Friday Links!
Sneaky and brilliant: A Young Cooper’s Hawk Learned to Use a Crosswalk Signal to Launch Surprise Attacks on Other Birds.
A terrific long read about a prolific bank robber: The Hold-Up Artist.
And here's one about a prolific grifter who still hasn't been punished: All That Glitters.
From Max W., and of course Nietzsche was warped about this, too: Empathy can take a toll – but 2 philosophers explain why we should see it as a strength.
This is a moving read: ‘You can let go now’: inside the hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain.
An excellent profile of Magnus Carlsen: The Freestylist.
Stories told in film (DQ Film Advisor Ben Ormand alert!):Our narrative prison: The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?
This is thought-provoking: Maximalisma: A professor endeavors to separate treasure from trash—before her children have to do it for her.
We clearly didn't pay attention: A deadly mission: how Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira tried to warn the world about the Amazon’s destruction.
We might be back to nine: Astronomers find evidence suggesting that our solar system has nine planets again.
From Wally, on the increasingly invasive world of book marketing: None of Your Business: Why Writers Shouldn’t Feel Obligated to Share Too Much. Not a surprise, but it's still embarrassing: Authors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts In their Novels. If you ever wanted to be a moderator, here are some tips: A call for moderation (of panels). Boy, this is the truth: Why Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful People Are So Obsessed With Hobbits: Tech power players and the global far-right are learning all the wrong lessons from “The Lord of the Rings.”
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