Mon. 10/19 - The Moon Is Getting a Nokia Cellular Network

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The fourteen-year-old Texan who may have just made an important discovery for potential COVID-19 treatments. An update on the safety and new norms surrounding air travel. Nokia is building a mobile network on the moon. And the website that’s basically a more organized Chat Roulette but for trying to heal the US’s political divide. Sponsors: BetterHelp, Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/REPORT Fitbod, Get one month free at Fitbod.me/kottke Links: This 14-Year-Old's Discovery Could Lead to a Cure for COVID-19 (Vice) 3M Young Scientist Challenge winner is Anika Chebrolu, who won for a coronavirus discovery (CNN) How Air Travel Has Changed During COVID-19 According to The Points Guy (LifeHacker) What to Do If Your Airplane Seatmate Won't Wear a Mask (Traveler) The risk of COVID-19 infection on flights is 'very low,' and 1 infected passenger would take 54 hours to spread the virus to others onboard, a US government study found (Business Insider) Got any signal up here? Nokia to build mobile network on the moon (Reuters) PartyLine - 🇺🇸 Live voice-chat with other Americans ‎Conversations with People Who Hate Me (Dylan Marron, Apple Podcasts) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.5	Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Monday, October 19th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.
0:42.3	The 14-year-old Texan who may have just made an important discovery for potential COVID-19 treatments.
0:50.8	An update on the safety and new norms surrounding air travel,
0:56.3	Nokia is building a mobile network on the moon,
1:00.8	and a website that's basically a more organized chat roulette
1:05.2	but for trying to heal the U.S.'s political divide.
1:09.6	Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:15.1	A potential lead on the search for a cure to COVID-19 may have been discovered by a 14-year-old
1:22.8	girl from Texas.
1:24.8	Anika Chibrolu from Friscoe,, recently won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge for discovering
1:31.6	a molecule that can selectively bind to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, and that binding
1:37.9	could prevent the virus from entering the host cell and would prove extraordinarily useful
1:43.3	in drugs that could treat or cure COVID-19.
1:47.0	Quoting vice,
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