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- Mount Sinai will stop giving COVID-19 patients blood plasma from people who'd recovered from the virus after controlled studies found that the experimental treatment hasn't been effective.
- A year into the pandemic, LeBron James has been tested over 300 times, and pro sports leagues in general have become some of the richest data sources for epidemiologists to study.
- Teens on TikTok are getting nostalgic for the early days of the quar, and Vox does not approve.
- A NYTimes critic called out all the former Broadway-turned-Hollywood big shots who aren't showing enough love to the struggling New York City theater world that made them.
- Midtown may be kinda empty, but that isn't stopping Sonic from opening its first Manhattan restaurant on 6th Avenue between West 35th and West 36th Streets.
- In Norway, where vikings literally carried ships over land to avoid choppy seas, construction on the world's first ever tunnel for cargo ships has been given a green light.
- Ghislaine Maxwell's brother told the BBC that his sister's cell conditions in Brooklyn amount to "torture," saying that she's being given "brown" water and "highly microwavable" food, and that her room has no natural light.
- Cardi B's "Bodak Yellow" is officially the first single by a woman rapper to become certified diamond.
- The Tokyo Olympics, which is set to begin in a couple weeks, will not allow foreign spectators.
- Get that robot OUTTA HERE:
Published Mar 10, 2021
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