Interesting Links for 12-01-2016

• Manatee Population Has Rebounded 500 Percent, No Longer Endangered
  • GoodNews usa wildlife
• Extending the Bakerloo Line: It’s Not About Transport
  • tube London transport housing
• Canada and Denmark wage war over an uninhabited island. Using bottles of alcohol.
  • Canada Denmark funny borders geography
• The standard headphone plug has its origins in 1878
  • history technology music headphones Apple
• Ford tests self-driving cars in purpose-built towns
  • cars automation
• Driverless Ford car tackles snowy roads
  • cars automation
• How Does the Wholesale Foreign Exchange Market Work?
  • banks markets money
• David Bowie's last release, Lazarus, was 'parting gift' for fans in carefully planned finale
  • DavidBowie art music death viaAlexH
• Nine Inch Nails feat David Bowie - Hurt (live)
  • music TrentReznor video DavidBowie
• Church of England to continue tearing itself apart over LGBT issues
  • LGBT religion ChurchOfEngland
• For Banks, The Trade-Off Between Security, Convenience Gets Tougher
  • banks security
• I Lost My Virginity to David Bowie
  • DavidBowie sex music history rock
• 60% of women in tech say they’ve been sexually harassed
  • technology women harassment
• Finally, someone has released the amazing script to "Weekend Dracula"
  • vampires movies funny
• My new favourite The Force Awakens theories
  • movies starwars funny
• The Evolution of the Discworld. From satire of fantasy to thesis on humanity
  • Discworld terrypratchett
• Sex with Neanderthals may be the cause of modern allergies
  • sex neanderthal allergies
• My real name is David Jones - David Bowie's letter to his first American fan.
  • fans DavidBowie letter usa
• Here’s What Push Notifications Look Like When You Have 8M Followers
  • phones technology
• Wherein Neil Gaiman writes David Bowie fanfic
  • NeilGaiman DavidBowie fanfic
• Cocaine addiction: Scientists discover ‘back door’ into the brain (in rats)
  • addiction habits brain cocaine drugs rats
• It’s time for Europe to turn the tables on bullying Britain
  • UK Europe
• Some instructions on how to feel about David Bowie (or any other problematic favourite).
  • music art DavidBowie rape
• Europe fires warning shot against U.S. tech companies with new tax ruling
  • technology tax Europe
• Too much sugar? There's an enzyme for that (might help with obesity and diabetes)
  • sugar diabetes obesity

Anyone recommend a window company in Edinburgh?

I need new windows.

Where is reliable and not hideously expensive?

Dietary and stomach update

So, I've been doing the FODMAPs diet for IBS for about 16 months now. (Good explanation here from a friend of mine who was recently put on it by his doctor.)

It's been going very well, so long as I stick to it. I've managed to isolate what works and what doesn't - turns out I can manage small amounts of onion, garlic, pulses, etc. I can manage wheat in small amounts, provided I don't eat it every day (and by small amounts I mean "in sauces" not "a sandwich"). And I really, really cannot have milk. Which isn't a surprise considering I don't have the gene for digesting milk in the first place.

Thankfully, having discovered lactase tablets has really helped. I can now eat milk-based food without it causing more than a short period of uncomfortableness.

Which means that my stomach has become altogether a less dramatic part of my life, for which I am very grateful.

(I would still rather have it working correctly. And be able to eat sandwiches. And cereal. And doughnuts. Although that would also require my insulin to be working properly as well. Oh, how I miss doughnuts. *sigh*)