Weekend Links - August 26, 2016

[he_who_is_nobody]

• 400-year-old Greenland shark is oldest vertebrate animal
  
  Mysterious magic spells unearthed by archaeologists in Serbia
  
  Jordanian writer held over Facebook cartoon deemed 'offensive to Islam'
  
  I Went on a Weeklong Cruise For Conspiracy Theorists. It Ended Poorly.
  
  A Magical Mushroom Powder Blocks Bitterness in Food
  
  Cocks Not Glocks: Texas students carry dildos on campus to protest gun law
  
  University of Kentucky to sue their student newspaper over records related to school's sexual assault investigation
  
  Textbook story of how humans populated America is “biologically unviable”, study finds
  
  Earth-sized world "around nearest star"

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[Collecemall]

The cruise article is great. Thanks for sharing. I imagine that got a bit hairy.

 

[Visaki]

Jordanian writer held over Facebook cartoon deemed 'offensive to Islam'

Apart from the obvious observation that the comic sounds like a legit critique of people using religion and god for their own goals and banning it is an attack on freedom of speech (well, what Jordan has left of that freedom), why hasn't an UK paper also published the actual cartoon? Is the Independent worried that they could be sued in the UK for that?

Great links once again.

 

[he_who_is_nobody]

The cruise article is great. Thanks for sharing. I imagine that got a bit hairy.

I was not going to include that one until I read the hairy bits of it. That made me laugh. The actual cruise took place months ago and I did not see why it was relevant now.

Jordanian writer held over Facebook cartoon deemed 'offensive to Islam'

Apart from the obvious observation that the comic sounds like a legit critique of people using religion and god for their own goals and banning it is an attack on freedom of speech (well, what Jordan has left of that freedom), why hasn't an UK paper also published the actual cartoon? Is the Independent worried that they could be sued in the UK for that?

Great links once again.

You know, I did not think about that. I bet that is the case.