An irregular hodgepodge of links gathered together … Omnium Gatherum for December 23, 2020

Here’s a variety of notable things I’ve recently found that you may also be interested in checking out:

• The 16th Annual Yule Ball—”A livestream concert and benefit for the Harry Potter Alliance, featuring performances by Harry and the Potters, Kimya Dawson, Tonks and the Aurors, Lauren Fairweather, The Mudbloods, The Lovegoods, The Whomping Willows, Heather Rose In Clover, Brian Ross, Olivia Dolphin, Gio Navas, Avery Marshall, Totally Knuts, Jason Anderson, and Ludo Bagman and the Trash. December 27, 2020 4pm ET”
• Watch (and listen to) last night’s “Cello Project Virtual Holiday Sweater Spectacular!“—”We have a mixture of live performances from many of the PCP cellists, along with pre-recorded video collaborations and with and cameos from friends from Anchorage to Berlin!”
• “This Is The Year To Embrace ‘Jewish Christmas’ And Order Chinese Food. The COVID-19 pandemic has been tough on Asian restaurants. This holiday season, why not adopt a Jewish tradition by eating Chinese food?”
• For those interested in cosmicism &c., check this out: the model posing for the cover image of MMR15 has a non-profit Lovecraft Arts & Sciences that is currently running a fundraiser to help cover expenses during a pandemic-caused downturn.
• From 2014: “Meet Krampus, the Seriously Bad Santa. The demonic ‘anti-Santa’ enjoys an unlikely renaissance as we learn to embrace our inner pagan.”
• Tweet—”In European folklore, Krampus is a half-goat, half-demon figure who, during the Christmas season, punishes children who have misbehaved. Krampus erotica is thought to have started in Austria in the 1960s & proved very popular in Germany.”
• “Conjunction” by XKCD
• Worldwide Virtual Watch Party: The Evil Dead with live commentary from Bruce Campbell, January 23rd at 6pm PST / 9pm EST. Tickets.
• The Perfect Ceremonies of Craft Masonry and the Holy Royal Arch from Masonic Book Club, pre-order window open through January 21, 2021.—”We are pleased to announce the first volume of the reactivated Masonic Book Club is ready for pre-publication purchase! The 392-page volume will be The Perfect Ceremonies of Craft Masonry and the Holy Royal Arch. The Perfect Ceremonies are the lineal ancestors of the official Emulation ritual and lectures. The book will include marbled covers, a satin ribbon, and rubricated title pages.”
• Titivillus (“the patron demon of scribes”)
• The Adoration of the Animal God—”If I told you that one of the greatest masterpieces of Christian art is actually at heart a depiction of the Witches’ Sabbat, would you believe me?” “Yeah, yeah, the Lamb of God. Yeah, yeah, angels, virgin martyrs, confessors, knights of Christ. Yeah, sure. They’re worshiping a Ram.”
• “A Decade Later, Salem Returns to an Even Darker World. The band’s 2010 debut alienated as many listeners as it inspired before Salem dropped out of sight. Its new ‘Fires in Heaven’ arrives in a different landscape.” About Fires In Heaven [Amazon, Bandcamp, Spotify] by Salem. (Witch House, and bands like Salem and Ritualz, was one of the influences that led me to start the library’s audio pool, which, in turn, led to the Anthology Project!)
• Sex Witch: Magickal Spells for Love, Lust, and Self-Protection [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher] by Sophie Saint Thomas, due February 1, 2021—”Sex Witch combines occult knowledge with tried-and-true relationship advice to provide spells for each stage of a relationship. Self-love, seduction, sex, love, protection, revenge, and healing are all covered.”
• “Use Your Orgasms To Manifest A Better 2021 Via ‘Sex Magick’.”
• “How Leonora Carrington Feminized Surrealism. Each time the work of the British-Mexican artist and writer is reborn, it seems more prescient.”
• The Path of the Serpent. Volume One: Psychedelics and the Neuropsychology of Gnosis by Hereward Tilton—”The Path of the Serpent is a two-volume examination of this enigmatic imagery and the gnostic lineages that have nurtured it through the millennia. Stemming from the heretical serpent sects of the ancient Near East, these lineages branched westwards via the Kabbalah in its Jewish, Christian, and post-Christian occultist forms. They cultivated a variety of consciousness-altering techniques to scale the serpent’s path, an itinerary of ecstatic ascent leading through the celestial spheres and their microcosmic counterparts along the initiate’s neuraxis.”
