Interesting Links for 05-05-2021
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andrewducker- The world's biggest jeweller, Pandora, says it will no longer sell mined diamonds and will switch to exclusively laboratory-made diamonds
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- Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border
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- Efficiency Is the Enemy - to be effective you need slack
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- Nose size indicates maximum penile length
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- The Unlikely Success of Fish Fingers (sticks in the USA)
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- The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer
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- Louisiana Anti-Trans Bill Dropped After Overwhelming Opposition
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- Fishing row triggers French threat of Jersey power cut
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- China's falling rocket: What happens if out-of-control Long March 5B hits the Earth?
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- New study maps out Earth's global atmospheric rivers
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- The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think
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- Why student libraries never have enough eBooks
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- Germany Will Return Benin Bronzes to Nigeria in 2022
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- Autistic people are better at detecting lack of interest in further conversation than non-autistic people are
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Date: 2021-05-05 11:20 am (UTC)5) I stopped eating fish sticks when they stopped putting fish inside. Now all there is is a thin strip of fish-flavored paste between thick layers of breading. They were quite different in my childhood.
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Date: 2021-05-05 02:02 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2021-05-05 04:36 pm (UTC)7. Good news, where Louisiana is concerned, yes. How do we stop the other states from going down the wrong road?
9. Reassuring, as far as it goes. Reading that article led me to this one:
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/space-junk-collision-satellite-debris-iss-nasa-b1074079.html
I guess we call this the "fear of the Gravity scenario problem"? It seems far more probable than the single-rocket-crashing scenario nowadays.
11. A marvel of further advancing communication by hieroglyphic text!
13. Good news there!
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Date: 2021-05-06 06:25 am (UTC)https://www.kimberleyprocess.com/en/what-kp
It would be interesting to see what happens to the natural diamond market. It might be similar to what happened to the market for natural pearls after cultured pearls became common i.e. it would disappear. But natural pearls were always much more rare than natural diamonds, so the diamond market will probably segment. Lab-grown will become part of the high-end costume jewellery market, which is basically Pandora's price point, and possibly take over some of the mass market for real jewellery. Natural diamonds will be marketed as "the real thing", and remain a high-end luxury product. Something similar to the differentiation between untreated rubies and sapphires and treated ones.
Why student libraries never have enough eBooks
Date: 2021-05-08 08:45 am (UTC)