Six Quick Links for Monday Afternoon

It was going to take a decade and $1-2 million to restore a dry California grassland but a group of beavers building dams did it in just three years (it cost just $58,000 to prep the land for the beavers). [amp.sacbee.com]

A bad lip reading of Dune. [youtube.com]

A long profile of legendary director Hayao Miyazaki, who is coming out of retirement (again) to make a new film. "He still draws the majority of the frames in each film, numbering in the tens of thousands, himself." [nytimes.com]

TIL that the Chevy Suburban has been in production under that same name since 1935. The concept of the "suburb" seems so tied to the 40s and 50s that the name feels almost prophetic to me. [en.wikipedia.org]

South Africa is being unfairly punished for having one of the world's best Covid variant detection systems in the world. They should be lauded for warning the rest of us about what is already out there circulating. [reuters.com]

Taking group pics with random people in public. Love this. [tiktok.com]

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