Interesting Links for 16-07-2020

A Silk Road Renaissance: Excavations in Tajikistan have unveiled a city of merchant princes that flourished from the fifth to the eighth century A.D.

(tags:trade history silk roads )

Raising taxes would endanger economic recovery, Labour tells government

(tags:UK labour tax wtf )

49% of people in England back ending Union (including a majority of Labour and Conservative voters)

(tags:England independence polls )

Have you ever wished you could review the moon?

(tags:moon reviews funny )

Tory MP Julian Lewis loses Conservative whip after beating Chris Grayling to chair intelligence committee

(tags:politics military intelligence conservatives uk )

Scientists achieve first complete assembly of human X chromosome

(tags:genetics )

Pretty good review of the audio version of Sandman

(tags:audio Sandman neilgaiman )

Creating user interfaces automatically using artificial intelligence

(tags:ai UI impressive )