This day in history

2001, 2006, 2011, 2020.

#20yrsago IP and scientific journals https://web.archive.org/web/20010928235132/https://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s345514.htm

#15yrsago British air travelers kick brown “terrorists” off their planes https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-401419/Mutiny-passengers-refuse-fly-Asians-removed.html

#10yrsago “Probability neglect”: why policy-makers are constitutionally incapable of formulating evidence-based anti-terrorism policy https://web.archive.org/web/20190221193522/http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/risk/library/J2011OBHDP_APM,AT,HK_PolicymakersDilemma.pdf

#10yrsago The Onion (seriously): We did a paywall because British people like paying for the Webhttps://www.avclub.com/about-the-onions-new-paid-content-system-1798226867

#10yrsago TSA can’t explain why “enhanced patdowns” are legal https://flyingwithfish.boardingarea.com/2011/08/18/the-legality-of-the-tsas-enhanced-pat-down-authority/

#1yrago Austerity breeds Nazis https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/19/a-band-apart/#austerity

#1yrago Yale admin: “Prepare for death” https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/19/a-band-apart/#boola-boola

#1yrago Orwell prize winner trapped in orwellian nightmare…