Wow, it’s been a minute (ok, nearly 2 months!) since the last links roundup. I’m not even sure what I have saved at this point. Several are probably terribly out of date.

Let’s find out together:

In the News

• A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19: A Closer Look at the Bradykinin Hypothesis.
• I don’t think aerosol transmission is a new understanding but I guess there’s a lot of confusion out there: Covid-19 is Transmitted Through Aerosols.
• Covid Spread Forcing Scientists to Rethink Herd Immunity by Faye Flam.
• Coronavirus, Police Brutality, and Other Viruses by William Goodwin at CiRCE.
• The next couple of links could be categorized as fact checking some stories that went viral earlier this year: Viral Video Seemed to Show BLM Storming a Church. The Real Story is Much Darker by Anne Helen Petersen. (language and content warning)
• The rest of the story about U.S. Marshals rescuing children in Georgia.
• The Social Dilemma Manipulates You with Disinformation As It Tries to Warn You of Manipulation by Misinformation by Mike Masnick. I’ve seen a lot of recommendations of this…documentary lately. I haven’t seen it because we don’t have and we are not likely to get Netflix – for several reasons – but I found this review interesting.(language warning)
• Pretty Babies: Rod Dreher reviews ‘Cuties.’ And here we have one – of many – reasons we will not be getting Netflix any time soon.

Christianity / Life

• Your ‘Surge Capacity’ is Depleted by Tara Haelle at Elemental.
• The Local Church was Made to Serve the Christian, Not the Christian the Local Church by Tim Challies. Co-sign, but it’s obviously complicated in practice.
• America Must Focus on Religious Persecution against Iranian Christians by Shay Khatiri.
• Provocative title and thought provoking post: We Don’t Need Revival by J. Brandon Meeks at Mere Orthodoxy.

Education / Literature

• Not all Stories are Created Equal by Janie at Redeemed Reader.
• What is MasterClass Actually Selling? by Carina Chocano in The Atlantic.
• The Careless People: The Dark, Real-Life Inspiration Behind the Great Gatsby.
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg Taught a Law Clerk the Secret to Strong Writing. (Doesn’t matter what your feelings are about the late Supreme Court Justice, the writing advice is sound.)
• On History, Children, and the Inevitability of Compromise by Susan Wise Bauer.
• Anguish as New Zealand’s National Library Culls 600,000 Books. Sad, I think. But also, I’d take them! I have a hobby of rescuing books these days. (I shared part of that story on Instagram recently. But, long story short, I got 41 boxes of books from a school library when the school closed. I’m still finding new homes for all those books but it’s a worthy task and one I enjoy.)

History / Interesting

• Finding North America’s Lost Medieval City (There’s a 1000 Year Old Lost City Beneath the St. Louis Suburbs) at ARS Technica.
• The Story Behind the Eiffel Tower’s Forgotten Competitors at OZY.
• The Mystery is Over: Researchers say they know what happened to the “Lost Colony.” (see also: The Secret Token)
• The Lost Languages Discovered in one of the World’s Oldest Continually Run Libraries.
• This Abandoned School Became His Personal Mansion. (Yes, I’ll have one, please.)
• I loved this one: Village Traces 18 Months of Internet Outages to Villager’s Old TV Set.

And miracle of miracles, I actually put up a blog post this week: Meet the Students!

Pictures are from Pixabay and used with permission.