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Thu. 02/24 - The Little-Known Women Who Saved Millions of Children

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The too-little-known story of the creation of the whooping cough vaccine. Plus, the remarkable initiatives in Taiwan that are helping keep the country clean with a little help from Beethoven. A new Netflix docuseries that uses AI to recreate Andy Warhol’s voice reading his diaries. And a note on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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    The Unsung Heroes Who Ended a Deadly Plague (Smithsonian Magazine)
  • How American Conservatives Turned Against the Vaccine (Kottke.Org)
  • In Taiwan, When You Hear Beethoven, It's Time to Take Out the Trash (NY Times)
  • 'The Andy Warhol Diaries' Trailer Is Here, Queer, and Compelling (The Advocate)
  • Watch trailer Netflix's The Andy Warhol Diaries docuseries (Entertainment Weekly)
  • The Russian Invasion of Ukraine (Kottke.org) 
  • Ukraine standoff, drone strikes, Johnson's woes (Bloomberg)
  • Russia attacks Ukraine; peace in Europe ‘shattered’ (AP)
  • Biden Speech on Putin, Russia-Ukraine Invasion: Live Updates (NY Times)
  • Livefeed of Kyiv (Washington Post, YouTube)
  • Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map (Centre For Information Resilience)
  • 10 Videos From the Invasion of Ukraine That Are Actually Fake (Gizmodo)
  • Understanding the Ukraine Crisis: A Comprehensive Reading List (Literary Hub)
  • 4 Meaningful Ways You Can Help Ukraine (Global Citizen)
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  • Jackson Bird on Twitter

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