Interesting Links for 22-12-2015

The story of the oldest rug in the world

(tags: history prehistory craftwork )

Edinburgh trams use up 12 per cent, surpassing targets

(tags: Edinburgh trams GoodNews )

Emotional abuse to become illegal under new domestic abuse law

(tags: abuse law relationships UK )

New flow battery offers lower-cost energy storage

(tags: batteries technology thefuture )

Scientists discover why old birds never go grey with age (and how plumage colouring works generally)

(tags: colour birds )

Same-sex couples could both be biological parents to their babies with new genetic technique

(tags: genetics LGBT babies sex )

Study finds that more than one-third of patients with metastatic cancer continue to work: Symptoms related to their disease play an important role in whether patients remain employed

(tags: cancer work )

Large proportion of IBS sufferers are vitamin D deficient (No control group though,FFS)

(tags: vitaminD )

Why Autism in Women Is Misunderstood

(tags: autism women psychology )

Waterstones bookstore is thriving. By being run very cleverly.

I really didn’t think that they’d still be here now, and I’m damned impressed that they’re actually making a profit.
(tags: books shops management GoodNews )

The 10 deadly sins of software estimation

(tags: software estimating viafanf )

How to write a thank-you card for sex

(tags: sex funny )

A gene connected to how strongly people react emotionally

(tags: emotion genes )

No nationality, no religion – The complicated, liberating metadata of my future children

(tags: religion nationality passport children )

The Python canon

(tags: montypython canon )

A Brief Review Of That New Female-Designed Dating App

(tags: relationships dating apps review )

Fears of new economic crash as British families run £40bn deficit

(tags: economics debt UK )

Cats + Sharks = Terrifying Beasties

(tags: cats sharks WTF )

I learned something new about Swedish culture! And sweets!

(tags: sweden culture sweets )

What “Star Wars Minus Star Wars” says about creativity

(tags: starwars creativity )

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully performs vertical rocket landing after sending satellites into orbit

(tags: space spacex )

Git man page generator

(tags: funny geekery git computers )