Thu. 10/07 - It's Like Venmo, But For the Post Office

The WHO has officially approved the first-ever malaria vaccine. The United States Postal Service is trying out being a bank. And the story of a white-naped crane named Walnut who fell in love with a human named Crowe.

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Links:

• World Health Organization Approves First Malaria Vaccine (NY Mag)
• Malaria vaccine: When will it be available? (BBC)
• World's first malaria vaccine gets WHO recommendation (NPR)
• WHO recommends groundbreaking malaria vaccine for children at risk (WHO)
• The USPS is testing out becoming a bank, and it's about damn time. (Boing Boing)
• USPS Begins Postal Banking Pilot Program (Prospect)
• The crane who fell in love with a human (Washington Post, 2018)
• Crowe and Crane "It's complicated." (Amanda Deibert, Twitter)
• The 9,090-Piece Titanic Is Now the Largest Lego Model Ever Released (Gizmodo)
• Accurate Titanic Model (bikekill, TikTok)
• Wandavision Agatha Harkness Marvel Spinoff at Disney+ (iO9)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

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