• “From the Founding Fathers to Fulcanelli: Revelations from a French-American Alchemical Manuscript.” About The Key to the Hermetic Sanctum (La Clef du Cabinet Hermétique).
• “Context is All.” From Jump the Clock: New & Selected Poems [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher] by Erica Hunt—”Erica Hunt writes at the intersection of poetry and emancipatory politics–racial and gender justice, feminist ethics, and participatory democracy–showing us that altering our reading strategies frames our experiences. Ultimately, she finds that words matter, savoring the small ones: articles, pronouns, collective, plural and singular. This collection brings together out of print works and journals of the same period, to speak across “crumpled” time, the past seen from then to now.”
• “Lessons From Shakespeare: How to Survive a Pandemic with Humor.”
• “A More Perfect Meritocracy. Two new books take aim at the moral failures of meritocracy. But we can advocate for a more just society without giving up on merit.” About The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher] by Fredrik deBoer—”Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top-to-bottom reform.” Also The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher] by Michael Sandel—”The world-renowned philosopher and author of the bestselling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good?”
• “Updating Epictetus And Stoicism For the 21st century.” About A Field Guide to a Happy Life: 53 Brief Lessons for Living [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher] by Massimo Pigliucci—”A brilliant philosopher reimagines Stoicism for our modern age in this thought-provoking guide to a better life.” “For more than two thousand years, Stoicism has offered a message of resilience in the face of hardship. Little wonder, then, that it is having such a revival in our own troubled times. But there is no denying how weird it can be: Is it really the case that we shouldn’t care about our work, our loved ones, or our own lives? According to the old Stoics, yes. In A Field Guide to a Happy Life, philosopher Massimo Pigliucci offers a renewed Stoicism that reflects modern science and sensibilities. Pigliucci embraces the joyful bonds of affection, the satisfactions of a job well done, and the grief that attends loss. In his hands, Stoicism isn’t about feats of indifference, but about enduring pain without being overwhelmed, while enjoying pleasures without losing our heads. In short, he makes Stoicism into a philosophy all of us — whether committed Stoics or simply seekers — can use to live better.”
• “An old and fishy tale. Our abiding fascination with merpeople.”
  About Merpeople: A Human History [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher ] by Vaughn Scribner—”People have been fascinated by merpeople and merfolk since ancient times. From the sirens of Homer’s Odyssey to Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and the film Splash, myths, stories, and legends of half-human, half-fish creatures abound. In modern times “mermaiding” has gained popularity among cosplayers throughout the world. In Merpeople: A Human History, Vaughn Scribner traces the long history of mermaids and mermen, taking in a wide variety of sources and using 117 striking images. From film to philosophy, church halls to coffee houses, ancient myth to modern science, Scribner shows that mermaids and tritons are–and always have been–everywhere.”

• “How Americans Came to Distrust Science. For a century, critics of all political stripes have challenged the role of science in society. Repairing distrust today requires confronting those arguments head on.” Adapted from Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher] by Andrew Jewett—”Americans have long been suspicious of experts and elites. This new history explains why so many have believed that science has the power to corrupt American culture.”
• “Who Did J.K. Rowling Become? Deciphering the most beloved, most reviled children’s-book author in history.”
• Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher] by Michael Brooks—”As the host of The Michael Brooks Show and co-host of the Majority Report, Brooks was a progressive fighter whose work brought people together from around the world. In this, his first book, he lets his understanding of the digital media environment direct his analysis of the “conservative rebels” who had taken YouTube by storm in 2018. Brooks provides a theoretically rigorous but accessible critique of the most prominent “renegades” including Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, and Brett Weinstein while also examining the social, political and media environment that such rebels thrive in.”
• “Online Conversation | Crisis & Christian Humanism with Alan Jacobs.”—”Cherie Harder: And what is the Gandalf Option? Alan Jacobs: Well, yeah, I’m just inventing it right now. I hadn’t thought to call it this before, but it’s something I think about a lot. There is a point late in the Lord of the Rings where Gandalf is confronting Denethor, the steward of Gondor. And Denethor thinks that Gandalf wants to be the one to rule Gondor. Gandalf tries very hard to be patient with Denethor, and he says, “Denethor, my lord steward, you need to understand something. The rule of no realm is mine, neither Gondor nor anywhere else. It’s not what I do. I’m not here to rule. I am here to try to nourish and to care for all the good things that I find in this world.” He says, “When I come across something that is alive and is capable of bearing beauty, then I want to nurture that, and that is my call.” And if through this whole mess and misery that they were going through at the time, he says, “If anything survives that can flower and bear fruit in the days after, then my work will not have been in vain.” And then he says to Denethor, “For I also am a steward.” I love that line. Honestly, if I were going to define my calling in just a few sentences, it would be those sentences. And I think that’s what we should be doing. We get so caught up in fighting against all the things that we believe to be wicked and destructive that we fail to nourish and care for and strengthen, to feed and water the gardens that we hope will produce fruit for our children and our grandchildren. I think that is the great failing of the church in the West—that we go out charging into battle, but we forget to care for our own gardens. So that’s my option. My option is the Gandalf Option. I’ve never said those words exactly that way, but I probably will use them from now on.”
• “Plato in Sicily. Plato travelled to the decadent strife-torn court of Syracuse three times, risking his life to create a philosopher-king.”
• “On Saturn and the Age of Gold.” Adapted from the introduction to The Reign of Saturn Transformed into an Age of Gold by Huginus à Barma, translated from the Latin by Michael A Putman, edited and annotated by Aaron Cheak & Mirco A Mannucci, available for pre-order now.
• “Lawsuit over ‘warmer’ Sherlock depicted in Enola Holmes dismissed.”
• “New ways to write.”
• “Nick Offerman on the Essential Wisdom of Wendell Berry.”
• “What Elites Got Wrong About Mary McCarthy’s The Group.” About 1963’s The Group [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher] by Mary McCarthy. Also from 2013: “Vassar Unzipped. Shocking, titillating, and acid-laced, The Group, Mary McCarthy’s 1963 novel about eight Vassar girls, turned the feared and revered literary critic into a wealthy, world-famous author. But the backlash was brutal, not least from her Vassar classmates. Laura Jacobs explores why the book still dazzles as a generational portrait, falters as fiction, and blighted McCarthy’s life.”
• From the OpSec dept: “Apple shares When Personal Safety is at Risk.”—”Share this document, tuck it away with your other important bookmarks.”
• “Poking Holes in the Veneer of Our Social Media Selves.” About Torey Thornton: Does productivity know what it’s named, maybe it calls itself identity? an exhibit through January 9, 2021, at Essex Street, in Manhattan.
• From the Moar KRAKEN! dept: “New Milky Way family tree reveals a chaotic history.”
• “Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings have unique microbiomes, study finds. Research could help slow down deterioration of aging artwork, unmask counterfeits.”
• “Inside the Whale: An Interview with an Anonymous Amazonian.”
• “How Amazon Wins: By Steamrolling Rivals and Partners. CEO Jeff Bezos still runs the e-commerce giant with the drive of a startup trying to survive, and that strand of its corporate DNA is becoming a liability.”
• “From whistleblower laws to unions: How Google’s AI ethics meltdown could shape policy.”
• “Newly discovered comet photographed during solar eclipse.”
• “Photographer Captures ISS Passing Between Jupiter and Saturn.”
• “An AI is livestreaming a never-ending bass solo on YouTube.”
• “How the Brain Distinguishes Speech From Noise.”—”For the first time, researchers have provided physiological evidence that a pervasive neuromodulation system – a group of neurons that regulate the functioning of more specialized neurons – strongly influences sound processing in an important auditory region of the brain. The neuromodulator, acetylcholine, may even help the main auditory brain circuitry distinguish speech from noise.”
• “Scientists looking for aliens investigate radio beam ‘from nearby star’. Tantalising ‘signal’ appears to have come from Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun.”
• “Unique prediction of ‘modified gravity’ challenges dark matter. Case Western Reserve astronomer Stacy McGaugh and international collaborators detect ‘external field effect,’ a prediction unique to rival dark matter hypothesis.”
• “Yukon gold miner unearths a mummified Ice Age wolf pup. Look upon the face of an Ice Age predator, and say ‘Aww.'”
