Best Reads from Lately

Some slipped through this time—forgot to copy the URLs across, just closed-tab and went on to the next thing. So: blip, gone. But the thing about the internet is that there’s always more. Anyway, here’s what I’ve been into last few . . . I don’t know, ‘days’ for sure, but also ‘weeks,’ and probably not plural months. But maybe one month, or a month and a half. Just the best, none of the drek:

• “With Pyromania, Def Leppard made a pop-metal hybrid for the ages“
• “A Sand County Photograph“
• “Previously unknown human species found in Asia raises questions about early hominin dispersals from Africa“
• “Watching the Skies“
• “The Only Girl in the Known Universe“
• “Are We In A ‘Galactic Zoo’ Protected By Aliens? Scientists Meet To Investigate The ‘Great Silence’“
• “The Legend of Keanu Reeves“
• “Muscle Car Emotions“
• “But That Is Not the Story: On Marlon James’s “Black Leopard, Red Wolf”
• “Wake up, people: You’re fooling yourself about sleep, study says“

And more on the All the News That’s Fit to Print front:

• “Birds break evolutionary rules when it comes to feather color“
• “Mysterious new orca species likely identified“
• “14-foot fish spotted in river, giving hope to vanished giant’s return“
• “‘Hobbit’ human story gets a twist, thanks to thousands of rat bones“
• “3.6 million-year-old footprints suggest early human ancestors were excellent walkers“
• “Our mysterious cousins—the Denisovans—may have mated with modern humans as recently as 15,000 years ago“
• “Climate Change Drove Neanderthals to Cannibalism, New Research Suggests“
• “Ancient teeth hint at mysterious human relative“
• “Africa’s largest mammalian carnivore had canines ‘the size of bananas’“

Well, All That’s Fit to Print so long as it’s got either hominins or cool animals in it. Well, cool cars/trucks too, but none of those this time. Though I have been assiduously watching my dream truck over on eBay: