Best Reads from Lately
some few articles &etc that I thought worthy of saving, and passing on
Ten things I read (from . . . 500?) from lately that I think worth sharing. Doesn’t mean they’re good or even tolerable. But, chances are I saw something to them.
The world’s oldest rock art discovered in Indonesia | National Geographic Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE Welcome to the Camping Games (now please show up) | Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine | University of Colorado Boulder Ancient DNA Reveals Twisted Roots of Syphilis Go Back 5,500 Years :
(and . . . all these I been saving up, too) https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/nov/30/fran-lebowitz-interview-love-novels-hiking-leaf-blowers-labubu Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness | Street Roots https://www.newscientist.com/article/2506650-asteroid-bennu-carries-all-the-ingredients-for-life-as-we-know-it https://www.sciencealert.com/curiosity-cracked-open-a-rock-on-mars-and-revealed-a-big-surprise Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability : ScienceAlert Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France This Weirdly Smart, Creeping
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/17/wolf-tool-use-animals https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/business/last-penny-minted https://www.wired.com/story/a-disease-carrying-mosquito-has-landed-in-the-rocky-mountains-where-it-historically-couldnt-survive https://www.wired.com/story/can-a-hydroelectric-dam-really-make-the-days-longer Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists | Neanderthals | The Guardian https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/2025/11/19/how-mark-wahlberg-became-the-king-of-streaming https://www.extremetech.com/science/scientists-successfully-extract-40000-year-old-rna-from-woolly-mammoth Superman edition found in mum’s attic is most valuable comic ever at $9.12m ”Star Trek: The Next Generation” readies for last episode https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/graphics/see-how-egyptians-built-giza-pyramids They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Christianity
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20170314-the-town-that-built-a-mirror-to-catch-the-sun https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2025-10-15/banned-books-iowa-city-high-school-student-club Sealed for 5.5 Million Years, Movile Cave Hints at the Nature of Extraterrestrial Life Inside one American’s year-long attempt to date alt-right men https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/world/ireland-lion-dog-mouse.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation – High Country News For the first time, Catholic sisters return land to Ojibwe Nation https://www.wired.com/story/why-are-we-all-still-carrying-around-car-keys https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/features/thomas-pynchon-shadow-ticket-review-b2840031.html
https://matthewjacksonwrites.com/tag/tracing-the-shape The Story Behind the Photo of Anne Murray and the Hollywood Vampires Journalists exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules | AP News Leonardo DiCaprio on ‘One Battle After Another,’ Hollywood, and Playing an Atypical Hero in Conversation With Paul Thomas Anderson https://theconversation.com/and-then-there-were-none-australias-only-shrew-declared-extinct-265988 Woman arrested at Alabama ‘No Kings’ rally after refusing
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-settlement-books-copyright https://www.today.com/health/men-s-health/tooth-in-eye-surgery-restores-vision-rcna230395 ‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds | Wildlife | The Guardian https://slate.com/culture/2025/09/me-and-bobby-mcgee-janis-joplin-kris-kristofferson-lyrics.html Victor LaValle On Mental Illness, Monsters, Survival : NPR https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/health/hiv-treatment-shots-lenacapavir.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Aggressive squirrel attacks send San Francisco Bay Area residents to ER | AP News Poking around the excellent cauldron of new horror lit Scientists
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/08/22/doerner-fir-tree-on-fire-saved https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/opinion/culture/ai-chatgpt-college-cheating-medieval.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action Wildlife photographer of the year 2025 – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian Neil Young quits Facebook and Instagram over Meta’s use of chatbots with children | CBC Music An incredible Denisovan skull is upending the story of human evolution | New Scientist Horror ‘It Girl’ Gretchen Felker Martin on DC