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https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/science/china-fossils-ancient-humans-homo-juluensis-denisovans DVD is dead. Long live DVD. Romero Was Right https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/books/indie-bookshop-e-books.html Newly discovered fungal species makes zombies of cave spiders on island of Ireland Op-ed: It’s okay to be angry at anyone who voted for Trump https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/notes-on-sweet-child-o-mine-as-delivered-to-axl-rose-by-his-editor https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/obituaries/tom-robins-dead.html https://creativetime.org/programs/archive/1990/TheBlackSheep/BlackSheep.htm

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finally remembered to post this when the hands struck “10!” Mark Zuckerberg Defends Decision To Fly Confederate Flag At Facebook Headquarters – The Onion https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/10/science/antarctica-deep-ice-core/index.html Limerick granted ownership of her works – Longmont Times Call https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/11/03/tina-fey-profile-anchor-woman https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/17/science/giant-sea-bug-darth-vader-vietnam/index.html https://screenrant.com/the-monkey-2025-movie-osgood-perkins-stephen-king-story-change-reaction https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/18/oldest-gun-in-us-arizona/77802506007 https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/01/how-sleeping-pills-interfere-with-the-brains-internal-cleaning-mechanism https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/books/clay-mcleod-chapman.html

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Okay, maybe “12” is a better round number for these? I seem to be not-great at remembering “10.” Surprisingly thick ice on Jupiter’s moon Europa complicates hunt for life | Science | AAAS https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/16/science/mirror-bacteria-research-risks/index.html Archaeo-Histories: “A 2300 year-old Horse Headdres…” – ohai.social https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/business/media/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-it-ends-with-us.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/23/europe/baby-mammoth-russian-crater-preserved-intl-latam World’s Deadliest Rat Can Kill An Elephant With 1 Bite How

Best of 2024

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Craziest fullest year. Think I had eight weekends in a row where I was doing an event in a different city—well, I say “eight,” but . . . I actually ended up having to cancel the eighth, Miami. Was bummed, as the Rock Bottom Remainders were performing. But, knee was all sloshy with cortisone from,

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Well, almost posted this before it went over “10?” And, this post looks way-weird on the main/”home” page. But, it’s normal once you click. Who knows. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/12/26/nobel-prize-all-that-glitters https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/12/science/neanderthal-fossil-extinction-grotte-mandrin-france/index.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14174993/dogs-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-mutated-new-superpower.html https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/neanderthals-may-have-had-explosive-strength-thanks-to-their-bell-shaped-ribcages/ar-AA1vOaLC https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/scientists-discovered-50-000-year-old-viruses-in-neanderthal-dna-that-could-help-explain-their-mysterious-extinction/ar-BB1nKNuC http://www.jmdematteis.com/2010/09/story-behind-huntagain.html https://open.substack.com/pub/briankeene/p/letters-from-the-labyrinth-407 https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/william-gibson ‘Dog-Like’ Fossil Discovery May Be Oldest Known Saber-Toothed Animal – Newsweek Scientists Discovered a New Human Species That Defies Conventional Wisdom

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Will require some real vigilance on my part, which is far from my strong suit, but I’m gonna try to post these each time the counter gets to “10.” Like this: https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-start-wearing-dead-salmon-hats-again-after-ditching-the-trend-for-37-years https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/948440-we-are-now-ready-to-tackle-dickens-we-are-now# https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/texas-restaurants-new-recipe-cost-her-life-parents-on-a-mission-to-make-changes https://knewz.com/world/archaeologists-discover-neanderthals-seaside-cave-with-60-000-year-old-glue-making-oven-stunned-by-the-construction Spain to enshrine gay marriage and abortion rights into its constitution so ‘they cannot be undone in the future’ –

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/science/grizzly-bear-399-killed.html Today I Laid a Crayfish at Your Grave – Belt Magazine How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub – Uncanny Magazine https://www.businessinsider.com/neanderthals-virus-herpes-hpv-caught-from-humans-may-helped-extinction-2024-6 https://susiebright.ink/p/dorothy-allison-cut-off-the-lights Terrifier 3 (2024) – FILM FREAK CENTRAL Revolutionary Nahuatl Lexicon Part I | by David Bowles | Medium https://apnews.com/article/rhesus-macaque-monkeys-south-carolina-lab-escape-81dd4bb3acf2a445c0f899e31a8e05eb https://variety.com/2024/film/features/interview-with-the-vampire-tom-cruise-brad-pitt-neil-jordan-1236205381 Spotify Hits 252 Million Paid Subscribers, On Track For Profitability

