Morning Coffee Link Update (4/10/21)

Saturday.

Today is Saturday!

I realize a 99-year-old dying cannot be surprising, and there are plenty of issues with the royal family in general and Prince Philip in particular, but whew, it still feels weird that he’s gone. The BBC has an obituary and tons of other coverage here.

More Contagious Virus Variant Is Now Dominant in U.S., C.D.C. Chief Says (NYT)

Honestly, this is wild: The Covid-19 vaccines have done the impossible: Made Big Pharma really popular (Vox)

Justice Department Affirms Title IX Protects LGBTQ+ Students From Discrimination (them.)

Amazing!!!! HIV vaccine stimulates 'rare immune cells' in early human trials (Live Science)

This is so gross: Provision To Bar Funding For Teaching About Systemic Racism Clears Vote In N.H. House (NHPR)

This was ALSO extremely gross and I’m glad they’re condemning it and honestly I hope the estates of some of the dead authors whose names they put on this letter sue: Women’s prize condemns online attack on trans nominee Torrey Peters (The Guardian)

Libraries Are Key Tools For People Getting Out Of Prison, Even During A Pandemic (NPR)

An Interstellar Visitor Had a Sad Story to Tell (The Atlantic)

A Radical Pocket Book (History Today)

And some longer reads:

Her story is SO AMAZING and she deserves to be famous forever: Kati Kariko Helped Shield the World From the Coronavirus (NYT)

Extreme Weather Is Wreaking Havoc on Olive Oil Production (Eater)

Mariachis Play On, Their Music Unsilenced by the Virus or the Deaths (NYT)

Cipher Girls: The Women Who Cracked Hitler’s Codes (CrimeReads)

7 of the Best Mystery Novels Set by the Sea (ElectricLit)

xoxo, Katie