{"id":31019,"date":"2017-05-22T01:08:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T08:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=31019"},"modified":"2017-05-21T21:53:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T04:53:29","slug":"monday-links-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/22\/monday-links-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The cannabis entrepreneurs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/05\/pot-startups-prepping-jeff-sessions-new-war-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\">preparing to fight<\/a> Jeff Sessions&#8217; renewed war on an herb. They think it might be a war of regulation and bureaucracy this time.\n<li>Kim du Toit muses on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimdutoit.com\/2017\/05\/21\/bedside-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\">bedside guns<\/a>.\n<li>Why did we hear so little about Turkish goons &#8212; employees of the dictator Erdogan &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2017\/05\/20\/silence-of-the-black-suited-goons\/\" target=\"_blank\">beating up peaceful <em>American<\/em> protestors<\/a>? In America? I&#8217;m sure Erdogan&#8217;s thugs are just shaking in their jackboots that the U.S. State Department <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-fg-turkey-us-protests-20170517-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">had a very strong and forceful hissy-fit<\/a> after the fact.\n<li>Yikes. That looks like finger-burning fun. <a href=\"http:\/\/themetapicture.com\/make-fire-with-a-battery-and-a-gum-wrapper\/\" target=\"_blank\">Make a firestarter with a battery and a gum wrapper<\/a>. Very carefully, though, please.\n<li>You&#8217;ve heard of the strange case of Phineas Gage, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2017\/05\/21\/528966102\/why-brain-scientists-are-still-obsessed-with-the-curious-case-of-phineas-gage\" target=\"_blank\">young man whose grotesque accident<\/a> kicked off modern neuro-science. Two things I didn&#8217;t know. One, his radical behavior changes after his brain got pierced apparently lasted only a few years. Two, scientists are still learning from him.\n<li>Speaking of brain science, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/when-scientists-saw-the-mouse-heads-glowing-they-knew-the-discovery-was-big\/2017\/05\/19\/f33cc574-246a-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">a major recent discovery<\/a> overturned 300 years of belief about the brain. Yet the evidence for it had been in plain sight all along.\n<li>Did Machiavelli write <em>The Prince<\/em> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2017\/05\/06\/how-machiavelli-trolled-europe-s-princes\" target=\"_blank\">slyly encourage tyrants to destroy themselves<\/a>?\n<li>Oh yeah. This is just what we need. The government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/its-time-for-the-government-to-give-everyone-a-job\/\" target=\"_blank\">should give everybody a job<\/a>. (I juxtapose this with Machiavelli on purpose.)\n<li>This weekend was the 90th anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/59191-charles-lindbergh-made-history-90-years-ago.html\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Lindberg&#8217;s famous flight<\/a>. Check out other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/59185-key-milestones-in-aviation-history.html\" target=\"_blank\">milestones in aviation history<\/a>.\n<li>Teen saves dying swan by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2220\/Teen-Saves-Dying-Swan-By-Giving-It-Mouth-To-Mouth-Resuscitation\" target=\"_blank\">giving it mouth-to-mouth resuscitation<\/a>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/biggest-tourist-traps-usa-overrated-attractions-2017-5\/#alabama-ave-maria-grotto-1\" target=\"_blank\">worst tourist trap<\/a> in every state. YMMV.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>The cannabis entrepreneurs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/05\/pot-startups-prepping-jeff-sessions-new-war-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\">preparing to fight<\/a> Jeff Sessions&#8217; renewed war on an herb. They think it might be a war of regulation and bureaucracy this time.\n<li>Kim du Toit muses on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimdutoit.com\/2017\/05\/21\/bedside-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\">bedside guns<\/a>.\n<li>Why did we hear so little about Turkish goons &#8212; employees of the dictator Erdogan &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2017\/05\/20\/silence-of-the-black-suited-goons\/\" target=\"_blank\">beating up peaceful <em>American<\/em> protestors<\/a>? In America? I&#8217;m sure Erdogan&#8217;s thugs are just shaking in their jackboots that the U.S. State Department <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-fg-turkey-us-protests-20170517-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">had a very strong and forceful hissy-fit<\/a> after the fact.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/22\/monday-links-99\/\">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":[9,11,12,13,19,23,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-preparedness","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31019","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=31019"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31037,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31019\/revisions\/31037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}