Blog Heap of Links for the day 1 July 2018

The death toll of last weekend’s massacre of Nigerian Christians by militant Muslim Fulani herdsmen has risen to at least 200…

…Is lynching a serious threat to anyone in 2018? And will it be a federal crime if you lynch a white person, or is this another one of those special unequal laws which seem to not so subtly indicate that the devil is straight and white and male?…

…Green recycling policy is killing the oceans with plastic pollution…

…after the age of 105, human mortality seems to hit a plateau. That is, you aren’t any more likely to die at 110 than at 105. …

…“ultralow surface temperatures” in East Antarctica that surpass the coldest temperatures ever recorded on the earth’s surface. some 100 different locations on the East Antarctic Plateau reached temperatures of -98° C (-144° F) during the Antarctic polar night between 2004–2016.…

…On this day in 1908 SOS was adopted as the international distress signal.