Interesting Links for 31-03-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Jamie Wallis: Conservative politician comes out as UK's first openly trans MP

(tags:LGBT conservatives UK transgender )

2. How cables get so tangled

(tags:video cables funny Technology )

3. A Woman's Story

(tags:racism computers women history usa )

4. "I no longer grade my students' work - and I wish I had stopped sooner"

(tags:academia learning school )

5. When the school day starts later, teens get better sleep and feel more motivated

(tags:sleep school )

6. Automated taxis coming to San Francisco

(tags:sanfrancisco automation driving cars )

7. MPs Vote To Make At-Home Early Abortion Services Permanent

(tags:UK abortion GoodNews )

8. The vast majority of British voters support a close deal with the EU (Norway-like)

(tags:UK Europe polls identity )

9. Scottish under 18s will no longer be sent to young offenders institutions

Although, why can changing approach from "one of punishment to one of love and support" be applied to adults too?
(tags:scotland prison children )

10. "Procedural Justice" reduces crime by 14% and arrests by 60%

(tags:crime police transparency )

11. Mobile phone users do not have increased risk of brain tumours

(tags:mobile_phones Technology cancer GoodNews )

Comments

[dewline]

1. Good! At least they seem to be getting this much right, and I hope to see further progress to that end goal.

4. I wish we'd had this when I was in school.

5. This also.

7. Also: good!

8. Maybe this can be set to rights in our lifetimes. Somehow. Again, I think Canada should be applying to join the EU as a full member, regardless of geography and logistics. CETA seems a half-hearted measure.

9. Agreed on your comment on this. I suspect the relevant agencies in Canada, provincial and federal, will be watching this with much interest.

10. This also seems hopeful.

11. Glad to have that closer to "settled question"...

[andrewducker]

I'm not sure it makes sense for Canada to join the EU when it trades 9x more with the US than the EU, and that's not likely to change dramatically. Which is a shame, but geography really matters.

[dewline]

The trade stats are true. I am focused on emergency planning in case of a reinstallation of Trump, or the election of worse-than-Trump. Looking at the state-level planning of future crimes against humanity by the Republicans, I will not rule that out. I think some of them want to turn Canada into their version of Ukraine. In the worst ways.

[andrewducker]

I can totally understand that. I hope it doesn't come to that!

[calimac]

And of course in the past the US tried exactly that on Canada. It's not well-known in the US that the British burning of Washington in 1814 was in retaliation for the American burning of (what was not yet then known as) Toronto the previous year. And some sources, though not all, claim that a major impetus for the 1867 Confederation was to form strength to ward off any future US invasions; fortunately by that time the US had given up the idea of annexing Canada.

- US person who knows a little more than most about his own country's history

[bens_dad]

4. I wish we'd had this when I was in school.

I think I did.

School started at 9am; with registration and (some mornings at least) assembly, it was probably 9:30 when lessons started. We finished at 3:45 or 3:50* (the school day was rewritten during my stint).
I see children streaming away from school not long after 3pm these days.

*One period (45/50mins) earlier on Thursdays, to allow for Combined Cadet Force (army and air force training).

[andrewducker]

Yeah, 8:30-3:40 at my local high school here. Which isn't far off what they're talking about.