Friday Links!
Happy New Year, everyone!
Continuing to amaze over five centuries later: Leonardo’s wood charring method predates Japanese practice.
Many of these are particularly fine: The Best Sentences of 2025.
These people have always had a strange, grifty vibe about them: ‘They didn’t de-extinct anything’: can Colossal’s genetically engineered animals ever be the real thing?
From D.G.F., and it's thoughtful: Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life. This is both bleak and very important to read: Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here.
From Wally, and I forgot to post it last week: When Christmas is a little too bright ... look to Krampus. No, ten times: Steam, stodge – and so much suet: I made 10 endangered British puddings. Are any actually worth saving? Here's one of the best annual articles: Public Domain Day 2026. A retrospective of 1940s artist Hannes Bok, whose images are both interesting and wildly eccentric: Hannes Bok. This is both beautiful and tragic: Why I Keep Returning to Middle-Earth.
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