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Best Reads from Lately

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https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/king-of-the-hill-revival-hulu-2-1235507813/ Who made the first stone tools? Discovery sheds light on mystery | CNN https://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com/2023/01/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-old-white.html Neanderthal genes may have helped early humans adapt to differences in Eurasian daylight hours https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/how-did-neanderthals-hunt https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/16/world/maya-civilization-causeways-lidar-discovery-scn/index.html Cruise ship stumbles on a rare sight: a gathering of 1,000 whales https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-you-give-a-bear-cocaine https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/local-news/severe-weather-coverage-for-sunday-february-26/

Five horror movies

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This probably won’t embed—it’s Instagram—but hopefully it’ll link, anyway. And, I seem to have screen capped this during the one second in the recording I’m holding Reaper up:

Best Reads from Lately

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Humans have been wearing bear skins for at least 300,000 years – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News Danny DeVito Is A Revered Comedy Legend, But It’s Past Time For Him To Be Acknowledged As A Vibrant, Important Director | Decider https://www.emcarroll.com/comics/meat/ https://www.barrelhousemag.com/onlinelit/2017/10/4/final-girl-slumber-party Madison Indigenous arts leader, activist revealed as white | Madison365 Amateur archaeologist uncovers ice

Best Reads from Lately

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Work from 1616 is ‘the first ever science fiction novel’ | Science fiction books | The Guardian https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/encino-man-oral-history https://mashable.com/article/snow-crabs-disappeared-alaska-why https://www.gq.com/story/dont-fear-the-reaper-more-cowbell-oral-history https://www.theonion.com/archaeologists-discover-more-old-shit-that-sucks-1848400846 Scientists Might Have Just Found Where Cannabis Originally Came From : ScienceAlert Ehlers-Danlos syndrome affects millions. Why isn’t the medical profession paying more attention? | CNN Archaeologists uncover oldest known projectile points in the

Best Reads from Lately

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https://themaplemoon.substack.com/p/20-questions-with-monica-drake https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-struggle-to-unearth-the-worlds-first-author https://apple.news/ABBhSCt7iTM-LXXdPOHSnFA https://www.sciencealert.com/an-ai-found-an-unknown-ghost-ancestor-in-the-human-genome Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | UK news | The Guardian https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homo-naledi-pre-human-ancestor-fire-tool-south-africa/ https://worldtravelling.com/comics-with-a-very-dark-tone-created-by-the-renowned-cartoonist-joan-cornella/

Best Reads from Lately

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https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/33411764/Jones_Done_to_Death.pdf ‘Forgotten archive’ of medieval books and manuscripts discovered in Romanian church – Medievalists.net Asteroid that formed Vredefort crater bigger than previously believed: Researchers have provided a more accurate simulation of the impact that formed Earth’s largest crater two billion years ago — ScienceDaily Ancient Maya Cities Were Polluted With High Levels of Mercury |

Best of the Year So Far: for October

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(hey, oops: WordPress seems to be messing up, here—what’s supposed to be an image galley is for some reason a vertical stack of images [on desktop]. hopefully it gets fixed. looks kind of ridiculous. apologies)

Best Reads from Lately

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Biden to appoint first Native American treasurer of the United States – CNNPolitics Honey Badger vs Wolverine Fight: Who Would Win? https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2022/06/15/indigenous-scholar-investigates-changing-relationship-fish-people https://www.archaeology.org/issues/474-2207/digs/10606-digs-texas-pecos-speech-breath https://apple.news/AmPNwOjScQAqRS949XuAuhA https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10951119/Most-complete-baby-mammoth-North-America-FOUND.html https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/mystery-rocket-NASA-moon-crash-country-origin-17273903.php https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgbz7/new-dinosaur-meraxes-gigas-argentina Pope Francis went to Canada to apologize. For some indigenous school survivors, he triggered more pain | CNN https://mashable.com/article/greenland-shark-discovered-caribbean/ Tonina Sun Temple ‘Cave Of Death’ Holds Balls Of

Best Reads from Lately

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‘Meta’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does – The Atlantic https://www.ign.com/articles/predator-prey-first-film-with-full-comanche-language-dub A charging moose injured two adults and their dog near Boulder – CNN https://www.livescience.com/32193-why-are-lips-red.html 15 Fascinating Facts About Goats Marie Dorion: The Most Badass Woman in Oregon History  Ground zero for the Black Death finally found after 600 years | Metro News Yellowstone

