Interesting Links for 18-07-2019
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andrewducker- I'd never heard of "Paris Syndrome" before. (Fascinating, but rare - Japanese people so shocked to discover that it's different to the movies they fail to cope)
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- Modeling the Mythical Man-Month (or: The ideal number of people in a team is about 3)
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- Psychologists are studying polyamory
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- Human presence alone has lethal effect on large predators
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- Isn't Everyone On The Spectrum?
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- Explaining Japan's 99.9% Conviction Rate
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- Autistic Spectroscopy: Exploring what the "spectrum" means
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- How does OpenStreetMap keep track of where your home is when the continents won't hold still?
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- Trial By Trolley - a social game of philosophical conundrums
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- Live Action Warhammer 40,000 TV Show 'Eisenhorn' Announced
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- Gorillas have humanlike social structure
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- The Glorious, Profitable, Inescapable Art of Addiction (in games)
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- Scottish town named top cruise ship destination in Western Europe
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- No Deal Brexit forecast to lead to a £30 billion a year hit to the public finances per year, according to the first official projection from the Government's independent budgetary watchdog - the OBR
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- An interview with Margaret Hamilton: The woman whose programming helped us land on the moon
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- The lesson from the ruins of Notre Dame: don't rely on billionaires
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Date: 2019-07-19 01:54 am (UTC)It looks like Kirkwall is indeed top of a list of ports in the UK and Western Europe, of which the other 4 were Cork, Lerwick, Amsterdam and Bruges. The other categories in Europe are "Baltic & Scandinavia", "Eastern Mediterranean", "European River Destinations" and "Western Mediterranean", though, and by now your reaction has probably gone from "OMG a cruise port in Orkney is better than Venice‽" to "actually, how many cruise ports are there in basically the North Sea?"
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Date: 2019-07-20 01:02 pm (UTC)(Although it also does seem to do well in other comparisons in the article.)