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

[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.