A Low Profile Weekly Link Round-Up

 

 

I'm trying to maintain a low profile so no other doctors can grab hold of me. So far, it's working, knock wood. 

 

I've been working like a fiend to get caught up here on the blog, and I'm (very) slowly winning the battle. I've also got some fodder for new posts, which is always good-- and too many good books to read, which may sound like a problem but really isn't.

 

I've also been trying to play catch-up with a chore or two around the house. I've finished another afghan and started another, and I've finally washed all the new ones and have them zipped up in their vinyl bags until it's time to share them with others. Speaking of sharing, I'll end this with a couple of pictures of the washed and bagged afghans...

 

These two belong to Denis, and I think he broke a speed record putting them away so I wouldn't give them to anyone else. (A mask hanging by the front door. What a sign of the times we live in.)

I've temporarily run out of individual zipper bags, so I stored the most recent three in a huge one I had left over from something else. Two of them you've seen, but one of them you haven't, so you know there's another While Miz Kittling Knits post in the works! And should I mention those two empty bins?

 

Take good care of yourselves, and enjoy the links!

►Books & Other Interesting Tidbits◄

• Illinois becomes the first state to mandate teaching Asian American history. It's a start.
• For the first time, tree DNA was used to convict lumber thieves in a Federal investigation. (And how did we know there was such a thing as tree DNA? From a landmark murder trial right here in Phoenix. I've never looked at a palo verde tree the same way since.)
• How the Navajo Nation and other Native American tribes exist as dependent countries within the United States.
• The house that inspired the board game Clue is on the market.
• Andy Serkis will narrate the Lord of the Rings audiobooks, my precioussssss.
• Why do so few men read books by women?
• Bryant & May author Christopher Fowler: "Writing the end was really emotional."
• Love this! Delicate cross-stitched flowers are popping up on the streets of Spain. 
• How Agatha Christie helped popularize surfing. (No, that's not a typo.)
• Michael Connelly reveals the book the Bosch spin-off is based on.
  

 

►Channeling My Inner Indiana Jones◄

• A London rainstorm revealed a trove of three hundred Iron Age coins.
• A new exhibition in Tokyo explores a 1,500-year-old history of women's kimonos.
• A 3,400-year-old artificial pool in Italy may have hosted religious rituals.
• When the Monuments Men pushed back against the U.S. to protect priceless art. 
• The mystery of a medieval blue ink has been solved.
• The Netflix hit The Dig is boosting visitor numbers at Sutton Hoo post-lockdown.
• The tunnels beneath Rome's Colosseum are open to the public for the first time.
• Egypt has unveiled a rare ancient pharaoh bust.

 

►Channeling My Inner Elly Mae Clampett◄

• Nearly thirty football-sized goldfish have been caught in a Minnesota lake.
• How the newly-discovered, mud-loving "Zombie" frog got its name.
• Seven ways to prevent birds from crashing into your windows.
• Finland is covering reindeer antlers with reflective paint to prevent auto accidents.
• With this metabolic trick, sea otters stay warm without shivering.
• A roadrunner taking a dust bath wins the 2021 Audubon Photography Awards. Meep! Meep!
• A warmer climate may cause male dragonflies to lose their patchy wings.
• The Pacific Northwest and Canada's crushing heatwave cooked millions of sea creatures.

 

►Fascinating Folk◄

• Trailblazing pilot Wally Funk will go to space sixty years after passing her astronaut tests. 
• Kazue Togasaki: One pioneering doctor's journey from internment camp to delivering 10,000 babies.
• Who were the best and worst presidents ever, and how do historians decide?
• Remembering Mary Katharine Goddard, the only woman whose name appeared on the Declaration of Independence.
  

 

►I ♥ Lists◄

• Thirteen things Messy Nessy found on the internet. (Thanks, Tricia!)
• Summertime crime movies: in the woods.
• Eight creative ways people kept cool before air conditioning.
• Eleven shipwrecks that haunt the Great Lakes.
• These social thrillers cast community differences as the villain.
• Ten novels that will fly you to Italy.
• Eleven female writers who taught Sophia Benoit about the world.
• Twelve new beach reads to pick up this weekend.
• Nine mystery novels set in the Cotswolds.

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.

Spend some time curled up with a good book!