Orts #987
- GPS art -
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/opinion/covid-running-strava-shapes.html
https://www.strav.art/home
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- an etymological gem -
Ships arriving in the Venetian vassal state of Ragusa—present-day Dubrovnik—were required to sit at anchor for quaranta giorni, or forty days, which is where the term “quarantine” comes from.
- from an essay comparing the Black Death of the 14th century to today's Covid plague -
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/how-pandemics-wreak-havoc-and-open-minds
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Beethoven’s Fourth is not the ugly duckling of the symphonies so much as the modest, slender person crushed on the subway bench between two massive manspreaders.
-- Zachary Woolfe, in a survey of Beethoven’s symphonies, NYT March 27, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/arts/music/beethoven-symphony.html
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- a tawny antpitta, a tui, and 26 more -
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/07/2020-audubon-photography-awards/613993/