How Variants Complicate Everything

How Variants Complicate Everything

2/19/21 by FiveThirtyEight, Anna Rothschild

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Coronavirus mutations have complicated our path forward. But that doesn’t mean that our current plan out of the pandemic is futile.

The 20-Minute Daily Clean Routine That’ll Give You Your Weekends Back

The 20-Minute Daily Clean Routine That’ll Give You Your Weekends Back

Weekends should be for recharging, not for catching up on work we didn’t get to during the week. This includes housework. While we like the end result, cleaning the house (for most of us) isn’t a fun or relaxing endeavor. To get to your housework to-dos before the weekend, commit to cleaning for 15 to 20 minutes five days a week. Then welcome freedom — and a tidy home — when Friday night comes.

A successful weekday-only cleaning regime relies on two categories of cleaning tasks: ones that you repeat every day as a matter of habit and ones that you do once a week.

Hillshade

Hillshade

Hillshading is a technique used to create a realistic view of terrain by creating a three-dimensional surface from a two-dimensional display of it. Hillshading creates a hypothetical illumination of a surface by setting a position for a light source and calculating an illumination value for each cell based on the cell's relative orientation to the light, or based on the slope and aspect of the cell.