• “Researchers Have Achieved Sustained Long-Distance Quantum Teleportation. The breakthrough, made by researchers at Caltech, Fermilab and NASA, among others, is a step towards a practical quantum internet.”
• “Early humans may have survived the harsh winters by hibernating. Seasonal damage in bone fossils in Spain suggests Neanderthals and their predecessors followed the same strategy as cave bears.”
• “Our galaxy’s supermassive black hole is closer to Earth than we thought.”
• “Google Doodle celebrates great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, winter solstice.”
• “Sensationella arkeologiska fyndet – “Hjärtat klappade hårt”.” (Sensational archaeological find – “Heart beating hard”—”One of the missing Hunnestads stones from the 10th century was found on Wednesday morning when digging for a sewer line outside Ystad. The Hunnestad stones were eight from the beginning. But during the 18th century, several disappeared, while some of the others are today stored at Kulturen in Lund. “Then the heart beat quite hard,” says Axel Krogh Hansen, one of the archaeologists on site when the find was made.”) Also Hunnestad Monument—”In the eighteenth century, all the stones were relocated or destroyed. Only three of the stones of the monument were recovered during the 19th century, and are today on display at the Kulturen museum in Lund. Until now they were considered the only stones remaining, but on December 16, 2020 a fourth stone, DR 285, was discovered during excavations for a sewage line in Ystad municipality. Lying with its image facing up, it had been used in a bridge construction over the Hunnestad stream.” Also “Sensationellt fynd från vikingatiden hittat vid grävning.” (Sensational find from the Viking Age found during excavation—”In mid-December, a sensational archaeological find was made during excavation work outside Ystad. One of the missing Hunnestad stones was found. The Hunnestad monument is probably from the 10th century and belongs to one of the country’s most remarkable monuments from the Viking Age.”)
• “Lasers could cut lifespan of nuclear waste from ‘a million years to 30 minutes,’ says Nobel laureate. Physicist plans to karate-chop them with super-fast blasts of light.”
• “Stanford algorithm decided to vaccinate only seven of its frontline COVID-19 workers, out of 5,000 doses. Stanford has apologized and is re-evaluating its plan.”
• “Covid cases recorded in Antarctica for first time – reports. Isolated continent reportedly registers first infections after 36 Chileans fall ill at research base.”—”Antarctica, once the only continent not to be affected by the coronavirus pandemic, has reportedly recorded its first cases.”
• A couple from The Daily Beast: “The Final 30 Days of the Trump Presidency Will Be Its Most Terrifying. You think, as Sinclair Lewis put it, it can’t happen here, right? Think again! It can—and it has.” Also “Trump Is Already Wondering What Airport Will Bear His Name. The president has been asking aides and advisers what the process is for getting an airport named after him—another sign his mind is drifting to a post-presidency.” Also “They’re Carting Robert E. Lee Out of the U.S. Capitol and It’s About Damn Time. Now that’s progress: A state commission has recommended that Virginia’s Lee statue be removed from Statuary Hall and replaced by a Black female civil-rights icon.”
• Gods. Maybe laïcité isn’t such a bad idea. Tweet thread—”There’s some large guy onstage at the DC rally named “Shofar So Great” (https://shofarsogreat.com/about-us/) claiming to be an Orthodox Jew who says his rabbi in Israel gave him permission to break Shabbat to support Donald Trump and blow the shofar at the Jericho March.”
• “Internet Dystopias after Trump.”—”But what does it mean for our literature—let alone our society—when reality suddenly turns wolfishly against the conventions of the realist genre, with its thoughtful characters who feel guilt, its self-interest balanced with collective duty, and its causes that lead to commensurate outcomes? I remember, on the night of the 2016 election, muttering in shock that “all the stories will have to change”: reality seemed to have switched places with its gothic undertow.” “It may in fact be easier to imagine the end of the internet than to comprehend how it works on a daily basis.”
• “A Massive Purge Is Underway at Alex Jones’ Infowars. Layoffs! Dissent! A Michael Flynn snub! Things are not well in the house that brain pills built.”
• “The ‘Red Slime’ Lawsuit That Could Sink Right-Wing Media. Voting machine companies threaten ‘highly dangerous’ cases against Fox, Newsmax and OAN, says Floyd Abrams.”
