Interesting Links for 02-03-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Edinburgh parking: New permits for carers to be introduced in Capital

(tags:Edinburgh driving )

2. CNN leak shows internal distress about double standards on Israel coverage

(tags:Israel cnn journalism Palestine bias )

3. As banks buy up bitcoins, who else are the 'Bitcoin whales'?

(tags:bitcoin investment banks )

4. Waymo Will Bring Autonomous Taxis to Los Angeles—Its Biggest Challenge Yet

(tags:automation cars taxi USA )

5. Rock star: I've spent 30 years making a Scotland map from pebbles

(tags:rocks geology scotland )

6. Who *doesn't* want Tenacious D covering Britney Spears?

(tags:music video cover BritneySpears )

7. On the genetic basis of tail-loss evolution in humans and apes

(tags:genetics humans evolution )

8. Facebook, Instagram, X and Telegram fail to remove posts selling date rape drugs

(tags:drugs rape Facebook twitter OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[cmcmck]

7. There was a 19th century conspiracy theory which beieved that humans WERE born with tails but that midwives and doctors conspired to remove them at birth. :o)

[andrewducker]

I want a tail!

[mountainkiss]

What would you do with it?

[andrewducker]

Have a tail!

(I have not thought any further about it than that. Should the opportunity ever arise I will invest more thought in the matter)

[hairyears]

This might actually have been true of the Hapsburgs.

Alas, all modern references focus on the Hapsburg jaw, and I find no reference to protruding coxycces at all.

Perhaps it is an old wives' tail.

[anna_wing]

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306921606_Whole_Genome_Sequencing_Identifies_a_Missense_Mutation_in_HES7_Associated_with_Short_Tails_in_Asian_Domestic_Cats


Someone has finally taken a look at the widespread phenomenon of missing or "broken" tails in otherwise perfectly normal and healthy cats. This is widespread in insular Southeast Asia, and has been for long enough that both Stamford Raffles and Darwin took note of it. A cat with a normal, long, straight tail is actually considered rather special. It's completely separate from the Manx gene. The really interesting bit about this paper is that may be two, separate, non-Manx genetic causes of the missing , partial or deformed tails.

[andrewducker]

I'm glad there's research going on!

[melchar]

I loved the Tenacious D cover!

[andrewducker]

I'm hoping they release the full version!

[melchar]

Honestly? That would be pretty darned cool.