The streets in Guadalajara are quiet. There were definitely fewer people walking on the streets last weekend compared to last Monday or Tuesday. Local and state authorities have began to crack down on people who aren’t following the social distancing rules and it appears to be working. There are even stationed armed guards stationed at Mexican beaches to discourage anyone from going there. It’s right thing to do especially during Holy Week when a big gathering could lead to devastating consequences. It’s the last thing Mexico wants. Anyways enough about Mexico, I want to talk about foreign language films.

In my second last semester of college, I took a Latin American film class. Each class consisted of watching a movie, taking notes about it and turning in a paper for the next class with our thoughts about different aspects of the movie.

Needless to say, this ended up having quite an impact on my life. It gave me a great appreciation for foreign language films and since then, I have since made an effort to keep watching more of them. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any more room to take another foreign film class in my last semester of college. Looking back now, one thing I wish I did in college is take more foreign film classes and open my mind up to the beautiful world of international cinema. I also think it could be a great way to learn and understand more about a country you are visiting in the future.

Now that we’re all in quarantine, I’ve decided maybe now is a good time to pick out some good foreign films to watch again. A couple of Mexico’s most famous foreign films are ‘Amores Perros’ (Love is a Bitch) and ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’ (And Your Mother Too). I watched these films in that Latin American film class and highly recommend both of them to everyone. I watched the latter film with a friend last night (via the Internet of course) and might start to make a habit again of watching a different foreign film or two a week. Maybe I will watch Grave of the Fireflies this weekend. Studio Ghibli has a lot of gems.

Have you ever watched foreign language films? If so, which one has impacted you the most? Czech Drama? Japanese Animation? Korean Thriller? French Romance? Is there a subject or class you wish you took in university but never had to opportunity to study? Hopefully today’s Flakes will open a nice discussion on this topic. Anyways onto Flakes.

Frosted Flakes

Husker Wrestling’s 157-Pound Outlook | Wrestling | Conde Nast Traveler

There may not be more moving parts at a weight class than there are at 157 pounds, at least potentially.Obviously, returning starter Peyton Robb comes back for his sophomore year, but I see it as a foregone conclusion that he moves up to the vacant spot at 165 pounds.

Mailbag: Nebraska is at 6.5, Over or Under? | Sports | Hail Varsity

Hail Varsity staff members Mike Babcock, Jacob Padilla, Greg Smith, Erin Sorensen and Brandon Vogel tackle your questions about the latest news in Husker Nation.

Padding the Stats: What Ifs From A Basketball Season Cut Short | Basketball | Hail Varsity

Dayton high-flyer Obi Toppin officially won the Wooden Award on Tuesday, recognizing him as the country’s most outstanding player. Toppin has taken home most of the national player of the year hardware this offseason, but the Wooden Award is the only one of them I vote for.

Maurice Ivy Named to Nebraska Athletic Hall of Fame | Basketball | Huskers.com

Ivy was the top player on the first conference championship team and first NCAA Tournament team in Nebraska women’s basketball history. As the 1988 Big Eight Player of the Year, she led the Huskers to the Big Eight regular-season title and a trip to the program’s first NCAA Tournament.

Carriker Chronicles: Jordan Larson on Being Named to the 2020 Nebraska Athletics Hall of Fame Class | Sports | Omaha World-Herald

On Wednesday’s episode, Adam Carriker is joined by Husker volleyball legend Jordan Larson to talk about being part of the 2020 Nebraska athletics hall of fame class, NU memories, playing for John Cook and more.

Coronavirus Pandemic May Have Slowed Huskers’ 2021 QB Search, But Verduzco, NU Still Working Ahead | Football | Lincoln Journal Star

NU’s 2021 quarterback situation already had trended toward resolution later than any of the previous three classes that Verduzco and head coach Scott Frost have recruited, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Travel

Our Favorite Foreign Language Films and Where to Watch Them | Travel | Conde Nast Traveler

Whether you’re in the mood for an impeccably choreographed Bollywood masterpiece, an Italian classic, a Swedish or Korean thriller, or a Brazilian drama, there’s an international movie for everyone on this list.

Coronavirus Quarantine: A Look at Empty Streets, Highways, and Bridges | Travel | Conde Nast Traveler

To give you a glimpse of what a world practicing social distancing looks like, we’ve rounded up photos of streets, highways, and bridges around the world—sites that usually include bumper-to-bumper traffic and tourists crammed together like sardines—sitting empty.

How to Make a Long Distance Relationship Work During Coronavirus | Travel | Conde Nast Traveler

In some cases, one party was away on business or visiting family abroad when borders closed with little warning. In others, a twosome was already in a long-distance relationship but had to postpone future get-togethers. Here, seven couples around the world explain how they’re handling their sudden split and share their most creative tips for making it work in the interim.

What Solo Travel Was Like Before Smartphones and Google Maps | Travel | Conde Nast Traveler

For many women over the age of 40, they remember fumbling with cameras and paper maps during their travels, and making trips to the local post office—wherever you happened to be that week—to receive letters or postcards from family back home. Here, a few women share their stories of grit, ecstasy, fear, and freedom in the decades before rideshare apps and Google maps.

