Interesting Links for 17-07-2015
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andrewducker- Cornwall devolution: First county with new powers
- Jeremy Corbyn's record on SkepticalVoter
- Darth Vader conducts Luton woman's Halloween funeral
- The top tricks supermarkets use to confuse customers
- New micro-needle patches could replace needles, meaning people will never need to be injected again
- How much do electric cars actually pollute?
- Brain network that controls, redirects attention identified
- Kissing isn't common across all cultures
- Dinosaur find: Velociraptor ancestor was 'winged dragon'
- Kitchen gadgets review: the Egg Master – a horrifying, unholy affair
- Time to return to core values? (An outsiders view of the Lib-Dem and Labour leadership races)
- New corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent facilitation of tax evasion to include evasion of non-UK tax
- Why is it so hard to get Superman right in movies?
- Scientists breed genetically modified moths to curb global pest problem costing farmers billions of dollars
- The Maunder Minimum is back! (Maybe. And we probably won’t notice much)
- A nice display of the Magnus Effect, which is how balls can curve in mid-air when you apply spin to them
- Birth order has no meaningful effect on personality or IQ
- Crossing From Right-Hand-Drive Countries to Left-Hand-Drive Countries (and Vice Versa)
- Less than 1% of obese people ever reach "normal" body weight
- Oceans have been slowing global warming - until now
- How the brain copes with noise in your neurons
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Date: 2015-07-17 03:27 pm (UTC)This being the County where, to give 2 examples;
- They failed to get paperwork done in time to get several millions pounds worth of EU grant money for children (a friend moved across the border into Devon, suddenly got several thousand pounds worth of support for their child)
- The company that does the roadworks (Cormac) is wholly owned by the Council, but it's not part of the Council, so they get paid undisclosed sums to repair their own faulty work (they messed up an entire bypass and had to rebuild it), amongst many other organisational issues that mean that they can ignore their own mistakes.
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Date: 2015-07-17 04:52 pm (UTC)Have the populace considered voting different politicians in?