Interesting Links for 13-10-2014

• Can your "Natural Language Calendar" cope with this?
  (tags: language calendars computers )
• Five Planets In Search Of A Sci-Fi Story
  (tags: scifi )
• 12 sex things men (that are worth sleeping with) really don't give a crap about
  (tags: sex men funny )
• Some great model shorts from the filming of the opening space battle for Star Wars
  (tags: starwars movies models )
• New cancer treatments are 90% effective - but horribly expensive
  (tags: cancer drugs )
• Long, good, interview with U2
  (tags: u2 interview )
• Satanic panic: how British agents stoked supernatural fears during The Troubles
  (tags: northernireland UK religion epicwtf )
• Turns out that people take drugs because they like how it feels.
  (tags: drugs )
• The first same-sex marriages will occur in Scotland on 31st December
  (tags: LGBT marriage Scotland )
• The cat parasite in 30% of humans - and how it changes your brain
  (tags: brain cats parasites ToxoplasmaGondii )
• How the "Rolling Shutter" effect works
  (tags: math photography )
• These Photos Of A Teenage Melanie Griffith And Her Pet Lion In The 1970s Are Quite Something
  (tags: lions )
• Evolutionary psychologists expose the "shoddy" treatment of their discipline by textbooks
  (tags: psychology )
• Against sarcasm
  (tags: argument debate )
• Can anyone justify UKIP being involved in leadership debates, and not asking the Greens?
  (tags: ukip green politics UK )

The truth about the wolves of Yellowstone

This is a fantastic video that tells an amazing story about how the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone park made a huge difference to the local ecology, turning it from a place on the edge of collapse back into a thriving ecosystem:

"How Wolves Change Rivers" (Watch on YouTube)

It's really nicely told, ties things together into a neat story, and is well worth a watch.

Sadly, it's also a massive over-exaggeration, taking snippets of truth and weaving a mythology around them whereby a few awesome looking predators can reverse decades of mismanagement and Make Everything OK*.

I swear my gravestone is going to have "It was more complicated than that" written on it.

*Details