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  • Thousands of hospitals and clinics around the U.S. are now using the convenient "quad test" to see if patients have COVID-19 or some form of the flu.
  • Bloomberg News created a nifty (and kind of depressing) tool that tracks the return of office workers in London based on sales of Pret a Manger sandwiches.
  • British people living in castles and Downton-esque country estates haven't been able to host the tourists who cover their maintenance fees, so they're having to mow the lawns and dust the knickknacks themselves and it seems like hard work!
  • Here's what it's like taking the "world's loneliest bus route," which is a nearly 500-mile-long, extremely rugged but beautiful ride from Fairbanks, Alaska, up to the Arctic Ocean.
  • Three years after Vox published a viral story about how bad West Elm is at fulfilling orders in a timely manner, they're back with a follow-up article confirming that West Elm still sucks.
  • For the first time in NHL history, a team (the Tampa Bay Lightning) started three Black forwards on a single line last night.
  • Dave Chappelle released a new podcast, called The Midnight Miracle, at 12:01 a.m. last night.
  • On the occasion of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez getting back together, Kevin Smith would like to remind you that he coined the name "Bennifer." (I believe he also gave us "snoogans" and "snooch to the nooch.")
  • And finally, good scene all around: