Quickies
Quickies: The value of a species, true crime, and the Marines
- What is the value of a species? – On conservation and the rusty-patched bumble bee.
- “True Crime Addict” and the problem of internet sleuths – “…it seems as though we’ve had one true-crime craze after another packaged and sold to us, with networks and producers itching to find the next Adnan Syed, from “Serial,” or Steven Avery, the subject of the Netflix series “Making a Murderer.””
- Xicana women claim their rightful place in punk – “In her memoir…Bag describes her coming of age in the predominately Mexican and Xicano community. She points in particular to how witnessing domestic violence at home shaped her youth and eventually her feminism.” From Ray.
- Marines remove “man” from 19 titles, so naturally dudes are losing their shit – From Mary.