{"id":181748,"date":"2016-03-28T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/28\/linkage-298\/"},"modified":"2016-03-28T06:35:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T11:35:00","slug":"linkage-298","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/28\/linkage-298\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2016\/03\/louis-proyect-is-kathryn-bigelow-our-leni-riefenstahl.html\">Louis Proyect: Is Kathryn Bigelow our Leni Riefenstahl?<\/a> (<i>Naked Capitalism<\/i>) Yes. This has been another episode of simple answers to simple questions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3501443\/Don-t-look-Glass-SLIDE-installed-LA-skyscraper-1-000-feet-ground.html\">Glass SLIDE is installed on an LA skyscraper 1,000 feet from the ground<\/a> (<i>Daily Mail<\/i>) Speaking on behalf of my somewhat acrophobic wife, &#8220;F%$# no.&#8221; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/earth\/story\/20160317-what-is-the-real-reason-we-sleep\">What is the real reason we sleep?<\/a> (<i>BBC<\/i>) We still don&#8217;t know, but here are some fascinating theories.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-35859813\">New Zealand &#8216;cat burglar&#8217; caught stealing men&#8217;s underwear<\/a> (<i>BBC<\/i>) Not a perv, it&#8217;s an actual cat.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-03-fluid-dynamics-quickly-vampire-blood.html\">Fluid dynamics explain how quickly a vampire could drain your blood<\/a> (<i>Phys.org<\/i>) No where as fast as in the movies.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2016\/03\/plagues-roman-empire\/473862\/\">The Plagues That Might Have Brought Down the Roman Empire<\/a> (<i>The Atlantic<\/i>) There were a number of plagues that hit the Romans, of the two biggest ones, one appears to be <i>Y. Pestis<\/i>, and the other appears to be a hemorrhagic fever like Ebola.  Get your history geek on.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2016\/03\/kepler-watched-two-supernovae-burst-out-of-the-surface-of-stars\/\">Kepler watched two supernovae burst out of the surface of stars<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) Get your astronomy geek on.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/283080\/nyt-millennial-trend-story\/\">Every NYT Millennial Trend Story in 2016<\/a> (<i>Fusion<\/i>) It is funny because it is true.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2016\/03\/how-bush-cheneyism-made-mideast-in-its-image-wars-wot-with-us-or-against-us.html\">How Bush-Cheneyism made Mideast in its Image: Wars, WOT, With us or Against Us<\/a> (<i>Juan Cole<\/i>) I disagree with him on a number of levels.  First, I think that Obama has deliberately embraced and extended most of the policies, and second, I think that Trump is an isolationist at heart.  Still worth the read.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/nerds\/item\/infographics-in-the-time-of-cholera\">Infographics in the Time of Cholera<\/a> (<i>ProPublica<\/i>) Get your history, statistics, and media geek on.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/647143\/turns-out-the-dark-web-isnt-that-useful-to-global-jihadis-bent-on-terrorism\/\">The dark web is too slow and annoying for terrorists to even bother with, experts say<\/a> (<i>Quartz<\/i>) Not a surprise.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thebaffler.com\/salvos\/made-a-moron\">They Made Him a Moron<\/a> (<i>The Baffler<\/i>) An epic take-down of Alec Ross, Hillary Clinton&#8217;s former &#8220;Senior Advisor for Innovation&#8221; at state.  A well done demolition of an under done intellect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will leave you with Birdy Sanders. This is real:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jc2TVLoxsDA\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Proyect: Is Kathryn Bigelow our Leni Riefenstahl? (Naked Capitalism) Yes. This has been another episode of simple answers to simple questions. Glass SLIDE is installed on an LA skyscraper 1,000 feet from the ground (Daily Mail) Speaking on behalf of my somewhat acrophobic wife, &#8220;F%$# no.&#8221; What is the real reason we sleep? 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