Interesting Links for 01-08-2017

[andrewducker]

No, Corbyn did not pledge to abolish student debt

(tags: politics labour students debt )

UK military chiefs praise transgender troops

(tags: lgbt military uk viaSwampers )

Muted stress response linked to long-term cannabis use

(tags: stress marijuana )

People are terrible at judging how good their intuitions are

(tags: psychology )

FT journalists threaten to strike over gender pay gap

(tags: money journalism pay gender )

FCA keeps payday loan cap

(tags: loans UK )

Interoperable systems and data at the heart of plans to modernise UK payments infrastructure

(tags: banking money technology uk )

Book Review: Raise A Genius!

(tags: Intelligence genius review advice )

One in eight young people in the UK have never seen a real cow - 18% have never left the city

I once talked to an Outward Bound instructor who worked with deprived kids, and they'd arrive in the Lake District with no real idea that there were places that *big*. It's sad that there are children who haven't left the city they were born in, but it doesn't surprise me.
(tags: cities children viaSwampers )

Climate change will almost certainly heat the world so much it can never recover, major study finds

(tags: globalwarming )

Comments

[cmcmck]

Thanks for the second link!

I'll boost that one

[drplokta]

"Never" is a big word, and has been used incorrectly in the climate change article, which gives no reason to believe that the world will be much different in 100 million years' time from how it would have been without anthropogenic climate change.

[calimac]

Yes, not "never". Climate change deniers like to point out that the Earth has gone through hot spells before and recovered from them.

They just fail to emphasize that it takes millions of years.

[lilysea]

I misread

People are terrible at judging how
good their intuitions are

as

People are terrible at judging how good their *intentions* are

Cows

[nojay]

I was mucking out a byre full of cows and cow byproducts when I was about 10 or so. I would have happily foregone the experience and settled for the fibreglass replicas that still dot the Edinburgh landscape.

People are terrible at judging how good their intuitions are

[doug]

Huh. Before reading this, my intuition was that people are not very good at judging how good their intuitions are. But I wasn't very sure about it, because I wasn't sure how good my intuitions are. Now my intuition has been validated, I still feel nervous about thinking it's good, because that won't make my intuition any better.

Deprived urban children and rural holidays.

[sigmonster]

It's a definite thing and has been for many years - if you felt like donating to http://www.sendachildtohucklow.org.uk/ , who arrange for around 300 children a year to visit the Peak District, I'm sure it would be much appreciated... (I'm on the managing committee for the Nightingale Centre, which is also a charity and is the main host centre for these holidays; I have no other connection with SACH except making donations from time to time).

[brixtonbrood]

Even scarier than urban children who've never been to the countryside is urban children who've never been to their own city centre. Tiny's school runs sightseeing/treasure hunt trips at the end of term and each year the teachers are shocked by the number of Zone 2/3 13 year olds who've never been to Leicester Square, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square.... these are places which are a free thirty minute bus journey from their home. When I was attending on primary school trips I was always shocked by the number of teachers and teaching assistants (from a Zone 2 school) who had no knowledge of Central London geography.

[andrewducker]

Yeah. I know that things can be hard for people, but when it' not far, or expensive, I wish people would make more of an effort for their kids.

[armiphlage]

It's not just that. Local attractions aren't as attractive when you can always see them sometime in the future.

When I visited New York City, the people I talked to said they had never been to the tourist attractions I was asking about like the Statue of Liberty and so on.

I grew up a short drive from the world's highest tides. My high school was a five-minute walk from an excellent viewing point. Yet I still have never seen them.