{"id":3136,"date":"2026-05-05T07:07:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:19:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:19:36","slug":"links-for-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=3136","title":{"rendered":"Links for May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/they-would-never-use-the-death-star-on-us-alderaan-residents-reflect-on-their-support-for-the-empire-as-a-large-imperial-installation-enters-the-system\">\u201cThey Would Never Use the Death Star on Us\u201d: Alderaan Residents Reflect on Their Support for the Empire as a Large Imperial Installation Enters the System<\/a> by Jack&nbsp;Loftus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/how-the-bird-eye-was-pushed-to-an-evolutionary-extreme-20260513\/\">How the Bird Eye Was Pushed to an Evolutionary Extreme.<\/a> The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet it doesn\u2019t use the energy advantage of oxygen. New research finally explains how this is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/05\/22\/seed-oils-healthy-fats-tallow-fact-check-cardiac-health\/\">The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients.<\/a> by Cole Hanson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThey Would Never Use the Death Star on Us\u201d: Alderaan Residents Reflect on Their Support for the Empire as a Large Imperial Installation Enters the System by Jack&nbsp;Loftus How the Bird Eye Was Pushed to an Evolutionary Extreme. The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3141,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions\/3141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}