Friday, January 20, 2017

Stories below the fold

StrategyPage summary on what is going on here in the Philippines:

read the whole thing which explains why Duterte is still popular. (less crime).

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Father Z reviews the Young Pope, and hasn't decided if he likes it or not.

no, it hasn't been shown here yet.

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MedievalNet says a lot of Post Apocolyptic stuff is actually a return to the Middle Ages.

She only uses two or three SciFi for examples, however.

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Someone is phoning in bomb threats to Jewish community centers in the USA.

They suspect white supremicist of course.

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And the really, really important research article of the week:

from Improbable research:

Is your dog watching TV? they summarize several studies on the subject, but the answer is:

“The dogs in this study chose to not watch TV over any TV content; even Coronation Street failed to hold their attention which rather suggests that TV watching, for dogs, maybe much less fun than wandering around, eating, taking a drink, sleeping and playing with toys.” [our hyperlink]

See: A dog centred approach to the analysis of dogs’ interactions with media on TV screens – awaiting publication in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.

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