Some random links that caught my fancy today.
Islamic clerics in the United Arab Emirites have issued a fatwa against humans traveling to Mars. The reason? They consider it a suicide mission, and the Qu’ran prohibits suicide, therefore anyone who travels to Mars is committing suicide.
A cellist wants HBO to rerecord the Game of Thrones theme music because it uses a synthesized cello.
A professor at the University of Bedfordshire believes he has cracked the Voynich Manuscript.