Fri. 08/13 - Woolly Mammoth Adventures & Goodreads Pages Held For Ransom

The groundbreaking study that has basically given us a daily diary of the entire life of a 17,000 year old woolly mammoth. Why coffee prices are spiking. And a ransom scam targeting authors that says a lot about the state of the world.

Links:

• A Woolly Mammoth’s Tusks Reveal a Map of Where It Roamed in Life (NY Times)
• Ice Age mammoth's life story reconstructed in stunning detail (National Geographic)
• Mammoth's epic travels preserved in tusk (Nature)
• A Mammoth Tusk Reveals a Woolly (and Unprecedented) Tale (Wired)
• Your Daily Coffee Habit Is About to Get More Expensive (NY Times)
• Coffee Jolt Gets Pricier as Costs of Beans, Labor, Transport Rise (Wall Street Journal)
• The summer of writing scams continues with a series of Goodreads ransom notes. (Literary Hub)
• How the alt-right are resurfacing old tweets to get Trump's critics fired (The Guardian)
• Number of twins in Inverclyde schools hits 80 (The Scotsman)
• Fifteen sets of twins to start schools in Inverclyde (BBC)
• The number of twins in the world is the highest it has ever been (New Scientist)
• Countries With Most Twins Identified (Live Science)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

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