- Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago (Ars Technica) They seem more like this every day.
- What Makes a Great Bookshop? (Culture Dump) Nice read, if a bit subjective.
- The Strip Mall Where Clarence Thomas Hides His Wife's Money (Glass Empires) The subhed, "A consulting firm in a Virginia strip mall. A justice who votes on the firm's clients. A marriage that has run the same kickback for thirty years. Her name is Ginni Thomas," says it all.
- Charles Schulz Franklin Peanuts Harriet Glickman (Boing Boing) A nice history about how Franklin came to join peanuts.
- Yacht-wrecking young Orcas ‘not afraid of anything’ after being abandoned by relatives, say experts (The Independent) Short version, following a population drop of the community, adolescent Killer Whales were left without guidance and became delinquents.
- This Ridiculously Simple Trick Might Stop Gulls From Nabbing Your Lunch (Gizmodo) It's googly eyes stuck on your food box.
- Combined Antibiotic and Herbicide Pollution Accelerates the Horizontal Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Coastal Microbial Communities (bioRxiv) The more we learn about agricultural chemicals, the worse the seem.
This song was recorded in 1993. It seems almost prophetic:


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