Mon. 10/04 - Thor's Antiviral COVID-19 Pill & Sexist Suitcases

The sexist history of the rollerboard suitcases. Plus, the facts about Merck’s new COVID-19 antiviral pill, including its connection to Thor. And the return of Nick Lutsko’s absurdist Spirit Halloween music videos. Sponsor: Novo, BankNovo.com/kottke Links: Meet molnupiravir, Merck’s Thor-inspired pill that hammers COVID (Ars Technica) How Merck's Covid-19 pill molnupiravir could change the Covid-19 pandemic (Vox) Merck's antiviral pill reduces hospitalization of Covid patients (STAT) How Merck's antiviral pill could change the game for COVID-19 (National Geographic) The hedge fund manager behind a long-shot coronavirus pill (Financial Times, 2020) Mystery of the wheelie suitcase: how gender stereotypes held back the history of invention (The Guardian) Who Actually Invented the Wheeled Suitcase? (Interesting Engineering) Reinventing the Suitcase by Adding the Wheel (NY Times) Spirit Halloween Planet (Nick Lutsko, Twitter) Halloween Planet EP (Nick Lutsko, Bandcamp) Spirit Halloween Theme - FULL TRILOGY (Nick Lutsko, YouTube) 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