Interesting Links for 07-02-2021

[andrewducker]

Government plans to reverse Cameron NHS reforms - and reduce privatisation

(tags:NHS UK )

Beat Saber, the best VR game, has sold 4 million copies

(tags:games VirtualReality )

Making steel without emissions

(tags:electricity materials )

Covid in Scotland: Vaccines exceeding expectations

(tags:vaccination Scotland GoodNews )

UK towns with more immigrants do much better economically

(tags:immigration economics UK success )

Jobs where workers have the highest risk of dying from Covid (line cook is the highest, top 5 are all manual labour)

(tags:pandemic death )

Don't fall for quantum hype (a video by a researcher in the area about why it's heavily oversold)

(tags:physics quantum video hyperbole )

Refusing furlough to working mothers shows gender equality is going backwards

(tags:parenting pandemic OhForFucksSake )

The Secret Bipartisan Campaign That Saved the 2020 US Election

(tags:politics USA )

Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons - but only once those girls become teenagers

(tags:children parenting teenagers girls )

Exports to the EU have plummeted by 68% since Brexit

(tags:UK Europe trade Doom )

Some Arabic and Persian accounts of the export of tin from Cornwall to Egypt and Iran in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

(tags:history Cornwall metal trade UK Iran )

How Marvel Starts The Action Scenes From Movies Years Before Filming

(tags:CGI movies marvel )

We've known the earth was round for 2,500 years

(tags:earth history knowledge )

Comments

[mtbc]

Good to hear that vaccination proceeds well! Also interesting to see the mention of exports from Cornish mines.

[andrewducker]

I knew a bit about the tin mines of Cornwall and Devon from their mention in The Baroque Cycle, but not much at all. Fascinating to see them pop up like this.

[ljgeoff]

Re: Bipartisan Effort -- thank the gods. And thanks for the link; fascinating read.

Some Arabic and Persian accounts of the export of tin from Cornwall to Egypt and Iran in the thirtee

[anef]

I particularly like the pot right at the bottom of the article, with the pictures of (what look like) female musicians.