Interesting Links for 28-03-2019

[andrewducker]

Storing time data as UTC is not a silver bullet (wish I'd read this last time I'd written something with dates in it)

(tags:date calendars software data )

The British government's view is that in the event of No Deal there both will and won't be a border in Ireland

(tags:ireland NorthernIreland europe uk OhForFucksSake )

The obscene moral spectacle of Theresa May's resignation

(tags:conservatives politics EpicStupidity UK europe )

Facebook to ban white nationalist content

(tags:facebook racism )

Brexit: Arlene Foster says DUP will not support withdrawal agreement in crushing blow for Theresa May

(tags:UK NorthernIreland europe hope DUP )

How Inuit Parents Raise Kids Without Yelling ??? And Teach Them To Control Anger

(tags:psychology children parenting Inuit emotion anger )

Indicative votes: A People's Vote just became much more likely

(tags:UK europe politics hope )

How the UK lost Brexit battle (decisions made two years ago led us inexorably to this point)

(tags:UK europe politics )

The number of new coal plants being built has collapsed by 84% in 3 years

(tags:coal electricity globalwarming GoodNews )

Mercury is the closest planet to all seven other planets (video)

(tags:physics space video viaSwampers )

The Library of Rare Colours (video)

(tags:video colour art history )

Edinburgh sees 80% surge in job adverts

(tags:jobs edinburgh )

How Do Blind People Who've Never Seen Colour Think About Colour?

(tags:blindness colour psychology )

Comments

[cosmolinguist]

I wish it wasn't so remarkable that blind people do know about colors and do think of them the same way we all think about things we cannot see. :(

[andrewducker]

I think that it's remarkable that people who have never experienced something, have any frame of reference for it at all.

[calimac]

ref. an article some time ago, possibly on Slate Star Codex, about people who haven't experienced something but think they have. e.g. people with no sense of smell who think that other people's talking about smells is some sort of metaphor.