Blogaround

1. Lightyear Changes EVERYTHING about the Pixar Theory! (June 24) "But it also means that the entire plot of the movie 'Lightyear' that we see is actually a live-action movie inside of the Pixar universe. Like, within the movie, Buzz Lightyear is being played by a real actor, like in the same way that Chris Evans out here in the real world plays the character of Steve Rogers."

2. New AI-generated horsies (July 22) "How to combine a four-legged horse with a two-legged rooster? Maybe as a three-legged animal."

3. Dutch collector ordered to return Buddha statue (July 20) "For local villagers, the statue is a significant cultural relic that had been at the Puzhao Temple in Sanming, Fujian province, where they could honor and worship it before it was stolen in December 1995, according to the high court."

4. Chinese Paddlefish That Outlived Dinosaurs Now Extinct, IUCN Says (July 22) "'The world’s failure to safeguard sturgeon species is an indictment of governments across the globe, who are failing to sustainably manage their rivers and live up to their commitments to conserve these iconic fish and halt the global loss of nature,' said Arne Ludwig, chair of the IUCN Sturgeon Specialist Group."

5. Next time I fall (July 23) "We can’t get up to present our 'personal testimony' about walking down the gangplank onto Ellis Island, but we can tell about our 'struggle' with sexual purity. And so, in a sense, the personal testimony of every child-convert, once they pass into adolescence and youth group, becomes something akin to that Seinfeld episode about being 'master of your domain.' We don’t have the conversion narrative expected by first-generation converts, and so we start to sound like we’re sharing at a 12-step MA meeting."

6. Woman detained for commemorating tablets to Japanese war criminals (July 25) [content note: genocide]

7. Chinese astronauts enter Tiangong space station's new lab module after dock (July 26) Cool!