Accused criminals are still to be considered innocent until proven guilty…by the tip of a nose, apparently. In Science, Peter Andrey Smith charts the concerning courtroom trend wherein cases are being decided and defendants sent to prison not on the merit of physical evidence but according to a smell test administered by man’s best friend.
The Frigid Isle
Íris Erlingsdóttir shines a light on the world’s first wholly feminized state. Women, she writes in The European Conservative, run everything in Iceland: “the presidency, the prime minister’s office…[the] national state church…schools, municipalities, police…newsrooms and [the] ever-expanding public bureaucracy.” As for the men, Erlingsdóttir observes, they describe themselves ruefully as (bad-taste alert) “pussy-whipped.”
