h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

OSCE act as international observers in elections everywhere from the United States to Kyrgyzstan. They've been invited to the UK general election, continuing a 15 year tradition. https://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/uk #ukpol

?fbclid
https://zaitcev.livejournal.com/258056.html

CO2 emissions for things we import and export.
https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2 #world #climatechange

Fed up with the election campaigns and useless politicians? You'll be even more fed up when the wrong one gets elected! Register to vote - last day Tuesday. https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote #ukpol

The frontier of bromine chemistry, full of nasty compounds which "inevitably explodes" https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/11/21/the-higher-states-of-bromine #chemistry

Here's a version of DontSplit with minimal branding and no noise, just the tactical voting recommendations. Suitable for embedding or linking or whatever. https://dontsplittheremainvote.com/minimal.html

How do you aim a neutrino beam?
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/how-do-you-make-the-worlds-most-powerful-neutrino-beam #physics

"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