Best Reads from Lately

Because I likely won’t remember to give attribution for each link, I’ll just say it here: probably three-quarters of these paleo type links are from a friend, Joe Lansdale (and all the Apple ones are from my wife). Just, don’t want to pretend I have my thumb on all the good pulses. Rather, I know people with those thumbs. Anyway, on with the reads, starting with the longer stuff:

• “Genetic data on half a million Brits reveal ongoing evolution and Neanderthal legacy“
• “How Can We Expand The Way We Write About Our Identities?“
• “Where does blue food dye come from?“
• “120 Movies, $13 Billion in Box Office: How Samuel L. Jackson Became Hollywood’s Most Bankable Star“
• “Rare blue pigment found in medieval woman’s teeth rewrites history” (Apple news/link)
• “Native American ‘rednecks’ & colonized anti-LGBTQ conservatism“
• “The History of the Covington MAGA Teens’ Racist ‘Tomahawk Chop’“
• “‘Nobody Is Going to Believe You’“
• “How to Talk to Ghosts“
• “A New Theory About the Extinct Neanderthal Species Creates a Deadly Picture“
• “The All-American Nightmares of Jordan Peele“
• “There’s a Weird, Sexist Problem in Fantasy that We Need to Talk About“
• “A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions“

And, the shorter, more newsy bits:

• “Pack of Wild Dogs in Texas Carry DNA of Nearly Extinct Red Wolf” (Apple)
• “‘Missing Link’ in Human History Confirmed After Long Debate” (Apple)
• “The last Neanderthals may have died out much earlier than we thought“
• “European colonizers killed so many Native Americans that it changed the global climate, researchers say“
• “Artificial Intelligence Has Found an Unknown ‘Ghost’ Ancestor in The Human Genome“