Thursday, November 21, 2024

Wonderful Indian speculative fiction--"And the pret jumped down my throat."

http://www.anathemamag.com/never-yawn-under-a-banyan-tree
Pret are pretta or paikta which the monks exorcise with gandapa when they read the kamawar-sa.
Lovely and funny. A pret meets modern democratic India.

Neanderthals ran fat factories 125,000 years ago.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/neanderthals-may-have-been-running-a-sophisticated-fat-factory-in-germany-125000-years-ago-1809869...