Interesting Links for 13-10-2023
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- 1. Misery for motorists as Rishi Sunak's HS2 cut set to put half a million more lorries on the road
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- 2. Bentham's Mugging (a short play, wherein moral purity is found wanting)
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- 3. WordPress makes its posts available via the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc)
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- 4. 'Brahmastra Part One: Shiva' - for those people who like a very pretty religious superhero musical
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- 5. On Whataboutery in response to Hamas.
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- 6. Breakthrough in reading unopened ancient scrolls by scanning them
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- 7. France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations
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- 8. Covid can cause our brain cells to fuse together causing cognitive impairment.
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- 9. Edinburgh Princes Street closed due to 'incident' as buses and trams affected
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- 10. Edinburgh's Princes Street closed and buses and trams disrupted after man found dead in early hours
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Date: 2023-10-13 02:43 pm (UTC)But a high speed line has more constraints on the route - how wiggly (up and down as well as sideways) it can be. How does fewer route options affect planning negotiations, which I believe have a large bearing on how long the project takes and hence on how much it costs ?