A Down the Tubi Rabbit Hole Weekly Link Round-Up

Reading, knitting, Christmas decorating, addressing Christmas cards... I've certainly been keeping myself occupied. I finished Denis's afghan-- you'll see it in a future post-- and it's obvious that he likes snuggling under it while he watches television, even if his eyes do seem to be closed most of the time.

The one thing that's changed for me recently is the television I've been watching on the nights Denis works. I think I heard about it from a British TV email that I subscribe to, but don't quote me on that. We have Roku, and last week I searched the various channels for a free streaming channel called Tubi TV. Eureka! 

You do have to watch a few commercials when you're streaming a program from Tubi, but I don't find them very intrusive. I have watched a movie, but 99% of the time, I'm watching something from their Home & Garden, Lifestyle, or Documentaries selections.

Why? Because I love programs featuring architecture, interior design, renovation, restoration, and Tubi is a gold mine for those types of programs. I've been watching people house hunt in South Africa and Australia, turn a palace in Spain into a boutique hotel, and renovate listed buildings of all sorts in England... and more. I've barely scratched the surface. If you love this sort of programming, you should give Tubi a try. But be careful-- you just might fall down the rabbit hole like I did!

And before I nosedive into the Tubi burrow again, I'd better hotfoot it out to the corral. I'm hearing some restless links. Head 'em up! Moooove 'em out! 

 

►Books & Other Interesting Tidbits◄

• Why kids under pressure make for great thrillers.
• Why the serial killer novel is the new feminist fiction.
• What a new Book Expo could learn from the Helsinki Book Fair.
• One of Europe's great libraries didn't stand a chance in either of the World Wars.
• What's the worst kind of book thief?
• Lost in a (mis)gendered Appalachia.
• D.C. is full of crime fiction writers, and they cover more than Capitol Hill.
• Why every crime writer should know how to spot a fake diamond.
• See what the world's reading habits look like in 2020. 
• Elly Griffiths on why marshes capture our imaginations and inspire some of our most unsettling folklore.
  

 

►Channeling My Inner Indiana Jones◄

• New research rewrites the history of the ancient land bridge between Britain and Europe.
• Tens of thousands of 12,000-year-old rock paintings have been found in Colombia.
• Hidden microbes and fungi found on the surface of drawings by Leonardo daVinci are being studied.
• Buried under a Serbian cornfield, Roman military headquarters slowly sheds its secrets.
• A trove of musket balls sent to aid Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite Rebellion has been found.
• Two hundred more copies of Newton's Principia masterpiece have been found in Europe by scholar sleuths.
• Archaeologists in the Golan Heights have unearthed a fort dated to the time of the Biblical King David.
• Eerie witches' marks have been found among the ruins of a medieval English church.
• Centuries of crap and some historical treasures have been found in an old London cesspit.

 

►Channeling My Inner Elly Mae Clampett◄

• A study estimates that the Clean Air Act has saved 1.5 billion birds. 
• In the ancient American Southwest, turkeys were friends, not food. (Why did I just channel Bruce from Finding Nemo?)
• Twenty-five nature photos that show nature at its most beautiful, weird, and brutal.
• How has photography's relationship with nature evolved over the past two hundred years?
• In Rwanda, learning whether a "smart park" can help both wildlife and tourism.
• Animals are using Utah's largest wildlife overpass earlier than expected.
• Claire the Scottish Deerhound won Best in Show at the 2020 National Dog Show. Fans of Outlander should be delighted.
• A squirrel gets drunk after eating fermented pears outside a Minnesota woman's home.
• Baby goats line up to get a hug from a human.

 

►Crafty Gems◄

• Fifteen incredible ways to use books as Christmas decorations.
• Oh, just your own miniature Art Nouveau palace for sale.
• Wonderful 3D embroidered objects.
• Beautifully crafted miniature vignettes made using traditional needle and pillow lace textile techniques.

 

►Fascinating Folk◄

• Joan Harrison, Hollywood producer and the forgotten woman behind Hitchcock.
• The revival of Todd Downing, the Golden Age author fascinated by death in Mexico.
• Dr. Jill Jim, director of the Navajo Nation Department of Health has been named to Joe Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board.
• "Count" Victor Lustig, the man who sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice.

 

►The Happy Wanderer◄

• The Hardy Tree, inside an ancient London churchyard, is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
• Newly discovered underground rivers could be a potential solution for Hawaii's drought.
• Jakarta, Indonesia's megalopolis of crime.
• The Paperback Bookshop rhinoceros in Edinburgh, Scotland.

 

►I ♥ Lists◄

• Portraits of Ruth Bader Ginsberg's favorite collars and the stories behind them.
• Library Journal's Best Books of 2020 list.
• Smithsonian Magazine's ten best history books of 2020.
• Christmas-themed cozy mysteries.
• Ten chilling thrillers to read during the coming storms.
• Ten Golden Age detective novelists who deserve to be better known.
• The Guardian's Best Books of 2020.
• Five workplace thrillers to make you miss your office (or not).
• Ten family novels as warm and fuzzy as your favorite sweater.
• Catriona McPherson's favorite islands in crime fiction.

That's all for this week! Don't forget to stop by next Friday when I'll be sharing a freshly selected batch of links for your surfing pleasure. 

Stay safe. Stay healthy. And don't forget to curl up with a good book!