This interactive article does an incredible job at explaining how the coronavirus is spread through the air, and we swear it taught us more about the virus in five minutes than we’ve learnt in the last 8 months
Helen Garner’s lockdown diaries are wonderful (“At 4pm I couldn’t remember whether or not I’d gone for a walk this morning. Painstakingly I worked my way back through the day and finally eliminated all doubt: yes, I had. Is this cognitive decline? Or is the lockdown blurring time for everybody, squeezing and stretching it like a concertina?”)
What if friendship, not marriage, was the centre of life?
This week, the ABC show Gruen found the guy who wrote the Bunnings jingle and he’s just as wonderfully eccentric as you’d imagine (plus, he still remembers the jingle note-for-note 🙌)
The colour palette of 2020
If drinking isn’t quite cutting it these days, perhaps it’s time to consider engaging in some – gulp – wholesome activities?
If you’ve been riding the email newsletter fan train for awhile, it’s likely you’ve had a few emails from Substack wing their way into your inbox. Here’s a fascinating look at how this community-led platform has grown from nada to over 250,000 paying users in just three years (it’s also a super clever case study on how to build a community)
On rethinking the engagement ring goalpost (“As the years passed, more and more friends were initiated into the Club of Engagement. I carried a hint of FOMO, a feeling like being the last cheese in the cheese shop. I felt ashamed for feeling this way. I wanted to be completely immune to the siren song of rom-coms and marketing tactics. But inside, I cared. I cared a lot.”)
Oh, just Tiny Love Stories breaking our hearts as per usual
“The 1918 virus killed more people than the deadliest war humanity had hitherto experienced, but it did not reduce humanity’s determination to socialise.” If you’re in the mood to feel optimistic about the future of humanity in a post-Covid world, Vanessa highly recommends giving this Atlantic essay a read
Three Instagram accounts we started following this week and we think you might like too: @90sanxiety (a love letter to the 90s aesthetic), @deuxmoi (their IG Stories are a literal tidal wave of celebrity gossip) and @StefanDraschan (a photographer who takes pictures of strangers who match museum art)
Feminist author Rachel Hills moved from Australia to NYC a decade ago. In this essay for Medium, she explains what it’s been like to live in America over the last few months, and shares the questions she and her friends have all been asking themselves: whether to stay or go, how bad is bad enough?
21 vegetarian recipes from some of Australia’s best restaurants
…and three pasta recipes from Elizabeth Hewson’s new book Saturday Night Pasta, which hits bookstores this week. Take a peek at her IG account for some of the best pasta content around
