Best Reads from Lately

Will require some real vigilance on my part, which is far from my strong suit, but I’m gonna try to post these each time the counter gets to “10.” Like this:

https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-start-wearing-dead-salmon-hats-again-after-ditching-the-trend-for-37-years

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/948440-we-are-now-ready-to-tackle-dickens-we-are-now#

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/texas-restaurants-new-recipe-cost-her-life-parents-on-a-mission-to-make-changes

https://knewz.com/world/archaeologists-discover-neanderthals-seaside-cave-with-60-000-year-old-glue-making-oven-stunned-by-the-construction

Spain to enshrine gay marriage and abortion rights into its constitution so ‘they cannot be undone in the future’ – Olive Press News Spain

How beauty trends signaled a conservative shift | The Week

Ruoxi Chen Joins Putnam as Executive Editor

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/technology/google-quantum-computing.html?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-little-boy-found-a-strange-stone-on-the-beach-archaeologists-told-him-it-was-a-neanderthals-hand-ax-180985578

https://defector.com/the-hawk-tuah-memecoin-rug-pull-is-the-apotheosis-of-bag-culture