Interesting Links for 16-10-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Research released into the effects of the UK's trans puberty blocker ban

(tags:UK bigotry LGBT transgender healthcare mentalhealth children OhForFucksSake )

2. The move to USB C for charging is a done deal. I'm not sure what the UK has to "consider" about it.

(tags:UK usb Europe electricity )

3. Doctor Who and the Sign Language Question

(tags:drwho sign language video funny viaSwampers )

4. Turns out that once Uber had to make money they started charging more and paying less to their drivers

(tags:driving jobs taxi pay glasgow scotland )

5. "Homeostatic Complacency" is something I've encountered plenty of times. Is there a more traditional name for it?

(tags:psychology behaviour )

6. Seriously ill patients on mental health wards will be helped with their CV

(tags:mentalhealth jobs uk wtf )

7. Too many "local" news sites aren't. I'm so glad that we have at least one in Edinburgh that really is.

(tags:news edinburgh )

8. Confronting the truth about Alex Salmond

(tags:AlexSalmond rape abuse death scotland politics )

9. What's Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures?

(tags:globalwarming doom )

10. Labour Together: From new MPs to cabinet ministers, how the influential think tank's donations are bankrolling the party, and who they are linked to.

(tags:labour money corruption )

11. Seven New Frogs Named After Iconic Star Trek Captains

(tags:frog StarTrek names sound viaSwampers )

Comments

[cmcmck]

1. If this research doesn't get the facts through thick heads then nothing is going to.

[andrewducker]

Sadly, I think they just don't care.

[bens_dad]

7. When I lived in Aberdeen, I met people who took the Press and Journal as their only newspaper. It had local, national and international news, so this was not unreasonable. This was the early nineties, people did get their news from papers.

I wonder when the Manchester Guardian stopped concentrating on events in Manchester ?

My current local paper is even older than the Guardian. Although it is no-longer locally owned, it is still full of local news and ads and the website doesn't seem to be click-baity. However my mother-in-law recently stopped getting it and switched to a TV listings mag as that was all she looked at.

[foms]

Re #5, I'll drop in a note about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifting_baseline.