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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2018-10-02 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 02-10-2018

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‘Goblin’ world found orbiting at the edges of the Solar System

[personal profile] jack 2018-10-02 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, cool!

I feel like those quotes are not how I expect somehow
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The Financial Times 404 Error Page is brilliant

[personal profile] jack 2018-10-02 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
:)

Although nowadays I think "you looked for a page that isn't there" is much less often the reason for a 404, it's more likely to be a truncated link or a moved page, and I wish 404 pages frontloaded the information a bit, e.g. saying "you followed a link from 'page'" if that information is available, and "you were trying to reach URL", especially if it redirects you, and if the URL has the information, the title of the page you were going to, and -- ideally, for a major site -- something that actually helps you find the page (usually something based on how pages actually move, not a keyword search on random words in the URL)
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Artificial sweeteners have toxic effects on gut microbes

[personal profile] doug 2018-10-02 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I have long had a hunch - and I have very little more to go on than that, really - that artificial sweeteners are the sort of thing that seemed like a really good idea at the time but will turn out to be a really, really bad one. You know, like tetraethyl lead in petrol and CFCs. This single study is pretty weaksauce evidence for that idea, but it's the beginning of the sort of thing that seems very plausible to me.
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[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2018-10-02 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
If I understand the description of the orbit of the Goblin world correctly it's in quite an elipical orbit, ranging from 65 AU to 2,300 AU and the implication of this is that it's being pulled out of a more circular orbit by a large body orbiting further out aka Planet Nine, (or as it used to be known when I was a lad, Planet X).

Which is pretty cool - that we can spot something that large (or small) but we can't yet see something much, much larger.
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[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2018-10-02 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)

I'm not entirely sure what the point is of extending civil partnerships to heterosexual couples.

It seems to me that we've managed to create two slightly different forms of state sponsored marriage which strikes me as somewhat jurisprudentially inefficient.

MInd you, if the Romans could cope with three or four different legal forms of marriage I dare say we'll cope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_ancient_Rome