1. If Covid-19 wasn’t dominating the news right now, what would be some of the biggest stories?
Over the past two weeks, more than 1.3 million articles have been published on Covid-19, dominating the news cycle like nothing I’ve ever experienced. One obvious side-effect of this dizzying information overload: A lot of things get buried that would normally make big headlines. The Reddit community has collected some of those stories. A lot of them will not be complete news to you, but with most of them, I caught myself thinking: oh right, this also happened and I had already completely forgotten about it. Enter the rabbit hole.
2. The world after coronavirus
«In this time of crisis, we face two particularly important choices. The first is between totalitarian surveillance and citizen empowerment. The second is between nationalist isolation and global solidarity.» – Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari, author of the great «Sapiens» and of the somewhat annoyingly mediocre «21 Lessons for th…