The Crockpot: A Weekly Link-Digest
- The three deadliest words in the world: “It’s a girl.”
- Wolves and lynx and moose, palīgā! As Latvia’s forests fall, the country’s underappreciated wilderness and wildlife are threatened.
- Use dancers instead of Powerpoint to augment presentations? We’re all for it.
- Coronal mass ejection, the movie: Watch NOAA’s video of this week’s incredible solar flare.
- At long last, the New Yorker weighs in on America’s prisoner epidemic.
- When being a vegetarian gets in the way of family.
- Does black history need more than a month?
- In which an intrepid young man fixes his girlfriend’s grandparents’ Wi-Fi and is hailed as a conquering hero.
- On the merits of eating penguins, when in the Antarctic. Apparently, you lure them by blowing a trumpet.
- Should unengaged, everyday citizens be allowed to sell their votes?
- The other black market: International adoptions can be ugly affairs, but some parents to be will stop at nothing for their would-be children.
so much interesting stuff, so little time..