Thu. 02/24 - The Little-Known Women Who Saved Millions of Children
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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Links:
The Unsung Heroes Who Ended a Deadly Plague (Smithsonian Magazine)
How American Conservatives Turned Against the Vaccine (Kottke.Org)
In Taiwan…
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