• “FCC Starts Crackdown on Pirate Radio Landlords. Three properties in Queens get new ‘Notices of Illegal Pirate Radio Broadcasting’.”
• “The COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Would Make Illegal Streaming a Felony. Congress looks to provide relief to U.S. citizens and small businesses, but the omnibus bill includes some legislative priorities for the entertainment industry as well.”
• From the The Architecture of Doom (Undergångens arkitektur) dept: “Trump Sets ‘Beautiful’ as the New Standard for Federal Buildings.”
• “Hunting the Hunters: How We Identified Navalny’s FSB Stalkers.”
  Also “‘I called my killer and he confessed’ Alexey Navalny says he fooled one of his FSB assassins into detailing the Kremlin’s poisoning operation.”

• Tweet thread—”Good morning, it is entirely too early to be alive never mind awake and I am undercover in Salem, Oregon, where a bunch of far right activists have gathered to protest the state government’s decision to close their legislative session to the public today.”
• From the Gotta Make it Rain on Prisons For Profit dept: “Judges Are Locking Up Children for Noncriminal Offenses Like Repeatedly Disobeying Their Parents and Skipping School. Michigan’s juvenile justice system is archaic. Counties act with little oversight, and the state keeps such poor data it doesn’t know how many juveniles it has in custody or what happens to them once they’re in the system.”
• “Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics.”
• “Pornhub squarely targeted in bipartisan bill to regulate sex work online. The bill would cause more harms to sex workers than it would fix, critics argue.”
• “The future of liberalism. Faced with creeping authoritarianism, liberals need to craft a new agenda—learning from their serious mistakes, and shaking shibboleths of both right and left.”
• Thucydides quoted at Efficacy of the Death Penalty—”Either, then, some terror more dreadful than death must be discovered, or we must own that death at least is no prevention. Nay, men are lured into hazardous enterprises by the constraint of poverty, which makes them bold, by the insolence and pride of affluence, which makes them greedy, and by the various passions engendered in the other conditions of human life as these are severally mastered by some mighty and irresistible impulse.”
• “Vatican: OK to get virus vaccines using abortion cell lines.”—”The Vatican concluded that ‘it is morally acceptable to receive COVID-19 vaccines that have used cell lines from aborted fetuses’ in the research and production process when ‘ethically irreproachable’ vaccines aren’t available to the public. But it stressed that the ‘licit’ uses of such vaccines ‘does not and should not in any way imply that there is a moral endorsement of the use of cell lines proceeding from aborted fetuses.'”
• A couple from The Daily Beast: “Where Was Jesus Actually Born? It turns out that the Messiah might not have been born in a stable, or even in Bethlehem!” Also “Why Muslims Love Jesus Too. The virgin birth is mentioned in the…what…gasp…Koran?! It is indeed. So have yourself a merry Muslim Christmas.”
• “How to Be Bored. Boredom doesn’t feel good, but it isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Understanding it can help resist the urge to run from it.”
• “Meet Some of Electronic Music’s Female Pioneers.” Watch SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS Trailer
• “The Wall Street Journal column about Jill Biden is worse than you thought. Columnist Joseph Epstein suggested Dr. Jill Biden should drop her honorific. She should use it forever.” Also “On The ‘Dr’ Jill Biden Saga, The Woman Herself Had The Last Word. After a controversial column suggested that the new First Lady should drop the title ‘Dr’, and the internet subsequently erupted, the self-styled “lifelong educator” had the final word with a tweet of her own.”—”‘BTW this is the same Joseph Epstein who wrote a 11-page manifesto for @Harpers in 1970 explaining why he ‘would wish homosexuality off the face of this earth’,’ tweeted the journalist Frank Rich. “No wonder he’s at @WSJOpinion.” “And Dr Biden appeared to have the last word. On Monday 14 December she tweeted: ‘Together, we will build a world where the accomplishments of our daughters will be celebrated, rather than diminished.'”
• “Review: Alice in Borderland takes us down a deliciously bonkers rabbit hole. Alice in Wonderland and Ready Player One meet Lord of the Flies and Cube.”
• “The Mystery of the Disappearing Manuscripts. A phishing scam with unclear motive or payoff is targeting authors, agents and editors big and small, baffling the publishing industry.”
