Two dozen dandy articles to bookmark for December reading

It's that time again!

Here's a roundup of all the interesting writing and photography that caught my eye during the past month.

Instead of sorting it into categories, I'm just going to present the two dozen links in random order. Serious and silly. Present news and history. Sports things and book things. Maybe that will lead to some thoughtful and unexpected connections as your browse through and find something (or multiple somethings) that you want to read during a break from wrapping presents and shoveling snow (if you live in Texas).

• Electric Lit: "The Secret History of Cricket Magazine, the 'New Yorker for Children'" by A.J. Connell
• My Inside Voice: "It's time to catch up" by Susan Jennings
• The Boston Globe: "Fear of Trump crackdown haunts undocumented immigrants" by Matt Viser (part of a series examining York County, Pennsylvania)
• Pennsylvania Historic Preservation: "Fall in Love with a Metal Truss Bridge" by Tyra Guyton
• The Washington Post: "Drowning in garbage: The world produces more than 3.5 million tons of garbage a day — and that figure is growing" by Kadir van Lohuizen
• Sports Illustrated: "A Calculated Decision: Why John Urschel Chose Math Over Football" by Tim Rohan
• The Old Farmer's Almanac: "What is Hugelkultur? The Ultimate Raised Bed" by Robin Sweetser
• LancasterOnline: "Couple opens Lancaster Farm Sanctuary in Elizabethtown for abused and neglected animals" by Lynn Commero
• Grist: "Bitcoin could cost us our clean-energy future" by Eric Holthaus
• The Atlantic: "Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria" by James Somers (Subhede: “Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”)
• Wendyvee's Roadside Wonders: "Ruins Park" (featuring a fabulous photo gallery of this unique location in Glen Rock, Pennsylvania)
• The New York Times: "How the Amtrak Dining Car Could Heal the Nation" by Gabriel Kahane
• Longreads: "The Real Refugees of Casablanca" by Meredith Hindley (Subhede: "When it came to gathering refugees, the waiting room of the U.S. consulate was probably the closest thing to Rick’s Café Américain.")
• Web Urbanist: "Rollout: 10 More Abandoned Roller Skating Rinks" by Steve [Steve provides no last name.]
• The New York Times: "If No One Owns the Moon, Can Anyone Make Money Up There?" by Kenneth Chang
• The Guardian: "How the sandwich consumed Britain" by Sam Knight
• Library of Congress: "The Codex Quetzalecatzin comes to the Library of Congress" by John Hessler
• Fuzzy Galore: "Cruising Along Route 3 – West Virginia" by Rachael aka "Fuzzy"
• ESPN: "An American coach and a gruesome injury inspired Chen Yue's journey" by Wei Zhang and Kevin Wang
• ESPN: "The exceptional genius of [chess star] Hou Yifan" by Alex W. Palmer
• Vulture: "The Strange Task of Researching a Book About the Apocalypse in 2017" by Mark O’Connell
• The New York Times Magazine: "Full Tilt: When 100% of Cars Are Autonomous" by multiple authors
• The Atlantic: "What Happens If China Makes First Contact?" by Ross Andersen (Subhede: "As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the world’s largest radio dish for precisely that purpose.")
• The Washington Post: "Best Books 2017" by Book World Editors

But wait. There's more!
For your enjoyment, here are just a few
of the tweets I loved over the past month.
Follow @Papergreat on Twitter to get ALL the retweets.

It's that time of year again.#GoreyChristmas pic.twitter.com/BJlDvF0nJf

— LiterateIndy (@LiterateIndy) December 8, 2017

pic.twitter.com/izsZTXtrz9

— John (@Tribe_XX) December 7, 2017

Great picture of Inishmaan, The Aran Islands in 1971 (by Winfield Parks, National Geographic) pic.twitter.com/G4dlKxgUgt

— Irish Archaeology (@irarchaeology) December 2, 2017

Little boy in Hackney: Mum!
His mum: Yes?
Little boy: The moon is dancing!
Mum: It looks a bit like that but it's just the clouds moving over it.
Little boy: No. You just can't see things properly.

— Miranda Keeling (@MirandaKeeling) December 1, 2017

In a composite image, the International Space Station transits the moon, seen from York County, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017. pic.twitter.com/j2WYVglDLK

— Jeff Lautenberger (@jefflphoto) December 3, 2017

Love Me Love My Dog Poster by Bauhaus 1920s pic.twitter.com/uLf3tPsncT

— History in Moments (@historyinmoment) December 2, 2017

Queen of Diamonds (1909) by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, one of the defining artists of the "Glasgow Style" #womensart pic.twitter.com/ScX8Up4mmH

— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) December 2, 2017

1960s Christmas lightbulb salesman case. pic.twitter.com/lQ9LtLLuQP

— Present & Correct (@presentcorrect) November 27, 2017

The "mama" of my two year old's Playmobil family is a 1984 Emperor Palpatine action figure I mailed away for when I was six.

Hope you're enjoying time with family as well. pic.twitter.com/NUWy01MulP

— Bob Proehl (@bobproehl) November 23, 2017

Adorable photos of kids reading to shelter cats! Read more here: https://t.co/EFvT1iRWUJ #LittleFreeLibrary pic.twitter.com/09SfvwpDWM

— Little Free Library® (@LtlFreeLibrary) November 19, 2017

Want more great reading suggestions?
Browse through the Friday Reads category.