Best Reads from Lately

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 Join a “Cult” 130,000 Years Ago“
• “As Big Pharma Abandons Antibiotic Research, Scientists Turn to Graves, Lizards, and Fungus for New Cures“
• “Mysterious ancient human found on the ‘roof of the world’“
• “The oldest human footprints by continent“
• “Fairy Tales are Really Just Hard-Boiled Crime Stories“
• “Frigid Offices Might Be Killing Women’s Productivity“
• “Mystery hominin had sex with ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans 700,000 years ago to produce sickly offspring thanks to the extreme nature of the interbreeding“
• “Nazis Killed Her Father. Then She Fell in Love With One.“
• “How Modern Life is Transforming the Human Skeleton“
• “So You Want to be a Gangster?“
• “5 Horror Movie Sub-Genres That Just Won’t Die“
• “Overlooked No More: Debra Hill, Producer Who Parlayed Halloween into a Cult Classic“
• “For Smart Animals, Octopuses Are Very Weird“
• “The Queer Crime That Launched the Beats“
• “Scientists are searching for a mirror universe. It could be sitting right in front of you.“
• “This Is the Way the Animals Arose: Not With a Bang, but With a Bunch of Bangs“
• “Watching Ancient Hominins Giving Birth“
• “The Oldest Weapons in North America Offer a New View of Prehistoric Tech“
• “An AI System Spontaneously Develops Baby-Like Ability to Gauge Big and Small“
• “Exploding stars led to humans walking on two legs, radical study suggests“
• “Did infertility kill off the Neanderthals? Mysterious disappearance could be explained by just a 2.7 per cent decline in female fertility“
• “New study suggests you’re all just lucky Billy Jack isn’t here“
• “Humans used northern migration routes to reach eastern Asia“
• “12-foot bird lived alongside early human relatives, fossils reveal“
• “Before Annabelle and Chucky, We Met Talky Tina in “The Twilight Zone”“
• “North Atlantic Right Whales Are Dying in Horrific Ways“
• “North American Mammoths Actually Evolved in Eurasia“
• “New Report Suggests ‘High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End’ Starting in 2050“

( really weird that there weren’t any werewolf links in there )