Last 7 Reads ( 8/24/2023 )

[🦒] A zoo in Tennessee says it has welcomed a rare giraffe that does not have any spots.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/rare-spotless-giraffe-brights-zoo-tennessee-welcomes-baby-born-without-spots/

[💀] “Her mother’s grave: the setting seems an unusually grim, even ghoulish locale for reading, writing, or love-making,” Gilbert notes
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/mary-shelley-cemetery/

[👻] "Hunting down the mysterious musician that lent a wonderfully strange piece to one of the biggest films of all time"
https://medium.com/cuepoint/how-mick-smiley-made-the-best-ghostbusters-song-then-disappeared-efccd93cce8d

[🐟] "Like their relatives, the onesided livebearers, four-eyed fishes mate only on one side, right-"handed" males with left-"handed" females and vice versa."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-eyed_fish

[🐄🔔] "Ferrell still has uncles and cousins who live here. He can rattle off the names of towns in northeast North Carolina with ease."
https://open.substack.com/pub/jeremymarkovich/p/will-ferrell-snl-more-cowbell-roanoke-rapids-nc

[🛰️] "Yet the observations are also perplexing because few astronomers expected JWST to find so many young, hungry black holes — and surveys are turning them up by the dozen."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/jwst-spots-giant-black-holes-all-over-the-early-universe-20230814/

[🐜] "The aesthetics of the video were determined by the ants' choice."
https://vimeo.com/25976354