Interesting Links for 04-01-2018

[andrewducker]

Digital streaming behind biggest rise in UK music sales for two decades

(tags: business music streaming spotify uk )

Here’s what the evidence shows about the links between creativity and depression

(tags: creativity depression psychology )

Iceland introduces fines for firms that don’t pay men and women equally

(tags: Iceland gender pay equality )

'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

(tags: bug processor design epicfail Intel )

Wrestler vs 9 Year Old Girl (I can't see how anyone would think that wrestling was faked)

(tags: Wrestling girls video funny viaElfy )

The latest horribly dangerous health fad: unfiltered untreated water

(tags: health water OhForFucksSake )

High doses of vitamin D rapidly reduce arterial stiffness

(tags: vitaminD health heart )

Trump didn't think he could be president - and didn't think he should be.

(tags: politics usa OhForFucksSake )

Genetic analysis of ancient Alaskan child suggests the region was settled by people crossing from Asia 25,000 years ago

(tags: Alaska prehistory America asia )

Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo From Apollo 8?

(tags: photos moon history space )

Some quotes illustrating why the government's new Universities Regulator isn't suitable to hold *any* job

(tags: sexism Twitter OhForFucksSake Conservatives )

If you earn an average UK salary, by the end of today a top boss will have earned more than you do all year.

(tags: uk pay inequality )

A Breakthrough Blindness Treatment Will Cost $425,000 Per Eye, If It Works

(tags: eyes medicine money )

Comments

Here’s what the evidence shows about the links between creativity and depression

[jack]

Huh, that's interesting. The idea that there might be a link from creativity to depression and other things, but not vice versa, seems persuasive as soon as I saw the title.

In fact, I think I vaguely had the idea that creative types often did have something wrong as well, even though I thought it was just possible that problems were only noticed or taken seriously in people who stood out as successful some of the time.

But I *also* had the idea from many creative types saying "some people think you have to be depressed to be a great artist, fuck that, I've been both and the depression was hell, bad for art, and shouldn't be romanticised"

And I knew there was a tension there, but I didn't really put it together that that they might both be true.

Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo From Apollo 8?

[jack]

Oh wow, that's fascinating. It's funny how something you'd think would be so clear can be so ambiguous.

Intel Kernel bug

[channelpenguin]

Meine Götte!! That could make the next couple of week *very interesting* almost everywhere...

A potentially 30% slowdown is going to have a TON of impact. On the plus side, could make Intel stock a bargain - if you reckon that they ever recover from this!

[heron61]

Digital streaming behind biggest rise in UK music sales for two decades That's definitely awesome news, but looking at the article, I remain utterly baffled that people prefer paid streaming to purchasing digital music (and that digital music is by far the smallest category. As with DRM-stripping my ebooks, I want to own and possess the data I like, not to have its availability dependent upon the willingness and capability of someone else to allow me access to it. OTOH, unpaid streaming is, from my PoV at least, an awesome way to encounter new music.

[momentsmusicaux]

Oh wow, I hadn't seen this quote when I first saw this story:

> "It stays most fresh within one lunar cycle of delivery," Singh said. "If it sits around too long, it'll turn green. People don't even realize that because all their water's dead, so they never see it turn green."

!!!!