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andrewducker) wrote2012-04-17 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2012-04-17 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 17-04-2012
- Sceptic debunks "miracle", is arrested for blasphemy
- Majority of England now declared to be in drought - may last until Christmas
- When your non-patented drugs are spontaneously converted into patents ones. I love nanotech.
- The conviction rate for rape is 58%, higher than the average. Reporting it as 6% just puts people off reporting it.
- Greece,Portugal and Spain all fucked. They can't devalue, and they can't be competitive _and_ pay debts off.
- When Eton and Goldman Sachs run charities, the system needs reform
- Volcano eruptions follow Benford's Law
- North Korean Press Bus Takes a Wrong Turn, Gets Some Unauthorised Pictures
- Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all
- Abuse At Scale: How GMail deals with outgoing spam.
- Most people not aware how much sugar there is in "healthy" drinks (like fruit juice).
- Can a stroke change someone's sexuality?
- The Official Doctor Who Fan Club - the story of how the BBC handed Who fandom to a 13-year-old
- Ann Widdecombe can fuck off. "Bring back the concept of shame" my arse. (Tories trying to clamp down on drunk people)
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Was it a dry winter in Kernow?
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It was dry this winter for us in the Tamar Valley. We have a very different climate in southeast Cornwall than they do in western Cornwall, mostly because the prevailing southwesterlies wait until they've passed over Bodmin Moor before dropping their rain on us. Here in the valley itself, things are complicated further by the river and its mists which usually mean that the atmosphere is humid and the ground moist whatever the weather from October to March. But soil was quite dry this year in March.
Still, the photos that bunn posted of one of our dogs playing in the back garden yesterday should make it clear that we don't seem particularly drought-hit here. http://bunn.livejournal.com/322432.html
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