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aenor (60)in #busy • 6 years ago
Why did the Welsh language survive but Gaelic did not?
What makes some languages survive and others fade away? The oldest language in Britain, Welsh, is thriving, but across the Irish sea Gaelic is barely spoken by 1% of the…
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aenor (60)in #busy • 6 years ago
Social mobility in Britain
It's fashionable to claim that social mobility is dead and "inequality" rules. Inequality and social mobility are two different things. The first refers mainly to income -…
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aenor (60)in #busy • 6 years ago
Is Britain a shambolic state or a competent state?
Yesterday's police report of the men suspected of the Novichok poisonings of the Skripals and two bystanders was stunning in it's detail. The question arises, Why did the…
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aenor (60)in #busy • 6 years ago
Germany was responsible for Russia turning Soviet
I was reading the biography of Winston Churchill by Dr Martin Gilbert, and had got to volume IV (yes, Churchill's life is so full it requires umpteen volumes to cover it), and…
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aenor (60)in #busy • 6 years ago
Is Brtain really that great at spying?
Apparently the EU thinks so. According to the Daily Telegraph , the EU's deputy negotiator Sabine Weyand thinks the UK is bugging EU meetings and is finding out stuff before…
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aenor (60)in #busy • 6 years ago
Countries without allies usually collapse
There is a myth that Cortes defeated the Aztec Empire with just 500 men and superior weapons. The only problem is that it isn't true. Cortes had help, organised by Malinalli…
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aenor (60)in #busy • 6 years ago
The heatwave and food production
Europe has been on fire this summer as the following map from a few days ago shows: And it's not just Europe - North America and Japan have been suffering heatwaves as well…
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aenor (60)in #busy • 6 years ago
A cautionary tale: how Saudi depleted it's water table
You can survive droughts if you have a carefully managed water table. But if you don't manage your water table you end up with no agriculture. This is the cautionary tale of…
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aenor (60)in #busy • 6 years ago
Did Obama's Iran deal trigger the European migrant crisis?
Let's recap what actually happened. In April 2015 a deal was reached between the Iranian government on the one hand and the EU, USA, Russia and China on the other to lift…
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aenor (60)in #busy • 6 years ago
Where does the freedom to say whatever you like in Parliament without being arrested or sued come from?
The UK Parliament has something called "Parliamentary Privilege" which allows MPs to say whatever they want in Parliament, without being arrested or sued. They can make…
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aenor (60)in #bust • 7 years ago
Did homo-sapiens have an aquatic phase in their evolution?
We know that homo-sapiens and our earlier homonid predecesors evolved from woodland apes. The fossil and DNA record confirms this. We also know that about a million years later…
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aenor (60)in #steem • 7 years ago
I think we can now buy stuff on Overstock using Steem
Overstock was one of the first online retailers to enable payment by Bitcoin. They've now announced a partnership with Shapeshift, allowing users to pay using altcoins via…
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aenor (60)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago
The following exchanges are going to provide bitcoin cash to anyone who has bitcoin in their account
The information has been taken from If you haven't a wallet of your own, sending your coins to an exchange that supports bitcoincash is the next best thing. Note that…
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aenor (60)in #poloniex • 7 years ago
Does anyone know why Poloniex's Steem wallet is temporarily disabled?
It's been like that for days. Does anyone know why? I am assuming that there is no problem on Steem's side - is there any way the dev team could reach out to Poloniex and ask…
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rose98734 (62)in #moonbows • 7 years ago
What are Moonbows?
They are lunar rainbows, in other words rainbows created by moonlight, not sunlight. You don't see them in daylight, but in the night sky. image source Just as a…
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alyssas (60)in #health • 7 years ago
How to change your gut bacteria to improve your health
There have been several recent studies showing that people who have inflamatory diseases, those with conditions like PCOS, those with diabetes and those who are obese have…
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aenor (60)in #finance • 8 years ago
Will an ETF ever be approved?
The Winklevoss ETF was not the only bitcoin ETF waiting for SEC approval. Two other ETFs, the SolidX Bitcoin Trust ETF, and Grayscale investments Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT)…
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aenor (60)in #steemit • 8 years ago
All the arguments about curation and distribution of the daily pot of Steem are missing the point
In the last few weeks there have been a number of interesting and provocative articles written by Steemers discussing the current curation/distribution system. Some have fixated…
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onetree (68)in #auction • 8 years ago
Auction Finds - All The Pretties...!
We've got lots of what I like to call the (stunning, lovely, beautiful, etc) when I list the item for sale on my online auction site. I prefer weird and grungy, but the pretties…
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teatree (62)in #finance • 8 years ago
A look at the major British banks to see how vulnerable they are
Deutsche Bank has been in the news, with it's share price falling like a stone, because the market believes it is in trouble. For more on the Deutsche Bank problem see this…
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