Best Reads from Lately

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On ‘Yellowstone,’ and the white desire to control the narrative (We don’t share land here) — High Country News – Know the West https://www.dw.com/en/why-do-humans-eat-so-much-meat/a-60735141 ‘Friday the 13th’ legal battle is just the tip of this Hollywood horror story – CNN I Was a Mom of Two, and I Got Pregnant With an IUD | by

Best reads from lately

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https://aftershockcomics.com/2020/05/how-a-former-daily-show-writer-crafted-a-slasher-comic/ https://www.archaeology.org/issues/60-1301/trenches/314-chajul-guatemala-dance-conquest https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/maus Leatherface is Canceled in New TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE Trailer – Fangoria East And West Coast Butter Is Different, And We’ve All Been Living A Lie | HuffPost Life https://www.boredpanda.com/sarcastic-quotes/ ‘Near Dark’ Is A Uniquely American Masterpiece Of An Unheralded Cinematic Subgenre: The Vampire Neo-Western | Decider Unknown space object beams out radio

Best Reads from Lately

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Which are pretty soon from the last post like this. But, in my disorganized notes, I found a whole stack that I’d meant to post (hopefully I haven’t already?), so, with them, yeah, there’s already a few here. I’ll put some “####” down where the breakover point is from recovered/unlost ones to “new” ones. https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3685298/jason-blum-explains-halloween-kills-going-straight-streaming-peacock/

Best of 2021

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Novel Plural. Because: two is always better. And, both of these are doorstoppers, too. Doorstoppers I didn’t want to go over, whose labyrinths I’m still plunging through, faster and faster: Poetry It came out in 2020, but I only read it in January or so of 2021. Stuck with me all year. And I’ll probably

Best Reads from Lately

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https://www.fayobserver.com/obituaries/m0028451 (seriously, this is the best read ever) https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/this-land-belongs-to-the-mi-kmaq-people-historic-land-transfer-on-nova-scotia-s-south-shore-1.5683773 https://bloody-disgusting.com/the-further/3693831/peta-channels-leatherface-faux-urban-outraged-clothing-line-made-genuine-human-leather/ https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-replicating-robots-scn/index.html ‘Land Acknowledgments’ Are Just Moral Exhibitionism – The Atlantic https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/what-texas-inherited-from-larry-mcmurtry/ Here’s How An Australian Man’s Hunt for Gold Helped Unearth a Meteorite Older Than Earth! | The Weather Channel – Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/netflixs-red-notice-has-turned-event-movie-non-event/ https://karendian.com/ Hollywood’s Sobering New Reality of

Best of 2021 so far: for October

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October was so, so, so busy with events &etc, much etc, that . . . I either wasn’t jotting stuff down for this, or I wasn’t watching a lot. I was reading a lot, but most of it doesn’t have covers yet . . .

Best Reads from Lately

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https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/22/neanderthal-mans-recreated-face-takes-internet- The Many Saints Of Newark Ending Explained: Who Made Tony Soprano? https://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1502-Spring-2015/Shot-to-Remember-The-Sopranos.aspx https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joro-spiders-invasive-georgia_n_615871e0e4b0487c855f6263 https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/hiker-peak-of-desperation/ https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/octopus-farming-is-immoral-given-everything-we-know-about-this-highly-intelligent-and-solitary-animal-philip-lymbery-3412887 Minnetonka CEO apologizes for appropriating Native American culture : NPR https://variety.com/2021/film/columns/yes-halloween-knockoff-the-texas-chain-saw-massacre-1235090664/ 3,500-Year-Old Babylonian Tablet May Contain Earliest Known Depiction of a Ghost | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/werewolf-movies-1981-howling-american-london-wolfen-full-moon-high-anniversary S. Qiouyi Lu and Silvia Moreno-Garcia Talk Neo-Pronouns and Genre-Hopping

Telluride Horror Show

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Couldn’t have been a better time. My favorite film of the fest (that I caught): The Spine of Night. But, man, did I dig The Sadness, too. Anyway, here’s what stuff I saved off social media, along with some few snapshots (which — they may be some doubling there, apologies):

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