Interesting Links for 06-10-2019

[andrewducker]

Baby dies in English prison after inmate gives birth alone in cell

(tags:babies death prison OhForFucksSake UK )

Battle to wipe out debilitating Guinea worm parasite hits 10 year delay

(tags:Parasites africa )

Sesame Street is the largest and least-costly early childhood intervention that's ever been implemented

(tags:children effectiveness muppets SesameStreet )

London's supplementary vote system is pretty bad (if not as bad as FPTP)

(tags:voting London )

Tonnes of British-grown fruit wasted over shortages of EU workers amid no deal Brexit fears

(tags:UK Europe farming Doom )

Famous Philosophers' Pick-Up Lines

(tags:philosophy relationships dating funny satire )

The hours spent per conversion for Jehovah's Witnesses has gone up dramatically

(tags:religion statistics GoodNews )

Labour would rather have No Deal than accept that Jeremy Corbyn will not get the ex Conservatives to back him

(tags:Labour UK Europe doom )

"Winner" Boris Johnson's record so far

(tags:BorisJohnson epicfail )

The rush to climb Uluru before the ban exposes a hollow centre

(tags:Australia culture religion mountains OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[lilysea]

The rush to climb Uluru before the ban exposes a hollow centre

I went to Uluru when I was 9/10 years old, and they were asking people not to climb it even then.

I'm now 43.

[danieldwilliam]

I'd have been there about the same as you. Went when I was 11/12, am a couple of years older than you.

I don't recall a specific campaign about not climbing it but I do remember some general unease about whether climbing it was an okay thing.

And also the gradual renaming of the rock from Eyre's Rock to Uluru in general Australian parlance.

[miss_s_b]

* screams AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH in Person Who Has Studied Mill In More Depth Than "he's just a Utilitarian reallY" *

About Sesame Street

[dewline]

I would say that its positive effects on human children are as described by Alia Wong for the Atlantic and also, that those effect are not confined to the United States. CBC has maintained access for Canadian audiences across the decades, as well as funding programming of its own. We have not had homegrown programming of that strength, though, since Mr. Dressup and The Friendly Giant went off the TV airwaves.

Re: About Sesame Street

[andrewducker]

I've been entertaining Sophia with a bunch of the songs. Hoping to show her more educational bits when she's a bit older.