More links from my backlog

[conuly]

Virtual court hearing takes turn after prosecutor spots assault suspect in victim's home (Wow!)

The quest to solve the mysterious ‘eerie’ hum of the Golden Gate Bridge

Fancy Fowl: How an Evil Sea Captain and a Beloved Queen Made the World Crave KFC

Skateboarding Gives Freedom To Rural Indian Teen In Netflix Film — And In Real Life

Freediver finds lost engagement ring at the bottom of England's largest lake

What the physics of skipping stones can tell us about aircraft water landings

Poe’s Best-Selling Book During His Lifetime Was a Guide to Seashells

Joanna Koerten’s Scissor-Cut Works Were Compared to Michelangelo

Filmmaker Visits a Perfectly Preserved General Store That Has Stood Frozen In Time Since 1963

Can Removing Highways Fix America’s Cities?

The Mystery of St. Louis’s Veiled Prophet

Just before Christmas, I adopted a 6-year-old beagle. She was adorable—and violent. I found a resolution many choose but few acknowledge.

The Marathon Men Who Can't Go Home

‘What Do I Do Next?’: Orphaned by Covid, Two Teens Find Their Way

They Were Labeled Witches. They Just Had Dementia.

Hershey profits benefit a boarding school that spends lavishly on its low-income students. But that investment comes with strings attached — leaving some students behind and others mired in debt.

Federal prisoners hold $100 million in government-run accounts, shielded from some criminal scrutiny and debt collection

‘On That Edge of Fear’: One Woman’s Struggle With Sickle Cell Pain

How ethnic killings exploded from an Ethiopian town

Comments

[archersangel]

about the dog adoption story. on one of the bboards i go to someone said a friend had to do the same thing this year. a lot of people jumped to "she's horrible! she should never have adopted a dog to begin with!" but the person's friend tried every option. trainers would not work with the dog, the 6 shelters she called would not take the dog. it was sadly, the best choice for her and the dog.

[conuly]

That poor dog in the article just sounds so unhappy and scared, and a danger to everybody around her as well. The real villain here is whoever traumatized that animal so badly that there was ultimately little recourse but euthanasia. You don't see the haters volunteering to take the difficult dogs who might need years of therapy just to to be safe without a muzzle.