Who owns the Post Office and which minister is responsible? BEIS, Cabinet Office, UKGI and Treasury all involved. https://www.postofficetrial.com/2019/11/the-post-offices-journey-into-disaster.html
Lack of oversight led to millions of public money wasted and lives destroyed https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/post-office-high-court-case-it-horizon-postmaster-prison-latest-a9249431.html
Getting a .gov domain name
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/11/its-way-too-easy-to-get-a-gov-domain-name/
Every Christmas since 1825, the Royal Institution gives science lectures for kids and adults.
This Christmas, Dr Hannah Fry talks about maths: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000crbl
Previous lectures, including Kevin Fong talking about how to survive in space: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch
GiveWell's top charities
https://blog.givewell.org/2019/11/26/announcing-our-2019-top-charities/
Every Level Crossing In The UK
http://www.paulplowman.com/stuff/every-level-crossing-in-the-uk/
All coal is the same age, and we're not making any more of it. https://youtu.be/b34al8YmQSA
Merry Christmas to everyone from gate 43 this morning. My 19th year of airports at Christmas. This song by the @TheDoubleclicks means so much. https://youtu.be/2LBTPpaGmkE (And happy holidays too...)
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds sounds strange and alien and disco. An amazing concept album, and worth listening to the whole thing. https://youtu.be/6fnPn9Xr7fI #music
London Reconnections annual Christmas quiz is out. It's about transport in London, and it's impossible as always. https://www.londonreconnections.com/2019/the-london-reconnections-2019-christmas-quiz/ #london
Neutron star particles go under the LHC microscope
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/neutron-star-particles-go-under-the-lhc-microscope
Where is plastic in the ocean, and how long has it been there?
https://ourworldindata.org/where-does-plastic-accumulate
Remain won the popular vote: 53% vs 47%. No mandate for Brexit.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2019/dec/12/uk-general-election-2019-full-results-live-labour-conservatives-tories #ukpol
It's a disaster. The Tories are in power. #ukpol
Blind and partially sighted voters use the tactile to voting template to vote in secret. Vote Thursday. https://www.rnib.org.uk/campaigning-current-campaigns-accessible-information-campaign/voting-and-elections
The Realm of the Ice Giants
http://www.planetary.org/explore/the-planetary-report/simon-the-realm-of-the-ice-giants.html #space
We're in this brexit mess because David Cameron got a majority in 2015, even though:
- 2 in 3 people voted against him
- 159 Tory seats where most people didn't vote Tory
Our electoral system is a disaster. Vote tactically. https://dontsplittheremainvote.com/ #ukpol
CURLmas is back! The advent calendar webpage that takes all 24 days of advent to download! Be amazed as the image changes every day without any JavaScript! Swoon as the progress bar in curl or wget shows the percentage of advent completed! http://curlmas.dbatley.com/
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