Late summer reads on a sunny Sunday

Gustav Klimt
The House of Guardaboschi 1912
110 x 110 cm
oil, canvas
Private collection pic.twitter.com/6pRDCFiBMA

— Алексей Шураков (@shurackov1755) August 7, 2018

It's late summer, right? We've already had regular-season high school football games here in southcentral Pennsylvania. People are tweeting out Halloween decoration displays from their local stores. And I passed a tractor trailer full of pumpkins a couple of days ago. So it must be nearly autumn.

Here's the latest collection of articles you might enjoy and/or have missed during the hectic days of mid-summer.

Serious

• The Guardian: "'Our memories have vanished': the Palestinian theatre destroyed in a bomb strike" by Hazem Balousha and Oliver Holmes
• Wired: "The New Arms Race Threatening to Explode in Space" by Garrett M. Graff
• Grist: "The world is hot, on fire, and flooding. Climate change is here." by Eric Holthaus
• The New York Times: "Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change" by Nathaniel Rich
• The New York Times: "Kelly Marie Tran: I Won't Be Marginalized by Online Harassment" by Kelly Marie Tran. And here's a good reaction to this piece...
  
  

  When you strike women down, they return more powerful than you can possibly imagine. And they show thousands of other women suffering online abuse that they can survive and thrive too. Thank you Kelly Marie Tran. https://t.co/YObt2S66kC

  — Invincible Alanna Smith! (@AlannaWrites) August 21, 2018

• Longreads: "Finding True North: Thousands of Haitians who fled the United States on foot last summer have started very different lives in Canada" by Amy Bracken
• Sixth Tone: "Better Together? Inside a Village's Embrace of Collectivization" by Liao Yue
• Yes! "For Women, by Women: A Sisterhood of Carpenters Builds Tiny Houses for the Homeless" by Lornet Turnbull
• CityLab: "Parking Has Eaten American Cities" by Richard Florida
• The Washington Post: "Public canneries help food lovers save the season. So why are they disappearing?" by Jane Black

Not as serious

• We Are The Mutants: "From Galaxy Explorer to Galactic Enforcer: The Evolution of Lego Space" by Tom G. Wolf
• We Are The Mutants: “And in the Darkness Bind Them”: The First ‘Lord of the Rings’ Paperbacks and the Making of Fantasy by K.E. Roberts

• We Are The Mutants: "Falken's Maze: Game Theory, Computer Science, and the Cold War Inspirations for 'WarGames'" by Michael Grasso. [Related and also recommended: The episode of the Super Critical Podcast dealing with WarGames.]
• New Scientist: "Weird circles in the sky may be signs of a universe before ours" by Chelsea Whyte
• The Washington Post: "People buried at Stonehenge 5,000 years ago came from far away, study finds" by Ben Guarino
• Vulture: "In Conversation: Kathleen Turner The actress on righting Elizabeth Taylor’s wrongs, Donald Trump’s 'gross' handshake, and the co-star she slapped" by David Marchese
• The New York Times: "Conan O'Brien's Unrequited Fanboy Love for Robert Caro" by John Koblin
• The Verge: "BAD ROMANCE: To cash in on Kindle Unlimited, a cabal of authors gamed Amazon’s algorithm" by Sarah Jeong
• The Sacramento Bee: "He found 15 books in a Sierra dumpster. Then he found out they belonged to Thomas Jefferson." by Jordan Cutler-Tietjen
• Smithsonian.com: "A Brief History of Traveling With Cats" by Jackie Mansky

French soldier (and friend) on the front, WWI. (via @LaContempo_BAM) #MewseumMonday pic.twitter.com/0DdAfXMPpF

— Undine (@HorribleSanity) August 13, 2018

think you’re too old to write that book? Miss Marple was solving crimes in her sixties, Arwen was 2,770 when she married Aragorn, Yzma was *over a hundred* when she turned Kuzco into a llama,

— the library haunter 🦉 (@SketchesbyBoze) August 22, 2018