Interesting Links for 15-02-2018

[andrewducker]

Boris Johnson talking 'total nonsense' about EU, European Commission president says

(tags: Europe uk )

Russia has threatened to block access to YouTube and Instagram if they don't remove posts that show a senior government official sailing on a yacht with a billionaire oligarch, who has links with the Trump campaign

(tags: Russia censorship corruption )

What If Men And Women Skied Against Each Other In The Olympics?

(tags: gender sports olympics competition snow winter )

You've always wanted Robocop Valentine's cards

(tags: movies valentines_day funny )

In Leaked Chats, Wikileaks Discusses Preference for GOP

(tags: politics JulianAssange usa wikileaks OhForFucksSake )

This kid shattering the top of a frozen trampoline with one perfect jump may be the most satisfying thing you'll see all day.

(tags: ice trampoline awesome video )

Travelodge overbooks its rooms!

(tags: hotel OhForFucksSake )

Norwegian women drink least while pregnant, British women drink most

(tags: alcohol pregnancy )

Feminist has a T

(tags: feminism lgbt transgender )

Magic Leap One Video – Diffractive Waveguides Confirmed

(tags: augmentedreality Technology )

The crow that could count higher than Clive

(tags: crows numbers )

Comments

[luckylove]

And East Coast Trains double book their seat reservations so a disabled person is left without a seat next to their carer. And staff didn't care. I begged them for help but they didn't. It was another passenger who helped me sit next to my carer without having to walk to the other end of the train. I ended up feeling suicidal but they didn't care. I even told them where I was but they ignored that message until after my train was meant to arrived home.
They told me double booking was standard procedure. I got nothing out of them.

[dewline]

That is absolutely evil on their part.

[cmcmck]

It's so refreshing to see an article like 'feminist has a T'.

And she's bang on the money too

Travelodge overbooks its rooms!

[doug]

That was timely, thanks. I am just about to book a cheap hotel and was considering a Travelodge or somewhere else. I'll go somewhere else.

[nancylebov]

You might be interested in The Frailty Myth, which discusses the history of assuming women should not be athletically capable (blame the Victorians) and has a discussion of ways that it's made difficult to compare male and female athletic performance.

[alithea]

I saw someone ranting on twitter the other day about women figure skaters not doing quad jumps and was thinking it was rather unfair because some of them are in practice, they really aren't *that* far behind the men and again it's a speed issue. And the top pairs skaters are doing thrown quads now.