Interesting Links for 26-11-2025

[andrewducker]

1. How Ferrari's Formula One Pit Stop Team saved the lives of thousands of children

(tags:safety process driving mechanics children healthcare )

2. EU's Top Court landmark judgment: Member States Must Recognise Same-Sex Marriages from Other EU Countries

(tags:Europe LGBT marriage GoodNews law )

3. Suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%

(tags:suicide children LGBT transgender hormones research )

4. Justice secretary wants most jury trials scrapped

(tags:law UK labour )

5. Lammy Furiously Backed Campaign for 'Vital' Jury Trials 'To Prevent Bias and Ensure Justice' - before deciding to get rid of them

(tags:law UK labour hypocrisy )

6. Concept Art for Characters That Ended Up as Blonde White Women

(tags:design games racism )

7. BBC accused of censoring Trump line from historian's lecture

(tags:bbc censorship corruption usa politics )

Comments

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[channelpenguin]

Super interesting.

Also EXTREMELY similar to doing any non-trivial maneouvre on a boat (specifically sailing, in my case, not at all limited to racing). Especially that key list - though there is a higher number of less-predictable scenarios in sailing.

I find there is a "missing" key in that list, ensure that all crew understood the eventual aim of the maneouvre - though for the specific Op Theater to ICU transfer case and pitstops it may be so absolutely self-evident that it didn't need stating. But it is otherwise very very similar. I suspect a naval or other military ultimate root for the pit crew process.

For sailing maneouvres, I would ensure that all crew understood the eventual aim of the maneouvre (and all alternatives, such as "abort and go round again", "let the wind blow us onto that big motorboat and we will pull ourselves across afterwards"), all crew were practiced in the skills they needed for their task, and were given specific instruction to improvise within their role (both seperately and co-operatively) in the maneouvre to achieve our eventual aim.

IMO, the skipper should NOT have any other task that distracts from THEIR task - which is observant supervision of the task and any needed overall direction (such as change of plan). Under no circumstances should the skipper micromanage crew members - crew should be assigned tasks they understand well enough to do without detailed direction (learning scenarios in controlled conditions aside).

So, yeah pretty much the same.

Interestingly, I was NOT explicitly taught this process as part of my sailing or sailing instructor education. I gleaned it by observing the good skippers!