  
• “‘Heinrich Heine’ Review: Song of the Outsider. A passionate champion of German language and legend, he was prescient about the historical nightmares to come.”

• “The Great Nazi Artifact Heists What do thieves want with Eva Braun’s panties? As collectors secure the bag with stolen Hitler swag, the Nazi market is growing like Apple stock.”
• “She Called Police Over a Neo-Nazi Threat. But the Neo-Nazis Were Inside the Police. Death threats linked to police computers and the discovery of far-right chat groups in police departments across Germany have fed concerns about far-right infiltration.”
• Watch “The strange history of the world’s most stolen painting. Discover Jan van Eyck’s masterpiece, the Ghent Altarpiece, and explore how it became the world’s most stolen artwork.”
• From the All Knowledge is Provisional dept: “The insidious attacks on scientific truth.”—”We may choose to call it a cumulative increase in the number of truths that we know. Or we can tip our hat to (a better class of) philosophers and talk of successive approximations towards yet-to-be-falsified provisional truths. Either way, science can properly claim to be the gold standard of truth.”
• “Feeling Socially Awkward? Even Extroverts Are a Little Rusty. Months of limited mingling has made even extremely outgoing people uncomfortable socializing, ‘like awkward eighth graders attending a school dance for the first time.'”
• “Guardians of the Galaxy & X-Men Are Building Polyamorous New Worlds. When Star-Lord bonds with a couple in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy,’ the new polyamorous group joins another X-Men throuple in Marvel canon history.”
• Chekk out #PolyamBelterFam.
• Watch “Toss A Coin To Your Witcher In Other Languages.” Also “‘Toss a Coin to your Witcher’ is even catchier broken down into different languages. Every language’s Jaskier is so talented.”
• Watch “‘DARTH BY DARTHWEST Episode II’. Short Film.”
• “King Crimson’s Robert Fripp and Wife Toyah Perform Eccentric Covers of Nirvana, Alice Cooper, GN’R, and Sex Pistols: Watch. The new covers follow the couple’s viral performance of Black Sabbath’s ‘Paranoid'” Check out their YouTube channel.
• Watch “Death to 2020” trailer.
• Watch “#EFF2020: A Holiday Campaign (Uncensored)“—”Everyone agrees: the year 2020 could not have been worse. So, we decided to give it the send-off it deserves.”
• “Lupin III: The First is the perfect holiday adventure. The hero of Miyazaki’s Castle of Cagliostro is here to close out 2020 with Nazi-fighting joy.”
• Tweet thread—”1/ Update on Kai, my eight year old fan. Here’s my response to him:”
• “Giving Billions Fast, MacKenzie Scott Upends Philanthropy. Through a streamlined operation, Ms. Scott has given away $6 billion this year, much of it to small charities and nonprofits.”
• “The Journalist and the Pharma Bro. Why did Christie Smythe upend her life and stability for Martin Shkreli, one of the least-liked men in the world?”
• “The Subversive Power of Quilting.”
• Watch “How a young girl’s fairy house sparked a magical friendship.”
• Watch “History of Swear Words” trailer.
• From 2014, watch “Bill Murray Admits A Painting Saved His Life.”
• Watch and listen “Tagelharpa & Ritual Drum – Wardruna covers (Fehu – Dagr – IngwaR – Algir – Gibu)”
• Watch “Stargazers witness solar eclipse spectacle.”
• Watch “Celebrating Saturnalia with Cato’s Globi.”
• Watch “The quest for Nikola Tesla’s wireless power technology.”
• Tree.fm—”Tune Into Forests From Around The World. Escape, Relax & Preserve.” Also “Let Tree.fm give you a hug.” Also “Listen to a Random Forest.”
• “Octopuses Observed Punching Fish, Perhaps Out of Spite, Scientists Say.”—”In fact, this antisocial fish-punching phenomenon – which scientists term “active displacement” of fish – occurs in the midst of collaborative hunting efforts, in which octopuses and fish team up to chase and trap prey together.” “Since multiple partners join, this creates a complex network where investment and pay-off can be unbalanced, giving rise to partner control mechanisms.” Also “Octopuses are ocean thugs that punch fish.”
• “Widowed penguins hug in award-winning photo.”

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