Interesting Links for 04-07-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Thomas Cook ends sale of all attractions with captive cetaceans

(tags:dolphins whales travel GoodNews )

2. A modest proposal for helping the Prime Minister "keep on top of government" and "to push priorities"

(tags:organisation politics UK )

3. Britain Faces a Giant Water Bill, And Nobody Wants to Pay It

(tags:UK water business Doom )

4. Degrees What?

(tags:temperature visualisation )

5. The gay ultra-Orthodox Jewish TikTok star exposed for being a fake finally speaks out

(tags:LGBT Judaism fraud )

Comments

[lannamichaels]

I hadn't heard about the tiktok guy before and wow, that's a guy doing an incalculable amount of damage and refusing to accept that.

[doubtingmichael]

Oh, I hate that "Degrees What" webpage so much!

"Let's act like degrees of temperature are related to degrees of angle! It's cute!"

It may be cute, but it is not clever. Bah, I say, bah.

[andrewducker]

*hugs*

Thoughts and prayers in your time of difficulty.

[doubtingmichael]

Thanks, very much appreciated. (But in all seriousness, I think that's a bad bit of science communication.)

[andrewducker]

I think I've worked out the issue.

It's *not* a piece of science communication. It's a silly joke.

[doubtingmichael]

You might be right, at that.