Interesting Links for 13-05-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Terry Pratchett On Trans Folk

(tags:transgender terrypratchett )

2. What's the difference between the British and Finnish welfare systems?

(tags:welfare UK Finland )

3. Wes Streeting explains why Labour are fine with starving children

(tags:Labour children welfare poverty OhForFucksSake )

4. What happened to the Great Library of Alexandria?

(tags:library history )

5. 30,000 rare oysters being reintroduced to Firth of Forth

(tags:Scotland seafood nature )

6. Small nuclear reactors don't add up as a viable energy source

(tags:nuclearpower economics )

7. Internet use is linked to higher wellbeing

(tags:happiness internet )

8. Economic performance is stronger when Democrats hold the White House

(tags:economics usa republicans democrats politics )

9. The Aurora Borealis from Calton Hill, Edinburgh.

(tags:edinburgh auroraborealis photos )

10. Scientists document remarkable sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet'

(tags:whales speech language )

11. Have no doubt: we are at war with Russia

(tags:russia war )

Comments

[fanf]

Heh, 250 MW does not strike me as particularly small, neither does the concrete containment building of that Chinese reactor. SMR sounded to me like a few MW at most!

[simont]

#7: it's the cat pictures, no question.

[andrewducker]

They're why the internet was made!

[calimac]

1) The evidence from his fiction that Pratchett was a trans-friendly author reminds me of the evidence, summed up in a paper I recently read, that L. Frank Baum was likewise.

[andrewducker]

Ooh, interesting! I shall go digging, unless you have anything online you could share?

[calimac]

Dashed, I can't remember where I saw this. But it fits ... Ozma.

[ckd]

Regarding (1) and the tweet about Sir Terry signing a book, I replied to a pair of screenshots that included it "That second one hits me right in the feels every time. I imagine Sir Terry listening, thinking for a moment, and subtly smiling as he figures out exactly how to make the ambigram work...all so quickly that not even the next person in line would have noticed."

That reply got a like from Rhianna Pratchett, which still feels great when I think about it.