Interesting Links for 09-10-2018

[andrewducker]

Saudi Arabia arrests economist after he criticises Crown Prince's plans

(tags: saudiarabia OhForFucksSake )

Doctor Who: Jodie Whittaker's debut is most watched launch for 10 years

(tags: drwho bbc tv )

How Flocking works

(tags: birds fish behaviour )

A cartography of consciousness – researchers map where subjective feelings are located in the body

(tags: psychology visualisation bodies emotion )

Are super-cheap solar fields in the Middle East just loss-leaders?

(tags: solarpower economics middle_east )

Tricky question here about male musicians. Anyone got any suggestions? (Although the existing comments are great)

(tags: music men satire viaElfy )

The truth about traditional JavaScript Benchmarks

(tags: javascript benchmark fail )

The majority of people do not understand consent

(tags: consent sex society OhForFucksSake )

Doctor Who's viewing figures - boy's down 31%, girls up 264%

Hopefully, given time, those boys come back.
(tags: gender drwho girls GoodNews )

Council cuts due to austerity twice as deep in England as rest of Britain

(tags: austerity UK )

China has designs on Europe. Here is how Europe should respond

(tags: china europe politics )

Why Mathematicians Can’t Find the Hay in a Haystack

(tags: mathematics )

Comments

[andrewducker]

Fascinating!

Is there much research into "describability"?

[simont]

I don't know of any myself, but that doesn't mean a great deal. Off the top of my head it feels like a bit of a vague concept, perhaps heading in the direction of 'philosophy of mathematics' rather than mathematics proper (in that it's not the kind of question you can answer conclusively by proving a theorem, but one where you argue vague and woolly concepts back and forth and expect to be disagreed with).