Decided to do this as a list this time, instead of letting some of them auto-embed—felt messy, having both kinds of links/previews. So, here’s the best of what I’ve been reading lately:
- “Crackdown on sexist ads outlaws bad female driver and inept dad commercials“
- “Brandon Hobson on Recovering Cherokee Myths from His Grandfather’s Notebook“
- “What Our Skeletons Say About the Sex Binary“
- “How Horror Changed After WWI” (though I don’t agree with this all the way through)
- “No ‘lost tribes’ or aliens: what ancient DNA reveals about American prehistory“
- “The Last Jedi: Saving Star Wars from Itself“
- “The world’s oldest cave paintings were probably made by Neanderthals“
- “A List of Reasons Why Our Brains Love Lists“
- “Francine Prose: It’s Harder Than It Looks to Write Clearly“
- “Notes on Life, Death, and Family From a Hill Country Deer Blind“
- “Our age of horror” (again: I don’t completely agree with all of it . . .)
- “Men Reviewing Men“
- “I Got an IUD, and I Got Pregnant“
- “The Secret History of William Gibson’s Never-Filmed Aliens Sequel“
news kind of stuff
(that is, clickbait I couldn’t not click on)
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