Linklist 18 juli 2021
- MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century
- New Research Shows We’re on Schedule.
- The Formidable Charm of Omar Sy
- How the star of “Lupin” pulled off his greatest confidence trick.
- A New History Changes the Balance of Power Between Ethiopia and Medieval Europe
- For centuries, a Eurocentric worldview disregarded the knowledge and strength of the African empire
- The Forgotten Interventions
- The long history of US intervention in other countries’ elections has been omitted from discussions of Russia’s alleged meddling.
- Victorian Society Ladies Defended Their Honor With Jiu-Jitsu
- A lady never starts a fight. But she will finish one.
- Yes, All Men - by Jessica Valenti
- Only a small percentage of men attack women, but the majority let it happen
- Cut Out the Middle Tier: Generating JSON Directly from Postgres
- PostgreSQL has built-in JSON generators that can be used to create structured JSON output right in the database, upping performance and radically simplifying web tiers.
- Here Come the Fall Tour Cancelations | MetalSucks
- Study Projects a Surge in Coastal Flooding, Starting in 2030s
- In the mid-2030s, every U.S. coast will experience rapidly increasing high-tide floods, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea levels caused by climate change.
- The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine?
- Caffeine makes us more energetic, efficient and faster. But we have become so dependent that we need it just to get to our baseline
- Opinion: Richard Branson's disappointing space jaunt
- Mitigating further climate damage is the most urgent challenge currently facing the planet -- one which should interest the world's billionaires far more than that of stepping just over the well-trod threshold of space.
- The lie of “expired” food and the disastrous truth of America’s food waste problem
- Stop throwing your food away.