Interesting Links for 08-09-2014

• Nasa astronauts give the ultimate geography lesson from the International Space Station
  (tags: geography space )
• Facebook has a hidden "missed stories" url, for showing you the things it hid from you.
  (tags: Facebook viaJackie )
• Automated lockers and self-service kiosks rule as Post Office hits digital age
  (tags: postoffices UK )
• Q&A: Carmack reveals the challenges of mobile VR game development
  (tags: johncarmack virtualreality phones viaHugh )
• Solarpunk: Notes toward a manifesto
  (tags: solarpower propaganda thefuture )
• Bill Murray shows up at Toronto 'Ghostbusters' screening, answers fan questions
  (tags: movies )
• Malawi app teaches UK pupils 18 months of maths in six weeks
  I've been saying this for decades - most education is _awfully_ done. Learning at your own speed until you completely understand concepts is clearly better.
  (tags: education maths )
• Duellist, opera singer, stealer of dead nuns. Julie d'Aubigny had an exciting life.
  (tags: history France women )
• I just bumped into this gravity simulator again. Wheeeee, orbits!
  (tags: science physics gravity space )
• Scotland having some sort of referendum, apparently
  (tags: Scotland independence funny )
• De La Rue seals deal to print plastic UK banknotes
  (tags: money printing plastic UK )
• A four-year-old reviews one of the best restaurants in the world
  (tags: children restaurant review funny )
• Edinburgh trams: 100 days, 1.5million passengers
  (tags: Edinburgh trams )
• Can Scotland vote No and get something better?
  (tags: Scotland independence )

Do you need something to take your mind off the Independence Referendum?

Then I probably can't help you. But I can share the best thing to have come out of it:

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(No, of course I haven't been sitting here feeling tired and stress, refreshing newsfeeds and Twitter as if either one will make a blind bit of difference to what actually happens in ten days time. Interesting poll results from TNS this evening though.)