Interesting Links for 16-09-2021

[andrewducker]

On doing your own vaccine research

(tags:vaccine research comic )

Who talks more in your meetings - men or women?

(tags:talking gender communication )

UK power prices soar after key cable to France hit by blaze

(tags:UK France electricity fail )

2021 Photomicrography Competition | Capturing the very very small

(tags:photos size impressive )

When they say they wish you dead, they mean it

(tags:words death genocide )

Is America's scarcity mindset turning into a zero-sum competition for survival?

(tags:usa society psychology viaDanielDWilliam )

Marks & Spencer blames Brexit as it closes 11 French stores

(tags:france uk europe trade doom MarksAndSpencer )

Co-op to start selling groceries on Amazon Prime

(tags:amazon shopping uk )

Comments

[aldabra]

"We’re taking a country that should be a land of plenty, the ultimate positive-sum game, and we’re turning it into a zero-sum game."

I think "should be a land of plenty" is an assumption that may be out of date. They've run out of cheap land and cheap power, and not they're running out of clement climate and cheap food.

[armiphlage]

The talking-in-meeting issue might be industry-specific, and dependent upon meeting structure and company culture. With my technically-focused company in the manufacturing industry, we always have predefined agendas or RAILs (rolling action item lists), with all key items already communicated by e-mail. The people who do the most talking are the ones with the most information on the subject. It's very obvious if someone without useful technical information is speaking, or if the person responsible for a sector ISN'T speaking, or if someone is causing the meeting to drift off-topic.

Not that my company doesn't have biases, but clear, pre-defined agendas mitigate it in meetings.

[cmcmck]

I suspect that my having both Jewish and Romani ancestry and being connected all too closely to the Sho'ah might be why I do believe them when they say these things because I am who I am.

You aren't paranoid if they really are out to get you.........

[anna_wing]

Most regular meetings within my organisation, whether I chair them or not, usually start by going round the table for everyone to report in, and then just follow the agenda, so all relevant sections give their input. In my milieu, the governing metric is rank and agenda-relevance, not sex (so the chair does most of the talking...).

I'm not certain why an increase in people getting practical vocational training like nursing should be considered a bad thing (it was mentioned in the scarcity mindset article). This is skilled and valuable work, both societally and internationally (nurses have a much easier time emigrating and staying in their profession than doctors). The devaluation of vocational skills makes its own contribution to societal divisions.

The photomicrography is utterly, mind-bogglingly fabulous. The universe is so endlessly interesting, I don't really understand those people who think immortal Elves in Valinor would be bored...