

You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter. Listener chatter from Fredrik Hilding Jessica Leigh Hester for Atlas Obscura’s Show & Tell podcast: “ Show & Tell With Colored-Pencil Cartographer Anton Thomas”įor this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment David, Emily, and John discuss some of the nicer changes the pandemic has brought to their daily lives.

John: Maria Konnikova for Wired: “ Poker and the Psychology of Uncertainty” The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria KonnikovaĮmily: Christoph Koettl, Nilo Tabrizy, Muyi Xiao, Natalie Reneau, and Drew Jordan for The New York Times: “ How the Philadelphia Police Tear-Gassed a Group of Trapped Protesters”ĭavid: Melissa Fay Greene for the Atlantic: “ 30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact” Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow Jonathan Martin, Alexander Burns, Matt Stevens for the New York Times: “ Biden Takes Dominant Lead as Voters Reject Trump on Virus and Race” Leonnig and Joshua Partlow for the Washington Post: “ Dozens of Secret Service Officers and Agents Told to Self-Quarantine After Trump’s Tulsa Rally” Kasra Zarei and John Duchneskie for the Philadelphia Inquirer: “ Coronavirus Cases Rise in States with Relaxed Face Mask Policies”Ĭarol D.

#Coronavirus slow burn drivers
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Īustan Goolsbee and Chad Syverson: “ Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion: Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline 2020,” University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No.
