Category: etc

• “How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid?“
• “‘Oldest remains’ outside Africa reset human migration clock“
• “Paul Tremblay Is Horror’s Newest Big Thing“
• “skeleton of glass and marmelade“
• “Ancient DNA extracted from Neanderthal fossils of Gibraltar for the first time“
• “Remains of 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement unearthed outside Jerusalem“
• “In Which

Just had to watch and watch this for a piece I’m getting together. But, too, it’s always playing in my heart:

This arrow by mathematician and sculptor Kokichi Sugihara can't point left. Here's how it works: It's 3D-printed with a bunch of curves our brains don't register. pic.twitter.com/Xa32GrI7ii

— Khai (@ThamKhaiMeng) August 4, 2019

This kills me everytime I watch it. pic.twitter.com/oJWpHGFgi5

— T (@t_justme) July 30, 2019

Or don’t do it at all:

Ones I thought to copy onto a scratchpad, anyway:

• “Forget Strong Female Characters! We Need Complicated Female Characters Who Screw Up (A Lot)“
• “Interview: Jonathan Frakes On Casting Marina Sirtis And What ‘The Orville’ And ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Share“
• “It’s Time to Give Billy Joel the Respect He Deserves“
• “Why narrating an audiobook is a LOT harder than you think“
• “Neanderthals May Have Taught Humans to Joi

Worst thing I’ve had to know for a long, long time:

Scooting through eBay the other day, looking for a good cloth version of Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead—a novel I’ll never not be in love with (though my favorite film adaptation of Beowulf is Outlander, of course)—I remembered that I’ve had a few people in my inbox and around lately asking did I have any The Long Trial of Nolan Dugattis lying around. I don’t, just have my one that I hauled around for a while, read from. But, looks like I should have secret…

So, so cool. And, I just wrote a novel way steeped in exactly this: