A mega-drought seems to have begun in the American Southwest, according to this study.  And this good news: 

The 20th century was the wettest century in the entire 1200-year record. It was during that time that population boomed, and that has continued. "The 20th century gave us an overly optimistic view of how much water is potentially available," said Cook. "It goes to show that studies like this are not just about ancient history. They're about problems that are already here."  

Is revision a fundamentally modernist process?  I had never thought of this, but perhaps it is so.  https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/06/29/revising-your-writing-again-blame-modernists/WhoH6Ih2kat2RE9DZV3DjP/story.html that this is true. Here’s an interesting conversation she had about techniques and media of writing on the Harvard University Press website. 

Interesting—there has been a fair amount of evidence of deep racism and ethnocentrism in China (dwarfing that in Europe and North America), and it looks like this has begun to cause strain to China’s attempts to buddy up to sub-saharan African nations.  

Historians are working to archive peoples’ experiences of the pandemic, for a post-pandemic posterity.  

Some good long reads for quarantine.  I can recommend many of these, from Lonesome Dove to The Leopard.

Stay safe everyone.  Survive, endure, recharge, educate, rethink.