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https://www.thebrighterside.news/discoveries/dna-evidence-reveals-that-neanderthals-didnt-go-extinct https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/apple-social-apps-contacts-change.html Pitting Literary Fiction Against Genre Fiction Is Intrinsically Silly ‹ CrimeReads https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/31/european-colonization-of-americas-helped-cause-climate-change https://www.ranker.com/list/cannibal-history-of-jameson-whiskey/rachel-souerbry https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/us/politics/elon-musk-federal-agencies-contracts.html Missouri, Kansas, And Idaho Are Suing The FDA Because They Don’t Have Enough Teen Moms Long-Overlooked Painting Reveals the Genius of a Forgotten Black Polymath Speed | Patreon Good Omens Season 3 Will Only Be 90 Minutes Long –

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https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/people/article/95910-tim-o-connell-takes-the-reigns-at-saga-press.html Ancient DNA adds to evidence debunking theory of Easter Island collapse | CNN https://link.lithub.com/view/602eabc6180f243d654b95celuktr.1hwp/d8c149cc https://www.cbc.ca/arts/the-rise-of-indigenous-horror-how-a-fiction-genre-is-confronting-a-monstrous-reality-1.5323428 https://www.livescience.com/animals/bees-wasps/parasitic-horror-wasp-that-bursts-from-a-fly-s-abdomen-like-an-alien-xenomorph-discovered-in-mississippi-backyard Neanderthal remains found in France reveals there were not one, but at least two lineages of late Neanderthals in Europe, our research shows Shakespeare was an Alien!. It’s the only possible conclusion… | by Eric Armstrong | Medium

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We fact-checked Trump’s recent news conference : NPR Review: Matthew McConaughey’s Pantalones Tequila https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/pronghorn-texas-fastest-mammal https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/10/martin-amis-tina-brown-memorial-service-novelist How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/21/africa/toba-supervolcano-early-human-migration-africa-scn/index.html Sydney Sweeney on Fame, Euphoria, and the Pressure of Paying the Bills World’s oldest fossilised trees discovered along Devon and Somerset coast | Palaeontology | The Guardian Deciphering the Denisovans

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https://georgiasouthern.libguides.com/wraparoundsouth/summer2018/eastern-kentucky-in-four-figures The Devil’s Rejects movie review (2005) | Roger Ebert A Brief History of Time Travel – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.christophergolden.com/post/to-those-of-you-nodding-along-with-tom-monteleone KUOW – Seattle crows are so smart, they’re challenging what we know about evolution Silver Linings of Being Bitten by a Great White Shark – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency Hollywood’s Newest Money-Making Scheme Is… Books

Best of May 2024

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(bit late on/for this one, oops. StokerCon ate my weekend, and a lot of my brain. Just now surfacing again) — "Dear Editor, I have incorporated all suggestions from reviewer 2, and I hope you find the changes an improvement to the manuscript as a whole." [image or embed] — Stephen Hopkins (@phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social) May 21,

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https://www.awphooey.com/wkrp?fbclid=IwAR0iPkYtf-_KIs4ScZbwHai2C9I2_dEV_YyjSICHx3665vphHzYkNFZU0zA Ancient Indigenous lineage of Blackfoot Confederacy goes back 18,000 years to last ice age, DNA reveals | Live Science https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68739586 https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2024/03/28/guy-gun-and-dangerous-blonde-and-why-we-them The Life and Death of Hollywood, by Daniel Bessner South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem Is Now Banished From 10 Percent of Her Own State For the first time in one billion years, two

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https://www.living-knowledge-network.co.uk/library/susanna-clarke-alan-moore https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2024/new-orleans-police-child-sexual-abuse-rodney-vicknair Cavaliers’ J.B. Bickerstaff says he’s been threatened by gamblers – ESPN https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/24/entertainment/kevin-bacon-footloose-high-school-prom/index.html https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/how-to-be-a-mysterious-woman-who-is-also-in-bed-by-930-pm https://filmschoolrejects.com/godzilla-legacy/?amp Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 208 The Paris Review – A Conversation with Louise Erdrich – The Paris Review https://www.newyorker.com/books/flash-fiction/wolves-sterling-holywhitemountain Maximum Overdrive — Grady Hendrix TCR Talks with Travis Burkett, author of An American Band –

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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