Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for July 16th from 08:39 to 12:31:

• Meat And Salt And Sparks | Tor.com –
• Black Box | The New Yorker –
• Astonishing encounter with a nearly human-size jellyfish / Boing Boing – the aliens were here all along
• Can Everyone Be Excellent? – Alfie Kohn –
• Fare Payment Without the Stasi | Pedestrian Observations –