Interesting Links for 10-05-2023

[andrewducker]

1. We should seaflood the Qatarra Depression

(tags:sea flooding Egypt )

2. Waiting Mode: Why you can't do anything before your appointment and what you can do about it

(tags:neurodiversity anxiety adhd time stress )

3. How the oldest alliance in the world, between Britain and Portugal, helped win WWII

(tags:wwii history UK Portugal viaPatrickHadfield )

4. The world is stranger than you can imagine - Losing The Time War With Bigos Dickolas edition

(tags:publishing weird Twitter )

5. It's 1178 BCE and the Bronze Age Has Never Looked Stronger.

(tags:prehistory archeology funny history )

6. What effects do different dosages of LSD have?

(tags:lsd psychology )

7. First UK baby born with DNA of 3 parents

(tags:babies dna )

Comments

[cmcmck]

4. Presumably a relation of Biggus Dickus?

[calimac]

3. There's a large Portuguese immigrant community in this area, which sponsors an annual Portuguese festival, and the old English alliance has been celebrated there, with British military bands appearing in the music program, and so on.

Note 1, the reproduced printed text must be of the original 1373 treaty, since it says Edward was lord of England. By 1386 he had died and his grandson Richard was king.

Note 2, what Austen Chamberlain (elder half-brother of Neville Chamberlain) had to do with this in 1927 is that he was Foreign Secretary at the time. And a very good one, though half-forgotten by history.

[melchar]

5. - amusing article that reminds me of this humorous song [released by Overly Sarcastic Productions on April 1] =

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f91JXXeLOjo

[anna_wing]

https://optimistminds.com/qattara-depression/

The Qattara Depression is not dead. The environmental effect would be no less catastrophic than in the case of any of the big dam projects that people on Twitter routinely condemn.