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andrewducker) wrote2018-01-29 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2018-01-29 12:00 pm
Entry tags:
- advertising,
- alzheimers,
- australia,
- awesome,
- ballet,
- cats,
- children,
- consent,
- conservatives,
- countries,
- cute,
- dancing,
- dementia,
- dinosaurs,
- drone,
- facebook,
- fire,
- food,
- games,
- goodnews,
- gravity,
- history,
- lgbt,
- links,
- london,
- maps,
- military,
- movies,
- music,
- netflix,
- new_orleans,
- ocean,
- ohforfuckssake,
- patriarchy,
- physics,
- politics,
- population,
- religion,
- republicans,
- sheep,
- society,
- space,
- sport,
- starwars,
- sugar,
- surveillance,
- tiger,
- transgender,
- uk,
- usa,
- vegan,
- viaswampers,
- video,
- visualisation,
- water
Interesting Links for 29-01-2018
- 46 tons of Mardi Gras beads found in clogged New Orleans catch basins
- (tags: new_orleans water )
- Delta V Solar System Maps
- (tags: space visualisation )
- Gods, goddesses, and L Ron Hubbard in Australia's controversial lamb advert
- (tags: sheep food advertising australia )
- I didn't know how easy it was to kidnap tigers
- (tags: tiger video )
- Dinosaur ballet is clearly the best ballet
- (tags: ballet dancing dinosaurs )
- Cats doing capoeira
- (tags: cats cute )
- Did A Teenage Girl Make The Kinks Great?
- (tags: music )
- Connections between high blood sugar and dementia
- (tags: sugar dementia alzheimers )
- Sailing drones provide high quality ocean data
- (tags: drone ocean )
- Yes, There Is Gravity in Space (even though most tv and movies get it wrong)
- (tags: space gravity physics )
- Tory MP David Davies condemned for transphobic and abhorrent views by party's official LGBT group
- (tags: lgbt Conservatives transgender )
- Strava Heatmap turns out to be *amazing* for finding military bases and patrol routes
- (tags: military maps surveillance OhForFucksSake )
- How far do you get from London before you hit 50% of the population
- (tags: uk london population )
- The 3 Things I had to Realise Before I 'got' Dark Souls
- I am regularly amused by the videos I see that say "Once I realised I had to give in to Stockholm Syndrome I learned to love Dark Souls!" Which means that either, yes, you have to think a bit differently to like it, because it is a bit different. Or it means that the game just isn't very likeable for most people and maybe they should have made it more accessible if they wanted more people to like it. (I reckon they're perfectly happy appealing to the people it does appeal to, considering how successful the franchise is).
(tags: games video ) - Trump doesn't really understand he's not the CEO of America
- (tags: usa politics republicans OhForFucksSake )
- Annihilation: Paramount dropping UK cinema release (Would totally have paid money to see it as well!)
- (tags: movies netflix )
- Cats! In! Boxes!
- (tags: Cats cute )
- If your horse riders aren't on fire your sport is inferior
- (tags: sport fire awesome )
- An island that switches countries every six months
- (tags: countries history )
- Vegans are now 1% of the UK population, and they're getting militant
- (tags: food vegan uk )
- Star Wars fans defy church protests to attend first cinema showing on a Sunday in Isle of Lewis
- Note that most of the population want to be able to do things on a Sunday, with a few religious leaders holding them back.
(tags: religion StarWars GoodNews viaSwampers ) - Watch tiny children learn how the patriarchy works
- (tags: children consent society patriarchy )
- What I learned from three months of Content Moderation for Facebook in Berlin
- (tags: Facebook )
Re: 50% of the population
If that London circle has half the population of the UK inside then half the population must be outside it.
There are not many people in the South West and in particular Cornwall. There are not many people north of Aberdeen. So for the purposes of thinking about those circles the UK is roughly a rectangle running from Aberdeen to the South Coast of England, containing 60 million people with roughly even population density except for the fact that there are 10 million people in London. So if you start from somewhere like Dundee (which is about the same distance from Aberdeen as London is from the South Coast) then I think the two circles are going to nudge up against each other pretty closely.
And I think there are therefore only four circles.
One for London and places close to London. One for places north of the midway point between London and Aberdeen. One for places that are close to but south of that point. One for places to the west of the UK, like Cornwall or Northern Ireland.
Re: 50% of the population
Re: 50% of the population