{"id":27362,"date":"2016-10-03T01:39:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T08:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=27362"},"modified":"2016-10-02T19:28:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T02:28:17","slug":"monday-links-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/03\/monday-links-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Can CRISPR-Cas9, the new genetic modification tool whose works are soon to make their way onto our grocery store shelves, also <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/guest-blog\/can-crispr-cas9-boost-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\">increase human intelligence<\/a>? And in the name of (gods forbid) eugenics, should it be used to do so? (H\/T PT)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/signs-mental-strength-2016-9\/#-1\" target=\"_blank\">Twenty-one signs<\/a> you&#8217;re (already) mentally stronger than average.\n<li>Vin Suprynowicz: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=3656\" target=\"_blank\">an election<\/a> about immigration &#8230; and guns.\n<li>And Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com says the strangest path in this already-strange election <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/election-update-the-craziest-end-to-the-2016-campaign-runs-through-new-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\">lies through New Mexico<\/a> &#8212; and potentially through the House of Representatives.\n<li>In Minnesota, where Obamacare is near collapse, they&#8217;re desperately trying to &#8220;save&#8221; it by raising rates an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-09-30\/near-collapse-minnesota-insurers-up-obamacare-rates-by-half\" target=\"_blank\">average of 60 percent<\/a> (with no mention of how bad the deductibles are also getting). Makes you wonder what their idea of &#8220;saving&#8221; is. Certainly isn&#8217;t the customers or the taxpayers being &#8220;saved.&#8221;\n<li>Glenn Reynolds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2016\/09\/30\/why-law-prof-glenn-reynolds-is-leaving-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\">bails out of Twitter<\/a>.\n<li>Some dogs are heroic helpers. <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/8979281408\/not-all-dogs-have-responsibilities\" target=\"_blank\">Others &#8230;<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, here are two I&#8217;d hoped to incorporate into a larger essay. But you know how that goes sometimes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Author Lionel Shriver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/sep\/13\/lionel-shrivers-full-speech-i-hope-the-concept-of-cultural-appropriation-is-a-passing-fad\" target=\"_blank\">condemns &#8220;cultural appropriation&#8221;<\/a> as a mercifully passing fad.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.claremont.org\/crb\/basicpage\/after-the-republic\/\" target\"_blank\">&#8220;After the Republic.&#8221;<\/a> (H\/T LS.) This is written from a conservative viewpoint. But if you inserted, for instance, the War on Drugs or the war against free speech for some of the author&#8217;s positions, you&#8217;d have just as valid a message.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Can CRISPR-Cas9, the new genetic modification tool whose works are soon to make their way onto our grocery store shelves, also <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/guest-blog\/can-crispr-cas9-boost-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\">increase human intelligence<\/a>? And in the name of (gods forbid) eugenics, should it be used to do so? (H\/T PT)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/signs-mental-strength-2016-9\/#-1\" target=\"_blank\">Twenty-one signs<\/a> you&#8217;re (already) mentally stronger than average.\n<li>Vin Suprynowicz: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=3656\" target=\"_blank\">an election<\/a> about immigration &#8230; and guns.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/03\/monday-links-79\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[4,7,8,9,12,13,19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27362","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=27362"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27386,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27362\/revisions\/27386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}