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

[nancylebov]

Nice little garden you're got there.Pity if more people knew about it.

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[calimac]

"This played out several times. It’s wrong. Why? Because it’s wrong. It was as if we’d fallen into a perpetual logic loop, sentenced to living out the same moment over and over again."

Sounds like Dave McCarty.

Item 4

[dewline]

Good news from an unexpected region. Also, thanks for pointing out Canary Media's existence.

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[channelpenguin]

how is that even possible? grrr

[altamira16]

The US has been experiencing shortages in ADHD medication for a while. There is a lot of suspicion that a lot of people got diagnosed with ADHD during the pandemic by people not qualified to diagnose them.

[bens_dad]

The quiet garden piece links is based on research at https://earth.fm/the-quietest-places-in-the-worlds-loudest-cities/
which found that Edinburgh is the loudest city in the UK, twice as many people in Edinburgh are exposed to loud noise (>65dB) as *any* city (>250 000 people) in the US, but much fewer than half as many as in Vienna, and Edinburgh wouldn't make the top ten in Europe.

I'm wondering if the definition of city limits is sufficiently different in the three "regions" to account for the massive differences ?

[symbioid]

I hate the DEA so much it needs to die in the fires of the racist history it was born in.