Weekend link dump for November 5

“It is rare for a new animal species to emerge in front of scientists’ eyes. But this seems to be happening in eastern North America”.

What if horror movies actually stop crime, not cause it?

It was the flu pandemic, and it swept the whole world wide/It caught soldiers and civilians, and they died died died.

Superstorm Sandy, five years later.

So why did Paul Manafort go to work for Donald Trump?

Facebook’s bigotry problem goes well before the 2016 election.

“What the U.S. Olympic Committee can — and can’t — do about sexual abuse”.

“The recent torrent of public allegations against celebrities such as Harvey Weinstein, Terry Richardson and James Toback is unprecedented. But the stories have been circulating on the industry grapevine, and on blogs and social media, and among women especially, for years. The headlines are shocking — unless you read Gawker before it was shut down, in which case this may feel like a throwback, to a time when sexual aggressors roamed the land, but had not yet occupied the presidency.”

Buffy the Middle School Vampire Slayer. I may need to pick that up for my girls and see if they like it.

“An estimated 126 million Americans, roughly one-third of the nation’s population, received Russian-backed content on Facebook during the 2016 campaign”.

There’s little evidence to suggest that corporate training about sexual harassment is effective.

“The National Braille Press has been churning out millions of pages of braille books and magazines a year. But as it turns 90 this year, advocates of the tactile writing system are wrestling with how to address record low Braille literacy.”

My high school classmate Jessica Safran is among those quoted in this Chicago Tribune story about dealing with a recurrence of cancer. She died this week, leaving behind a husband and 12-year-old daughter and about a million friends. Rest in peace, Jessica.

RIP, Rick Hader, minor league baseball entertainer known as Myron Noodleman. I saw him perform at a game in Butte, Montana (seriously) in 1996. He was a hoot, and one of the ways in which minor league baseball is awesome.

Yes, there are limits on attorney-client privilege.

Poor, pitiful Papa John’s. Make better pizza, I say. And tell your CEO to quit being an ass.

“Okay, fine, you’re allowed to propose at a stadium if you just won the World Series there”.

“There are many good reasons to criticize Sarah Huckabee Sanders. This isn’t one of them.”

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