Interesting Links for 17-11-2025

[andrewducker]

1. A Crucial Genetic Mutation Behind Crohn's Disease Has Finally Been Revealed

(tags:disease genetics )

2. The North-South Tramline: Building a Connected, Prosperous Edinburgh?

(tags:transport economics Edinburgh )

3. Behold - the Future of Poltics!

(tags:politics satire comic conspiracy )

4. The sad truth about most end of life healthcare

(tags:healthcare age satire funny comic )

5. Repeated mRNA Covid vaccinations make a more diverse and stronger T-cell response

(tags:vaccine pandemic GoodNews )

Comments

[cmcmck]

5. Tell that to a government who decided to save pennies by dropping huge numbers of people off the vaccination list!

[hilarita]

Co-signed by someone who's eligible for free flu jabs but not covid and who has just forked out nearly £100 of their own money to do this.

2 Trams

[danieldwilliam]

As the late, great Bart Calendar once said to me - putting in a tram is a signal of long-term intent.

Looking ahead, if we build the second line soon we can expect about 5 years after that for Line 1 to be extended, 5 years after that a 3rd line, 5 years after that Line 2 to be extended and then 5 years after that Line 3 to be extended. That starts to get you in to a small but useful light rail system with an option on the South Suburban tram-train still to come.

Re: 2 Trams

[andrewducker]

Totally agreed.

Even building the South bit of line 2, and then continuing to the North bit, so that it's incrementally growing.

Re: 2 Trams

[danieldwilliam]

Do you know if there are separate business cases for the South and North elements?

My guess is that a lot of the value comes from linking the relatively less well-off and under-developed north shore with the south of the city.

But I'm in favour of incremental build out if that means a build out occurs.

[juan_gandhi]

№3, so impressive and so realistic for our time...

[bens_dad]

4. Although the end of life care I've seen is expensive, I haven't noticed it to be performative or to burn money).

[andrewducker]

I think performative in that a lot of it doesn't provide much in the way of actual quality of life.

[ljgeoff]

It depends on what type of end of life care we're talking about. Straight up hospice is not that expensive. But I've worked in ventilator units where 8/10 patients were in a coma and fed through a tube. It was pretty damn sad.