{"id":26721,"date":"2016-08-30T03:34:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T10:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=26721"},"modified":"2016-08-30T04:10:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T11:10:31","slug":"tuesday-links-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/30\/tuesday-links-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Well, yeah. That does explain a lot. Glenn Harlan Reynolds says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2016\/08\/29\/cavemen-politics-healthcare-evolution-instinct-mammoth-socialism-glenn-reynolds\/89508852\/\" target=\"_blank\">blame our caveperson ancestors<\/a> for today&#8217;s politics.\n<li>Some good news for a change: a federal appeals court rules that cops <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sfgate.com\/smellthetruth\/2016\/08\/25\/cops-cant-pull-over-cars-licensed-from-legal-marijuana-states-court-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\">can&#8217;t just pull you over<\/a> because your vehicle is licensed in a state that&#8217;s legalized pot. (One would think that would be self-evidently true; pity that it has to be dictated by judges to Our Heroes in Blue.)\n<li>Sleep <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2016\/aug\/23\/sleep-resets-brain-connections-crucial-for-memory-and-learning-study-reveals\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;resets the brain&#8221;<\/a> and helps us develop memory, among other things. This has been much speculated upon, but research (if anybody believes research these days) bears it out. (H\/T JB)\n<li>The Survival Mom asks, <a href=\"http:\/\/thesurvivalmom.com\/whats-emotional-backpack\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;What&#8217;s in your emotional backpack?&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Granted, going homeless <em>in a sailboat<\/em> isn&#8217;t quite the same as sleeping in an alley in your 1988 Yugo. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/working-woman-choses-homelessness-in-san-francisco-2016-8\" target=\"_blank\">this young woman<\/a> seems to have her head together when it comes to what&#8217;s important in her life.\n<li>Been sitting on this one for a week, not sure whether it had enough general application to be of interest to the non-writers hereabouts. But I&#8217;m thinking it applies in all too many situations, these days: Brad Torgersen on <a href=\"https:\/\/madgeniusclub.com\/2016\/08\/21\/conservative-sff-survival-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\">how to survive in the sadly politically correct world<\/a> of SF and fantasy if you&#8217;re a conservative, libertarian, or classical liberal.\n<li>One claim of &#8220;warmists&#8221; is that climate change will disproportionately affect poor people. Cliff Mass, probably the most noted meteorologist here in the Pacific NorthWET, accepts the theories of global warming &#8212; but always with a scientist&#8217;s and skeptic&#8217;s eye. He says <a href=\"http:\/\/cliffmass.blogspot.com\/2016\/08\/will-low-income-folks-be-hit-harder-by.html\" target=\"_blank\">that claim about the poor being the worst hit<\/a> just ain&#8217;t so &#8212; that there is not a shred of evidence to back the assertions. At least not in this part of the world.\n<li>More scientific news that won&#8217;t much surprise dog lovers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/8\/29\/12700482\/dogs-understand-speech-language-vocabulary-tone\" target=\"_blank\">Fido actually understands what you&#8217;re saying<\/a> and doesn&#8217;t merely pick up cues from your tone of voice. This applies not only to &#8220;sit&#8221; and &#8220;stay&#8221; and suchlike, but to praise and criticism.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Well, yeah. That does explain a lot. Glenn Harlan Reynolds says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2016\/08\/29\/cavemen-politics-healthcare-evolution-instinct-mammoth-socialism-glenn-reynolds\/89508852\/\" target=\"_blank\">blame our caveperson ancestors<\/a> for today&#8217;s politics.\n<li>Some good news for a change: a federal appeals court rules that cops <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sfgate.com\/smellthetruth\/2016\/08\/25\/cops-cant-pull-over-cars-licensed-from-legal-marijuana-states-court-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\">can&#8217;t just pull you over<\/a> because your vehicle is licensed in a state that&#8217;s legalized pot. (One would think that would be self-evidently true; pity that it has to be dictated by judges to Our Heroes in Blue.)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/30\/tuesday-links-75\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday links<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,18,19,20,25,27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-dogs-and-cats","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-poly-ticks","category-preparedness","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26721"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26734,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26721\/revisions\/26734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}