(satire) *Artist Crafting Music Box Hopes It Delights At Least One Child In Post-Apocalypse.*

(satire) *Gwyneth Paltrow Touts New Diamond-Encrusted Trepanation Drill, Drainage Bucket On Website.*

With the US having more than half a new million cases of Covid-19 each day, US officials are starting to think it doesn't matter how many new cases there are.

What I would like to know is, what fraction of people in my city or my neighborhood are contagious now. You can roughly estimate that from the rate of new cases.

*Warm winter could prove fatal for UK’s endangered species.* The warmth causes species to miss out on the relationships that they need to other species, and thus discoordinates ecosystems.

If they make it through this year, I doubt they will make it through winter in 2050.

*Arrests, Beatings and Secret Prayers: Inside the Persecution of India's Christians.*

Muslims remain the main target of Hindu-supremacists, with fanatics calling for murdering Muslims, and the government saying nothing to discourage them — perhaps encouraged by the example of the wrecker in the US.

A few years ago the Hindu-supremacist government of India adopted a pair of laws that make it easy to declare Muslims non-citizens and exile them.

Nowadays, all religions other than Hindu are now targets. Buddhists have faced persecution, especially when Dalits want to convert to Buddhism as a rejection of Hinduism's oppression of them — following Dr Ambedkar's lead.