Interesting Links for 24-09-2017

Another delay for ScotRail's £370m Edinburgh to Glasgow electric train service plans

(tags: Edinburgh Glasgow trains electricity fail )

Superaccurate GPS Chips Coming to Smartphones in 2018

(tags: GPS location phones viaFanf )

Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious (And Play Super Mario Bros.)

(tags: games ai personality learning )

A Ukrainian born billionaire who does biz w/ Russian oligarchs is funding Trump's legal representation via RNC

(tags: politics Russia usa EpicWTF )

Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly

(tags: web programming thefuture )

I'm ggoing to Thing Explaining with Randall Munroe Tickets on Wed, 4 Oct - anyone else going?

(tags: xkcd viaSwampers )

A 1979 War-Game That Takes 1,500 Hours to Complete

(tags: games time history wwii )

Why rejecting the modern world is a privileged fantasy

(tags: Technology medicine life society )

Watch how long a two-euro coin can balance on Fuxing train traveling at 350 kph, on #HighSpeedRail linking Beijing with Shanghai

So, how long until we get trains that fast and smooth in the UK?
(tags: trains )

More than half UK population has no religion

(tags: UK religion GoodNews )

Rick And Morty’s worst fans don’t deserve Rick And Morty

It really bothers me that most of the t-shirts I've seen are clearly aimed at people who want to be Rick.
(tags: tv fandom fail abuse )

Sea salt around the world is contaminated by plastic

Because, of course, the sea around the world is contaminated by plastic
(tags: pollution plastic ocean food salt )

I have done without any form of technology for six months and my life is utterly shit

(tags: satire technology media )

Students are biased against female lecturers

(tags: patriarchy women academia OhForFucksSake )

Project Black Bus – using taxis like buses

(tags: technology transport taxi )