andrewducker | Interesting Links for 08-10-2019

Patrick Troughton's Doctor, in colour: (tags:colour history drwho photos )
Not long ago, the center of the Milky Way exploded: (tags:space explosions )
Brexit: Voters turning against no-deal as deadline approaches: (tags:uk europe polls )
A fascinating discussion of how big you can build a building out of wood, and why: (tags:construction materials )
Unilever pledges to halve use of new plastics: (tags:plastic recycling )
Pedestrian detection systems don't work very well: (tags:cars safety fail )
UK already up to Â£66bn poorer because of Brexit vote: (tags:UK economy doom )
Red tape bill for UK-EU trade under no-deal Brexit set to hit Â£15bn a year: (tags:bureaucracy UK Europe business Doom )
Animated history map shows the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire.: (tags:history maps visualisation empire )
The last laugh: behind the multimillion-dollar deals to buy old sitcoms: (tags:TV business )
Artificial blood developed for patients of any blood type (so far only tested on rabbits): (tags:blood )
Whatever Happened to the Tech Bubble?: (tags:Technology business economy )
The 128 chilling words in the Scottish case on the Benn Act: (tags:uk europe law scotland )
Brexit: Ex-Cabinet minister Amber Rudd ready to back second referendum as she attacks 'desperate' Boris Johnson: (tags:uk europe referendum )
Boris Johnson's Brexit plan in tatters as Angela Merkel personally rejects it: (tags:uk europe )
What is the nobile officium?: (tags:law uk scotland )
The storms of Henry Darger - how one man's obsessions led to one of the longest, and strangest books: (tags:books wtf obsession )

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Not sure I understand what makes the "chilling words" chilling. They seem to me chilling for an opposite reason. What they seem to be saying is that, the government having declared to the court that they will obey the Benn Act, the court has no legal reason to disbelieve them, whatever Boris may be saying elsewhere. I'm not so sure the words to the court can be believed.

nancylebov

A whole lot about why wood buildings (above six stories or so) aren't as easy all that.

https://avc.com/2019/10/cross-laminated-timber/#comment-4643481053

andrewducker

That's the same link!

I thought it would link to the comment from JLM (eight days ago) which starts with

"CLT has been around for a long time. It has been used to make beams in the residential and light commercial market for more than half a century -- maybe longer. When I studied structural engineering back in the late 1960s, we used to study GluLam beam design."

That's why my original link was supposed to do too!

(And does, for me, so long as I wait about ten seconds)

Very cool, if true

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