Month: May 2020

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The popular glass cleaner has a new formula out, and thanks to the inclusion of bait and bird seed, it may be Windex’s most efficient bird killer to date. Hear just how many long-beaked sons of bitches we were able to take out with the stuff.

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Sean McGowan humorously imagines what headlines in a hang-gliding magazine would look like during the coronavirus pandemic.

In this time of fear and uncertainty, NPR’s Life Kit team partners with Sesame Street’s lovable monster, Grover, to answer some of kids’ tough questions.

Before COVID-19 engulfed the Chinese city of Wuhan, Fang Fang was already an award-winning novelist. But her chronicle of the lockdown of her hometown might be her most lasting work.

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The performer had been in a medically induced coma for weeks, and doctors also had to amputate his right leg. Still, this week his wife said she received “just the best news you could hear.”

(Image credit: Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Rock of Ages)

Despite announced safety measures, the indoor show planned for Friday would have been in violation of the state’s health directives.

David Fajgenbaum was diagnosed with Castleman disease as a medical student. In Chasing My Cure, he recounts crowd-sourcing his own treatment with a global network of doctors, scientists and patients.

Fred Noland illustrates a humorous guide to the causes and symptoms of pandemic-induced malaise.

Q: Yikes! Just letting it all hang out. Embarrassing.

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