Interesting Links for 07-08-2023

1. Barbie: A Strategic Analysis

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2. Royal Mail To Issue "Terry Pratchett's Discworld" stamps

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3. UK's rental shame: tenants paying four times as much of income as homeowners on housing, while their available space falls, and most councils build no new houses

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4. Turns out telling people that nobody comes to your show is great marketing

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5. In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black

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6. At least 57 triathletes fall ill with diarrhoea and vomiting after swimming competition in Sunderland

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I need to know which way the year goes

Poll #29702

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 74

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If I imagine the year as a circle then the months go...

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clockwise
62 (83.8%)

anticlockwise
11 (14.9%)

SEWIWEIC
1 (1.4%)

And December/January goes

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at the top
55 (75.3%)

at the bottom
11 (15.1%)

SEWIWEIC
7 (9.6%)

Inspired by this discussion on the post of Sophia's Wheel Of The Year poster.