Interesting Links for 28-04-2018

[andrewducker]

Gustav Born had an intensely interesting life

(tags: Germany obituary medicine research )

Why there has never been a movie like Avengers: Infinity Wars before

(tags: movies marvel )

Forty-four genomic variants linked to major depression

(tags: depression genetics )

Dammit, I want a capybara

(tags: cute )

Melatonin’s role in labor progress

(tags: childbirth )

EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming neonicotinoids,

(tags: bees europe GoodNews )

Voter ID plans 'deeply flawed', says Electoral Reform Society

(tags: reform voting identity uk )

Why Do Judges Cite Jane Austen in Legal Decisions?

(tags: writing women law usa )

Wooden Statue Found in Late 1890s Likely Dates Back More Than 11,000 Years

(tags: archaeology prehistory )

Prof says he'll grade students on a curve, so they organize a boycott of the exams and all get As

(tags: exams university )

Quiz: can you guess the world city from its cold war Soviet spy map? (I got 9/11)

(tags: maps russia )

Comments

[mountainkiss]

What would you do with your capybara?

[andrewducker]

I would love him and squeeze him and call him George.

https://youtu.be/jPdHaNr0OAY

(I don't actually want one. I just want to be friends with one)

[danieldwilliam]

I'll see if I can persuade my brother to adopt one - it's what we did about a dog for the Captain.

[ckd]

11/11 on the map quiz using a combination of geographic knowledge, logic, recognizing a few Cyrillic letters, and lucky guessing informed by the rest of it.

Some were trivially easy (1, 2, 4, 7, 10, 11 are all cities I've been to with distinctive geography), some were easy if you know a little Cyrillic (3 and 5 have bodies of water with easy to recognize names), and some were just "what seems most likely" (6 has multiple railway stations and docks with water to the west, 8 had what looks like a line dividing the city into two major sections, 9 has parks and hills).

[simont]

Yes, my key clue for 6 was which side of the map the water was on.

My favourite dead giveaway was the regular polygon appearing in one of them :-)

I only dropped one mark, and it was the one I expected to get wrong – I know little enough about any of the San Foos that I had no hope of distinguishing the right one by any means short of a lucky guess, and I didn't get lucky.

[melchar]

I missed the first 2 and got the other 9. No knowledge of Cyrillic, 2 for water placement & LA for the LA River & 3 that seemed 'most likely'.

But 11/11 is terrific!

Capybaras

[dewline]

If I ever get back to Toronto for a visit, the zoo hosting Bonnie and Clyde - and whoever else by now - is on my bucket list, right along with Pinewood Toronto (because Star Trek: Discovery).

[skington]

I thought I recognised the “grade on a curve” story. Sure enough, when I clicked through to the link, it was from 2013, but you'd never have known that from the story. Boing Boing really is quite rubbish these days.