Interesting Links for 19-09-2018

[andrewducker]

BBC Scotland's full response to accusations of anti-independence bias

(tags: bbc scotland )

What are Scotland's P1 assessments really like?

(tags: school testing )

SpaceX reveals identity of the world's first lunar space tourist

(tags: tourism moon Spacex space )

Thinking beyond yourself can make you more open to healthy lifestyle choices

(tags: health exercise diet psychology )

A Day in the Life of a Female Incel

(tags: satire celibacy gender murder sex relationships )

Germany launches world's first hydrogen-powered train

(tags: hydrogen trains transport environment )

Two-thirds of secondaries can’t find maths teachers

(tags: teaching fail jobs uk mathematics )

NASA isn’t going to pay for the BFR, so Musk charts a new course

(tags: Spacex space )

Twitter will soon let you switch between chronological and ranked feeds

(tags: Twitter GoodNews )

The Captain Marvel Trailer looks like a lot of fun

(tags: comics marvel movies trailer )

Construction to begin on 36 megawatt Moroccan wind farm for Bitcoin mining

(tags: electricity Morocco bitcoin solarpower )

Bicycle Speed Record Broken - Denise Mueller-Korenek Bikes at 183.93 MPH

(tags: speed bicycles )

Can attachment theory help explain the relationship some people have with their “anorexia voice”?

(tags: anorexia eatingdisorders psychology )

Sugar content of most supermarket yogurts well above recommended threshold: Organic products, perceived as healthier options, among some of the worst offenders

(tags: sugar food )

Comments

[ljgeoff]

Captain Marvel looks amazing. Have you seen this? In response, to that one, I wrote a bit of fic. I don't know if Vignette Two will stand up after the movie - the timing is off. Still. :)

Also, thank you for A Day in the Life of a Female Incel. If guys wonder, yeah, it's like that. Heh.

[danieldwilliam]

I am confused by the Moroccan wind farm.

I can't tell if they are using Bitcoin mining as an opportunistic cashflow to get the project off the ground whilst Morocco sorts out some transmission lines or if they have been BitConned.

[andrewducker]

To be honest, I'm not sure.

I think that they have network connectivity out to the location (possibly via satellite, to be honest), but no electricity grid, so they're trying to do something which can turn electricity into money which isn't "selling electricity", at least until they can get themselves hooked up.

Plausibly, that's Bitcoin. Alternatively, data centres focussing on low-bandwidth/high processing work would do it, but I'm not sure how much other demand there is for that.

Sugar

[agoodwinsmith]

Check your labels - always check your labels. Sugar is everywhere. We've had such a massive decades long fit of the vapours over fat that sugar has been used in absolutely everything. I stopped using the salt brand that my family has been buying since the dawn of time because, yes, it has sugar in it. Seriously. Check your labels on everything (you will also need to know all the words that mean sugar: things usually ending in "ose".)

Re: Sugar

[skington]

Salt brand‽ Name and shame please?

Re: Sugar

[zotz]

Stops iodide being oxidised, apparently, so probably quite common in small amounts in iodised salts. The only figure I can find instantly is 0.04%.

Re: Sugar

[agoodwinsmith]

http://windsorsalt.com/products/table-salt-and-household-salt/

I don't have a box in the house, so I can't look at the Nutrition Facts label (which you can *almost* read in this picture) to confirm that this is still the case. I haven't bought this salt since around 2004.

[ninetydegrees]

Organic products from supermarkets don't care about recommended thresholds. Like non-organic products they make sure they respect the legal minimum to get whatever label or certification they need, and they're usually more expensive anyway. Supermarket logic/big industry logic prevails over health no matter which product you're talking about. Better have a look in specialized/online shops if you can.