Links

Sorry about the sheer amount this week, I am in serious catch up mode

Archaeology:

London’s Big Dig Reveals Amazing Layers of History - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/02/artifacts-found-under-london-archaeology/

Piano gold hoard is 'life-changing' sovereign stockpile - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-39282466

Data visualisation:

Experimenting With Sankey Diagrams in R and Python - https://blog.ouseful.info/2017/03/17/experimenting-with-sankey-diagrams-in-r-and-python/

Language:

Accidental Pilish: Unintentionally Constrained Writing in English Literature - https://bespokeblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/accidental-pilish/

Miscellaneous:

The plus-size personal trainer aiming for 'strong not skinny' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/get-inspired/39219495

Comma comeuppance: When rogue punctuation proves costly - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39300432

Murder in the Lucky Holiday Hotel - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Murder_lucky_hotel

The hidden voices behind the stars - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-39254740 Portraits of the German voice actors who dub American films

The joy of stocks: The weird world of stock photos - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-39217548

Situation vacant: Running Rome's Colosseum - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39254552

Hans Rosling, population prophet: Five final thoughts - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-39211144

'London Bridge is down': the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge?CMP=share_btn_tw

Photography:

Photography Show 2017: Secrets behind the shots - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38802377

Politics:

Are British elections being stolen? - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/16/are-our-elections-being-stolen-police-forces-claims-mps?CMP=share_btn_tw

George Osborne: From history buff to austerity editor - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39310613

Russia’s 5th Column - https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/reports/2017/03/15/428074/russias-5th-column/

Science:

Hope For Nonaddictive Opioid Painkillers - http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/03/13/hope-for-nonaddictive-opioid-painkillers

Obesity crisis: Is this the food that is making us all fat? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39254804 Betteridge's law applies

Sport:

Formula 1:

How to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner like an elite-level Formula One driver - http://uk.businessinsider.com/mclaren-formula-one-driver-racer-diet-plan-2017-3?r=US&IR=T

Technology:

A History and Future of the Rise of the Robots - https://hackernoon.com/a-history-and-future-of-the-rise-of-the-robots-cce0fe222a71

Links (part 2)

Economics:

Children's scooters added to inflation basket - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39265388

Language:

'The language more beautiful than words' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-39302109

Miscellaneous:

Prison smuggler: 'I brought mobile phones in for criminals' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39258076

'Don't bag up dog poo in countryside', MP urges owners - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39254072

'My friends call me Lara Croft' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-39260186

The politics of the office tea round - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39155646 In which I have had completely different experiences but ... I have odd experiences.

EU workplace headscarf ban 'can be legal', says ECJ - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39264845

Alabama town agrees in settlement to stop operating debtors’ prison - https://www.splcenter.org/news/2017/03/14/alabama-town-agrees-settlement-stop-operating-debtors%E2%80%99-prison

Is North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un rational? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39269783 From March 2017

Could your barber save your life? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39281204

Music industry:

Five ways the singles chart can be fixed - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39265093 Wherein Ed Sheeran is so all-conquering that they're going to change the rules.

Politics:

Trump and Brexit: why it’s again NOT the economy, stupid - http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/trump-and-brexit-why-its-again-not-the-economy-stupid/ From November 2016

Where liberal fight goes in the age of Trump - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39258416

Marine Le Pen - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/marine_le_pen

Sport:

‘Not far from death’: How fighters are risking their lives to make weight
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/a4372439-aef4-4f18-bd9a-d914e3f37f2a It's about MMA fighters but I suspect it's true for everything else with weight categories

The Gentrification of College Basketball - https://theundefeated.com/features/gentrification-of-ncaa-division-1-college-basketball/?utm_content=buffer6fe38&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Cycling:

Dame Sarah Storey: Paralympic cyclist launches elite women's cycling team - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/39283137 From March 2017

Football:

The accidental chairman, and the making of modern Leicester - https://www.eurosport.co.uk/football/champions-league/2016-2017/the-accidental-chairman-and-the-making-of-modern-leicester_sto6092154/story.shtml The most Leicester story possible

