Interesting Links for 15-02-2020

[andrewducker]

A couple of clicks in a bank's spreadsheet caused the biggest fluctuation in Britain's trade figures in modern history.

(tags:gold UK trade weird )

What's going on with geothermal wells?

(tags:electricity energy earth heat )

An Inflammation of Place (the historical diagnosis of NewYorkitis)

(tags:newyork disease cities stress )

Don't aim for passion, be *curious*

(tags:advice passion )

Moving home can affect your children's health and education

(tags:homes children mentalhealth Education )

Some tips on writing British characters

(tags:UK society behaviour )

Flow-Charts of Programming Language Constructs

(tags:programming visualisation )

Dentists threatened by face-mask shortage because of coronavirus

(tags:teeth virus disease Doom )

There and Snack Again: How to eat everything in Lord of the Rings

(tags:lotr food )

How real is "grade inflation"?

(tags:education uk )

Comments

[jducoeur]

Yeah, different world. My major was Computer Science (I was *fairly* sure of that going in, and it solidified within six months), but the classes were more shoring up my existing knowledge than anything else, since I'd already been working in the field since I was 14.

So college was mostly liberal arts, with enough stuff in my major to graduate well. Essays were sometimes a pain, but with occasional joys like managing to write my final in Arthurian Lit on the then-hip-and-new comic book Mage...