h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

#Mars landing in 1 hour https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/watch-online/ or https://www.planetary.org/watchparty #space

Mmm... Gin & Tonic flavoured chocolate https://ukshop.divinechocolate.com/uk/shop/products/divine-chocolate/divine-70--dark-chocolate-with-lime---juniper---90g/

Depicting the dead: ancient Egyptian mummy portraits
https://blog.britishmuseum.org/depicting-the-dead-ancient-egyptian-mummy-portraits/

NASA delays mission to spot earth-killing asteroids
https://www.planetary.org/articles/nasa-abruptly-delays-neosm #space

Bruce Schneier on the US cyberbreach
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/23/cyber-attack-us-security-protocols

Muppet Christmas Carol time!

Physics at tiniest scale could explain ‘impossible’ black holes | symmetry magazine
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/physics-at-tiniest-scale-could-explain-impossible-black-holes #space

Covid mutations around the world https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/EVOLUTION/yxmpjqkdzvr/index.html #covid

Its that time again - the impossible quiz about London transport! https://www.londonreconnections.com/2020/the-covid-christmas-quiz/

Ericaceous (acidic) compost can be hard to find, but it's available for home delivery. Comes in a brown cardboard box, just like any other package!
https://www.thompson-morgan.com/p/ericaceous-compost/WKB4772TM #garden

No more Flash support in Firefox
https://lwn.net/Articles/837611/rss

Humanity's ability to track earth-killing asteroids is reduced, as second cable breaking makes Aracibo radio telescope unsalvageable https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/arecibo-telescope/ #space

Buried Treasure, of a sort, found in chemistry labs
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/07/10/buried-treasure-of-a-sort

How phonies and self-promoters came to rule the world
https://www.improbable.com/2019/05/24/how-phonies-and-self-promoters-came-to-rule-the-world/

Who emits the most CO2 today?
https://ourworldindata.org/annual-co2-emissions #world

The deadline for agreeing a brexit deal is the end of this week https://jonworth.eu/1-man-7-days-deal-or-no-deal-brexit-and-yes-that-man-is-johnson/

A better way to think about worst-case scenarios
http://timharford.com/2019/10/why-were-thinking-about-worst-case-scenarios-in-the-wrong-way/

Hammersmith Bridge is still closed. Last year, London Reconnections looked at why
http://www.londonreconnections.com/2019/hammersmith-bridge-the-signs-are-not-good/ #london

Science! https://youtu.be/BuxFXHircaI

1 in 100 people have covid, says study which sends tests to random UK houses. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/latest