Hi everyone,
Here is part 2 of Mobile Apps News #76.
This part includes stories about:
The economy
Ageism
Causes for optimism
Diversions
The world after the pandemic
My offerings + extras
The Economy
Some say that a world-changing event like this will force us to look more seriously at solutions.
Denmark’s Idea Could Help the World Avoid a Great Depression - The Atlantic. (“… the Danish government told private companies hit by the effects of the pandemic that it would pay 75 percent of their employees’ salaries to avoid mass layoffs.”)
Coronavirus Capitalism — and How to Beat It - The Intercept. (“In times of crisis, seemingly impossible ideas become possible.” Naomi Klein. A 9-minute video. The hopeful part begins around 6 minutes in).
Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks - Yes! Magazine Jan. 2, 2020 (this January article is very relevant now)
Outbreak reignites idea of universal basic income - PBS News Hour (interviews of people involved in some UBI experiments)
Coronavirus demands radical transformation, not a ‘return to normal’ - Shareable
Sanders raises over $2 million for coronavirus relief effort. The money raised will go to No Kid Hungry, One Fair Wage Emergency Fund, Meals on Wheels, Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund and the National Domestic Workers Alliance. These are good groups to donate to no matter what.
Ageism
Defeating the Pandemic Means Confronting Ageism and Ableism - NextAvenue (by Ashton Applewhite)
Age + coronavirus + ageism - This Chair Rocks (Ashton Applewhite wrote This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism)
The Ageism That’s Making Covid-19 So Lethal - CityLab (good points by Sarah Holder)
Causes for optimism
Photo by JOSHUA COLEMAN on Unsplash
The Coronavirus-Proof Nation (“Taiwan has built a pragmatic, solutions-oriented society where democracy is expected to deliver results. Amid the pandemic, it’s paying off.”)
How changes brought on by coronavirus could help tackle climate change - The Conversation
Keeping the Coronavirus from Infecting Health-Care Workers - The New Yorker, by Atul Gawande (useful insight based on situations in Singapore and Hong Kong)
Growing up in Quarantineland: Childhood nightmares in the age of germs prepared me for coronavirus - The Globe and Mail (a bit of history from Margaret Atwood)
Stories of people helpingCoronavirus and 3D printing - 3D Printing Media Network
Coronavirus: Kind Canadians start ‘caremongering’ trend - BBC News
College student makes masks for the deaf & hard of hearing - Lex18. (plastic window shows mouth for lip readings and ASL facial expressions)
Team Comes Together to Repair Thousands of N-95 Masks - Tufts Now
Open-source project spins up 3D-printed ventilator validation prototype in just one week – TechCrunch
University of Minnesota is going ‘full-on MacGyver’ against COVID-19 - Star Tribune
Amid Shortage of COVID-19 Collection Kits, UArizona Scientists Race to Make More - University of Arizona News
UArizona Researchers Create Toolkit for Talking to Kids About Coronavirus - University of Arizona News
Coronavirus supplies are being provided by volunteer engineers - Vox
3 things you can do to build community. - Of/By/For All. (“1. Keep in touch w community partners. 2. Get involved w mutual aid. 3. Start dreaming of how you want to show up differently w your community when things go back to ‘normal.’ We’re all in this together”).
Coronavirus catalyzes growing wave of grassroots action despite social distancing - Shareable
Don’t forget: disasters and crises bring out the best in people - The Correspondent (“Disasters and crises bring out the best in us. This simple fact is confirmed by more solid evidence than almost any other scientific insight, but we often forget.”)
How Chinese people came together when separated by quarantine, creating hope, humor and art - The Conversation
Click through on these tweets to read the whole thread
RT @dgardner: Please remember: The idea that when disaster strikes people panic and social order collapses is very popular. It is also a myth. A huge research literature shows disaster makes people *more* pro-social. They cooperate. They support each other. They’re better than ever. 1/x
RT @erik_kaars: Remember that one of the results of the Black Death was peasants organizing to force landlords and the government to pay them better, end serfdom, and give them more rights. Don’t be afraid to let this pandemic radicalize you to change society for the better.
Diversions
Photo by Ricardo Levins Morales. Adapted for coloring pages by Cory Teshera Levye. Free to reproduce for non-commercial use.
Color for Justice, Color for Calm - RLM Art Studio
Pandemic Animals - RLM Art Studio
Download Free Coloring Books from 113 Museums - Open Culture
Audible just made hundreds of audiobooks completely free - Radio Times. (selected books for kids & literary classics)
We Live in Zoom Now: Zoom is where we work, go to school and party these days. - New York Times
Snap Camera, essentially, is Snapchat for Windows or Mac, and it allows you to use Snapchat’s existing collection of lenses across video chat and live streaming services. You can use this in Zoom meetings, including showing a pile of toilet paper rolls on your head.
The drive-in, relic of yesterday, finds itself suited to now - AP News (if only there were more drive-ins still around!)
Drone Pilot Flies Drone With a Roll of Toilet Paper Across San Francisco to a Quarantined Friend in Need - Laughing Squid
This guy has just won the Internet. (a must-watch video)
The world after the pandemic
Photo by Nina Strehl on Unsplash
Coronavirus May Mean Automation Is Coming Sooner Than We Thought - Singularity Hub
What the World Will Look Like After Coronavirus - Vice. (how & why society needs to change for the better)
Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How. - Politico
Coronavirus Is a Preview of Our Self-Isolating Future - OneZero
Zero Hour: There’s No Stopping Climate Change, But How Bad It Gets Is Still Up To Us - Rolling Stone
Will Coronavirus Ever Go Away? What a Top WHO Expert Thinks - Time
My offerings
Image by Nicole Hennig (made with Vyond)
Making Library Services Accessible: online tutorial
Purchase this for your library or library consortium. You can then make it available to your staff to complete online (asynchronously).
Online Privacy & Security Course
I’m teaching this course again, this time through INFOPEOPLE. Next session runs from May 12 - June 8. I’ll include some updated info about privacy during the pandemic (such as privacy of Zoom meetings).
Extras
If you like astronomy, take a break from pandemic news and follow my husband’s site: The Cosmic Companion. He also has a newsletter.
He even has an “Astronomy Humor” section: The Max on Mars comic is inspired by our cat Max. It’s the story of a stowaway cat who ends up on Mars with the astronauts.
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