The other day, author George R.R. Martin teased that something was going to happen either today or tomorrow. Immediately, his fans figured it could have something to do with The Winds of Winter, the long-awaited sixth book in his Song of Ice and Fire series, although he quickly shot that notion down. "I am so tired of having to issue denials every time some offhand comment of mine, most having nothing to do with Winds, somehow convinces half the internet that the book is imminent. It’s not. No."

Also yesterday, we learned the gob-smacking news that a company called Colossal Biosciences had whelped three new dire wolves, a species of large wolf that's been extinct for thousands of years. They've produced three dire wolves so far: brothers named Romulus and Remus and a younger sister named Khaleesi, which is one of the titles that Daenerys Targaryen goes by in...