Best of 2021 so far: for January
(sorry for the lead-in ad, and this being clipped — not sure why it’s getting clipped, exactly : )
movies/tv
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2240117-oldest-ever-piece-of-string-was-made-by-neanderthals-50000-years-ago/ https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/indian-country-year-in-review-major-moments-DSnYwpua-EafiP6qpviCjA https://apple.news/AnXLTFnFxSJibW-NFAeWJhw http://bostonreview.net/race/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-what-white-supremacists-know Santa’s New York Roots | The New York Public Library https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-78214-4 Too Sacred To Drill | Earthjustice https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-extra-podcast/id256580326?i=1000492683785 Swedish runestones open gateway to ancient Viking civilization | CNN Travel https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55657257 https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/14/world/dire-wolves-grey-wolves-intl-scli-scn/index.html https://www.revolvermag.com/culture/quiet-riots-metal-health-story-behind-cover-art Swedish runestones open gateway to ancient Viking civilization | CNN Travel https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/11/6000-years-arrows-emerge-melting-norway-ice-patch/ https://www.ranker.com/list/horror-movies-where-black-characters-survive/mariel-loveland
Best Stuff I Found in 2020
Gonna do this fast, here, as, when I take time and mull, this annual post just gets longer and longer—me, trying to include everything. So, before I can think too much, dig back too much, and probably including stuff I should have caught in 2019, or 2002: Novel(s) of the Year Comic Book of the
Holiday Horror!
And, I should say: before we started recording, my question was, “So . . . is this ABOUT horror set on the holidays, or is this called what it is because we’re recording here IN the holidays?” Worked out great, though: wonderful people, excellent moderating, good signals/connections all around — this is all you need
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/europe/woolly-rhino-puppy-intl-scli-scn/index.html Wolverines return to Mount Rainier National Park – CNN https://apple.news/ARN2f6fEDR8GHQJucqUfIwQ https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/this-is-your-university-president-reminding-you-that-you-have-until-september-14th-to-infect-someone-in-our-college-town-with-covid https://film.avclub.com/the-new-mutants-finally-opens-this-week-here-s-why-we-1844833667 https://apple.news/Abymo8M4QR7qTNQyLpHCcoQ https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2020/08/how-chekhov-invented-modern-short-story Globe Book Club: Why are there so few Indigenous crime writers? It’s no mystery – The Globe and Mail http://www.fridaythe13thfranchise.com/2014/06/making-franchise-friday-13th-part-2.html Personal Canons: Warren Ellis – Here’s The Thing https://apple.news/A4XFWO_dMRrCqIgl31JOUVQ https://tv.avclub.com/when-one-sketch-flopped-two-words-saved-the-state-mo-1798265654 https://apple.news/AuGNyLfe6RMq3JV9IWXHJ1A https://apple.news/AsdIqsrWPQSiFsNQjOt6I-w https://apple.news/AQ98ST7FXRLajkLPWqwNAYQ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/07/animals-platypus-evolution-science/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/remembering-lubbock-born-country-musician-mac-davis/ I Love Paulette Jiles’s Novels.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-a-texas-oil-boom-busts-11594440031 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/dispatch/how-two-waves-of-coronavirus-cases-swept-through-the-texas-panhandle https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-14/ford-bronco-is-back-after-o-j-simpson-made-it-famous https://tv.avclub.com/timothy-omundson-on-his-seinfeld-start-and-getting-back-1844335402 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: An Explainer – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://hobbylark.com/comic-books/Who-Are-The-Native-American-Heroes-of-Marvel-Comics https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/obituaries-for-the-parts-of-me-that-have-died-inside https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/world/scientists-fossil-mystery-tanystropheus-scn-trnd/index.html https://apple.news/AOOt5__SrRjafuZm4rYVYjA https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/18/the-final-frontier A rare giant shark now sits in an ice block at the Smithsonian, allowing researchers to hopefully unravel clues about its evolution – CNN
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https://apnews.com/1ecd8a37bd1e4dc68ebed3c4568fcf72 https://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Christopher-Columbus-statue-torn-down-thrown-in-lake-by-protesters-571149751.html https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-right-wing-movie-studio-enabled-the-harvey-weinstein-of-indie-film Slice & Dice: How Post-Pandemic Horror Could Lead to the Next Golden Age of Slashers – Bloody Disgusting https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/15/magazine/jon-stewart-interview.html regal jumping spider – Phidippus regius C.L. Koch https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/06/09/this-incredibly-rare-white-grizzly-has-emerged-in-banff-why-experts-hope-you-never-see-it.html Another mysterious radio burst in space is repeating a pattern. This one occurs every 157 days – CNN Roman city of Falerii Novi mapped
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some of these seem to be auto-embedding just with a header-img, now. but: seems to click through. https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/04/23/indian-country-set-for-historic-showdown.asp?fbclid=IwAR22KYb_gVA7rV-ULC_2fP3cZmJvpJPlYv2cD3_2nJ9REjeFmPtLJLfjE60 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/17/the-disappeared https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/03/09/outsider-stephen-king-adaptations/ https://theoutline.com/post/8782/the-sopranos-as-horror https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/emails-from-my-childrens-school-before-8-00-am-during-the-covid-19-crisis https://bookriot.com/2020/02/27/dark-academia-books/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8262295/Pentagon-declassifies-officially-releases-three-UFO-videos.html https://www.businessinsider.in/science/research/news/ancient-tools-found-in-india-suggest-the-toba-supervolcano-eruption-didnt-leave-humanity-on-the-brink-of-extinction/articleshow/74313715.cms Bizarre Spinosaurus makes history as first known swimming dinosaur How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles | Literary Hub https://theconversation.com/fast-evolution-explains-the-tiny-stature-of-extinct-hobbit-from-flores-island-124747 Literary lockdown: how translating a Dan Brown novel made
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Before this gets out of hand again, which it’s apt to do since I seem to be cleaning out tabs during these stay-at-home times (quite possibly I’m clicking more things INTO tabs, too…): https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neandertal-made-oldest-known-string https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/get-lost-in-mega-tunnels-dug-by-south-american-megafauna http://www.montanakaimin.com/opinion/dating-as-a-native-it-s-more-complicated-than-sovereignty/article_8081c614-4cf4-11ea-8e6c-87bf991b1606.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share https://theconversation.com/early-humans-in-africa-may-have-interbred-with-a-mysterious-extinct-species-new-research-131699 http://jaws1975.blogspot.com/2011/07/on-knife-edge.html Zoom Is a Nightmare. So Why Is Everyone Still Using It? https://geekycamel.com/savage-yearbook-quotes-that-prove-seniors-have-no-limits/ ‘Broken promises’: Tribes decry leak
STNG & Cheers
Caught this at this tweet, but am putting the image here in case something happens to that tweet—I don’t want to lose this one. Great happiness is contained within:
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https://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/decision-on-friday-the-13th-court-case-expected-in-may-or-june https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51532781 https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/02/03/802215344/researchers-link-autism-to-a-system-that-insulates-brain-wiring https://gizmodo.com/apple-bans-bad-guys-from-using-iphones-in-movies-says-1841929887 https://apple.news/AAI0aeXtyQI2XTQZ4MPC7Zw https://theconversation.com/humans-domesticated-horses-new-tech-could-help-archaeologists-figure-out-where-and-when-131831 https://www.livescience.com/earth-shorter-days-millions-years-ago.html https://bigthink.com/sex-relationships/health-benefits-of-masturbation Mysterious Ice Age structure made from hundreds of mammoth bones discovered in Russia – CNN https://ourcommunitynow.com/local-culture/black-forest-coloradoone-of-the-worlds-most-haunted-places https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/museum-of-the-bible-dead-sea-scrolls-forgeries/ https://www.theonion.com/study-96-percent-of-humans-would-rather-be-animatronic-1819572872 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/as-a-virus-upends-hollywood-may-never-be-a-return-normal-1286691 https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/9342389/coronavirus-touring-concert-business-billboard-cover-story-2020 How Will the Coronavirus End? – The Atlantic European Neanderthals ate fresh seafood, which may have given their brains a boost – CNN https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/21-yr-old-student-from-pune-and-the-curious-case-of-her-changing-hands-6301734/ America Is Looking