{"id":39263,"date":"2018-10-25T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=39263"},"modified":"2018-10-24T19:26:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T02:26:45","slug":"thursday-links-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/25\/thursday-links-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m really beginning to believe Apple is serious about its customers&#8217; privacy. Nobody knows quite how, but they&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/apple-reportedly-blocked-police-iphone-hacking-tool-and-1829974710\" target=\"_blank\">blocked a shady tool<\/a> used by police and hackers alike. (Yes, MJR, your link gave me a smile.)\n<li>Did &#8220;magic&#8221; mushrooms create psilocybin <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/surprising-science\/how-magic-mushrooms-evolved\" target=\"_blank\">to screw with bugs<\/a> that wanted to eat them?\n<li>No surprise to you, but a surprising source. A study by a group of ultimate public school insiders says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90252729\/kids-arent-failing-school-school-is-failing-kids\" target=\"_blank\">government schools are failing kids<\/a> by not challenging them enough and instead feeding them assignments well below their capabilities.\n<li>You&#8217;ve never heard of Dorcas Reilly. But you&#8217;ve <del datetime=\"2018-10-25T02:03:43+00:00\">enjoyed<\/del> been subjected to <a href=\"https:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/561593\/dorcas-reilly-green-bean-casserole-inventor-dies\" target=\"_blank\">her recipes<\/a>. This heroine of 1950s cuisine (think: Campbell&#8217;s cream-of-something soup in <em>everything<\/em>) has died at 92.\n<li>The necessity &#8212; and impossibility &#8212; of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolicy.com\/articles\/2018\/10\/24\/the_necessity_and_impossibility_of_entitlement_reform_110876.html\" target=\"_blank\">entitlement reform<\/a>\n<li>Yes, Apple <em>is<\/em> serious about online privacy. But Tim Cook <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2018\/10\/tim-cook-calls-for-strong-us-privacy-law-rips-data-industrial-complex\/\" target=\"_blank\">wants it established by law<\/a>, not market or technology. (Why would anyone even think about trusting governments with their privacy?)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SrsCEbi5N7Y\" target=\"_blank\">This short video<\/a> is a promo for DuckDuckGo. But it does a good job showing the (sometimes rather shocking) differences between DuckDuckGo searches and Google&#8217;s heavily manipulated results. Might be a very good vid to share with your less aware friends and relatives.\n<li>Three easy ways to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/articles\/3-ways-to-make-diy-waterproof-matches\/\" target=\"_blank\">make your own waterproof matches<\/a>.\n<li>It&#8217;s well known that people taller than the norm have greater cancer risk. Theories have focused on growth hormones. But is it possible their cancer risk is heightened simply <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2018\/oct\/24\/tall-people-at-greater-risk-of-cancer-because-they-have-more-cells\" target=\"_blank\">because they have more cells to go haywire<\/a>?\n<li>Another story of what&#8217;s behind the gifs: <a href=\"https:\/\/katswenski.com\/comics\/behind-the-gifs\/the-freshest\" target=\"_blank\">The Freshest<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42\n<li>Per jc2k in comments: <a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/78g2Oim\" target=\"_blank\">Play with Riley, gosh darn it<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>I&#8217;m really beginning to believe Apple is serious about its customers&#8217; privacy. Nobody knows quite how, but they&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/apple-reportedly-blocked-police-iphone-hacking-tool-and-1829974710\" target=\"_blank\">blocked a shady tool<\/a> used by police and hackers alike. (Yes, MJR, your link gave me a smile.)\n<li>Did &#8220;magic&#8221; mushrooms create psilocybin <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/surprising-science\/how-magic-mushrooms-evolved\" target=\"_blank\">to screw with bugs<\/a> that wanted to eat them?\n<li>No surprise to you, but a surprising source. A study by a group of ultimate public school insiders says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90252729\/kids-arent-failing-school-school-is-failing-kids\" target=\"_blank\">government schools are failing kids<\/a> by not challenging them enough and instead feeding them assignments well below their capabilities.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/25\/thursday-links-96\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[6,8,13,15,16,19,26,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-health-and-science","category-homeschooling-and-free-families","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-practical-freedom","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39263","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=39263"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39276,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39263\/revisions\/39276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}