RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/February 2018

February 2018
Toward Another Fair Use Standard. Harvard's enabling of sexual harassment and lack of system to address the problem. Why does the GOP hate children so much? Breaking the cycle: women are learning to love their hormones French law requiring grocery stores to donate leftover food to charity is improving the food waste problem.

Eastern Ghouta is another Srebrenica, we are looking away again.

The rise of anti-liberalism stemming from lack of meaning in life. Judge finds written attack on climate scientist too ludicrous to be libel Left wing infatuation with taking offense is chipping away at democracy, one meaningless debate at a time. A history of palaeoart (pictures of dinosaurs) from Victorian England to Soviet Russia. The National Rifle Association has been the US "gun lobby" for far longer than we thought. Does TV bear some responsibility for hard feelings between Urban America and Small Town America?

Architecture and urbanism site BLDGBLOG reports on proposals to use giant gold-plated lasers to extract energy from the San Andreas Fault. The scheme is a wild pseudoscientific imagining of architecture professor Mark Foster Gage and his semifictional Geothermal Futures Lab. Dutch Official Admits Lying About Meeting With Putin: Is Fake News Used by Russia or About Russia?

Sexism with stuntmen doubling for women It's time to leave behind the horseshoe theory A BBC editorial highlights the mental health issues behind terrorists, and argues that clues to the intent of an attacker may be deliberately made to attract attention. While Trump wants a random military parade as a challenge against France's Bastille Day military parade, Slate.com states that military parades that aren't part of a national holiday or a military victory are a sign of an insecure nation. Cheeky advertisement trolling the democrats at the SOTU. Donald Trump’s criticisms of the NHS suggest he doesn’t know much about the UK system – or the one he presides over Look at me: why attention-seeking is the defining need of our times

Free for all: the psychology of pay-what-you-want cafes The latest Goop "Health" conference was every bit as woo-tastic as you'd expect. The first woman to accuse USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar of sexual abuse "saw that Biblical teachings about grace and repentance were being weaponized against victims, pressuring them into offering an easy forgiveness to their abusers" when she asked her church for help. A picture showing Piers Morgan brownnosing [arse-licking Donald Trump] from a segment of BBC/The Daily Mash's The Mash Report has gone viral, after Piers moaned about how it insulted him as an interviewer. (Twitter link of the video) The release of the FISA memo and what it means - the Washington Examiner