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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 2-11-2011

Nov 02, 2011 11:00

A new phylogeny of the mammals. Nice diagram.
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Half of Britain now owns a smartphone.
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From April people in the UK will be able to opt-out from junk mail through a single website.
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Revolutions and the Internet.
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artkouros November 2 2011, 11:13:11 UTC

I've always wondered what marsupial people would look like. Just think how handy a pouch would be.

bart_calendar November 2 2011, 12:52:09 UTC

Does anyone see any realistic endgame for Greece other than pulling out of the Euro and printing Drachmas?

andrewducker November 2 2011, 13:06:53 UTC

Well, there's always closer fiscal union, where Europe decides that they will swallow Greece's debts in exchange for Greece basically being run by the rest of Europe. Which is what the latest bailout was heading towards.

But unless they do that, then no, leaving the Euro is their only option.

bart_calendar November 2 2011, 13:10:52 UTC

I can't see the governments of Germany or any of the Scandinavian countries going along with that. And I don't think the Greek people would put up with their country being run by central Europe either.

andrewducker November 2 2011, 13:31:52 UTC

Well, I believe the current deal includes Greece making all sorts of changes mandated by the rest of Europe. Which is probably part of the problem.

We'll see which way they vote...

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channelpenguin November 2 2011, 15:36:08 UTC

re: hormone shot nastiness - Yet more evil from this sh*t. I was on it for 10 years. I had a shit-hot memory to start with thankfully. I don't now know if my very very slight placename/[famous] person's name issue is normal or induced... (i.e. my recall for those items is no longer instant in 100% of cases, down to maybe 99.5%). My blood pressure went fine after I got off it, sex drive came back about 8-9 months later. Bone density - no-one's commented about it on the couple of x-rays over the past 2 years, and apparently they do, so maybe lucked out there.