{"id":39134,"date":"2018-10-16T08:23:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T15:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=39134"},"modified":"2018-10-16T11:48:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T18:48:02","slug":"tuesday-links-129","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/16\/tuesday-links-129\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s only about 60 years overdue, but Congress is finally considering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2018\/10\/knife-owners-protection-act-federal-switchblade-act-repeal-introduced-in-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\">ending its absurd switchblade restrictions<\/a>.\n<li>There&#8217;s been a lot of this going on, but this is big: Harvard calls for the retraction of dozens of papers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/15\/health\/piero-anversa-fraud-retractions.html\" target=\"_blank\">by a cardiologist<\/a> whose work is so groundbreaking that it influenced major medtech and startup businesses.\n<li>Who gives a rat&#8217;s patoot about Fauxcahontas&#8217;s DNA (which shows she may have some dim connection to Latin America)? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/us_politics\/2018\/10\/timing_of_liz_warrens_reveal_questioned\" target=\"_blank\">Not her fellow Dems<\/a>, who find it rather distracting three weeks before an election that&#8217;s making them increasingly nervous.\n<li>Speaking of DNA, your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2018\/10\/how_dna_databas.html\" target=\"_blank\">relatives are wrecking your privacy<\/a>.\n<li>Is F*c*b**k&#8217;s growing censorship <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/heres-why-facebook-is-anything-but-private\/\" target=\"_blank\">really just a private business decision<\/a>?\n<li>Because they sure are purging and <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2018\/10\/16\/facebook-slams-independent-voices\" target=\"_blank\">censoring away<\/a>, notes J.D. Tuccille.\n<li>Knowing in the abstract that politics is a filthy business is like looking at a picture of a sewer. Getting close to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectveritasaction.com\/2018\/10\/15\/mccaskill-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;pro-gun&#8221; Claire McCaskill<\/a> is like falling head first into a sewer. With your mouth open.\n<li>A Jewish group has filed a legal brief <a href=\"https:\/\/stream.org\/hold-jewish-group-backs-christian-artists-in-their-religious-freedom-case-against-phoenix\/\" target=\"_blank\">in a lawsuit<\/a> brought by a pair of Christian artists who won&#8217;t make same-sex wedding invitations (even though a law says they must if they&#8217;re asked to).\n<li>Can geology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astrobio.net\/news-exclusive\/how-geology-tells-the-story-of-evolutionary-bottlenecks-and-life-on-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\">tell us something about evolutionary bottlenecks<\/a> that eventually led to human life?\n<li>Human kindness in a not-always-humane system: Ambulance crew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspiremore.com\/queensland-ambulance\/\" target=\"_blank\">grants a dying woman&#8217;s last wish<\/a> to see the ocean.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kHBcVlqpvZ8\" target=\"_blank\">Uptown Spot<\/a>. Yes, robots are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fRj34o4hN4I\" target=\"_blank\">getting scary good<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>It&#8217;s only about 60 years overdue, but Congress is finally considering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2018\/10\/knife-owners-protection-act-federal-switchblade-act-repeal-introduced-in-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\">ending its absurd switchblade restrictions<\/a>.\n<li>There&#8217;s been a lot of this going on, but this is big: Harvard calls for the retraction of dozens of papers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/15\/health\/piero-anversa-fraud-retractions.html\" target=\"_blank\">by a cardiologist<\/a> whose work is so groundbreaking that it influenced major medtech and startup businesses.\n<li>Who gives a rat&#8217;s patoot about Fauxcahontas&#8217;s DNA (which shows she may have some dim connection to Latin America)? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/us_politics\/2018\/10\/timing_of_liz_warrens_reveal_questioned\" target=\"_blank\">Not her fellow Dems<\/a>, who find it rather distracting three weeks before an election that&#8217;s making them increasingly nervous.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/16\/tuesday-links-129\/\">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":[6,9,12,13,18,19,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-free-speech","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39134","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=39134"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39151,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39134\/revisions\/39151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}