{"id":179135,"date":"2018-05-07T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/07\/linkage-135\/"},"modified":"2018-05-07T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T22:05:00","slug":"linkage-135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/07\/linkage-135\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-04-wooden-shigir-idol-egyptian-pyramids.html\">Wooden Shigir idol found to be over twice as old as Egyptian pyramids<\/a> (<i>Phys.org<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/lifestyle\/a19834127\/luke-milky-moore-money-glitch\/\">When Milky Got His Money<\/a> (<i>Esquire<\/i>) An Australian was allowed to overdraw his account to the tune of over a million Australian dollars.  Much hilarity ensues<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/10-of-the-most-sociopathic-washington-post-columns\/\">10 of the Most Sociopathic Washington Post Columns<\/a> (<i>FAIR<\/i>) The only columnist with multiple cites is \u2026\u2026\u2026 wait for it \u2026\u2026\u2026 Richard Cohen!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/05\/markings-on-this-flint-flake-had-symbolic-meaning-for-neanderthals\/\">Neanderthals etched a message on this 36,000-year-old stone tool<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) Just so cool<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hamptoninstitution.org\/critical-examination-of-dsa.html\">Flirting with Liberals: A Critical Examination of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)<\/a> (<i>The Hampton Institute<\/i>) A Marxist critique of DSA for not being Marxist enough.  I disagree, but this should be read.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/monmouth\/index.ssf\/2018\/05\/superintendent_out_out_for_job_relieved_himself_un.html\">Mystery pooper at N.J. high school&#8217;s track turned out to be superintendent, cops say<\/a> (<i>NJ.com<\/i>) It was on the rival school football field.  That old school spirit.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverwillis.com\/2018\/05\/05\/the-coming-media-whitewash-of-john-mccains-career\/\">The coming media whitewash of John McCain\u2019s career<\/a> (<i>Oliver Willis<\/i>) Any obit should mention Sarah Palin and the Keating 5 prominently.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2018\/05\/04\/one-space-between-each-sentence-they-said-science-just-proved-them-wrong-2\/\">One space between each sentence, they said.\u2003Science just proved them wrong.<\/a> (<i>Washington Post<\/i>)  I, a compulsive 2 spacer, find vindication.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/ywxawj\/gmail-self-destruct-government-foia\">Gmail&#8217;s &#8216;Self Destruct&#8217; Feature Will Probably Be Used to Illegally Destroy Government Records<\/a> (<i>Motherboard<\/i>) This is a feature, not a bug.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/05\/alan-turings-contribution-to-chemistry-used-to-filter-salt-water\/\">Alan Turing\u2019s chemistry hypothesis turned into a desalination filter<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) Imagine what we would have learned if bigotry had not ended his life early.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyone remember transparent aluminum from Star Trek 4?  (It&#8217;s actually a ceramic in which aluminum figures prominently)<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DduO1fNzV4w\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wooden Shigir idol found to be over twice as old as Egyptian pyramids (Phys.org) When Milky Got His Money (Esquire) An Australian was allowed to overdraw his account to the tune of over a million Australian dollars. Much hilarity ensues 10 of the Most Sociopathic Washington Post Columns (FAIR) The only columnist with multiple cites &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-179135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}