Interesting Links for 19-12-2017

[andrewducker]

The top ten movies of 2017 are all remakes or sequels

(tags: movies remake )

First female Bishop of London appointed

(tags: uk women ChurchOfEngland )

Estimates of physical strength determined over 70% of men's bodily attractiveness

(tags: attraction men psychology )

Grenfell Tower fire report finds UK building regulations not fit for purpose

(tags: housing regulation )

Twitter suspends Britain First leaders

(tags: Twitter censorship hate racism )

What are the best soundtracks?

Saved so I can find it again when I need to
(tags: music movies soundtrack )

Birds learn from each other's 'disgust,' enabling insects to evolve bright colors

(tags: evolution birds insects learning )

Poor people forced to attain happiness through spending time with others

(tags: happiness money psychology )

Abandoned rape kits identify over 800 serial rapists in one Michigan county

(tags: rape usa OhForFucksSake )

Artist Creates Amazing Sculptures With Her Natural Hair

(tags: hair sculpture art )

20mph zones are not causing more deaths

(tags: transport death cars )

Queensferry Crossing speed limit will increase from tomorrow

(tags: edinburgh bridge transport scotland )

Interstellar object Oumuamua covered in thick crust of carbon-rich gunk

(tags: space )

Link between brain injuries and criminal behaviour found

(tags: brain crime )

When your friend dies and Facebook hides that from you

(tags: facebook death OhForFucksSake )

Let it go: The Arctic will never be frozen again

(tags: arctic globalwarming )

Belgium ends 19th-Century telegram service

(tags: Technology communication telegraph )

Different countries answer whether life is better or worst than 50 years ago

Quite glad I don't live in Venezuela
(tags: life history happiness society )

So, you've messed up with Git. Here's some tips to recover

(tags: git advice )

Was the Agricultural Revolution a Terrible Mistake? Not If You Take Food Processing Into Account

(tags: agriculture food history society )

Flight rules for git - in-depth guide to carrying out a variety of tasks

(tags: git advice )

Comments

On abandoned rape kits.

[luckylove]

"86% of our victims in these untested kits are people of color."
I froze when I read that. But racism doesn't exist any more. *sigh* I'm so fed of this shit already.

[momentsmusicaux]

> You can use this to get back stuff you accidentally deleted, or just to remove some stuff you tried that broke the repo

Make backup branches. Every time I do a rebase I do 'git branch tmp'. Then diff to that to check you've not lost anything. Delete that branch once you're happy.

[calimac]

re not seeing FB posts: B. uses some kind of shell reader on FB that, she says, shows posts in chronological order. From how she describes it, it sounds different from what this writer said, choosing a "most recent" option in FB itself. I could ask her for specifics on what her reader is if anyone cares strongly.

[agoodwinsmith]

Yes, please.

[calimac]

It's an interface called Social Fixer for Facebook.

[errolwi]

The food processing article was especially interesting to me, as I started listening to this podcast interview this morning.
http://www.historyextra.com/podcast/origins-civilisation
Yale political scientist James C Scott talks to us about his new book, Against the Grain, which explores some of the key questions around early agriculture and state-building

In the first 10 minutes he says how it is 'well-established' that hunter-gathering was an easier life than early agriculture. I don't think that there is going to be a 'reveal' later in the piece.

[heron61]

The top ten movies of 2017 are all remakes or sequels

I wouldn't count Wonder Woman - this is the first Wonder Woman film, so it's not a remake, and it wasn't about either Batman or Superman, so I don't see that it counts as a sequel to any of the other (vastly less good) DC films.

[jack]

Oh yes, I was going to quibble with that. "It" too -- I think there was a miniseries, but not a film. But maybe adaptions or in-existing-franchises count as sequels. I was pretty happy about WW, but there's a difference between that a film about a new superheroine, I guess.

Come to think of it, when was the last film about a non-adaption superhero? When was the last one that didn't seem to be parodying the rest of the genre?

[snippy]

Unbreakable?

[agoodwinsmith]

Thank you for the Food Processing post - that led me to a very enjoyable ramble through various blogs as one led me to another. I have been looking for some new places to check daily to get me out of my rut. This should do it. :)