Friday, June 13, 2025

Friday Links 25-10

Morocco street market from above at night
This week I enjoyed the podcasts about Lise Meitner and Korea. 

OpenRailwayMap is also nice to play around with, if you are interested in railways all over the world. 

Engineering

The Work of Building for Other Engineers: Platform & SRE Mindset 

Anatomy of a Recruitment Phish - the things jobseekers have to deal with nowadays. 

Environment

Climate action literacy interventions increase commitments to more effective mitigation behaviors [Paper] - people don't know which individual actions are useful. I should get rid of my pets. 

Revealed: More than 24,000 factory farms have opened across Europe - those are some depressing maps. 

Urbanism 

A desire for a loud car with a modified muffler is predicted by being a man and higher scores on psychopathy and sadism [Paper] - this is an older paper, and the result is maybe not quite unexpected. 

20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds - let's just leave this here: "Child casualties dropped by 46%, and children killed by 75%" 

‘Cleaner, greener and absolute reliability’: trams make UK comeback - nice. 

OpenRailwayMap - lovely way to visualise train lines worldwide. 

El carril bus de la B-23 estarà llest al juliol: 7 quilòmetres per afavorir l'accés a Barcelona [Catalan] - new bus lanes into Barcelona

Europe was promised a new golden age of the night train. Why are we still waiting? - exactly!

Ever-higher: the rise of bonnet height, and the case to cap it - our classic Defender is probably around 100 cm, while our Berlingo is possibly 65 cm? 

Random Morocco 

Morocco's new cross-country cycling route - sadly gravel :-) 

Terms of Service; Didn't Read - helpful terms of services summaries 

Talking Heads Celebrate 50th Anniversary With ‘Psycho Killer’ Video Starring Saoirse Ronan - I am not sure if I like the video. The song is still great. 

Lise Meitner [Podcast] - new to me, scientist working on nuclear fission around early in the last century.   

The Korean Empire [Podcast] - overview of the history.

Friday Links Disclaimer
Inclusion of links does not imply that I agree with the content of linked articles or podcasts. I am just interested in all kinds of perspectives. If you follow the link posts over time, you might notice common themes, though.
More about the links in a separate post: About Friday Links.

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