Interesting Links for 01-11-2018
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andrewducker- Agency worker has contract terminated after breaking leg
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- Waymo’s excruciatingly gradual self-driving launch process, explained
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- Potential flaw in our assumptions about unknown opinions of others
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- Antibiotics and stomach acid medicine in childhood increase obesity risk (by interfering with stomach bacteria)
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- What billionaires want: the secret influence of America’s 100 richest
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- Deliberately scaring ourselves can calm the brain, leading to a “recalibration” of our emotions
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- 12 Young People on Why They Probably Won’t Vote
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- How to cook a dumpling in three seconds
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- Bendy-screen phone unveiled
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- There are three types of depression - one of which doesn't respond to SSRIs
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- Spinal implant helps three paralysed men walk again
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- Avengers characters Falcon and Winter Soldier uniting for Marvel TV show
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- 19 photos of Thor which demonstrate what having a period is like
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- Working out what sex people are is more complex than you'd think
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- Designing houses around trees
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- Axing tuition fees would help richest students at least twice as much as poorest
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- You can alter your personality. But only if you work at it
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Date: 2018-11-01 12:46 pm (UTC)"This recalibration account appeared to be supported by the readings of the participants’ brain activity, which were dialled down after the horror experience, similar to the documented effects of mindfulness meditation on brain activity."
I feel like that has really validated my preference for watching horror films over worthy self-improvement exercises! ;-)
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Date: 2018-11-01 01:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-01 01:24 pm (UTC)Designing houses around trees
Date: 2018-11-01 01:40 pm (UTC)There's a shopping development near me that was designed around a beautiful giant oak, and it was done as a real centrepiece. People objected in advance (including me - I was also interested because my pension fund was stumping up the funding) that it would probably kill the tree, but they said they'd had other advice, and it was sort-of open at one side, and did it anyway. The tree died, and now there's a pointless circular outsidey bit in the middle of it that they can't quite work out what to do with.
Re: Designing houses around trees
Date: 2018-11-01 01:59 pm (UTC)Re: Designing houses around trees
Date: 2018-11-01 08:04 pm (UTC)Re: Designing houses around trees
Date: 2018-11-02 01:27 pm (UTC)However, a quick look at the internet suggests the experts really do identify oxygen and lack of moisture as the two threats to covering tree roots, even from as little as two feet of extra soil above what the tree had grown towards.