Me, Myself And Island

Meet The Man Who Has Lived Alone On This Island For 31 Years, The Mystery Of Germany's Low Coronavirus Death Rate, and more.

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COST AND EFFECT 'AS IF THERE WERE AN ANVIL [ON MY CHEST]' Diary Of A COVID-19 Patient theatlantic.com The thought of simply breathing in and out without coughing and reuniting with my children, wherever that might be, is goal enough. To —literally — live and let live will be enough. SPILL THE BOHNEN The Mystery Of Germany's Low Coronavirus Death Rate vox.com Germany has the fifth most coronavirus cases worldwide — but only a fraction of the deaths. WHO'S BENEFITING THE MOST? Where All The Money In The $2 Trillion Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Is Going, Visualized digg.com Earlier this week, the United States Senate passed a roughly $2 trillion coronavirus response bill, but where is all that money going? PAY IT FORWARD What Should The Government Spend To Save A Life? fivethirtyeight.com Economists have done the math. LIVE TV WE DIGG | SPONSORED The Live TV You Love — For Less sling.com Stop paying too much for live TV. Cut the cord and switch to Sling to create your own custom channel lineup and watch the live TV you love for less. PICTURE THIS Life In Earth's Deepest Deep Freeze, And More Best Photography Of The Week digg.com The weird and wonderful world of British car boot sales, a journey to Japan's centuries-old festivals and more best photos of the week. GO YOUR OWN WAY THE ART WORLD IS NUTS The Auction Game: Can You Guess How Much Different Artworks Sold For? neal.fun Neal Agarwal's "Auction Game" is like "The Price Is Right," but way, way harder. AT LEAST ONE MAN IS AN ISLAND Meet The Man Who Has Lived Alone On This Island For 31 Years nationalgeographic.com Mauro Morandi has lived alone on Italy's Budelli Island for 31 years. "What I love the most is the silence," he says. NOT GONNA CARRY THAT WEIGHT The Technical Challenges Of Flying Near-Empty Planes thepointsguy.com Revenue aside, flying empty or near-empty planes requires operational changes due to physics. It's all because of weight and balance. DECIPHERING THE MESS Radical Solutions damninteresting.com French mathematician Évariste Galois lived a full life. When he wasn't trying to overthrow the government, he was reinventing algebra. VIDEO OF THE DAY FOUL PLAY 'Stunningly, Outrageously Weird': This Bonkers History Of The Seattle Mariners Will Fill The Sports Void In Your Life youtube.com Jon Bois and Alex Rubenstein's YouTube history of the Mariners gets off to a roaring start — "with 140 acts of arson." DIGG PICKS | AFFILIATE Six Card Games To Help Fight Boredom digg.com Need something to keep the cabin fever away? These card games are a great way to waste time with your quarantine buddies. FROM THE ARCHIVES SURVIVOR NO. 3 The Girl Who Survived The Brain-Eating Amoeba (2014) buzzfeed.com One year ago, Kali Hardig went swimming at an Arkansas water park and the next day was rushed to the hospital where doctors diagnosed her with a rare, 99% fatal condition: a brain-eating amoeba. This is the miraculous story of how she lived. 'TIGER KING' COMPANION READING Joe Exotic And His American Animals (2019) nymag.com Joe Exotic bred lions, tigers, and ligers at his roadside zoo. He was a modern Barnum who found an equally extraordinary nemesis. CIGARETTE BUTT OF A JOKE The Most Hated Poet In Portland (2017) theoutline.com One tweet turned Collin Andrew Yost into a joke. Could he survive it? BRB, we have to go finish 'Tiger King' View the Edition at Digg.com »

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