Interesting Links for 07-12-2017

[andrewducker]

Screaming dinosaurs and pop music. What's not to like?

(tags: music dinosaurs video )

Bitcoin’s energy consumption, explained

(tags: bitcoin electricity )

Sad poop emoji gets flushed after row

(tags: emoji faeces )

Person of the Year: Time honours abuse 'silence breakers'

(tags: abuse media )

Theresa May "I have a method for avoiding a hard Irish border, but it is too large to fit in this margin"

(tags: Ireland NorthernIreland UK europe politics OhForFucksSake )

Autistic social problems partially down to neurotypicals shunning them

(tags: autism communication social psychology viaJennieRigg )

Genetically mutated rats could be released in Britain to solve rodent problem

(tags: rats genetics uk )

The impossible heterosexuality of losing weight.

(tags: lgbt desire weight society viaLizzieCassMaran )

Extinct kangaroo-like lion discovered in Australia

(tags: Australia animals )

China's debt levels pose stability risk, says IMF

(tags: China debt )

What is the secret to being more assertive? Having self respect

(tags: psychology self-esteem respect )

Australian stock exchange to move to blockchain

(tags: database stocks Technology )

The Big Vitamin D Mistake

(tags: vitaminD )

Comments

Genetically mutated rats could be released in Britain to solve rodent problem

[channelpenguin]

best headline this year!

Genetically mutated rats could be released in Britain to solve rodent problem

[jack]

As opposed to what? Divinely created rats that have never evolved?

We need a verb for CRISPR. CRISPED? CRISPRED?

Genetically mutated rats could be released in Britain to solve rodent problem

[jack]

"No, I've never read the old woman who swallowed a fly," said scientists. "Why do you ask? We just felt, there was no point fighting any longer, it was time to embrace apocalypse." :)

Australian stock exchange to move to blockchain

[doug]

This is either a pointless idea (it gains nothing over a secure solution with hashes and signatures) or a really, really bad one.

[benwerd]

I'm really glad the poo emoji story had autoplaying video with sound. It definitely enhanced my credibility at the office.

[anna_wing]

Re the "neurotypical" thing. What counts as normal varies a lot globally. There are societies where what an American would call a high-functioning autistic is a perfectly normal personality type abd "autistic" only means people who can't speak or otherwise function in society at all.