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Links for Wednesday, October 24, 2018: OKC vs Seattle, the Bush thyroid mystery, and kangaroo carnism

First Oklahoma City killed Seattle’s supersonic transport business. Then it took Seattle’s basketball team named after Boeing’s supersonic transports

(fast forward to 23:50 in the podcast)

(but the rest of the podcast, about the land rush and the founding of OKC, is good, too)

(and please note the satisfying inclusion of a former Wichita State University Wheatshocker in the slightly racy video clip)

After President George H.W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush were diagnosed with Graves disease, and family Dog Millie was diagnosed with Lupus, the water at the White House, their personal residence, and the Vice President’s residence was tested for lead, iodine, and lithium

None were found

A school chef has been fired after feeding kangaroo meat in school lunches

Carnism is the belief system that conditions people to eat certain animals and not others. Firing a chef for serving kangaroo—a perfectly acceptable part of millions of people’s diets—is a manifestation of carnism.