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.
From Harper’s Weekly Review:
Israeli police raided a Christmas party in Haifa, confiscating equipment and arresting a Palestinian man dressed as Santa Claus; a man dressed as Santa Claus was stopped by police for drunk driving in Rivne, Ukraine; and an Indiana state senator posted an AI-generated image of himself body-slamming Santa Claus on Christmas morning.
From Harper’s Weekly Review:
In Ghana, a self-declared prophet, who solicited money from his followers to build arks ahead of what he said would be a Christmas Day rapture, announced that the apocalypse had been postponed and used the donations to instead purchase a Mercedes.
