Interesting Links for 08-01-2019

[andrewducker]

If Brexit were a film, what would be the music on the soundtrack be?

(tags: UK europe music funny )

Plans to open up streets to pedestrians and cyclists in Edinburgh

(tags: edinburgh transport scotland )

Americans are happier in states that spend more on libraries, parks and highways

(tags: usa money happiness government )

I had no idea that DARPA now had self-guided 50-caliber bullets

(tags: video military weaponry Technology thefuture )

Sado-unicornism: May confuses self-harm for strategy

(tags: UK europe doom )

Explaining that falling back on the WTO isn't a deal, and isn't something anyone competent would want anything to do with.

(tags: trade doom uk europe fraud viaJoachim )

Could a Post-Brexit UK make better trade agreements than the EU does?

(tags: trade uk europe )

Balanced diet, exercise doesn't prevent gestational diabetes

(tags: diabetes gestation pregnancy )

$1T is leaving Britain because of Brexit

(tags: finance UK europe doom )

Genetic code that turns animals monogamous identified m

(tags: monogamy genetics )

Explaining Maxwell's Equations, and thus how electricity and magnetism intertwine

(tags: physics )

Six-day queues into Dover feared under no-deal Brexit scenario

(tags: UK europe doom )

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

I still don't understand curl, even with a maths degree.

Edinburgh streets

[nojay]

We got a brochure through the letterbox a while ago showing an artists impression of the pedestrian-and-cyclist-friendly street layout the council are planning to install outside our front door. Lots of smiling people and cyclists on the narrowed street with two road lanes left for regular vehicular traffic and no parking allowed, obviously.

Problem is, this is the A8 at Haymarket. For some reason there were no buses shown in the artists impression, or taxis or trucks or cars. This is a road that carries over 50 buses and coaches an hour at peak times, a street with a taxi rank to provide for the railway station, shops on both sides of the road which need loading access for goods etc.

It's possible a lot of this traffic could be diverted through the residential areas to the north of Haymarket as they were during the endless roadworks for the tram project but I don't think that's really a goer.

Re: Edinburgh streets

[andrewducker]

Yeah, it's one thing to reduce car traffic, but the buses have to go *somewhere*.

[melchar]

Brexit theme music is SO 'Yakety Sax' ^_^

[cybik]

I really dislike the current fad for analogies that link Brexit and self-harm, because it minimises self-harm and makes it sound like a foolish choice rather than the coping strategy of people in a lot of pain.

[andrewducker]

That's a very fair point. I should have changed the title.