Interesting Links for 10-07-2019

[andrewducker]

MPs vote to extend abortion and same-sex marriage rights to Northern Ireland

(tags:lgbt abortion marriage equality NorthernIreland Yay )

Nerve transfer restores hand function, elbow extension in paralyzed patients

(tags:nerves medicine amazing )

In Japan, the business of watching whales is far larger than hunting them

(tags:whales tourism food )

Corbyn admits Labour could still fight next general election as pro-Brexit party

(tags:UK Europe labour )

Giant marble pyramid-shaped island complex rising from sea uncovered, revealing secrets of ancient Greece's origins

(tags:Greece prehistory archeology religion )

Beluga whale returns phone to tourist

(tags:whales phones video )

Intention to fine Marriott more than £99M under GDPR for data breach

(tags:dataprotection fines Europe privacy )

Restaurant reviews of places that really really aren't restaurants

(tags:restaurant review funny )

MPs back Dominic Grieve plan to make no-deal Brexit harder in knife-edge Commons vote

(tags:politics UK Europe Doom )

Comments

[naath]

Atlantis rising is a Sign Of The End Times.

[dewline]

1. Hooray for Northern Ireland!

2. Hooray for surgical medicine!

3. May the clue-by-four finally hit home to the whaling industry of Nihon.

4. No-Brexit deals still need a proper champion, dammit.

[darkoshi]

That beluga whale seems so friendly and sweet. This page says it may have been used for "children's therapy":
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/mystery-beluga-branded-a-russian-spy-whale-may-instead-be-a-wayward-childrens-therapy-animal

Morten Vikeby, a former journalist with Fiskeribladet, told his old newspaper he believes Hvaldimir, the spy whale is really Semion, the therapy whale.
In 2008, Vikeby wrote about the Russian therapy whale for the newspaper.

So I did a search and found this Norwegian page, which includes a video of the (possibly same) whale from 2008:
https://fiskeribladet.no/nyheter/?artikkel=66821&ref=rss

Translated to English:
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Ffiskeribladet.no%2Fnyheter%2F%3Fartikkel%3D66821%26ref%3Drss

[andrewducker]

Oooh, fascinating! Thank you.

[danieldwilliam]

I suspect that the abortion and same-sex marriage amendments might actually be pointed at Brexit by way of decoupling the DUP from the Government.

[andrewducker]

Or encouraging the DUP back into government, as that would prevent them taking effect.

Of course, that means that Sinn Fein can now make their life very difficult by increasing their demands...

[danieldwilliam]

Aye, I wonder if the idea is to force the DUP back into the power sharing Executive and therefore remove the Tories' ability to offer the DUP de factor direct rule by a UK government backed by the DUP.