Category Archives: Journalism

Ancient boomerbust

Posted on January 18, 2026 by Naomi

From Harper’s September 2025 Findings: The world’s oldest known boomerang–made of mammoth ivory, unearthed in southern Poland forty years ago, and now thought to have been fashioned between 39,000 and 42,000 years ago — does not come back.

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Upset about those million pages on the Epstein Affair?

Posted on December 31, 2025 by Naomi

Worried that the volume (and DOJ redactions) make it impossibly burdensome for Congress’s investigative units to get through them, let alone find the smoking guns? Instead of worrying, watch Dark Waters, a brilliant legal thriller from 2019, starring Mark Ruffalo … Continue reading →

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Kid assassins in Sweden? Didn’t I read about this before?

Posted on December 27, 2025 by Naomi

Yes, I did! My informant was Harper’s Weekly Review. Who else would tell me about a Swedish…fad? movement? cult? involving teenage girls? That was in September of this year. Now, December, Harper’s has an update, of sorts: [I]n the latest … Continue reading →

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