Aug. 13, 2021
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.
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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