Mon. 10/04 - Thor's Antiviral COVID-19 Pill & Sexist Suitcases

The sexist history of the rollerboard suitcases. Plus, the facts about Merck’s new COVID-19 antiviral pill, including its connection to Thor. And the return of Nick Lutsko’s absurdist Spirit Halloween music videos.

Sponsor:

• Novo, BankNovo.com/kottke

Links:

• Meet molnupiravir, Merck’s Thor-inspired pill that hammers COVID (Ars Technica)
• How Merck's Covid-19 pill molnupiravir could change the Covid-19 pandemic (Vox)
• Merck's antiviral pill reduces hospitalization of Covid patients (STAT)
• How Merck's antiviral pill could change the game for COVID-19 (National Geographic)
• The hedge fund manager behind a long-shot coronavirus pill (Financial Times, 2020)
• Mystery of the wheelie suitcase: how gender stereotypes held back the history of invention (The Guardian)
• Who Actually Invented the Wheeled Suitcase? (Interesting Engineering)
• Reinventing the Suitcase by Adding the Wheel (NY Times)
• Spirit Halloween Planet (Nick Lutsko, Twitter)
• Halloween Planet EP (Nick Lutsko, Bandcamp)
• Spirit Halloween Theme - FULL TRILOGY (Nick Lutsko, YouTube)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

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