Best Reads from Lately

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(and . . . all these I been saving up, too)

Chicagoan of the Year in Books: If you’re into horror, thank the librarian Becky Spratford

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/nov/30/fran-lebowitz-interview-love-novels-hiking-leaf-blowers-labubu

Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness | Street Roots

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2506650-asteroid-bennu-carries-all-the-ingredients-for-life-as-we-know-it

https://www.sciencealert.com/curiosity-cracked-open-a-rock-on-mars-and-revealed-a-big-surprise

Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability : ScienceAlert

Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France

This Weirdly Smart, Creeping Slime Is Redefining Our Understanding of Intelligence : ScienceAlert

From Poets & Writers, Inc. | Poets & Writers

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/opinion/culture/stephen-king-rob-reiner-stand-by-me.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/99293-last-call-for-mass-market-paperbacks.html

Strange Cosmic Blast May Be First-Ever Superkilonova Observed | Scientific American

Too Many Sharks: A Warning About “Agents”

Animals Sleep Because Electrons Leak | The Scientist

Wear marks suggest Neanderthals made ocher crayons – Ars Technica

Legends of Living Mammoths in Canada

How Soon Will the Seas Rise? | Quanta Magazine

“AI”: A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, or, Yet Another Reason Not to Trust It For Anything

https://steady.substack.com/p/one-courageous-correspondent?publication_id=247881

https://www.wired.com/story/q-day-apocalypse-quantum-computers-encryption

Everything Is Television – Derek Thompson

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/opinion/smartphone-color-grayscale-addiction.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

26 Totally Bonkers Language Facts We Learned In 2025 That Feel Made Up

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/magazine/e-bikes-accidents-safety-legislation-california.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/chuck-redd-trump-kennedy-center?utm_medium=email

https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-jay-graber-bluesky

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/19/back-scratching-cow-veronika-bovine-intelligence?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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