Interesting Links for 22-10-2018

[andrewducker]

Theresa May battling to save her leadership as Tory MPs demand she faces show trial

(tags: Conservatives doom )

Oral Tradition - The Oldest True Stories in the World Are Over 10,000 years old

(tags: stories history viaFanf australia )

EU withdrawal deal is 95% settled, Theresa May to tell Commons

(tags: Europe UK )

First Black Woman Legislator In Vermont Resigns, Flees To Another Town After Neo Nazis Threaten Her Family

(tags: racism usa OhForFucksSake )

SNP shuts down Israel-Palestine school resources after lobbying pressure

(tags: Jews Israel Palestine Scotland Education )

We've seen Boston Dynamics' infamous robot dog open doors, and climb stairs. But now it navigates complicated construction sites, and does detailed work inspections too

(tags: robots construction video )

Story-listening shows promise as an intervention for people living with dementia

(tags: dementia alzheimers memory stories )

Five arguments against a Peoples Vote

(tags: law politics uk europe referendum )

Premier Inn unveils no-frills hotel brand with pod-style rooms

(tags: hotel )

Comments

[cmcmck]

There's a link on my latest that may interest you!

[calimac]

I tend to think that May will survive. Anybody likely to replace her would only be worse.

The poorest argument against a second referendum is that the 2017 general election confirmed the results of the first. No, it just confirmed that the government can go ahead; it didn't say anything about what the people wanted. There's never just one up-down topical issue on the ballot in a GE, and with Con and Lab both favoring Brexit (on the grounds that the referendum had settled the issue), there was hardly much of an effective choice.

[symbioid]

LOL that 95% settled seen as positive is clearly from a politicians and not, IDK, someone who deals with systems who know it's the last 5% (and considering we're talking the intractable Irish Border issue... )

[andrewducker]

Yup. Looking forward to seeing how intractable it really is.

[heron61]

Oral Tradition - The Oldest True Stories in the World Are Over 10,000 years old Fascinating, especially since one of these stories is about Crater Lake, which I've visited. It's also not surprising. An archaeology professor of mine back in the late 80s talked about a dig in northern Pakistan, where the archaeologists kept finding flat stones with patterns of concentric triangles (where were naturally occurring and in the stone, not something anyone drew) in the center of habitation sites.

Some of the locals came by when the archaeologists were unearthing one of these stones that had broken in half, and the locals were very upset that the archaeologists had broken one of the locals' sacred stones, but were excited when they found out this stone was really old. They then showed the archaeologists their own village, which had one of these stones in the center. What all this meant likely changed, but the customs surrounding it were at least 25,000 years old, because that's how old the habitation sites were.

[andrewducker]

Wow, that's staggeringly old!

[agoodwinsmith]

Thank you for the Alzheimer's link.

[andrewducker]

Pleasure!