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The Crockpot: A Weekly Link-Digest

• The three deadliest words in the world: “It’s a girl.”
• Wolves and lynx and moose, palīgā! As Latvia’s forests fall, the country’s underappreciated wilderness and wildlife are threatened.
• Use dancers instead of Powerpoint to augment presentations? We’re all for it.
• Coronal mass ejection, the movie: Watch NOAA’s video of this week’s incredible solar flare.
• At long last, the New Yorker weighs in on America’s prisoner epidemic.
• When being a vegetarian gets in the way of family.
• Does black history need more than a month?
• In which an intrepid young man fixes his girlfriend’s grandparents’ Wi-Fi and is hailed as a conquering hero.
• On the merits of eating penguins, when in the Antarctic. Apparently, you lure them by blowing a trumpet.
• Should unengaged, everyday citizens be allowed to sell their votes?
• The other black market: International adoptions can be ugly affairs, but some parents to be will stop at nothing for their would-be children.