#sundayread for November 1, 2020

Photo: Rosmarie Voegtli (CC)
My picks for #sundayread for November 1, 2020:
- Flashback: From 2005, Alabama for sale
- How is it that 6 months into a respiratory pandemic, we are still doing so little to mitigate airborne transmission?
By @Zeynep Tufekci
#COVID19 #coronavirus - What happens when a lifesaving drug like insulin becomes intolerably expensive?
By Tiffany Stanley @tifflstanley
(h/t @Longreads) - Ten years ago this week, what were our #sundayread recommendations?
https://bit.ly/2HJW6uR - The Tear Gas Biennial
By Hannah Black @nanpansky, Ciarán Finlayson and @TobiHaslett - 50 Mind-Blowing Facts About PBS to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Public Television
By @JerylBrunner - Flashback: Email marketing (3 of 3): Big numbers, big rewards
- “Psycho” Analysis: @BretEastonEllis rages against the decline of American culture
By @AndreaLongChu - Abraham Lincoln on Equality, the Slippery Slope of Exclusion and How Nationalism Betrays the Nation’s Founding Ideals
By Maria Popova @brainpicker - Flashback: From 2005, my time as an extra on “Talladega Nights”
- Oral History of “The New Hollywood Squares”
Compiled by C. Brian Smith @SeeBrianSmith - Hitler memes and “ironic” racism filled the internet. What if we had taken them seriously?
By @HelenLewis - Sexual assault cases in Austin are routinely ignored.
By @JerryIannelli
(via @davidminpdx) - Can a $1,300 baby bed make me a better mom?
By Alissa Walker @awalkerinLA
(h/t @Longreads)
More posts from me this week:
More #sundayread:
- All tweets for November 1 #sundayread
- The latest #sundayread tweets
- More #sundayread recommendations from me