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y6y6y6 asks: Any old-school bloggers still posting?

Deer Tick! by www.FrankBonilla.art (cc by-nc-nd)

Blasdelb offers a fantastic explainer in Too-Ticky's thread on "weaponized ticks."

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sockandawe asks about tattoo regrets in Ask Metafilter.

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If only I had a penguin... has introduced Post Your Animal Month in Metatalk: "If you have an animal in your username, post (directly, tangentially, barely-relatedly) about your animal over the next month." The animals have already begun to reproduce! (use tag "postyouranimal")

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allkindsoftime talks about seeing hippos up close and personal in Africa in the "I was swallowed by a hippo" thread.

. Attention by Juliana Coutinho (cc by)

Cozybee shares a post from Rob Walker about 20 ways to pay attention to the world around you ... and Mefites share their thoughts on those 20 ways!

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In Ask Metafilter, curious nu wants to know: "Wolverine has regenerative powers. A lot of vampires, werewolves, and similar creatures have the same. Can they get and keep tattoos, or would their powers erase them?"

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All Hugo Award Winners 2019 in Fanfare, and Archive of Our Own wins the 2019 Hugo for Best Related Work in Metafilter blue. Earlier: Hugo Nominated Novelettes and Hugo Nominated Short Stories in Fanfare, and The 2019 Hugo Awards Finalists in the blue.

Please help me flesh out the syllabus by telling me about good historical fiction you’ve enjoyed — the more detailed and historically accurate, the better.

hungrytiger wants to make a world history syllabus out of novels; can you help?