Interesting Links for 01-12-2020

[andrewducker]

How about, rather than having a camera down your throat you swallow a camera?

(tags:camera healthcare )

Banning high stakes fixed-odds betting terminals meant people gambled £700m less - and without the huge job losses predicted

(tags:gambling UK )

Scottish homes to be first in world to use 100% green hydrogen (to replace gas in boilers and cookers)

(tags:hydrogen heating cooking Scotland )

What You Can Learn From Hunter-Gatherers' Sleeping Patterns (it's not what you think)

(tags:sleep humans )

Every NHS and social care worker in Scotland to receive £500 'thank you'. (And £100 for every family with a child getting free school meals)

(tags:Scotland NHS money )

The UK's farmers face upheaval, but a reform to subsidies is needed

(tags:UK farming subsidies reform )

Nearly 250 million workers strike in India

(tags:India strike rights )

Great, the transphobes and the antisemites are in cahoots

(tags:WTF bigotry LGBT transgender Jews conspiracy )

"How I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet"

(tags:Twitter recursion )

The inspiration for the scotch egg looks pretty delicious

(tags:food )

Google's AI handles protein folding, a previously unsolvable problems

(tags:AI protein impressive )

DeepMind's superhuman intelligence - what does it say about the future of AI?

(tags:AI protein thefuture )

UK supermarkets won't deliver to under 18s. Students who are isolating are told to order online. I see a problem...

(tags:shopping UK pandemic students age )

Some of these Nativity scenes are a bit... unorthodox

(tags:Christmas funny )

Comments

[autopope]

The Colon Capsule camera system doesn't totally make a colonoscopy painless: you're almost certainly still going to need to do the 24 hour bowel prep beforehand (the laxative treatment from hell). In my experience that was actually a whole lot more uncomfortable than the colonoscopy itself, even without sedation! (I'd compare the unsedated colonoscopy treatment to a routine dental check-up with de-scaling and polish: mildly uncomfortable with occasional moments of "ouch—" passing before it got bad enough to protest.)

[calimac]

"apparently the driver has discretion to ask for proof of ID, regardless of the content (and presumably without rifling through all the bags)."

That's unnecessary, and implies very bad planning on Sainsbury's part. Safeway, the US grocer I order groceries from, automatically flags any age-restricted items on the list the picker takes to assemble the order. Then the deliverer knows to ask for ID and a signature. If there's no flags, they don't ask. No rifling through bags is necessary, just checking the list.