Interesting Links for 02-03-2017

Sex education to be made compulsory in all schools in England

(tags: sex Education uk )

Tactical voting not big issue in Holyrood's 2016 election

(tags: voting scotland )

Trump’s Speech Was Quiet — And Quietly Radical

(tags: politics usa economics healthcare immigration )

Alien: Covenant Set Visit Report from the Filming in Australia

(tags: alien movies RidleyScott )

NASA Asks Twitter Users To Name Those Newly Discovered Planets. The Inevitable Happens.

(tags: names space funny viaSwampers )

Edinbugh's Leith Street to be shut for 44 weeks in 2017/2018

That's my route into work, that is.
(tags: edinburgh transport )

Lost Edinburgh: Comparing then and now

(tags: photos history edinburgh )

Our Universe is too vast for even the most imaginative sci-fi

(tags: space scifi writing viaSwampers )

Anarchist Monopoly is the best Monopoly

(tags: games politics economics comic funny )

Corbyn actively works with May to force through hard Brexit

(tags: uk europe labour OhForFucksSake )

Intestinal bacteria alter gut and brain function

(tags: anxiety microbiome faeces )

After Brexit: Jean-Claude Juncker sets five paths for EU's future

(tags: europe thefuture )

Scottish nationalism and British nationalism aren’t the same

(tags: nationalism scotland uk politics )

Over half of new-build homes in England have major faults

(tags: housing uk OhForFucksSake )

Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Fast-Charging, Noncombustible Batteries (with three times the capacity)

But aimed, from the description, at cars rather than phones. When a phone that lasted three days would get _all_ of my money.
(tags: batteries )

Police are writing off crimes because they are so overstretched, damning report reveals

(tags: police uk austerity )

Theresa May's welfare cuts will drive another million children into poverty, Institute for Fiscal Studies forecasts

(tags: austerity poverty children Conservatives uk )

Journalists publicly mock Emma Watson’s breasts – therefore proving her point about feminism

(tags: feminism breasts journalism OhForFucksSake )