Interesting Links for 19-07-2022
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- 1. Forests Now Cover 2% of Iceland (up 6x since 1990)
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- 2. A new milestone in augmented reality: Functional contact lenses
- (tags:augmentedreality contact_lenses Technology impressive )
- 3. Want to be an artist? Having millionaire parents *really* helps!
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- 4. Keir Starmer rules out 'any agreement' with the Lib Dems after next election
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- 5. Mint is not a necessary part of toothpaste. If you don't like it then feel free to use other flavours
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- 6. The future of sports: Revealed!
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- 7. Ballet imposes gender roles on dancers
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- 8. Audiobooks or Reading? To Our Brains, It Doesn't Matter
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- 9. Stray, a game where you play as a cat in a world populated by robots is clearly not going to make any money at all
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- 10. Scientists design contraceptives to limit grey squirrels
- (tags:squirrel UK contraceptive fertility )
- 11. Cheese reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart failure, coronary heart disease, hypertension, and ischemic stroke
- (tags:cheese health heart diabetes )
- 12. Heat wave kills more than 1,100 people in Spain and Portugal
- (tags:heat globalwarming death spain portugal )
- 13. UK set to have world's biggest automated drone superhighway
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Date: 2022-07-19 12:29 pm (UTC)I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you. That such a thing should happen whilst he is planning an informal electoral pact. Shocked.
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Date: 2022-07-19 12:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-19 04:08 pm (UTC)The Advertising Standards Authority has no jurisdiction over political adverts either :-(
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Date: 2022-07-19 09:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-20 09:18 am (UTC)More important is the regulation of lying to parliament. Where there are processes to deal with it, and it seems that Johnson would eventually have faced the Privileges Committee. I'd like to see this toughened up somewhat, and set up so that it can work speedily. It looks like the report won't be finished until the end of the year, and while I'd like things to be thorough, they can be so while also being efficient.
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Date: 2022-07-19 04:05 pm (UTC)As Edinburgh Council showed, that is not a hypothetical scenario.
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Date: 2022-07-19 09:41 pm (UTC)Particularly when running a council could be described as administrative work on behalf of the central government rather than an opportunity to take a different ideological position.
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Date: 2022-07-19 04:12 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2022-07-20 09:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-20 09:22 am (UTC)Unlikely.
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Date: 2022-07-20 12:28 pm (UTC)I would like to play it. I may be allowed to some time next year.
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Date: 2022-07-19 06:24 pm (UTC)9. My cat liked this video (really!)
8 "If you don’t have time to sit and read a physical book, is listening to the audio version considered cheating?" ROFL. Silly idea. I'm not sure anyone thinks that! (I've personally no patience with audio as for me it's too slow - but I realise that my 1000+ wpm reading speed isn't usual)
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Date: 2022-07-19 06:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-19 06:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-19 06:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-20 06:21 am (UTC)But the reading speed thing is why I don't like most podcasts.
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Date: 2022-07-20 05:36 am (UTC)And it depends on the book too, of course. I find that writing for silent reading, and writing for reading aloud is actually different.