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Herzog

Thought maybe six or seven weirdos like me would get a chuckle from this. Turns out, there’s a whole lot of weirdos out there—I’m less alone than I thought: And, didn’t think to cite the article, but John Vaillant searched it up — I really should have linked it, as this isn’t my joke, but […]

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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-03-29/larry-mcmurtry-early-work-obliterated-western-cliches ‘Cloverfield,’ ‘Trollhunter,’ and the Birth of Found Footage Monster Movies https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earliest-surviving-wood-sculpture-even-older-previously-thought-180977320/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/the-school-shooting-that-austin-forgot/ https://www.sfgate.com/streaming/article/star-wars-george-lucas-marcia-editor-wife-15991031.php https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/e-mail-is-making-us-miserable https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Broke-in-the-D-League-Why-my-NBA-dress-code-16064235.php https://www.sfgate.com/streaming/article/sf-movie-theater-reopening-godzilla-amc-16070767.php https://rifnote.com/2021/04/03/crystals-found-in-kalahari-desert-challenge-assumptions-about-where-in-africa-human-culture-arose/ https://variety.com/2021/tv/global/bbc-three-comedy-horror-series-wrecked-1234940633/

Birdlandia

Best couple things I’ve stumbled on lately:

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Is It Time to Kill the Book Blurb? – WSJ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-retail-trading-nfts-insight-idUSKCN2AT1HG http://kendallreviews.com/feature-brian-asman-offers-a-wonderful-response-to-the-question-why-do-you-write-horror/ https://www.sfgate.com/local/editorspicks/article/dark-watchers-santa-lucia-range-stories-steinbeck-16012812.php https://www.slashfilm.com/come-closer-movie/ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-single-cave-in-germany-is-one-possible-center-for-early-wolf-domestication https://www.npr.org/2021/03/15/977558590/deb-haaland-confirmed-as-first-native-american-interior-secretary https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neandertals-probably-perceived-speech-quite-well/ http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/neanderthal-speech-09405.html https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/17/sperm-whales-in-19th-century-shared-ship-attack-information https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/19/magazine/how-college-dropout-new-hampshire-found-shakespeare-secret-all-phds-missed/ https://apple.news/AzidpSJwzRoGqeNqbwYKGzw https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-03-20/neanderthals-how-close-are-we-to-our-extinct-relatives.html?outputType=amp https://www.wur.nl/en/newsarticle/Neanderthals-possibly-responsible-for-their-own-extinction.htm https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/17/world/oumuamua-interstellar-object-scn-trnd/index.html

Birdlandia

favorite stuff I’ve found lately:

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NYT Best-Seller!

Who’d have thought an elk book, a horror novel, a story set on the Blackfeet Rez, a revenge tale out of Montana could, after six months, make it to #12 on the NYT best-seller list? So amazing. Or, really, who’d have thought a kid who grew up out in the pastures of West Texas would

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Electric eels hunt in packs, ‘extraordinary’ research reveals – CNN https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/when-did-ancient-humans-begin-to-understand-death https://collider.com/damon-lindelof-lost-original-ending-plan/ https://magazine.lensvid.com/article/1112023854/inspiring-photos-to-restore-our-faith-in-humanity/ Santa’s New York Roots | The New York Public Library The Movie Theater as We Know It Is Dying. We Can Make Something Better https://variety.com/2021/film/news/silence-of-the-lambs-anthony-hopkins-jodie-foster-1234887270/ How Neanderthal DNA affects human health — including the risk of getting Covid-19 – CNN Covid-19 masks:

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