Interesting Links for 21-07-2017

[andrewducker]

The government has scrapped the planned electrification of railway lines in Wales, the Midlands and the North.

(tags: transport trains electricity uk )

Meet Rob Spence, the film-maker with the camera eye

(tags: cyborg video )

Should there be non-selective universities?

(tags: university academia Education uk )

Do I know any Edinburgh software people who want to work with underwater drones?

(tags: drone ocean robots jobs edinburgh )

Oh dear, even people with neuroscience training believe an awful lot of brain myths

(tags: brain myths fail )

Scientists Reverse Brain Damage in Drowned U.S Toddler

(tags: children brain amazing )

"Why my ‘gig economy’ review favours gradual change over quick fixes" (from the leader of the recent review)

(tags: jobs employment uk pay )

Why Cutting Carbs Is So Tough

(tags: carbohydrates food insulin diet )

What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness

(tags: happiness age advice )

On the toxicity of Japan

(tags: japan OhForFucksSake )

The Tempest - Alan Moore And Kevin O'Neill's Final League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Announced

(tags: comics alanmoore )

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a fan project, in the best and worst ways

(tags: movies scifi fandom )

What's really behind The Sun's decision to publish Jodie Whittaker nudes

(tags: drwho misogyny nudity women )

The hypnotic illustrations of Visoth Kakvei

(tags: art )

Gene carried by 25% of the population, increases depression odds by 20%

(tags: depression genetics )

Sexually abused children as young as 12 refused compensation on grounds they 'consented'

(tags: consent abuse children rape UK OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

Thank you very much for the link to the jobs.

For anyone who is interested I can heartily recommend the company. It's a genuine world leader in its field and does some really, really interesting work in maritime autonomy, mission planning, sensor analysis including automatic target recognition, and navigation.

[supergee]

Japan sounds like the US, and Valerian sounds like Star Wars.

Should there be non-selective universities?

[doug]

The actual report from Tim Blackman is very readable, and is here: http://www.hepi.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Hepi-The-Comprehensive-University_Occasional-Paper-17-11_07_17.pdf

(Disclosure: Tim was my boss's boss, and then acting boss's boss's boss, at the OU.)

[momentsmusicaux]

> He’s a womanizing rogue with a strong sense of duty, she’s a good girl with an Ivy League education (which apparently still exists in the 28th century), and their unresolved sexual tension permeates every mission.

Oh wow, that's nothing like in the comic books.

Also, they both look way too young. In the books, they're maybe both about 30.

[flemmings]

I lived in Japan for five years in the 90s and heard the same complaints then. Japan does it their way and this sticks in white people's craws something awful.

[fub]

Indeed. It doesn't seem to me that the racism and xenophobia you experience in Japan is beyond what minorities experience elsewhere in the world. But since it's white people that experience the racism, it's suddenly the End Of The World.

[calimac]

I was guessing that the article on how hard it is to cut carbs would be on the difficulty of finding foods without carbs in them, which is tough enough. What it's actually about is even more depressing.

I don't suppose the Sun would have published nudes of Peter Capaldi, would they? No. So the article is right, and kudos to the author for using Warren Meers as a fictional demonstration of what the attitude is like. Mine, on seeing the announcement, was to remember the disappointment when they didn't choose a female Doctor last time, and to say, "About time."

I'd have thought that if the age of consent is 16, then if you're under 16, then by definition you can't consent. But apparently not.

[andrewducker]

I'd have thought so too. And I hope the government loses this one.

[cybik]

I'm very confused by the article talking about non-selective universities not mentioning the Open University at all. It's pretty much the whole point of the institution!

[andrewducker]

Good point!