Interesting Links for 19-08-2020

[andrewducker]

Would you like to listen to some butt music from hell? (As painted by Hieronymus Bosch)

(tags:music hell painting ViaDrCross )

Small Pleasures Are Just As Important For Our Wellbeing As Long-Term Goals

(tags:happiness psychology pleasure )

The Greek government is taking refugees out to sea and then leaving them there

(tags:murder refugee OhForFucksSake greece )

Want to keep predators away from your cattle? Paint eyes on their butts

(tags:predator cows eyes )

40 Wholesome Middle-Age Success Stories

(tags:MiddleAge success life )

Belarus president: "Until you kill me, there will be no new elections"

(tags:politics belarus dictators )

Scientists calculate that the top 200 meters of ocean alone contains up to 21 million metric tons of plastic. And that wasn't even counting microfibers.

(tags:plastic Ocean Doom )

Coronavirus: UK to ramp up household testing

(tags:Pandemic testing UK )

This is what coronavirus could do to our offices and homes

(tags:disease work organisation architecture design )

Looks like I fit male and female stereotypes almost entirely equally

(tags:stereotypes quiz psychology )

Highland polar bear Hamish to leave Scotland

(tags:bears scotland )

Julian Assange: condemned by his own actions

(tags:JulianAssange )

How many pieces can a puzzle have?

Of course you also get weird-shaped puzzles. I had great fun with one last time I visited my parents that had puzzle pieces carved into the shape of skulls, gargoyles, etc.
(tags:puzzles design mathematics )

The town where it snowed chocolate

(tags:chocolate Switzerland )

Why a Baker's Dozen is 13 Instead of 12

(tags:history cooking bread numbers )

Comments

[rmc28]

I am slightly more stereotypically feminine than stereotypically masculine and like you, firmly in the "Androgynous" quadrant.

[claudeb]

Ugh, Julian Assange's story is even more sordid than I though. On the plus side, awww, polar bears!

[hutchingsmusic]

A bit of mathematical perspective: that top 200m of water weighs A LOT. Radius of earth is a bit over 6000km. Area of water is about 2/3 of surface, which is about 100 million square kilometres. Multiply that by 200m and you have about 20 million cubic kilometres, which is 20 million billion tonnes of water. So that's about 1 tonne of plastic per billion tonnes of water. I mean, it's bad, but in a tonne of water you'd get about one milligram of plastic.

[andrewducker]

Thank you for doing the maths for me!

[cmcmck]

Solidly in the feminine quadrant.

Quelle surprise...........

[ninetydegrees]

48.33% masculine, 55% feminine, which is pretty much what I expected. Interesting test.

[agoodwinsmith]

"Your gender coordinates are 48.33% masculine, 51.25% feminine, which places you in the feminine quadrant."

My dot was very nearly on X marks the spot where the axiseseseses cross.