Interesting Links for 26-10-2018

[andrewducker]

A fascinating trilogy of articles looking at the economics, politics, and culture of Irish reunification

(tags: ireland NorthernIreland politics viaDanielDWilliam economics europe uk )

VFX Artist Reveals the True Scale of the Universe

(tags: video size space solarsystem )

Three-quarters of newspaper stories about Jeremy Corbyn fail to accurately report his views

(tags: labour fraud journalism uk )

Mad Max: Fury Road's director has his next project, and it's not a Mad Max film

(tags: movies )

Joint statement from Lib Dems, Green Party, SNP and Plaid Cymru on Barnier meeting

(tags: libdem snp GreenParty UK europe )

Instagram Refuses to Pull Down Milo Post Praising Mail Bombs

(tags: socialmedia terrorism usa OhForFucksSake )

Google terminated 48 employees for sexual harassment in the last two years

(tags: Google harassment )

What the Sydney Opera House can teach us about Brexit

(tags: UK europe doom projectmanagement )

Argentina says it could exploit no-deal Brexit to 'enhance' relations with Falklands

(tags: Argentina Falklands UK europe )

Antibiotic 'Trojan horse' could defeat superbugs causing global medical crisis

(tags: antibiotics GoodNews thefuture )

Stressed out waiting for some news? Try playing a computer game

(tags: distraction stress games )

Stress Hormone Cortisol Linked to Early Toll on Thinking Ability

(tags: cortisol stress mentalhealth )

Comments

[skington]

Got a non-paywalled version of the Sydney Opera House article?

[andrewducker]

https://twitter.com/TimHarford/status/1055698864471203840?s=19

See also : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypasspaywalls/

[skington]

Thanks!

[skington]

What's odd about the Jeremy Corbyn press coverage report is that the Times and the FT aren't on the list of newspapers they studied.

[calimac]

At first I read the medical headline as meaning "Antibiotic 'Trojan horse' could defeat superbugs, causing global medical crisis."

And, sure enough, inside the article it explains how they work: "The drug binds on to iron and is fast tracked past its defences into the heart of the cell."

So what we have here is a powerful mechanism to select for any mutation - and bacteria mutate like crazy - that will raise defenses against pulling the drug into the heart of the cell, and the next generation of even more super superbugs will be born.

[doug]

Yes, this. From what I've gleaned there's nothing to stop bacteria evolving resistance. We need more classes of antibiotics, sure, but more than that we need a better regime for using them to reduce resistance, and we are not making much progress there and I'm not hopeful.