andrewducker | Interesting Links for 31-10-2020

Loathing of Boris Johnson fueling surge in support for Scottish independence: (tags:Scotland independence BorisJohnson politics polls )
Deaths per hundred thousand people - 156 countries do better than the UK, only 10 do worse: (tags:pandemic UK OhForFucksSake )
"Oh Jeeeesus": Drivers react to Tesla's full self-driving beta release: (tags:driving automation Tesla Doom )
I'm fairly sure I danced to this at Infest: (tags:music birds video )
A New Way to Plug a Human Brain Into a Computer: through your veins: (tags:cyborg blood brain )
Coronavirus Deaths Are Highly Likely To Exceed The Government's Worst Case Scenario, According To New Sage Analysis: (tags:pandemic doom )
"Not just a virus that kills people"—WHO spotlights long-term COVID-19: (tags:pandemic Doom )
On the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn: (tags:labour UK )
"Why Biden May Be the Best Bet to Beat Trump" (prescient, from last year, explaining things very well): (tags:politics USA demographics democrats )
Gene Roddenberry on whether Kirk and Spock were lovers: (tags:StarTrek fanfic relationships )
The Biden campaign bus is being harassed by gun toting Trump supporters: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1322336226792321025.html
(tags:politics USA harassment OhForFucksSake )
Covid job losses lead MPs to call for trials of universal basic income: (tags:GuaranteedIncome UK pandemic )
What does future world population growth look like?: (tags:population growth thefuture )

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Totally agreed on Tesla. If you go from "three hours of staring blankly into the distance while the car drives" to "react within 1 second or people die" then people are going to die.

Fertility in humans is inversely associated with women getting education and access to contraception. https://wol.iza.org/uploads/articles/228/pdfs/female-education-and-its-impact-on-fertility.pdf
(The "main message" at the end of page 1)

Edited (Adding a line at the end.) Date: 2020-10-31 04:18 pm (UTC)

calimac

I'm glad they discussed India, Indonesia, and Kenya, because I wasn't sure how much women's education and contraception access applied in developing countries.

Very cool, if true

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