Airlines May Be Cutting Flight Capacity But Thousands of Flights Are Still Operating | Travel | Travel and Leisure

Airlines may be slashing their capacity by up to 90 percent while millions of Americans hunker down at home hoping to wait out the coronavirus pandemic, but there are still thousands of planes dotting the U.S. skies, according to reports.

Here’s What People Across the Country Are Ordering on Uber Eats During Quarantine | Travel | Travel and Leisure

For Uber Eats, that has resulted in a more than a 30 percent increase in orders from independent restaurants since mid-March, the company told Travel + Leisure. And through the pandemic, people’s cravings have remained varied, but largely focused on comfort food with French fries and crab rangoon being popular choices.

US Department of Transportation Orders Airlines to Pay Refunds | Travel | Lonely Planet

The DOT says the statement was motivated by an increase in complaints from passengers who said airlines were denying refunds and offering travel vouchers instead. But the agency says the dramatic reduction in flight scheduling leaves passengers with flight vouchers that are virtually unusable.

Derbyshire Police Dye Infamous “Blue Lagoon” Black to Deter Visitors During Quarantine| Travel | Lonely Planet

Despite its deceivingly attractive colour, the body of water has been described as toxic, and is reported to be harmful. According to Derbyshire Constabulary’s Safer Neighbourhood Policing Team for Buxton, Chapel, Whaley and Fairfield however, this has not stopped people from visiting the site and even swimming there.

Oceans Restored by 2050? Scientists Report It Can Be Done | Travel | Lonely Planet

The recovery program would require billions of dollars of investment in ocean protection, pollution control and sustainable fishing, but scientists predict the accompanying benefits would be ten times higher.

Five Countries With the Most Resilient Economies | Travel | BBC

Experts have already begun assessing how a recovery might look once the Covid-19 virus is contained, and which countries stand to bounce back best.

The Good Stuff

All Eyes on Zoom: How the At-Home Breakout Tool is Coping With Surging Demand and Scrutiny | Business | Forbes

Zoom has emerged as one of the leading tools to keep businesses up and running, students learning and people connected through virtual birthday parties, happy hours and yoga classes. It’s also one, that, as security and privacy concerns about Zoom have mounted, is under more scrutiny than ever before.

Tips From Someone With Nearly 50 Years in Social Distancing Experience | Health | NPR

While Barr has been called a hermit, he doesn’t consider himself one. He occasionally interacts with skiers who pass through, he talks to his sister on the phone, and he works for the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory nearby, which gets flooded with scientists in the summer. But the man has been living alone in a cabin in the mountains for many years, and in the winter months, he can go many days without seeing a soul.

The Woman Who Lives 200,000 Years in the Past | Adventure | Outside Online

As we confront the reality of COVID-19, the idea of living self-sufficiently in the woods, far from crowds and grocery stores, doesn’t sound so bad. Lynx Vilden has been doing just that for decades, while teaching others how to live primitively, too.

How Epidemics of the Past Changed the Way Americans Lived | Health | Smithsonian

As we are seeing with the coronavirus today, disease can profoundly impact a community—upending routines and rattling nerves as it spreads from person to person. But the effects of epidemics extend beyond the moments in which they occur. Disease can permanently alter society, and often for the best by creating better practices and habits.

The Quest For a Pandemic Pill | Science | The New Yorker

In 1981, a young man visited Cedars-Sinai hospital, in Los Angeles, with shortness of breath and with curious purplish lesions on his skin. After reviewing biopsies and scans, a twenty-eight-year-old medical resident named David Ho found an odd fungal infection in the patient’s lungs and a rare cancer, Kaposi’s sarcoma.

Where Has All the Hand Sanitiser Gone? | News | BBC

Shelves all over the world are empty, there’s slim pickings online and the few suppliers that are selling are pricing at way over the odds. We’re being told to wash our hands and use hand sanitiser - but a lot of people are struggling to find any.

Fossil Skulls Rewrite the History of Two Ancient Human Ancestors | Science | National Geographic

As they cleaned the skull fragments and pieced them back together, however, they realized the fossils did not come from a baboon, but instead comprised the braincase of a young Homo erectus, a species never before identified in South Africa.

The Wondrous Life and Mysterious Death of Golden Eagle 1703 | Nature | The Guardian

The bird traversed about 8,000 miles, from Denali to Wyoming, all the way back up to Alaska’s North Slope, where it probably feasted on waterfowl and perhaps a straggling caribou calve of two. From there, it carved a long, treacherous path south through the wilderness of western Canada and worked its way back to the lower 48 to hunker down for its second winter on Earth.

In This Remote Town, Spring Means Salmon — And Thousands of Fisherman From Coronavirus Hot Spots | Health | ProPublica

A remote fishing region will soon be flooded with seasonal workers. The hospital is equipped for only four COVID-19 patients and its chief operating officer is out of a job after emailing a coronavirus conspiracy meme. Welcome to Dillingham, Alaska.

Coronavirus Will Change the Media Business Forever | Media | Vanity Fair

TV news seems to be undergoing a change akin to the shift from black and white to color, and it’s revelatory, literally. Everyone is revealing something: their taste in home decor, their real hair color showing at the roots. Guests are beaming in via Skype and Zoom, without layers of makeup caked on their cheeks, their bookshelves and furniture and occasionally their intruding children on display for millions to see.

Last But Not Least