Interesting Links for 28-02-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Beautiful Edinburgh garden many locals don't know about named most peaceful spot in UK (I'd lived here twenty years before I knew it was there)

(tags:Edinburgh gardens nature )

2. If you're wondering why there's a worldwide shortage of ADHD drugs, blame the USA

(tags:USA adhd OhForFucksSake regulation manufacturing )

3. Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users' Data to Train AI Tools

(tags:ai Tumblr wordpress OhForFucksSake )

4. Texas will add more grid batteries than any other state this year, more than doubling its capacity

(tags:Texas batteries GoodNews )

5. The reason why Tory MPs won't use the word 'Islamophobia'

(tags:islam UK politics )

6. Small steps forward in understanding the links between DNA damage and aging

(tags:genetics aging )

7. How the gender pay gap in the UK compares to other nations

(tags:gender wages pay UK )

8. Atmospheric rivers mapped by scientists in California

(tags:rain weather )

9. Botanical gardens can cool city air by an average of 5 °C (and other green spaces are also effective, if less so)

(tags:gardens cities temperature )

Comments

[andrewducker]

Hmm. 65dB is, apparently, loud laughter. https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Technical/Sounds/Decibles.htm

So if you commute into town, and someone laughs on the bus, that's you on the list!

[danieldwilliam]

Heaven forfend that any citizen of Edinburgh should be seen laughing in a public place!

[andrewducker]

The shame!

[symbioid]

Heh - this reminds me of Limmy's old bus sketch.

[channelpenguin]

My singing voice has been clocked at 98-102Db next to my ear. Not even directly in front. That's a jet engine 500m away, somebody told me :-). My laughter frequently startles people in a room, and I can sometimes see them actually flinch...

#maybeitsascottishthing

[andrewducker]

Edinburgh: so loud because of all the singing.