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Bicycles
The hottest things on two wheels
An animated gif of Meryl Streep sitting outside using a pink laptop.
Home office
You better work
A bumblebee flies beyond lavender blossoms in Vienna, Austria June 17, 2018.
Phenology
Stop and note the roses
Videoconferencing
Screen your calls
A protester raises his umbrellas in front of tear gas which was fired by riot police to disperse protesters blocking the main street to the financial Central district outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong, China, September 28, 2014.
Tear gas
It’s enough to make you cry
A participant holds sheet music of Hong Kong's anthem during a protest at New Town Plaza shopping mall in Hong Kong, China September 11, 2019.
National anthems
Uniting and dividing
Jai alai
The fast and the forgotten
Seatbelts
Click clack, front and back
Postcards on a rack.
Postcards
Miniature missives
Graduation
Oh the places you’ll go?
Benefit concerts
Singing for someone else’s supper
Ginsburg on the bench
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The tiny giant of jurisprudence
Rainbows
The shine after the storm
The Kaaba
The world's most significant cube
Animal Crossing
Everyday life, but cuter
Black swans
Reality bites
Knitting
A crafty craft
Microwave ovens
Fast food
Bingo
Mark your free space
Overton window
View from the future
Bougainvillea
The prettiest colonizer
Voicemail
Leave a message
Memory foam
A sleeper hit
Pokémon
Tiny monsters, big business
Typhoid Mary
An outbreak in the kitchen
Petri dishes
Bacterial home sweet home
Softboys
Pink is their shade
Palladium
The highly volatile, very stable precious metal
Binge-watching
Netflix and chill, and chill, and chill
Sourdough
The rising star
Prison breaks
Busting out
Sweatpants
Let’s slip into something more comfortable
Rewilding
Leaving the earth to mend itself
A Surevent FlowMaster MCI (mass casualty incident) kit is displayed during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the offices of Hartwell Medical in Carlsbad, California, U.S., April 7, 2020.
Ventilators
Every breath you take
Aston Robertson-Jeyes, 3, plays with Unice Unicorn, at the launch of Hamleys top Christmas toys launch in London
Unicorns
Everywhere and nowhere
The Golden Record
An out-of-this-world anthology
Sneezes
Salud, dinero, amor
Lightning lights up the night sky over Plainview, Texas, late May 6, 2008, as more severe storms and possible tornados are forecasted for the next few days.
Dies Irae
Something wicked this way comes
The Rome skyline is seen at sunrise during a power outage September 28, 2003
Cascading failure
The art of collapse
John McDowell, of Rapid City, South Dakota, competes in the Iowa State Champion Auctioneer Contest at the Iowa State Fair
Auctions
How the other half bids