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Background report: What does Zoom reveal about your house?

Video conferencing is pulling back the curtain on our private lives, as our colleagues finally get a peek into our homes. Correspondent Mo Rocca talks with designer Jonathan Adler, fashion commentator Simon Doonan, and New York Times critic-at-large Amanda Hess about what Zoom is divulging about us. Source

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Jason Rosenthal on life after loss

The subject of a viral 2017 NYT column titled “You May Want to Marry My Husband,” written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal as she was dying from ovarian cancer, talks about the grieving process Source

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Drive-thru testing: Car culture meets pandemic

The drive-thru, that symbol of American excess, or efficiency (or laziness), is now the means by which many are being tested for the novel coronavirus. Correspondent Tracy Smith looks at the history of car-culture commerce with Adam Chandler, author of “Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America’s Fast-Food Kingdom”; and visits a southern California parking lot that is now a drive-thru doctor’s office, where Dr. Matthew Abinante tests for COVID-19 infections. Source

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On the trail of COVID-19: Contact tracing the virus

A historic collaboration between rival tech giants Apple and Google is developing a means by which smartphones will allow us to receive anonymous notifications when we’ve been exposed to people infected with the coronavirus Source

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John Slattery on playing Phyllis Schlafly’s “secret feminist” husband

In the new TV series “Mrs. America,” Cate Blanchett and John Slattery star as the conservative, anti-ERA advocate Phyllis Schlafly and her husband, Fred Schlafly. In this web exclusive, correspondent Erin Moriarty talked with Slattery about how he saw his character, who’d allowed his wife tremendous freedom to campaign against women’s liberation. Source

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