Interesting Links for 15-04-2018

[andrewducker]

Finding a church hidden in the woods

(tags: religion photos forests )

Trying to apply AlphaGo AI to a modern board game doesn't produce great results

(tags: viaSwampers games ai )

Trump administration abandons crackdown on legal marijuana

(tags: marijuana legalisation usa GoodNews )

How would you know if there was a civilization on Earth before humans?

(tags: prehistory earth )

In an alternate universe, the first use of physics in a video game was to simulate boiling water. Thirty years later, AAA games have cornered the market in realistic physics-based cooking games. Meanwhile...

(tags: cooking games funny satire )

Archaeologists Find Ancient Knife-Hand Prosthesis On Medieval Warrior

(tags: history weaponry )

Comments

[randomdreams]

>"Trump administration abandons crackdown on legal marijuana"

This week. Next week, when someone else with a moral crusade and a zillion dollars invested in private prisons sufficiently bribes contributes to campaign funds, it'll come lurching back like a zombie.

[dewline]

What's that phrase of Paul Krugman's for ideas that should die but don't ever go away after being discredited?

Zombie ideas, right?

[randomdreams]

Yes, although I'm not sure he invented the term. I have a fifteen year old book that is devoted to the zombie ideas that were in vogue in economics at the time.