The Hurrieder I Go Weekly Link Round-Up

 

This is one of those days when I look up at the clock, gasp, and wonder how I'm going to get all my stuff done. So... I'm going to love you and leave you. All is fine here at Casa Kittling, and Denis and I should be rested from our trip to the Desert Botanical Garden by the time you read this.

Enjoy the links!

►Books & Other Interesting Tidbits◄

• The low down on the greatest dictionary collection in the world.
• Rediscovering the Golden Age detective novels of Dostoevsky translator David Magarshack.
• South Dakota's state library budget cut could hurt local library resources ranging from dishwasher research to genealogy.
• "Adults Only" rooms, 140 banned books, and new restrictions on children's access come to an Idaho public library system.
• Bibliotherapy: Can reading help treat your depression?
• Why 2024 was the year of the audiobook.

►Channeling My Inner Indiana Jones◄

• Buried in more than 270,000 beads. this grave reveals women's power 5,000 years ago.
• Researchers have deciphered a nearly 2,000-year-old true crime papyrus.
• Someone bought this painting at a garage sale for $50. Experts say it's a lost van Gogh worth $15 million.
• Archaeologists stumbled upon a marble statue of a Greek god in an ancient sewer.
• Researchers have found an Inca tunnel beneath the Peruvian city of Cusco.
• Scientists have discovered a Celtic society where men left home to join their bride's community.

►Channeling My Inner Elly May Clampett◄

• See 15 photos of playful, picture-perfect penguins.
• How do polar bears keep ice off their fur? A new study reveals the secret-- and it could improve technology.
• 15 common words inspired by animals.
• See the fist-ever photographs of the elusive Mount Lyell shrew, finally caught on camera in California.
• Watch an octopus open a tightly sealed jar on the first try.
• How will California's wildfires affect wildlife?

►The Wanderer◄

• A newly discovered near-Earth asteroid isn't an asteroid at all-- it's Elon Musk's trashed Tesla.
• The public is watching as conservators carefully restore a Rembrandt masterpiece to its former glory.
• Wild poinsettias can grow eight feet tall.
• Read the 132-year-old message in a bottle found hidden inside the walls of a Scottish lighthouse.
• De Poezenboot, a floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.
• These historic sites in the U.S. were once endangered. Now they're thriving.

►Fascinating Folk◄

• Benjamin Banneker, the Black mathematician who may have saved Washington, D.C.
• Ten Black suffragists you should know.
• Anthropologist Zelia Nuttall, the globe-trotting scholar who unlocked the secrets of the Aztecs.
• One of the oldest surviving operas by Black American composer Edmond Dédé will be performed for the first time-- 138 years after it was written.
• Dick Button, Olympic great and the voice of skating, died at the age of 95. I learned so much about figure skating from listening to his commentary.
• Charles Kingsley, man of science, man of God.

►I ♥ Lists◄

• The best mystery and thriller movies of the 2000s.
• Seven mysteries about travel.
• Police procedurals set in winter.
• The best non-fiction of 2025.
• Nineteen books to cozy up with on a cold winter night.
• Thirteen everyday idioms that make zero sense until you know where they come from.

That's all for this week! No matter how busy you may be, don't forget that quality Me Time curled up with a good book!