Interesting Links for 19-03-2018

[andrewducker]

Scotland's better off without e-voting

(tags: Scotland voting Technology )

Many of You Are Homesick–For a Place You’ve Never Been

(tags: location emotion )

Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower used to work for Lib Dems and warned them of their 2015 demise

(tags: libdem politics personality uk facebook )

Lead kills one in five Americans

(tags: death lead health )

The Metropolitan Police doesn't understand hate crime

(tags: crime hate uk )

The latest meme type is fantasy painting object labelling. I like it.

(tags: meme art fantasy )

What is the meaning behind the March equilux and equinox?

Only three months until the days get shorter!
(tags: light time date astronomy )

Psychologists have profiled the kind of person who is willing to confront anti-social behaviour

(tags: psychology behaviour society )

Comments

[cmcmck]

The Second one might explain why so much poetry about Orkney comes out when I settle down to write! I know I have no family connections to the place at all (I do to the West Midlands where we now live) but something there goes very deep indeed.

As Ian Anderson once put it:

'Everyone is from somewhere
Even though you've never been there'

Confronting anti-social behaviour

[alithea]

Shame there's no mention of gender as a factor there.

Because the first thing that goes through my mind when I see someone doing something against the greater good, like littering for example, is whether they're male and whether they look like they'll respond aggressively if I call them out. And I'm sure I'm not the only woman for whom that is true.

[calimac]

Fernweh: I spent a lot of time in childhood closely examining maps, and not necessarily of very exotic locales, imagining what they were like. Some of those less exotic locales I eventually got to.

Good article on hate crime. Some people seem shocked by the idea that state of mind can influence a criminal charge, but this article does well to point out that, for instance, killing someone can be treated as anything from first-degree murder to no charge at all, and the difference depends entirely on the killer's intent.

"Only three months until the days get shorter!" I'm reminded again of Dunsany's story about the clubman who claimed exotically to have visited the other side of the sun. Nobody believed him until he said it was six months ago.

[jack]

"Nobody believed him until he said it was six months ago."

LOL!

[andrewducker]

I did love maps as a kid. I still enjoy odd ones.

And that's a great story.

[melchar]

Totally love the meme one!