Negative News, Lunar Ark, COVID-19 & Reparations

Has the national media been making the pandemic out to be worse than it really is? Also, the lunar ark is like Noah’s Ark–with samples of DNA and seeds from plants and animals on Earth–but stored in frozen capsules on the moon for safekeeping. Then, how reparations for the descendants of enslaved African Americans might have changed the pandemic’s effect on Black people. Also today: how an implanted electrode can treat immune disorders better than drugs can, an army of volunteer coders hoping to create one national database of police activity, and turning used disposable chopsticks into high-end furniture. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)