h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

"The End of the Line" - storytelling ideas
http://fabledlands.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-end-of-line-scenario.html

Tom Scott and Irving Finkel play The Royal Game of Ur, a 4,000 year old game https://youtu.be/WZskjLq040I

Microsoft are easing patent restrictions for the common exFAT file system
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/aug/30/microsoft-exfat-oin/

Dark winter poetry - The Black Place by Tamar Yoseloff
https://sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/132812.html

The Earth's Core contains a large iron crystal spinning differently to the rest of the Earth. But how could scientists ever work that out? In Our Time http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05s3gyv #earth

Writing in an engaging way, about science or anything else. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/10/18/scientific-prose

Democracy Club is crowdsourcing information on the candidates for the general election, election leaflets, and everything else.
https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2019/10/29/its-on/

Life on Earth: lots of plants and bacteria https://ourworldindata.org/life-on-earth #earth

How do you make a motorway into a lorry park?
https://www.roads.org.uk/blog/operation-brock

Are the people on government infographics representative?
http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2019/10/six-diverse-characters.html

I run a site showing everyone else's tactical voting recommendations: https://dontsplittheremainvote.com/

Where do people give conflicting suggestions? https://dontsplittheremainvote.com/other_sites.csv is a spreadsheet which shows the differences. #ukpol

Mars Used to Have Water, But We Can't Explain How
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2019/mars-water-stable-paradox.html #space

How quickly does the future start?
https://www.improbable.com/2019/10/21/when-does-the-present-end-and-the-future-begin-study/

The UK government bought £9bn of company debt. But which companies?
http://missingnumbers.org/a-truly-massive-number-9-billion-quantitative-easing/ #ukpol

Podcast recommendation: 13 Minutes to the Moon. Tells the story of Apollo, with interviews and geeky details. Presenter Kevin Fong expands a 13 minute landing into about several hours of drama and excitement. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2/episodes/downloads

Git 2.23 was released: "git checkout" becomes "git switch" (change branch) and "git restore" (set contents of file to a previous revision). "git checkout" still works (and probably will work forever). https://lwn.net/Articles/796563/

Large pro-europe march through London TOMORROW. Starts midday at Park Lane. Last time it was HUGE. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/47680979/brexit-people-s-vote-march-to-parliament-square-sped-up

Brushing your teeth:
- brush the gums, especially boundary between teeth and gums, angled down/up to get in good
- brush in a circular motion
- no rinsing or mouthwash (dilutes fluoride toothpaste)
- brush between teeth using interdental brushes

The Overwhelming Historical Evidence that Galileo was a Hack
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019/03/20/the-historical-evidence-that-galileo-was-a-hack/