Biweekly Edition: 3-12

Most Amusing Headline

• Are Polar Bears Altruistic or Just Bad At Math?

Most Depressing Headline

• Idaho Lawmakers OK Legislation That Could Fine, Jail Librarians

Most Obvious Headline

• On Top of Everything Else, Nuclear War Would Be a Climate Problem

Nonbookish Linkage

• “National narcissism is strongly tied to the spread of COVID-19 conspiracy theories.”

• The long, strange history of anti-vax movements

• What did Jesus really look like?

• The Coloured Hockey League helped create modern hockey

• The screw-in coffin makes sense to me

Bookish Linkage

• Was the first work of science fiction written in the second century?

• The invention of the question mark

• The power of reading dangerously

• Only a grinch would consider publishing “new” Dr. Seuss books

“Opus,” Bloom County (June 3, 2016)