Interesting Links for 20-03-2018

[andrewducker]

How different languages agree and disagree, and why Latin didn't have a "yes" or "no"

(tags: language )

'I forget my PE kit deliberately' - the boys who hate sport. (This was me. It put me off exercise for decades)

(tags: sports school )

Bulk Resize Photos is an awesome tool

(tags: web photography size )

DirectX Raytracing is the first step toward a graphics revolution

(tags: graphics Technology )

Although they can’t tell us about it, infants can reason

(tags: babies logic thinking )

We can read each other's emotions from surprisingly tiny changes in facial colour

(tags: colour faces emotion )

Say Her Name: Marielle Franco, a Brazilian Politician Who Fought for Women and the Poor, Was Killed. Her Death Sparked Protests Across Brazil

(tags: murder racism brazil poverty police )

Dimethandrolone undecanoate shows promise as a male birth control pill

(tags: contraception hormones men )

Scrap 'highly regressive' council tax

(tags: tax uk )

MPs call for 12 weeks of paternity leave to address gender pay gap

(tags: men children gender inequality )

Police chief: Uber self-driving car likely not at fault in fatal crash

(tags: cars automation death )

Pregnant women and new moms still hesitant to introduce peanut products

(tags: babies allergies peanuts )

U.K., Land of ‘Brexit,’ Quietly Outsources Some Surgeries to France

(tags: France NHS OhForFucksSake UK austerity )

The world’s last male northern white rhino has died, aged 45

(tags: rhino extinction )

Watch Cambridge Analytica’s CEO Offer to Entrap Political Opponents With Sex Workers

(tags: sexwork crime OhForFucksSake corruption )

Project Pica Pica shows off new real-time ray-tracing tech

(tags: graphics Technology games )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

I wish I had kept up more sporting activity during my school years and in to university.

My observation of PE in Australia was that it was able to be more inclusive because the weather was more clement and there was more of a wide spread culture of being active. This meant that there were more varieties of sporting activity and the popular sports had several teams and this allowed more people to find a sport and a level that suited them.

[naath]

I wish I knew what it was that meant that although I am awful at PE I rather liked it.

[andrewducker]

Possibly your lessons didn't consist of getting very cold and then having people be mean to you?

[andrewducker]

Yeah, when I got to switch to tennis I had more fun and hated it a lot less.

[momentsmusicaux]

I was happier having to go for allergy injections than doing PE when I was at school!

[drplokta]

The _Guardian_ talks about the species going extinct, but in fact the white rhino is the least endangered rhino species there is, with around 17,500 of them alive. The northern white rhino is a subspecies, not a species (as the Twitter thread you link to correctly observed). So we’re not about to lose another species.

[calimac]

I detested PE, and managed to get out of it while in what you'd call 5th form. (Changing rooms and showers, possibly the worst part, were introduced in 4th.) But I don't think the suggestions here would have been much help to me. It doesn't say anything about eliminating the changing rooms. The indoor offerings for the non-athletic would mostly be held in those noxious rooms, they were mindbogglingly boring, and included table tennis, at which I was completely hopeless. Could not hit the ball. At all.

What's more, football (soccer) was one of the least objectionable sports. Of course I never got the ball, but I didn't want it. At least I could run around outside for a while and stay out of everyone else's way. Far worse was baseball, even in the milder version we played called softball, and I think this would apply to cricket as well. Whether batting or fielding, there you had to deal with a ball, which was coming at you at great speed. Not only could I neither catch nor hit, every instinct was telling me GET OUT OF ITS WAY.

You're lucky if you didn't have to play basketball, which is like indoor football on a much smaller court and with consequently far more sweaty bumping up against the other players, or American football, which is armored rugby, an insane sport that should never have been invented.

[naath]

We got cold, but there wasn' much meanness that I noticed (that is, directed at me)

[danieldwilliam]

My wife's nephews played American Football at university. It's a sport that is growing in popularity in UK universities.

My mother-in-law calls it Space Man Rugby.

Bulk Resize Photos is an awesome tool

[doug]

Looks very cool. I particularly like that it all works client-side, so it's much faster than similar things I've seen online before.

For those who like command-line tools, ImageMagick is still the bee's knees. It can appear to be a bit of a Swiss-Army Chainsaw, but I find it easy enough to find the little bit I need.