Interesting Links for 19-07-2018
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andrewducker- Astronomers can now get sharper images from the ground than the Hubble can from space
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- European Commission fines Google €4.34 billion for illegal practices regarding Android mobile devices to strengthen dominance of Google's search engine
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- EU signs its biggest free trade deal with Japan
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- Critical realism in 100 words
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- UK facing longest fall in living standards for over 60 years (this is *before* a hard Brexit is taken into account)
- (tags: UK economy epicfail )
- The 10 Phases of a 10 Minute Shower With a Baby at Home
- (tags: cleanliness babies funny true viaJane )
- ‘Meghalayan Age’ announced as official new chapter in Earth’s history (starting 4,200 years ago)
- (tags: prehistory geology )
- Hackers account for 90% of login attempts at online retailers - successful 3% of the time
- (tags: hacking passwords security )
- Edinburgh's Leith Street to reopen after almost a year
- (tags: Edinburgh roads transport )
- The end of all things is upon us
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- Michael Scheuer, the former senior CIA official and NYT bestselling author of Imperial Hubris, is calling for Trump supporters to kill Trump opponents
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- Homophobic University chaplain removed after holding service to atone for Gay Pride event
- (tags: homophobia religion catholicism glasgow Scotland uk )
- Timeline of the far future
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- As I assumed, the Chequers agreement is totally unacceptable to the EU
- (tags: UK Europe doom fail )
- Labour don't have the numbers to keep the UK in the EU
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- Zuckerberg defends Facebook users' right to deny the Holocaust
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- Israeli defense firm demos kamikaze drone bomb that can be called off
- (tags: drone weaponry military )
- Do not debate holocaust deniers. If possible, shut them down
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- Labour politician refuses to quit despite calling women ‘b***h’, ‘cow’ and ‘c***’ in misogynistic hate campaign online
- (tags: Labour misogyny Manchester )
- Non-religious countries experience greater economic growth, study finds
- (tags: religion success economy )
- Spain to introduce ‘yes means yes’ sexual consent law
- (tags: law rape Spain consent )
- The women choosing to love their natural grey hair
- (tags: women hair age )
- Chief whip Julian Smith told MPs to defy pairing deals
- (tags: politics conservatives OhForFucksSake uk )
- Some notes on She-Ra from the guy who co-created her
- (tags: writing women children animation )
- "I was right to confront Jeremy Corbyn over Labour’s antisemitism"
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- Israel passes law enabling apartheid
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- Morrisons 'quiet hour' for autistic shopping introduced
- (tags: shopping autism noise uk )
- How democratic are the reformed electoral systems used in Britain’s devolved governments and English mayoral elections?
- (tags: voting uk )
- Looking at Test Driven Developmen: An Academic Survey
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- Visualizing street orientations on an interactive map
- (tags: design roads cities )
- After a 400-Year Absence, A Rare Ibis Returns to European Skies
- (tags: birds Europe GoodNews )
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About that Facebook mess?
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Date: 2018-07-19 12:20 pm (UTC)That should read:
'A mostly pointless cycle way has been created between Calton Road and Picardy Place as a means to tick boxes for cycling provision while not actually doing anything sustantive.'
Secularization ...
Date: 2018-07-19 07:01 pm (UTC)http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/7/eaar8680
and they say: "... tolerance for individual rights predicted 20th century economic growth even better than secularization."
It took me a while to find out where the study had been published, and as I skimmed assorted articles it was interesting to read each writer's take-away: women's right were the driver, increased LGQTB tolerance did it, racial tolerance did it, etc etc.
Actually, the only thing certain, though other results are possible, is that secularization precedes economic development, and so it isn't increased prosperity that causes reduced religious adherence.
Increased regard for individual rights precedes economic prosperity.
Re: Secularization ...
Date: 2018-07-23 07:56 pm (UTC)Re: Secularization ...
Date: 2018-07-23 09:31 pm (UTC)I need to think about this some more, because "increased regard for individual rights" is not just focused outward, but also permits someone who was expected to "know their place" to aspire to other options because they also have an increased regard for their own individual rights.
More thought needed.