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Chas S. Clifton has a link on his blog--Letter From Hardscrabble Creek--to a new book from Cambridge University Press. For a limited period the PDF download is free.

"Imagining the Witches’ Sabbat: Visions of Darkness Since 1900 is a new work by Ethan Doyle White. He is author of several academic works on Wicca and Witchcraft and a member of the editorial board of The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies."

https://blog.chasclifton.com

From USA Today--An interesting and informative story about hte Major Oak of England's Sherwood Forest (including a map of the forest). Plus, a little list with illustrations of four additional "ancient" trees.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2026/06/18/major-oak-tree-death-robin-hood-sherwood-forest/90607057007/?for-guid=f1620f30-3f82-11ea-9968-126b70187441

There's a map that shows what the fungi researchers discovered.

Go to the Good News Network story page and click the "interactive map" link four paragraphs down. That goes to a site that has the interactive globe map. Page through.

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/scientists-set-out-to-map-underground-fungal-networks-find-they-cover-62-quadrillion-miles/

https://wildhunt.org/2026/05/new-research-suggests-forests-heal-through-immersion-not-bottling.html

Take a little read--Happiness Is Within Reach! And Other Fragments of Ancient Greek Wisdom. From Since You're Mortal. James Romm, translator.

"The ethical wisdom of classical Greece is preserved for all time in these quotes, expressed in lines of elegant, metrical verse."

https://lithub.com/happiness-is-within-reach-and-other-fragments-of-ancient-greek-wisdom/?utm_id=01KQYF8PVBEX2J0FBXCH6EP3DZ&_kx=PQPtAC8s7koluPRz79V5ZtZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER