Random links
- The great Medieval water myth
- "The idea that Medieval people drank beer or wine to avoid drinking bad water is so established that even some very serious scholars see no reason to document or defend it; they simply repeat it as a settled truth. In fact, if no one ever documents the idea, it is for a very simple reason: it's not true."
- Families of two women accidentally switched at birth awarded €1.88m in ruling by French court
- This problem, discovered by DNA testing, happened in the same country where DNA testing to confirm paternity is an offense punishable by a substantial fine and up to a year in jail as it's argued that the parent relationship is a social rather than a biological one.
- The Chapel Hill shooting: White male atheist murders three Muslim students
- "Three Muslim students have been shot dead in what appears to be a racially motivated attack by a self-described 'anti-theist'." Somehow his motives seem other than "racial". Apparently they've been attributed by police to a dispute over parking in the neighborhood - thought that conclusion has been questioned.
- U. of Tulsa Suspends Student for Someone Else’s Facebook Post
- "the University of Tulsa (TU) arbitrarily banned a student from campus until 2016 for Facebook posts that someone else admitted to writing and then attempted to intimidate student journalists who were trying to cover the story."