Interesting Links for 07-12-2021

[andrewducker]

Can coronavirus cause diabetes, or make it worse?

(tags:diabetes Pandemic Doom )

Rail freight boosted by HGV driver shortage and climate change

(tags:trains transport shipping GoodNews uk )

Uber prices could rise 20% after UK VAT ruling

(tags:tax UK law taxi )

As few as 1 in 10 Covid infections checked for omicron, as 'community transmission' confirmed

(tags:UK Pandemic Doom )

Two hippos at Belgian zoo test positive for Covid

(tags:hippo Pandemic )

Virgin Media O2 completes gigabit upgrade after two years (I'm on the much slower 350Mbit speed)

(tags:broadband internet UK virgin )

What Whale Barnacles Can Tell Us

(tags:whales history biology )

How the Government both won and lost the Priti Patel High Court bullying case

(tags:law bullying government uk )

Robot facial expressions are getting pretty good

(tags:robots faces viaJamesNicoll )

A feel-good, time-travelling Christmas movie starring Michael Sheen, you say?

(tags:movies viaLilysea christmas timetravel )

DARPA Funded Researchers Accidentally Create The World's First Warp Bubble

(tags:physics space )

What's Putin really up to with Ukraine?

(tags:russia ukraine usa )

Comments

[dewline]

1. Dammit.

2. That's helpful, as far as it goes. In Canada, sprucing up our rail network's going to take a lot of work. Including this:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/trains-return-bc-1.6275086

The damage being caused by the climate emergency's effects is making the process harder than we should have wanted it to be, as you can see. I expect that the British Isles' nations are going to have a harder time of it in some ways, given the scale of the network there and the fact that they're on islands.

5. Sad news, that, for multiple reasons.

10. Interesting in a "mixed blessing" way, that news.

13. Looking forward to further developments on this!

14. Rebuilding the USSR on what Putin hopes will be his terms alone, maybe?

On another of probably several hands:

https://gwynnedyer.com/2021/ukraine-an-exciting-new-crisis/

[andrewducker]

Thanks for the Ukraine link!

[casimirian]

I read a thread on Reddit about the DARPA news. Someone pulled out the paper and determined that it may be more sensational than true.

[jack]

I assume this is true for 100% of news about warp bubbles. The physical theory is real so plausibly I'll be wrong eventually, but optimistic reports will always massively outnumber real discoveries.... :)

[casimirian]

I too am cautiously optimistic about such development!

[andrewducker]

I'd be interested to see that!

[casimirian]

Here you are, friend.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/rad1ne/comment/hni3ca0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3