A Time to Enjoy Family Weekly Link Round-Up

 

This is going to be a short intro because my niece, Karen, will be here this evening for the next three weeks, and I still have things to do to get ready.

Needless to say, I won't be posting while she's here, but I did want to leave you with a fresh batch of links before I disappear. Have fun and read some good books. (I'm reading one right now-- The Flight Nurses' War.)

Virtual hugs to you all, and enjoy the links!

►Books & Other Interesting Tidbits◄

• Digital forensics expert Hany Farid provides helpful tips for spotting AI-generated images.
• Not all boredom is the same.
• New York City bans AI use for students until they reach high school.
• Why do we say "Don't have a cow"?
• Why criminal profiling is a pop culture myth.
• A brief history of women's underwear.

►Channeling My Inner Indiana Jones◄

• Archaeologists discover a 4,000-year-old tomb with a false door at Egypt's ancient Saqqara necropolis.
• Stones from one of Henry VIII's fortresses spent more than a century hidden in plain sight.
• A man rummaging in a Polish junkyard finds a 1,800-year-old shield holding the cremated remains of a Vandal warrior. (Now that's a junkyard...)
• A 1,300-year-old carving of a powerful Maya "Lady Supreme Warlord" weighs over a ton.
• The prehistoric paintings on the walls of caves have always been moving. But with the right kind of light, some actually seem to move.
• Why was this 17th-century Polish woman buried with a padlock on her tow and an iron sickle across her neck?

►Channeling My Inner Elly May Clampett◄

• A sunken World War II hospital ship has been colonized by devil firefish and rare monk seals.
• Blue crabs have taken over the Adriatic Sea. To fight them off, Italian researchers just released thousands of baby octopuses.
• These 20 bird images from the Audubon Photography Awards capture the wonder of the winged world.
• What Ann Patchett's Whistler gets right and wrong about horses.
• Scientists discover Australian lizards have mutations to resist snake venom, and one day, that could help humans.
• The return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees unseen for 80 years.

►The Wanderer◄

• How Japan turned department stores into dreamworlds.
• Before Vegas became Vegas, Hot Springs was America's Sin City. Now the Arkansas spa town embraces its colorful and seedy history.
• On the power and personality of trees.
• Le Louxor Palais du Cinema, Paris's Egyptian Revival movie palace, was abandoned for decades and was restored in 2013.
• 9 travel experiences people don't have anymore because of cell phones.
• These 15 photos of India are like witnessing the country through a kaleidoscope.

►Fascinating Folk◄

• 91-year-old Dale Sanders fell 71 times while hiking the Appalachian Trail. He just became the oldest person to complete the 2,190-mile trek.
• American commando Francis Lowell Coolidge parachuted behind enemy lines in both the European and Pacific theaters of World War II.
• An ode to the gleeful terror of Tim Curry's Pennywise.
• In lieu of flowers, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is accepting donations. (It has mine.)
• To dismantle the concept of separate but equal, Thurgood Marshall methodically devised a winning strategy: divide and conquer.
• Meet Jewels Gilbert, the Native artist behind beautiful Arctic beadwork.

►I ♥ Lists◄

• 20 best books to read in September. 
• The most popular soup in every state, mapped.
• 12 French words English speakers use every day.
• Bookworms will love these 18 novels about writers.
• The Chickasaw Nation mystery series by Kris Lackey.
• 12 of the best travelogues that will whisk you around the world.

That's all for this week! No matter how busy you may be, don't forget that quality Me Time curled up with a good book!