Interesting Links for 11-07-2021

[andrewducker]

Quest for "green" cement draws big name investors to $300B industry

Extra info https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27795416
(tags:materials co2 cement )

Off-Patent Osteoporosis Drug Also Found to Extend Lifespan

(tags:lifespan viaDanielDWilliam )

The Planets with the Giant Diamonds Inside (inside two fascinating planets you don't hear much about)

(tags:space planets history astronomy )

Why Do Gamers Love Speedrunning So Much Anyway?

(tags:games speed )

Government's Mass Infection Plan pushed by Great Barrington Declaration Lobbying Effort to End COVID Protections

(tags:conspiracy vaccine pandemic UK government OhForFucksSake )

Not wearing a mask is associated with antisocial traits

(tags:psychology pandemic )

Boris Johnson's £11.6bn climate fund to be swiped from aid budget

(tags:UK globalwarming aid OhForFucksSake )

What is "The child-annihilating zipline"? (with bonus terrible kitchen redesign)

(tags:death children engineering )

No bids for over 70% of Indian coal mines up for auction

(tags:coal India )

Comments

Indian Coal

[danieldwilliam]

If I've read that right that's the second auction of coal mines in India with both sets of auctions having lots of no bids.



Anyone up for bidding $1 for a bunch in round 3?

Speedrun

[danieldwilliam]

I like watching fake speedrun videos on Minecraft.

Green concrete

[danieldwilliam]

Green concrete is a good example of what politics and states are for; a problem involving coordinated action, externalities, (prudently) conservative vested interests and variable timescales and the solution requires tax policy and regulation.

Not wearing a mask

[snippy]

"more callous, hostile, and deceitful" certainly represents the people I know who refused/refuse to wear a mask.

[calimac]

"Not wearing a mask is associated with antisocial traits"

Ya think?

Masks and antisocial traits

[anna_wing]

In countries where mask-wearing is merely an uncomfortable inconvenience, and does not attract the visceral irrationality that it does in much of the West, non-mask-wearing is associated in poorer countries with poverty, ignorance and supply-chain problems; in richer ones, with mental illness of the more antisocial kinds, or being an antisocial foreigner with entitlement issues.

The zoledronate information sounds very promising, especially in respect of extending "healthspan". Most countries with shorter lifespans could probably already extend them with basic public health interventions.