1. Demography 101: What Is Life Expectancy?
Life expectancy is one of these concepts that we use without giving it much thought. However, it gets complicated as soon as you really start thinking about it. Super interesting thread by Israeli demographer Ilya Kashnitsky on what life expectancy actually is — and what it isn’t. Read it now.
2. How Many of the 100 Most Famous Passages in Literature Can You Identify?
Here’s something to spend some idle time with, alone or with friends and family. Works over videocall, too. (My experience: Interesting how many sounded familiar, but I couldn’t pin down where they are from.) Start the challenge.
3. The Search for One Vaccine to Rule Them All
For years, experts had warned of a pandemic. And, although this current one doesn’t exactly feel small, it might not be «the big one». In slightly better news: Scientists are working on a universal coronavirus vaccine. Read it now.