Interesting Links for 26-04-2024

[andrewducker]

1. history of the entire world, i guess

(tags:video history funny )

2. Soaring in thermals is clearly much more fun when you employ a vulture to help you out

(tags:birds flying awesome video )

3. More than a quarter of people with Covid infection develop Long Covid (and a quieter of those develop brain fog. Vaccination helps though)

(tags:pandemic doom )

4. Why nuclear power stalled in the 1980s (hint: not environmentalists)

(tags:nuclearpower economics )

5. The magic of theatre - digging into the staging of a famous production of The Tempest

(tags:shakespeare theatre history )

6. Nearly 70% of British people want a Youth Mobility Scheme with Europe. So, of course, Labour is against it.

(tags:labour europe uk youth OhForFucksSake )

7. My Comments Are in the Google Doc Linked in the Dropbox I Sent in the Slack

(tags:Technology communication funny horror )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

I once had a colleague who was a keen paracender. He once told me about using a thermal in the Cotswolds where he could smell the cigarette smoke from the farmer driving his tractor in the field below.

It was quite a magical description.

[mountainkiss]

You see, it stops working as soon as one understands that thermal is a piece of kit rather than an outfit.

[danieldwilliam]

The thought of sharing my thermals (rather than a thermal) with a vulture is uncomfortable bordering on terrifying.

[mountainkiss]

It’s the surrealism I liked.

[danieldwilliam]

It's alright for you, you're not the one with a vulture in your thermals. It's Andrew and me who are suffering and he was already pretty uncomfortable with the whole business before the vulture got involved.

[andrewducker]

A thermal is the rising warm air, which birds use to gain height, and so paragliders can follow about to also gain height.

So not really a piece of kit, more part of nature.

[mountainkiss]

Every day a school day.