A scientist who has served time in prison for editing human genetics. It was with the intention of combatting HIV, but it seems to have been done with little to no regard for medical ethics, including misleading the parents of the babies involved and apparently putting them on the hook for the costs of the experiments if they pulled out

I am the British and was exiled for this post

Well no, it doesn’t make sense, but if that was an obstacle to them they probably wouldn’t be flat Earthers

This plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruca_sativa

It’s arugula in American English, not sure what everyone else calls it

The North Pole is the answer I’ve seen given. At least some of them believe that the azimuthal equidistant projection map on the UN’s emblem is what the world really looks like from above

I feel greatly validated by this account name

I’m not-very-secretly actually Scottish and would have called it a roll, but that map absolutely validates my suspicion that it wasn’t a universal term

Yes, but it’ll be a bit rough because I did not follow a specific one:

• 600g white bread flour, 400g water, 7g dried yeast, 15g salt
• Activate the yeast by warming half of the water and sprinkling the yeast on top. Leave for five-ten minutes. There should be some bubbles.
• Mix everything, knead enough to get it homogenous
• Cover and put in the fridge for 12 hours. I left it overnight
• Take the dough out of the fridge, divide into six
• Shape into balls, aining to get a taut upper surface. I am not sure how best to explain this. You’re kind of folding the outsides into the centre of the bottom
• Cover and leave to proof for an hour
• Half an hour into the proof, preheat the oven with a dish of water in it. 220 C / 430 F
• 45 minutes into the proof, make the paste for the top. Mix 50g rice flour, 5g sugar, another packet of dried yeast, 10g sesame oil, and just enough water to make a spreadable paste. Spread over the top of the dough, taking care not to squash them
• In the oven for 22 minutes

It is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Tower_Times

Well that’s an excellent reason!

What magnificent ears. I see that you’re Canadian, so I assume that the name is after an Islay in Canada rather than the island in Scotland. What made you choose it?

Also, awfully brave for a cod to own cats

Besides that the OP has replied themselves now, the URL is “european-union-to-boost-pa-funding-with-1-8-billion-over-three-years”, so it would almost certainly have been that headline

The funding is for the Palestinian Authority. OP decided to get creative with the headline because of their opinions on the PA

Well now I’m incredibly disappointed that I can’t see what it was

In technical safety terms, combustibles are harder to ignite than flammables. So diesel and olive oil are combustibles, for example, because neither of them give off enough ignitable vapour at room temperature. Ethanol does, so it gets classified as flammable, and you need to store and handle it more carefully than diesel. Then there’s really horrible stuff like triethylborane which will catch fire upon meeting oxygen even at temperatures well below the freezing point of water

Of course in casual usage they mean the same thing

“A tabloid says the CIA says the KGB saw aliens turn people to stone. Also this is a news article on something that was declassified 25 years ago with no new developments.”

okay

I absolutely love a good ploughman’s and the lack of effort in this one feels like a personal insult towards me

It’s a plectronoceras. Which definitely sounds like a spell you would cast to have a guitar play itself for you

I’m going with $50. I did some attempts at estimating the volume and assumed the average value of a coin in there is 5c

That’s part of the “make appropriate estimates” bit. You can just pick any reasonable number for the angular resolution Legolas needs and answer the question using that. Provided you do the method right, you’ll get the marks.