Links (late)

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Geography:

18 Things All Cities Have in Common — In 1 Map - http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/familiarity-breeds-cartography-a-map-of-every-city Both accurate and hilarious.

Miscellaneous:

Relist Watch to Major Tom - http://www.scotusblog.com/2016/01/relist-watch-to-major-tom/ Relist Watch is one of the odder things I follow (it's about relists by the US Supreme Courts) but it's quietly brilliant quite often and on this occasion, unnecessarily awesome.

The country that supplies eyes - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35410148

Music:

Lost Liverpool #5: Girls with guitars – The Liverbirds, Britain’s first all female rock band - http://www.getintothis.co.uk/2016/01/lost-liverpool-5-girls-guitars-liverbirds-britains-first-female-rock-band/

Politics:

How Iowa Hijacked Our Democracy - http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/how-iowa-hijacked-our-democracy-213557?o=1 Interesting article about the Primary system.

'Bedroom tax': Government loses Court of Appeal cases - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35418488

How Donald Trump Owns The Old Media And The New Media - http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/how-donald-trump-owns-the-old-media-and-the-new-media#.dmp0MbjxR Owns in this case being used in the slangy sense not the normal sense.

Nearly 14,000 disabled people have mobility cars taken away - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35476904

Science:

Leicester research cited in new series of the X-Files - http://www2.le.ac.uk/news/blog/2016-archive/february/leicester-research-cited-in-new-series-of-the-x-files (Conflict of Interest statement - Prof Jobling was one of my lecturers when I was at Leicester.)

Mystery of deep-sea 'purple sock' solved - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35482467

We're the Only Animals With Chins, and No One Knows Why - http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/were-the-only-animals-with-chins-and-no-one-knows-why/431625/

Sport:

Football:

Five stories you may have missed from Saturday's football - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35450785 Mostly for the first story

Sunderland's sensory room for autistic fans lauded as ‘absolutely incredible’ - http://www.eurosport.co.uk/football/premier-league/2015-2016/sunderland-s-sensory-room-for-autistic-fans-lauded-as-absolutely-incredible_sto5105807/story.shtml#uk-fb-sh or as I put it when I sent the story to Angry Steve 'The footballers might not be brilliant but your club are awesome.'

Ice Hockey:

A Guy Like Me - http://www.theplayerstribune.com/a-guy-like-me/ Any of the hockey peeps care to explain WTF is going on there?

Rugby Union:

Sonny Bill Williams and sevens rugby mates give senior Hurricanes fan a lift in team van - http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/sevens/76357692/sonny-bill-williams-and-sevens-rugby-mates-give-senior-hurricanes-fan-a-lift-in-team-van In which SBW et al continue to be 'good as gold and better'.

Technology:

Inside Facebook’s Decision to Blow Up the Like Button - http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-facebook-reactions-chris-cox/

Here’s What Tor’s Data Looks Like as It Flows Around the World - http://www.wired.com/2016/01/heres-what-tors-data-looks-like-as-it-flows-around-the-world/