Introverts: Be kind to your extroverted friends. They are suffering, right now.

Also can confirm https://twitter.com/eplerjc/status/1239664800755372032

"In the end, you're basically in control of how long every argument you're involved in will keep going. If something is frustrating or it's obvious that it's not going to go anywhere, just stop replying and/or turn on the
disable inbox replies-type functions, and walk away." (2004)
https://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2004/03/21/charles_rules_of_argument

Trader Joe's is paying bonuses to store employees amid an 'unprecedented' sales increase

https://www.businessinsider.com/trader-joes-will-pay-bonuses-amid-coronavirus-sales-spike-2020-3

The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear. (It's at the Musical Instrument Museum.) https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/octobass

Good news: The Internet is holding up.

"We haven't seen dramatic slowdowns anywhere across our network. In Italy, we're seeing a 30% increase over normal usage and we're not seeing any deterioration of service across Italian ISPs. And that is an entire country that's in quarantine." https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/the-internet-was-built-to-withstand-a-nuclear-bomb-it-will

"Everyone has bias, and neuroscientists can see what happens inside your brain as you succumb to it. The clue comes from alpha brain waves -- a pattern of activity when the neurons in the front of your brain fire in rhythm together." https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/sfn-scs031020.php

3400-year-old ballgame court unearthed in mountains of Mexico
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/3400-year-old-ballgame-court-unearthed-mountains-mexico

Here’s a list of authors whose tours have been canceled due to coronavirus, if you’d like to support them by buying books. #cosobookclub https://bookshop.org/lists/zibby-s-picks-coronavirus-new-releases-march-april

Read This Twice is a verified book recommendations site from entrepreneurs, authors, investors, scientists and politicians. Every single recommendation on the website has been verified by someone influential and a source link to the recommendation. https://readthistwice.com/

At one point during his first term, Lincoln was said to have observed in frustration, “Dixie is smarter than my whole cabinet! And furthermore she doesn’t talk back!” http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/pets/abraham-lincoln-cats/

Heart of An Assassin: How Daniel Craig Changed James Bond Forever https://www.gq.com/story/daniel-craig-james-bond-no-time-to-die-cover-2020

R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World" re-enters charts amid coronavirus outbreak https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/03/r-e-m-s-its-the-end-of-the-world-coronavirus/

Metropolitan Opera to Offer Up ‘Nightly Met Opera Streams’ https://operawire.com/metropolitan-opera-to-offer-up-nightly-met-opera-streams/

Distilleries throughout the country are offering bootleg free hand sanitizer to fight coronavirus pandemic. https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-distilleries-making-free-hand-sanitizer-20200315-nyumiv2az5arnla7muatav7rhe-story.html

A database of London’s abandoned homes and properties https://www.derelictlondon.com

Monty Python's silly walk: A gait analysis and wake-up call to peer review inefficiencies https://phys.org/news/2020-03-monty-python-silly-gait-analysis.html

"The 50th anniversary of NASA’s infamous Apollo 13 mission is almost here, and a new website just went live today that will let you relive the heart-wrenching journey as if it were happening live." https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/13/21178364/apollo-13-in-real-time-website-50th-anniversary-history