Interesting Links for Monday, 9 January 2017: Safer Football, Currency War, Peanut Revived and More

Can Technology Make Football   Safer?            (The New Yorker)

English Is the Language of Science. That Isn't Always a Good Thing: How a bias toward English-language science can result in preventable crises, duplicated efforts, and lost knowledge.      (Smithsonian)  

Bitcoin will never be a currency. It is something way weirder    (Wired)

The Lost Ancestral Peanut of the South is Revived           (NPR)

Does the weedkiller Roundup™ cause fatty liver disease, obesity, diabetes and more?    (The Ecologist)

The Growing Threat To Global Trade: A Currency War      (Barron's)

The Economic Risk of Ignoring Arithmetic
(Hussman Funds)

Tom Tomorrow's latest cartoon: "Farewell Address     (Daily Kos) 

Trump calls out Meryl Streep after her speech at the Golden Globes       (The Daily Beast)

Trump™ Organization is $350 Million in Debt to Wall Street; He Owes Another $1.5 Billion in Partnerships Where He Owns 30% or more. 150 firms own his debt creating a huge potential conflict.
(Indy Channel)


Trump Aide Monica Crowley Plagiarized Large Portions of 2012 Book    (Slate)