It's that time again! Here's an early November collection of links from earlier this autumn for your potential reading pleasure (or displeasure)...
- The Multicolored Diary: "Kindness against darkness: Halloween folktales of caring" by Zalka Csenge Virág (featuring one tale by Ruth Manning-Sanders)
- The Atlantic: "Tech Was Supposed to Be Society’s Great Equalizer. What Happened?" by Derek Thompson
- The Atlantic: "The Teens Who Rack Up Thousands of Followers by Posting the Same Photo Every Day" by Taylor Lorenz
- IEEE Spectrum: "How Programmable Calculators and a Sci-Fi Story Brought Soviet Teens Into the Digital Age" by Ksenia Tatarchenko
- The Guardian: "Growing up in a house full of books is major boost to literacy and numeracy, study finds" by Alison Flood
- The Atlantic: "The Man Who Broke Politics: Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump’s rise. Now he’s reveling in his achievements." by McKay Coppins
- Atlas Obscura: "Villa de Vecchi: The abandoned 'Ghost Mansion' was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy" by Emily Linstrom
- Washingtonian: "How a Math Teacher Built a Ludicrously Profitable Escape Room Empire" by Amanda Whiting
- The Atlantic: "It Will Take Millions of Years for Mammals to Recover From Us" by Ed Yong
- The Atlantic: "The Decades-Old Novel That Presages Today’s Fight for Facts" by Dustin Illingworth
- Smithsonian.com: "‘Amazing Dragon’ Fossils Unearthed in China Rewrite Story of Long-Necked Dinosaurs" by Meilan Solly
- The New Yorker: "Fantastic Beasts and How to Rank Them: The relative plausibility of impossible beings tells you a lot about how the mind works" by Kathryn Schulz
- The Intercept: "South Carolina is lobbying to allow discrimination against Jewish parent" by Akela Lacy
- Texas Standard: "Sears Stores Are Going Away, But The Company’s ‘Kit Houses’ Live On" by Michael Marks
- The New York Times: "The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why?" by Parul Sehgal
- The Atlantic: "Why Wild Turkeys Hate the Wild: When the birds were reintroduced to New England after a long absence, they chose to live in cities instead of the forests they once called home" by Yoni Appelbaum
- The Walrus: "America’s Next Civil War: The United States shows all the warning signs of impending social and political collapse" by Stephen Marche
- Medium: "What Happens to Religion When We Find Aliens?" by Shannon Stirone
- Salon: "European social democracies are much better off than the United States" by Cody Fenwick
- PC Gamer: "World of Warcraft's pacifist panda has reached level 120 by only picking flowers" by Steven Messner
Addendum: Books I'm reading
- Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado
- Lugosi: The Man Behind The Cape, by Robert Cremer
- Marvel 1602, by Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove
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