Interesting Links for 22-11-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Where nobody knows your name... - Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.

(tags:TV history faces photos pubs )

2. The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed 600,000 people, most of them children

(tags:USA aid death children )

3. Pope Leo XIV Gives His Apostolic Blessing to the Bedlam of Noise and Nightclub Worship Styles

(tags:religion music catholicism video )

4. The Batman effect (putting someone in a Batman costume on a train makes people twice as likely to give up their seat for a pregnant woman)

(tags:batman psychology )

5. Andy Burnham: "Here's how I would fix Britain"

(tags:politics labour uk housing )

Comments

[bens_dad]

4. 14 (43.75%) reported that they did not see Batman at all.
I don't recognise him from the photo.

[rmc28]

The juxtaposition of 4 & 5 made me think Andy Burnham was going to deploy Batman on trains.

[andrewducker]

That would definitely tempt my vote.

[cellio]

In a followup study, experimenters will compare the effects of Batman to both other heroes and villains. Does the presence of the Joker stir one to action or freeze one in one's seat, for example?

As regards Item 3

[dewline]

I am buoyed by the replies to the complainant re: Leo XIV and his friend the priestly DJ. There may yet be hope for the service of organized religion in general to humanity.