Best Reads from Lately

Once again, I let this get to be an unwieldy enough stack of links/reads that to slow down and make them into a pretty and proper list would keep me from revising the novel I’m revising. So, in all their likely awkwardness, with apologies for some embedding, some being URLS, some shuddering into some completely new and unlikely form, here’s my best reads from . . . lately:

https://elemental.medium.com/science-confirms-that-the-vagus-nerve-is-key-to-well-being-c23fab90e211

https://apple.news/A0De367OtTd-4Y3myQ5yUkQ

Why ‘Wichita Lineman’ Contains the Greatest Musical Couplet Ever Written | Literary Hub

http://theconversation.com/archaeological-discoveries-are-happening-faster-than-ever-before-helping-refine-the-human-story-128743

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129551459

CU regents passed over more experienced and prominent applicants when picking Kennedy as president

http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2013/01/ape-man-oliver-chimp-that-made-chump.html

https://ktla.com/2020/01/01/man-whose-body-was-found-in-idaho-cave-40-years-ago-finally-idd-as-notorious-outlaw-who-died-in-1916/

https://www.insider.com/misconceptions-native-americans-usa-culture-2020-1

Guest Commentary: Ignore those viral lies about wolves in Colorado

https://comicbook.com/marvel/2020/01/20/marvel-werewolf-by-night-series-2020-taboo-black-eyed-peas/

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-26/aircraft-slams-into-hillside-explodes-in-flames-near-calabasas

https://daquan.tv/collections/funny/watch-out-35-images-taken-just-before-calamity-strikes?

https://www.sapiens.org/evolution/hominin-species-neanderthals/

The ‘American Dirt’ Controversy Illustrates the Media’s Thirst for Immigrant Trauma Porn – VICE

https://www.alisa-valdes-rodriguez.com/post/this-us-latina-author-got-a-6-million-advance-why-do-latinx-activists-pretend-she-doesn-t-exist

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/as-a-28-year-old-latino-im-shocked-my-new-novel-memoirs-of-a-middle-aged-white-lady-has-been-so-poorly-received

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/30/shark-fossil-found-kentucky-mammoth-cave-national-park/4607654002/?

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/08/my-joe-rogan-experience/594802/

Zach LaVine Has Broken Up With Gravity – The Ringer

Raymond Carver and the Night of the Living Bukowski

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-think-better?utm_source=pocket-newtab

‘You’re Still Here?’: A Brief History of the Movie Post-Credits Sequence

https://thedorkreview.blogspot.com/2013/08/robs-room-john-carpenters-halloween-mask.html

https://twitter.com/danieldkraus/status/1096518852756885511?s=21

American Dirt Is The Latest Shot Fired in the Genre Wars | CrimeReads

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/the-bitter-end–last-woolly-mammoths-plagued-by-genetic-defects-12409588

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/july/a-new-look-at-the-gibraltar-neanderthals.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/featured/sns-nyt-neanderthal-genes-hint-human-migration-from-africa-20200204-e3rnklbugbc63mjy22usi5f6ra-story.html

Was This Cave an Ancient Lab for Preserving Human Bodies? https://t.co/gC7fg8xwMo

— PaleoAnthropology+ (@Qafzeh) February 11, 2020

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/was-this-cave-an-ancient-lab-for-preserving/

https://twitter.com/Lakers/status/1225939385515823104