Sunday noon

We've got a day and a half of autumn left in Chicago. Here's what I'm reading on a lazy Sunday:

• Chicago's North Pond in Lincoln Park needs $7m in restoration work which it may not get next year.
• The Washington Post recaps the 20-day clown show of the president refusing to accept the results of the election.
• Will Wilkinson tries to sort out why so many people voted for him.
• Erika Christakis looks at how Covid-19 illuminated existing problems with the way we educate children.

And finally, new research shows that the pyroclastic flows from Vesuvius in 79 CE turned people's brains to glass. Yummy.