Interesting Links for 21-07-2017

The government has scrapped the planned electrification of railway lines in Wales, the Midlands and the North.

(tags: transport trains electricity uk )

Meet Rob Spence, the film-maker with the camera eye

(tags: cyborg video )

Should there be non-selective universities?

(tags: university academia Education uk )

Do I know any Edinburgh software people who want to work with underwater drones?

(tags: drone ocean robots jobs edinburgh )

Oh dear, even people with neuroscience training believe an awful lot of brain myths

(tags: brain myths fail )

Scientists Reverse Brain Damage in Drowned U.S Toddler

(tags: children brain amazing )

"Why my ‘gig economy’ review favours gradual change over quick fixes" (from the leader of the recent review)

(tags: jobs employment uk pay )

Why Cutting Carbs Is So Tough

(tags: carbohydrates food insulin diet )

What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness

(tags: happiness age advice )

On the toxicity of Japan

(tags: japan OhForFucksSake )

The Tempest - Alan Moore And Kevin O'Neill's Final League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Announced

(tags: comics alanmoore )

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a fan project, in the best and worst ways

(tags: movies scifi fandom )

What's really behind The Sun's decision to publish Jodie Whittaker nudes

(tags: drwho misogyny nudity women )

The hypnotic illustrations of Visoth Kakvei

(tags: art )

Gene carried by 25% of the population, increases depression odds by 20%

(tags: depression genetics )

Sexually abused children as young as 12 refused compensation on grounds they 'consented'

(tags: consent abuse children rape UK OhForFucksSake )