Interesting Links for 18-12-2021

[andrewducker]

Brexit climbdown as UK abandons bid to strip EU judges of Northern Ireland Protocol role

(tags:uk europe justice )

Nicola Sturgeon asks Boris Johnson for more money so she can cancel events in Scotland

(tags:scotland uk pandemic money )

Scientists discover first-ever 'true' millipede with over 1,000 legs

(tags:insects )

All EU nations must recognise children of same-sex parents, court rules

(tags:Europe LGBT children GoodNews )

Newly identified hormone may be a critical driver of type 1 and type 2 diabetes

(tags:diabetes hormones )

Sega Saturn Devouring His Son (clearly the pinnacle of art)

(tags:art consoles funny )

Ministers believe lockdown more likely as modelling points to 1,000 daily deaths

(tags:Pandemic Doom UK Christmas )

Quidditch to change name, citing J.K. Rowling's anti-trans positions

(tags:LGBT transgender harrypotter jkrowling bigotry sports )

Cats and dogs deal differently with optical illusory holes

(tags:cats dogs optical_illusion )

Professional Artists Recreate Children's Monster Drawings

(tags:viaClare monsters art )

Comments

[dewline]

1. Progress of some sort here.

2. How likely is it that Johnson's going to do another "England first!" stunt in reply to this?

3. Wondering why it took so long to actually find such a creature.

4. Good!

8. Also: Good!

Monsters

[channelpenguin]

I'm amazed at the kids monsters. I drew a lot right into my late teens, and aside from a newt-man and dragons never drew anything half as weird and wonderful as those kids. I wonder if that's just me, or that those kids grew up with way more cartoons and video games with much more creative monsters than I ever saw growing up. I actually can't recall ANY. but I got off picture books really young I think. (I could read at 2.5 started reading shop signs, posters and things like that). I really only recall one picture book - a set of proofs of a French kids book from the printing firm my grandfather worked for (with lovely art). So I'm in awe of those kids imagination!

[mtbc]

The dog and cat thing's great.

Cats n Dogs

[channelpenguin]

Maybe it's because cats are long-sighted? Their vision isnt good close to. Or whatever makes them sit in even illusory "boxes" even just marked by corners. Might be that.

Re: Cats n Dogs

[andrewducker]

It could clearly tell there was something up from the way it patted it. But quite possibly not in the same detail.

[anna_wing]

I think cats are also less visually oriented. They use their ears a lot. Plus those dogs were running, whereas the cat was just strolling along and had time to investigate...

[mountainkiss]

Cats use smell too.