-24:49], the hosts share what made them smile this week.

• Animals take back the world (Laura Millan Lombrana and Eric Roston, Bloomberg) https://bloom.bg/2V0IO17
• Dog delivers wine (Antonia Noori Farzan, WaPo) https://wapo.st/2JZ0YtC