Interesting Links for 02-03-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Steel was already being used in Europe 2,900 years ago

(tags:prehistory archeology materials europe )

2. Terry Pratchett on the fantasy genre

(tags:fantasy terrypratchett writing )

3. Fearful of dating app scams, men in Brazil are taking measures women and the LGBTQ+ community have used for years.

(tags:dating brazil crime men )

4. Presidents with Mullets is the kind of thing AI was made for

(tags:ai USA president viaDanielDWilliam )

5. Early-life stress can disrupt maturation of brain's reward circuits, promoting disorders (in mice)

(tags:stress brain reward psychology mentalhealth mice )

6. How to tie beautiful bows

(tags:craft beautiful video )

7. Weirdly it can still be really hard to find shop space, even when the high street is dying

(tags:shops UK rental )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

#7 Commercial Property is a weird business.

[danieldwilliam]

#1 For me the interesting follow up question is whether the Iberian metal-workers could *reliably* product tempered steel.

I'm not suggesting this is what happened - I don't know enough - but I can imagine a metal working knowing that they can make a really really good metal tool some of the time and that metal tool being so useful because of the importance of the carving on the stellae that it was worth trying a dozen times until you got the really good tool but the metal workernot being able to reproduce the forge conditions that made the steel tool reliably.

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[channelpenguin]

but the "fix" they found only works on MALE mice...