Interesting Links for 01-07-2020

[andrewducker]

Listen to Wikipedia

(tags:Wikipedia sounds )

Humans forced to hide from sex addicted monkeys who set up HQ in disused cinema

(tags:headline monkeys sex cinema )

Nuclear 'Power Balls' May Make Meltdowns a Thing of the Past

(tags:nuclearpower technology thefuture )

Boris Johnson's 'build, build, build' speech: What he said and what he really meant

(tags:politics UK )

Here's How Our Personality Changes As We Age

(tags:personality age psychology )

Boris Johnson: Economy speech fact-checked

(tags:conservatives money government )

Trump Administration Authorizes 'Cyanide Bombs' to Kill Predators Again, Months After Backlash

(tags:USA poison animals nature republicans )

Germany far right: Elite KSK commando force 'to be partially disbanded'

(tags:germany nazis military )

Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws, oaths remained on the bench

(tags:USA law OhForFucksSake )

Did you know about Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who invented rock and roll?

(tags:music history LGBT racism USA )

Petrol sold to Nigeria from Europe is 200 times worse than EU pollution limits

(tags:oil nigeria europe OhForFucksSake pollution )

Ministers urged to 'look beyond the numbers' as report reveals 39% rise in deep poverty since 2000

(tags:uk poverty )

The robots that can cook and serve your food (Interesting video. Looks like it's very close to the mainstream)

(tags:food robots )

One-time treatment generates new neurons, eliminates Parkinson's disease in mice

(tags:mice genetics disease )

California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste

(tags:India bigotry jobs USA )

'Extraordinary' amber fossils reveal how ancient insects used colour for camouflage

(tags:colour insects fossils )

The EU are being really clear on the UK finance sector, and how much trouble it's going to be in in January.

(tags:uk europe finance doom )

Comments

[channelpenguin]

Of course I know about Sister Rosetta Thrape! :-) \m/

[mountainkiss]

That answers your question of whether people change.

The neuroticism is interesting because it's the opposite of the "U shaped curve of happiness". The former is much more intuitive (and in line with Jungian theory also) but the latter is pretty widely replicated.

[andrewducker]

Oh yes, they clearly do.

I originally posted because I was watching Frozen, and there's a line:
"We’re not sayin' you can change him - ‘Cause people don’t really change"

And I thought "hang on, that doesn't seem right to me. Am I unusual in thinking that people can change."

And was reassured that most people agreed that they did.

Trump Administration Authorizes 'Cyanide Bombs' to Kill Predators Again, Months After Backlash

[jack]

Is indiscriminately killing animals even an effective way of solving overpopulation problems?

Re: Trump Administration Authorizes 'Cyanide Bombs' to Kill Predators Again, Months After Backlash

[alithea]

Nope.

And they have zero control over what those kill, up to and including clueless people, which sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Re: Trump Administration Authorizes 'Cyanide Bombs' to Kill Predators Again, Months After Backlash

[mountainkiss]

Arguable both ways.

Re: Trump Administration Authorizes 'Cyanide Bombs' to Kill Predators Again, Months After Backlash

[ninetydegrees]

This is the same country whose solution to make fisherpeople happy in Utah is to drop thousands of trouts into their mountain lakes by plane.

[anna_wing]

Would extraversion (they at least spelled it correctly!) and conscientiousness show this decline among people over 60 who continue to have active working lives (whether paid or unpaid)? The article does mention the link between incidence of these traits and people's circumstances, which I think is correct, since we are social animals and our traits and our actual behaviour don't necessarily correspond in a straightforward way. Fear of death could be fear of non-existence (or fear of an adverse future existence for those with such beliefs), or could be a rational fear of poverty, pain, indignity, loneliness; the latter could all be ameliorated by appropriate changes to social policy.

Pebble-bed reactors aren't that new. The Chinese have had one in commercial operation for a couple of years. It was German technology originally, I think, but they didn't pursue it; the South Africans were interested, but dropped it, and then only the Chinese were working seriously on it. Nice to see the US nuclear power industry taking an interest.

Robots.

[agoodwinsmith]

People keep developing automation I do not want, and neglecting the automation I do want.

I don't want something to cook my meals. I want to mess up the kitchen and have something clean up the mess so I can mess it up again.

I don't want a disembodied voice to turn on/off my lights, or put milk on my grocery list, or even find me a snazzy TV program. I want something to clean my bathroom, and do my vacuuming.

Re: Robots.

[andrewducker]

Sadly, I suspect that "clean a space" is one of those tasks which is deceptively complex.

I'm delighted to have a dishwasher and a fortnightly cleaner!

Re: Robots.

[anna_wing]

https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-the-self-cleaning-house-4097228

Something like this?

Re: Robots.

[agoodwinsmith]

Yes. Yes yes yes.

Reluctantly I must admit that I have too much clutter for my things to experience the sluice and drain method - but I like it a lot. I especially love the no-carpets-anywhere approach.

Re: Robots.

[anna_wing]

I had to give up on carpets when I got cats. And all the free-standing ornaments went into display cabinets. So there was a net increase in order.