The Orange County Museum of Art commissioned Los Angeles artist Alan Nakagawa to do a project he called “Social Distancing, Haiku, and You,” in which he invited the public to write haikus about the experience of living through the COVID-19 pandemic...
A haiku from artist Alan Nakagawa’s collection of poems about social distance celebrates the kind of companionship that plants provide. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Plant Haiku” Here’s another pandemic related haiku collected...
The H1N1 virus has a lot of people wondering about pandemics vs. epidemics. Grant explains the difference. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Pandemics vs. Epidemics” We received an email recently from Paul in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin...
aporkalypse n.—Gloss: A joking name for the swine flu pandemic. «As a responsible newspaper in serious times—when the world is threatened by climate change, economic collapse and what we are steadfastly refusing to describe as a “hamdemic” or an...
flag strategy n.— «Another method, called the “flag strategy,” allowed employees to get their inoculation at the time of their choosing—but only when the line had fewer than a set number of people. With a queue maximum of five, this method resulted...
