Miscellaneous
Facing a pandemic, more and more home gardeners are planting their own food, providing not just a safe source of nutrition in unsettled times, but also escape. There has been a dramatic rise -- as much as 50-percent -- in online traffic on residential networks that WERE NOT built for data-heavy two-way video conference calls. New York Times columnist Philip Galanes discusses social dilemmas for those wrestling with new kinds of conflicts created by the pandemic, and why he's an optimist about the current crisis. For patients of a Bronx, N.Y. mental health center whose doors have been closed by the pandemic, counseling via phone is a lifeline during a catastrophically anxious time. And comedy legends Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and George Takei have advice for the "Next-Greatest Generation."