{"id":32129,"date":"2017-08-04T05:51:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T12:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=32129"},"modified":"2017-08-04T06:03:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T13:03:03","slug":"friday-links-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/04\/friday-links-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Cannabis grower <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-08-03\/cannabis-grower-buys-old-west-town-to-build-pot-friendly-outpost\" target=\"_blank\">buys a town<\/a> to create a pot-friendly outpost. (H\/T TF)\n<li>And while I wouldn&#8217;t want this to influence too many college students, drinking booze <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2017\/08\/booze-boosts-the-brains-ability-to-remember-info-learned-before-drinking\/\" target=\"_blank\">may boost our ability to remember<\/a> things we learned just before drinking.\n<li>In Australia, a synagogue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2017\/08\/03\/no-building-permit-for-australian-synagogue-it-might-draw-isis-supporter-terrorist-attacks-and-endanger-neighbors\/\" target=\"_blank\">can&#8217;t get a building permit<\/a> because Muslim terrorists might attack it.\n<li>Girlfriend-suicide-texting case <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2017\/08\/03\/michelle-carter-texting-suicide-case-sets-bad-precedent-experts-say\/538794001\/\" target=\"_blank\">sets the precedent<\/a> that words can be weapons for homicide.\n<li>Nothing says &#8220;shut up you noisy kids&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2017\/08\/have-flinging-friday-brigid-guest-post.html\" target=\"_blank\">like a trebuchet<\/a>.\n<li>Academic idiocy <a href=\"https:\/\/elmtreeforge.blogspot.com\/2017\/08\/when-feels-are-more-important-than.html\" target=\"_blank\">is sneaking into the engineering curriculum<\/a>.\n<li>The feds <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/08\/was-warrantless-stingray-use-unconstitutional-judge-set-to-decide\/\" target=\"_blank\">appear to be really bad liars<\/a> (no surprise) when it comes to the warrantless stingray technology they&#8217;ve become so secretively fond of.\n<li>Unlocking the (pretty darned paltry) <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/fortune-cookie-math\/\" target=\"_blank\">secrets of fortune cookies<\/a>.\n<li>In the pretty cool tech department (and in the things to do while on an incredibly long, boring flight department): Boeing <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/08\/03\/news\/companies\/boeing-draws-787-airplane\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">draws a gigantomongous airplane<\/a> in the skies over the U.S.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Cannabis grower <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-08-03\/cannabis-grower-buys-old-west-town-to-build-pot-friendly-outpost\" target=\"_blank\">buys a town<\/a> to create a pot-friendly outpost. (H\/T TF)\n<li>And while I wouldn&#8217;t want this to influence too many college students, drinking booze <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2017\/08\/booze-boosts-the-brains-ability-to-remember-info-learned-before-drinking\/\" target=\"_blank\">may boost our ability to remember<\/a> things we learned just before drinking.\n<li>In Australia, a synagogue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2017\/08\/03\/no-building-permit-for-australian-synagogue-it-might-draw-isis-supporter-terrorist-attacks-and-endanger-neighbors\/\" target=\"_blank\">can&#8217;t get a building permit<\/a> because Muslim terrorists might attack it.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/04\/friday-links-84\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[5,6,7,13,19,23,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32129","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=32129"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32139,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32129\/revisions\/32139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}