Interesting Links for 27-09-2017
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andrewducker- Rise in household waste being recycled in Scotland
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- Over 2,500 products have shrunk in size over the last five years. Now including Jaffa cakes
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- Game of Thrones’ first Assistant Director on the challenges of Eastwatch, and how Jon Snow almost ‘turned into a human kite’
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- EU study finds piracy doesn’t hurt game sales, may actually help (hurts films and books though)
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- Saudi Arabia driving ban on women to be lifted
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- Twitter is giving you more characters to express yourself
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- People think Rick is a really cool guy
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- Eric Reid: Why Colin Kaepernick and I Decided to Take a Knee (rather than sit in protest)
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- Ireland to hold abortion referendum in 2018
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- EasyJet puts its weight behind plans for electric planes
- (tags: airplanes electricity thefuture )
- How US kids’ problems with fractions reveal the fascinating link between language and maths
- (tags: mathematics numbers language Education )
- GM is selling a tiny electric car with 100mile range for £4,000 (in China)
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Date: 2017-09-27 11:39 am (UTC)The horror!
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Date: 2017-09-27 05:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-27 01:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-27 05:03 pm (UTC)Books and movies I download once, experience once, and I'm done.
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Date: 2017-09-30 06:03 am (UTC)Whereas games you can replay, you can do in a different way, you can come back to. Getting a copy of a game lets you try it, and sometimes you like it enough to buy it to play online, etc.
Me, I reread books a lot, and have ended up buying books I'd borrowed from the library, etc. Same with films. But apparently most people don't do this, so for them a copy is a lost sale, for me a copy is a potential advert.
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Date: 2017-09-27 02:15 pm (UTC)> a combination of lithium ion and aluminium air batteries, which would need to be one and half to two times as powerful as existing versions.
What's Moore's Law for battery storage?
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Date: 2017-09-27 02:38 pm (UTC)Top two answers are interesting. Firstly to see how slow improvement is, and also the theoretical maximums.
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Date: 2017-09-27 02:17 pm (UTC)I remember as a kid doing fractions, maybe aged only about 8 or 9 or something, and always saying to myself as I read them or wrote them down, '1 of the 3 thirds'.
I did alright with fractions. Maybe that trick helped more than I realized.
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Date: 2017-09-27 09:48 pm (UTC)For some reason I always like it when the tags make a perfectly plausible title for the article.
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Date: 2017-10-01 01:12 pm (UTC)Numbers
Date: 2017-09-29 02:40 pm (UTC)Re: Numbers
Date: 2017-10-01 01:12 pm (UTC)My dad was a doctor, and used to get very frustrated by new doctors who would just plug numbers into a calculator, and not have even a vague grasp of the kind of results they were expecting. That leads to decimal places moving around and nobody noticing until someone gives you 600ml of a drug rather than 60ml...