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Best reads from lately

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Literacy crisis in college students: Essay from a professor on students who don’t read. Adrian Tchaikovsky, science fiction and fantasy author https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/thursday-february-22nd-scam-reaper https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/23/americas/worlds-biggest-snake-amazon-intl-scli-scn/index.html https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/162008/stunt-double Football Players Put Nuts in Allergic Teammate’s Locker Watch: Man spots wolverine running through field Meet the newest ‘walking’ fish—a bright red creature of the deep Colorado could bring back wolverines […]

Best Reads from Lately

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(trying to do these more regularly, so they don’t get so loooong) A Brief Visual History of On-Screen Text Messages in Movies and TV https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/mexican-drug-cartel-targets-six-native-american-reservations-in-montana-203999301848 (hard to call this “best,” yeah. but: good to read/know) Report: 84% Of Super Bowl Ads Specifically Intended To Distract From Human Rights Violation https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/15/world/vittrup-man-bog-body-denmark-scn?cid=ios_app https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/

When in Spain, 2023 version

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Was there in November—Madrid first, then Barcelona, right up until Turkey Day here in the States—but started that vampire novel right after, so: am only just now posting the media from that week and a half there. Not sure where all the photos &etc ended up, but, here’s what I find, scraping Twitter: http://capsulaslj.blogspot.com/2023/11/mi-corazon-es-una-motosierra.html https://elpais.com/cultura/2023-11-17/stephen-graham-jones-la-novela-de-terror-ajusta-cuentas-con-la-masacre-de-los-indios-americanos.html

Best Reads from Lately

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https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/26/science/the-doctor-s-world-ingenuity-and-a-miraculous-revival.html The Insane True Story of How Doctor Wesley Snipes Wrote His First Novel | LitReactor How ‘The X-Files’ changed pop culture and the internet as we know it | CNN https://www.cnn.com/style/ancient-skeletons-shoes-jewels-rome-scn?cid=ios_app https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/mysterious-rock-art-painted-by-aboriginal-people-depicts-indonesian-warships-study-suggests https://x.com/historyinmemes/status/1742667620220866811?s=46&t=mhZCLAE0iAiaHztioYOVjA https://news.yahoo.com/native-tribes-getting-slice-land-110008943.html https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2019/06/03/filmmakers-chronicle-aftermath-blackfeet-flood-1964/1287588001/ https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/thursday-january-4th-acceptance-speech https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/nyregion/human-burial-pet-cemetery.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/10/world/largest-ape-gigantopithecus-blacki-extinction-scn/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/11/americas/oldest-skin-fossil-scli-intl-scn/index.html https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67940671 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/endangered-jaguar-spotted-in-arizona-previously-unknown-to-us/ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/arts/television/reacher-women-dad-tv.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/upper-sioux-agency-state-park-community-1862-treaty-minnesota-dnr/89-c6c71df2-d64f-4aa5-adb7-82bbe1e1277d https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/16/world/fossil-grasshopper-nest-eggs-scn/index.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/world/americas/indigenous-language-chana-blas-jaime.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/27/blackfeet-nation-lily-gladstone/ (https://apple.news/AiNH_lxBBSRaTAbjTPLrgTQ) First-ever sighting of a live newborn great

100%

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I know X is terrible now—”now,” yes—but every once in a while, you can still find something amazing and perfect and timeless:

Best Reads from Lately

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Why can fear be so much fun? Doctors break down the science of being scared – ABC News Did Scientists Discover a Whole New Human Lineage? Starfish bodies are really just heads, new research says | CNN How two spine-chilling TV shows are bringing Indigenous ghost stories to life | CBC News https://manorvellum.medium.com/you-cant-outrun-the-horseman-the-roots-of-the-american-slasher-f67822392473 https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a45682442/stokercon-2023/ Symposiums

Halloween 2023

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Wife wasn’t in town to do fancy make-up for me like usual, so had to fall back on an old standard. In stages: Was fun walking around campus, catching looks from the undergrads like, Geez, grow up already?

