Interesting Links for 22-05-2020

[andrewducker]

If you are a cisgender woman and consider yourself a friend and ally to trans people then please consider signing this open letter to Liz Truss.

(tags:transgender LGBT politics )

Scientists find area of mouse brain that shuts off pain

(tags:pain mice )

Scotland's route map through and out of the pandemic

(tags:pandemic scotland government )

This is my new favourite house listing

(tags:funny housing )

What it's like to be Elon Musk's neighbor.

(tags:ElonMusk OhForFucksSake texas )

The DfE has done no modelling on the impact on transmission rates of starting to reopen schools.

(tags:Education pandemic OhForFucksSake England )

Bumblebees fools plants into flowering - by biting them

(tags:bees flowers plants )

Coronavirus: Britons not welcome in Greece until infection rate declines

(tags:Greece UK pandemic tourism )

Breaking: The Scottish First Minister knows you're horny.

(tags:Scotland pandemic sex Twitter funny )

Pro-tip - if you're going to murder someone then don't do it while they're on a Zoom call with 20 witnesses

(tags:murder Technology )

Tens of thousands of coronavirus tests have been double-counted - tests which involve taking saliva and nasal samples from the same patient are being counted as two tests, not one.

(tags:testing UK OhForFucksSake )

'Siri, What Time Is It in London?'

(tags:computers stupidity )

Left, Right, Above, and Under: Intel 3D Packaging Tech Gains Omnidirectionality

(tags:3d processor computers technology )

The science behind human irrationality just passed a huge test

(tags:psychology behaviour rationality )

Tracking down "The Worst Person You Know"

(tags:meme photos journalism internet )

Comments

[cmcmck]

I'm not a cis woman, but can I beg those of you who are to please, please sign this otherwise we're going to lose decades of progress.

[redbird]

I signed, and was a little surprised not to be asked for postcode/location; if they had, I would probably have used my mother's.

[calimac]

Favourite house listing: That's not far from me. Felton is a little town up in the mountainous woods above Santa Cruz. I know two people who live within a couple miles of that address.

By the way, the apparently insanely high price strikes me as actually pretty inexpensive for a house that size in our insane market, probably due to how isolated Felton is.

[andrewducker]

It is clearly a very very big house.

Bees

[anef]

Bees are fascinating creatures. I recently read "A Sting in the Tale: My adventures with bumblebees" by Dave Goulson who is a bee researcher. It is a very entertaining, interesting and sometimes gruesome book, but above all enlightening, both in what we know about bees and what we don't.