Interesting Links for 04-01-2021

[andrewducker]

British urgently want the blood of Irish people (excellent headline from 2014)

(tags:blood Ireland NHS UK headline )

Here's a really simple way to be better than tin-opener dad

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1345728759815553024.html
(tags:children parenting teaching )

Self-reliance isn't a starting point, it's a distant goal

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1345737168988364807.html
(tags:parenting learning children )

South Korea's 'Artificial Sun' fusion reactor burns hotter than star for longer than ever before

(tags:nuclearpower Korea )

The real origin of the European Union 'supranationalist' state - and why it still matters

(tags:Europe history )

Tom Stoppard and the Last Crusade (which he basically wrote)

(tags:indianajones writing )

Disney+: Lost and 24 among shows coming to new Star channel on streaming service (along with all 23 Die Hard movies)

(tags:Disney TV streaming )

Comments

[calimac]

Chuck Wendig on self-reliance is particularly impressive. I like that he includes my stage of "guide their hand" in teaching, and that his classic example of bad teaching is, yep, "throw them in a pond." Also note "this masculine tough guy image that taught men they must do everything themselves." That reminds me of a small lump in a Donald Westlake where a rural fireman muses that "cause of fire" can often be put down as "farmer." Your farmer does everything himself: he's his own electrician, and he's not a good electrician, and same goes for everything else.

On the other hand David Allen Green saying "The United Kingdom in its modern form as a collection of four nation states has only existed since 1922" is epically disingenuous.