Rugby League:

Super League playercam trial set to continue despite 'technical issues' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/39303947 Technical issues is code for Kurt Gidley threw a fit about having to wear it at half-time

Technology:

THESE FAILED APPS DISCOVERED A HIDDEN RULE OF THE WEB - https://www.wired.com/2017/03/these-failed-apps-discovered-a-hidden-rule-of-the-web/#.5upn8bcxu

Links (part 3)

History:

Torrey Canyon oil spill: The day the sea turned black - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39223308

WW2 soldier killed in Italy to be reburied - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39288659

Miscellaneous:

Is this the 'worst pint of Guinness imaginable'? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39261330 The Paul Ryan incident from March 2017

Spaghetti Junction picture mystery solved as workers identified - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39295025

MP Dawn Butler praised for using sign language in Commons - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39295244

Sign language costs 'too high' for some families - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-39270335

Polio's last stand: frantic effort to eradicate Pakistan's 'badge of shame' - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/mar/15/polio-in-pakistan-the-frantic-effort-to-eradicate-the-countrys-badge-of-shame

Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger: Should a rapist be invited on stage? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-39274941

Ikea drivers living in trucks for months - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39196056

How the government’s new child maintenance service leaves domestic abuse survivors out in the cold - http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/new-child-maintenance-service-leaves-domestic-abuse-survivors-out-in-the-cold/

Why does everyone keep making Nazi comparisons? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-39266863

Science:

The crimes against dopamine - https://medium.com/the-spike/the-crimes-against-dopamine-b82b082d5f3d

Three-person baby licence granted - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39292381

Colourful, creative and close up: Wellcome Images 2017 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-39272111

Sport:

Cricket:

Bob Woolmer: Pakistan coach's death remembered, 10 years on - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39282939

Football:

Football, bloody hell! Leicester's triumph was one of the special nights - https://www.eurosport.co.uk/football/champions-league/2016-2017/football-bloody-hell-leicester-s-triumph-was-one-of-the-special-nights_sto6093758/story.shtml Leicester vs Sevilla

Ice hockey:

Harrison Browne retiring after breaking hockey transgender barrier - https://sports.yahoo.com/news/harrison-browne-retiring-after-breaking-hockey-transgender-barrier-152233217.html

Motorsport:

John Surtees: Former F1 world champion was a 'towering figure' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/35126201

Tennis:

BEST OF ENEMIES: FEDERER, NADAL AND THE GREATEST RIVALRY IN SPORT -https://www.eurosport.co.uk/tennis/australian-open/2017/australian-open-2017-final-the-greatest-rivalry-roger-federer-v-rafael-nadal_sto6037774/story.shtml

Television:

Can Big Bang Theory learn from past TV spin-offs? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39265553

Links (part 4)

Miscellaneous:

'A lovely man': The woman who dated the Man on the Moor - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39255114

Girls 'too poor' to buy sanitary protection missing school - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39266056

Teen suicide on the rise among Canadian girls - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39210463

Rakesh Sharma: The making of a reluctant Indian space hero - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-39124828

Mama Yuli: The trans women's leader no-one messes with - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39259899

Meet the man crowd-funding Gaza's first English library - https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/02/meet-man-crowd-funding-gaza-english-library-170206044521027.html

Politics:

What is the alt-right and what does it stand for? - https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/02/alt-stand-170218115042196.html

Science:

Paralysis inspires MS discovery - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39256584

Sport:

Miserable at every NBA stop, Darko Milicic has found peace as a farmer - https://sports.yahoo.com/news/miserable-at-every-nba-stop-darko-milicic-has-found-peace-as-a-farmer-131359198.html

Cycling:

Joanna Rowsell Shand: Double Olympic gold medallist retires - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/39265637

Rugby League:

Mark Foster: RFL 'would consider' club city franchise moves - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/39258426 As is traditional with ideas from rugby league powers that be, it's definitely an idea. It is not necessarily good.

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