Interesting Links for 25-03-2021
Mar. 25th, 2021 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
- Covid: Matt Hancock announces new health agency focusing on preventing future pandemics
- (tags:UK pandemic thefuture )
- America's gun violence rates, in 16 maps and charts
- (tags:guns USA visualisation viaDanielDWilliam )
- What is the latest Reddit drama all about
- (tags:Child_abuse Reddit transgender censorship wtf )
- Multiple Destroyers Were Swarmed By Mysterious 'Drones' Off California Over Numerous Nights
- (tags:drone navy usa )
- The majority of patients discharged after a Covid infection had not recovered after five months. Younger women got hit the worst
- (tags:Pandemic Doom women )
- A Letter to the Jewish Community from an Asian American Jew
- (tags:Jews asia USA racism )
- Study reveals how human brains grow larger than those of other apes
- (tags:brain ape )
- What Will It Take to Get a Cargo Ship Unstuck From the Suez?
- (tags:trade shipping canal epicfail )
- Big investors shun Deliveroo over workers' rights
- (tags:rights delivery UK investment )
- New Alan Turing £50 note design is revealed
- (tags:AlanTuring money UK )
- Nationwide tells 13,000 staff to 'work anywhere'
- (tags:work homes office )
- NHS staff in Scotland to be offered 4% pay rise
- (tags:Scotland NHS pay )
The majority of patients discharged after a Covid infection had not recovered after five months. You
Date: 2021-03-25 12:03 pm (UTC)Re: The majority of patients discharged after a Covid infection had not recovered after five months.
Date: 2021-03-25 12:06 pm (UTC)Alan Turing Bank Note
Date: 2021-03-25 12:26 pm (UTC)Re: Alan Turing Bank Note
Date: 2021-03-25 12:42 pm (UTC)Not that I've spent more than £30 of cash in the last year.
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Date: 2021-03-25 01:03 pm (UTC)Re: Alan Turing Bank Note
Date: 2021-03-25 01:48 pm (UTC)Re: Alan Turing Bank Note
Date: 2021-03-25 01:55 pm (UTC)One might have been a taxi to the hospital during the pregnancy. Not sure.
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Date: 2021-03-25 02:08 pm (UTC)Re: Alan Turing Bank Note
Date: 2021-03-25 02:19 pm (UTC)I'm fairly sure they do take cards nowadays, but for some reason I've been assuming there's a surcharge. I'll have to remember to look next time!
Re: Alan Turing Bank Note
Date: 2021-03-25 03:40 pm (UTC)Speaking of Alan Turing and the inconvenience of £50 bank notes, the US has put Ursula K. Le Guin on a postage stamp. It is, however, for an inconvenient value of postage.
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Date: 2021-03-25 01:55 pm (UTC)Re: Alan Turing Bank Note
Date: 2021-03-25 03:56 pm (UTC)Re: Alan Turing Bank Note
Date: 2021-03-25 04:22 pm (UTC)For actually buying things, I think I used cash three times, all in 2020 at drive-up windows before contactless payments became standard practice. Indeed, in 2021, no use of cash at all that I can remember, though it's in my wallet just in case.