Best reads from lately

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https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/10/02/cu-boulder-announces-native-american-affairs-associate-vice-chancellor Confusing Haunted Maze Fails To Explain Narratively Why Someone Would Jump Out From Corner Screaming https://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/slideshow/Corpus-Christi-woman-making-waves-with-Halloween-211681.php https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/dogxim-first-dog-fox-hybrid https://x.com/chris_moliere/status/1711465188900429949?s=46&t=mhZCLAE0iAiaHztioYOVjA Scientists may have untangled a mystery of Neanderthal ancestry | CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/05/americas/ancient-footprints-first-americans-scn/index.html https://www.longmontleader.com/local-news/beyond-local-the-scariest-part-of-halloween-may-be-costume-contact-lenses-an-eye-doctor-says-7713194 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/punctuation.html https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/ Shock of the new: Jordan Peele, Mariana Enríquez and more on the horror fiction renaissance | Horror books | The Guardian

Best Reads from Lately

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More Baby Boomers are living alone. One reason why: ‘gray divorce’ | CNN https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/nyregion/serial-killers-gilgo-beach-rex-heuermann.html Scream the Game Review: Heart-Pounding Fun | WIRED https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/a-summer-bucket-list-for-teens-in-a-slasher-movie Hammer Horror Returning to Life With New Owner and New Slate of Movies – Bloody Disgusting Population collapse almost wiped out human ancestors, say scientists | Evolution | The Guardian Solenex will

Conan Conan Conan (the Barbarian, Cimmerian . . . )

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Usurper, Conqueror, etc — I finally got to write him! Could not be more thrilled! I’ve done non-fic on him, but never fiction. Finally, though. Here’s the cover for my story “Lord of the Mount,” coming September 26th from Titan:

Cool

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Hadn’t even thought of this:

Best Reads from Lately

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Animals, buildings, ladies: How artist Sulac found his way to a friendly surrealism – Arkansas Times How Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Became Public Enemy Number One in Hollywood | GQ ‘Stay out of the water’: what lurks below California’s zombie lake? | California | The Guardian https://missoulian.com/news/state-regional/blackfeet-release-buffalo-tribal-land/article_db9fb54e-1503-11ee-9446-af1007e7d4d4.html https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2021/06/really-bloody-excellent-omens.html?m=1 “Orange Is the New Black”

Mannequins, Werewolves, and more: a link grab bag

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https://www.frightfulhorror.com/post/ode-to-the-horror-novella https://genrestorm.com/horror/best-underrated-horror-books/ https://the-line-up.com/desert-horror-books https://horrortree.com/epeolatry-book-review-night-of-the-mannequins-by-stephen-graham-jones/?utm_campaign=epeolatry-book-review-night-of-the-mannequins-by-stephen-graham-jones

Birdlandia

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Or, now, I guess: “X-Landia?”

Bluesky, nothing but blue skies . . .

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Forgot to say: I’ve been mostly here lately, for social media. Verymuch digging the no-gifs, no videos, and, at least less of the Nazi types? I mean, so far, Bluesky isn’t doing that Rupert Murdoch thing of “fear gets eyes,” which, man, makes for a much more pleasant experience. Don’t get me wrong, Bluesky’s still

Best Reads from Lately

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https://www.afar.com/magazine/the-u-s-could-be-getting-a-new-national-park-in-2023?_amp=true Harrison Ford on ‘Indiana Jones,’ ‘Star Wars,’ Career https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/06/07/lee-berger-homo-naledi-bury-dead-rising-star-caves-cprog-cnntm-vpx.cnn Tuition, fees covered for Southern Ute students under partnership with tribe | CU Boulder Today | University of Colorado Boulder A Typical Day for a Protagonist in a Young Adult Fantasy Book – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/psychedelic-drugs-ancient-europe-evidence-menorca On the Endless Symbolism of the Best Summer

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