Interesting Links for 23-11-2017

[andrewducker]

Chasing our interstellar visitor - unfortunately human technology isn’t up to the task

(tags: technology space )

Man urged to kill self by 'suicide advocate', court hears

(tags: suicide death wtf uk )

The sodding BBC is now talking about the Irish border as if it was a conspiracy theory. WTF is wrong with them?

(tags: bbc NorthernIreland Europe uk conspiracy OhForFucksSake )

MRI shows brain differences among ADHD patients

(tags: brain adhd neuroscience )

Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link 50 years ago

(tags: sugar health history )

Simple visual processing exercise is the first intervention to actually limit dementia

(tags: dementia aging psychology mentalhealth )

Don't quit your job for a dream project unless you have enough savings for it to all go wrong

(tags: gaming development fail )

The Jobs You're Most Likely to Inherit From Your Mother and Father

I didn't become a doctor, or go into data analysis. But my father loved technology, and the exposure I got to their worlds certainly influenced me and gave me options.
(tags: parents jobs )

In case you're wondering what DVDs Osama Bin Laden used to watch

(tags: OsamaBinLaden movies )

We’re at the Dawn of Choosing Embryos by Health, Height, and More

Aaah, Brave New World, That Will Have Such Creatures In It.
(tags: genetics babies thefuture )

UK wants entirely self-driving cars on the roads by 2021

(tags: transport automation driving uk thefuture )

UK to enable 'world first' transferable tax histories for late life oil and gas (I can see now way in which this could go wrong)

(tags: tax oil uk )

UK faces longest fall in living standards since records began

(tags: doom economics uk OhForFucksSake Conservatives viaSwampers )

Deep fat fryers help counteract global warming! (And explain why Scotland is so cloudy)

(tags: cooking fat globalwarming )

Comments

[agoodwinsmith]

The sugar thing: oh boy. As someone watching so many people from my parents' generation and from my generation (baby) be diagnosed with cancer, I remember that fat was vilified from the late 60's onward, and as much fat as possible removed from everything and replaced with sugar[1]. Oh boy.

Remember this?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/12/cancer-common-marriage-wake-up-call-macmillan
(I swear I saw this on your interesting links thing earlier in the year, but I can't find it.)

[1] - seriously: I stopped buying the brand of salt that both my mother and grandmother bought because it now lists sugar as one of the ingredients. Yes, it is a small amount, but there should be NIL in salt. Zip. Zero. Nada.

[andrewducker]

Salt should be equal parts sodium and chloride. That's it!

Hadn't read the link, so thanks for that. I would love people to get the treatment which actually helped them personally. Sadly, with the way the current government is treating the health service...