Interesting Links for 07-02-2018

[andrewducker]

Love Island women offered less money for other work than men

(tags: women men money )

Katie Hopkins detained by passport control for spreading racial hatred

(tags: racism southafrica GoodNews )

Theresa May announces review into sustainable print journalism

(tags: newspapers uk )

UK crops left to rot after drop in EU farm workers in Britain after Brexit referendum

(tags: UK Europe farming OhForFucksSake )

Scotland is now the right size on BBC's new weather map

(tags: BBC weather maps Scotland uk )

AI Just Learned How to Boost the Brain's Memory - From the Inside

(tags: brains neuroscience ai )

I had no idea paper jams were so complex and fascinating

(tags: paper technology design )

Edinburgh arts base "St Mags" under threat from £15m student flats deal

(tags: art housing Edinburgh OhForFucksSake beltane )

Elon Musk's Falcon Heavy rocket launches successfully - hopefully sending his car to Mars

(tags: mars space ElonMusk Spacex )

California Crops Rot as Immigration Crackdown Creates Farmworker Shortage

(tags: farming immigration usa Mexico fail )

Another Star Wars movie series is coming—from Game of Thrones‘ showrunners

(tags: gameofthrones StarWars )

Do you live in the Blue Banana

(tags: urbanisation europe viaElfy )

This may be the moment SpaceX opened the cosmos to the masses

(tags: space Spacex )

Want to help your partner stress less? Listen from the heart

(tags: stress psychology communication )

First modern Briton had dark to black skin, DNA research reveals

(tags: uk prehistory dna )

Gig economy: Theresa May promises to improve conditions for millions of workers

(tags: work law uk Conservatives )

UK could adopt Norway bottle recycling system

(tags: norway recycLing plastic uk )

What happens in a working-class town when work is taken away? (they vote for Brexit, because the government blames Europe)

(tags: uk jobs Europe poverty fail )

Winter Olympics : US skiers use VR goggles & brain zapping headphones

(tags: sport VirtualReality brain usa )

If we gave everyone a decent standard of living, could we sustain it?

(tags: life economics earth environment )

Americans are spending less on clothing (casual dress commonplace, ties vanishing)

(tags: clothing )

The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

(tags: Technology review )

Germany has a government again!

(tags: Germany government )

The Stats on the ‘Star Wars’ Film Universe: Its Creators Are 96% White Men

(tags: StarWars diversity )

Comments

[rmc28]

We had great experiences with the bottle-return schemes in Finland, Sweden and Denmark last summer, which all worked very similarly: post your collection of plastic bottles / glass bottles / cans into the machine at the entry point to a supermarket, collect a voucher and spend it in the supermarket. The Finnish machines had an alternate button to enter a lottery, but I assumed we wouldn't be eligible for that. I really liked the idea of lottery-entry though, and if we can get this system here, we should totally get the National Lottery on board. Picking up litter to win a million!

We did accidentally put some containers into the household recycling system until our sharp-eyed child spotted the deposit markings - we'd been told about glass bottles but not plastic or cans. So we probably lost a euro or two that way.

[cyprinella]

The state of Michigan has had can deposits for pretty much my entire life. I did a lot of pop can collecting in my youth to pay for things since there were still a lot of people who found it easier to dump them than take them back to the store. There's other states that do it as well, although their deposit is $0.05 compared to Michigan's $0.10.

Edinburgh Pallette

[danieldwilliam]

I think places like the Edinburgh Pallette are always going to be at risk of re-development.

They are essentially providing cheap and cheerful space in a shabby part of town to people who are in the early part of their craft carreer. As soon as the town prospers, the shabby part is gentrified or the art and craft community becomes successful and draws people in then the value of the land starts to outweigh the value of the rental income from the artists' colony to the owner.

It's a phenomenom that prices itself out of the market.

A smart long term strategy for a town council might be to make setting up artists' colonies really easy and to put community resource in to setting them up rather than having to take action to preserve a particular building as a artists' colony.

Cheddar Man

[danieldwilliam]

I don't think I'm hugely surprised that Cheddar Man had dark skin. I wonder what it tells us about the spread of humans out of Africa and through Europe and the impact of vitiman D deficiency on population growth.

Katie Hopkins

[danieldwilliam]

I think I saw a comment on the Interesting Links Facebook post that everyone leaving South Africa has their passport taken off them as part of the outward processing.

Germany has a government again!

[mair_in_grenderich]

Nope. The deal has to be passed by the SPD membership first. Vote on March 6th. No certainty.