Why deep down we like rewatching the same old movies and shows By Travis M. Andrews
When the pandemic struck, Julia Heney found comfort in the afterlife.
Well, a show about the afterlife. Almost by accident, the 32-year-old Chicago resident fell into rewatching The Good Place after shutdowns began. It s just so soothing to me, Heney said. You can turn it on and, in any episode, they re going to try to be good. No one is going to be violently murdered. There s no huge, scary scenes that will pop out at you with the unexpected. I just keep looping it, she said. To the point that s it become something of a joke in her house. Her boyfriend will walk into the room and say, Oh, I see you re watching your favourite show again.
U.S. to start distributing coronavirus vaccines directly to pharmacies Erin Cunningham, Paul Schemm, Lateshia Beachum, Hannah Knowles
What the Biden administration has said about vaccination goals
Replay Video UP NEXT The Biden administration said Tuesday it will start distributing limited supplies of vaccines directly to retail pharmacies beginning Feb. 11, in effort to make it faster and easier for people to get inoculated. These doses are separate from those allocated to states. Jeff Zients, Biden’s coronavirus coordinator, cautioned that supply constraints will limit the early availability of shots in drugstores. He said the administration wanted to target supplies to pharmacies serving “socially vulnerable communities.”
On a day in which a severely divided nation welcomed a new president inheriting a pandemic and a slew of very serious issues, popping a cutout of the senator into ridiculous photos provided a rare laugh everyone could agree on.
Bernie Sanders - and his mittens - were everywhere on Inauguration Day. Just ask the Internet.
Timothy Bella, The Washington Post
Jan. 21, 2021
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. - and his mittens - were here. They were there. They were everywhere.
The senator was a late invite to The Last Supper, crossed the Delaware River with George Washington and counseled Han Solo and Chewbacca on the Millennium Falcon.
That was before he had lunch with the Mean Girls and served detention with The Breakfast Club.
Or maybe he was bowling with the Dude or recalling the story all about how his life got flipped and turned upside down when he became the prince of a town called Bel-Air.
Just how bad was 2020? Professors find answers on Twitter
By The Washington Post
By Travis M. Andrews
It should come as no surprise that 2020 wasn t what you d call a happy year. We re all too aware of the list of things that went wrong, from global pandemic to murder hornets. When The Washington Post asked readers to describe the year in one word, exhausting, lost and chaotic were among the more popular adjectives.
But exactly how unhappy was the year?
On Twitter, it was the most miserable in at least the last 12 years, according to Peter Dodds and Chris Danforth, who run the Computational Story Lab at the University of Vermont and use data from the site to measure our collective happiness.