Occasional links - 20.02.2022 💨 🍃🌪
Hello,
Hope you are well and safe from the recent storms if you are UK based. It's been a while and I have a long list of excuses I won't bore you with. All I will say is it is nice to be back.
Here are some links to entertain your brain for this week. Thirteen links this time as I had a backlog to clear.
Cadbury's ‘Gorilla’. EXPLAINED
An enjoyable Twitter thread on that Gorilla ad. I love the insight into just how hard it is to do interesting things in other industries and the struggle to get things like this done.
That time the Mediterranean Sea Dried Up
Wild! And another description of it here.
Hope you are well and safe from the recent storms if you are UK based. It's been a while and I have a long list of excuses I won't bore you with. All I will say is it is nice to be back.
Here are some links to entertain your brain for this week. Thirteen links this time as I had a backlog to clear.
Cadbury's ‘Gorilla’. EXPLAINED
An enjoyable Twitter thread on that Gorilla ad. I love the insight into just how hard it is to do interesting things in other industries and the struggle to get things like this done.
That time the Mediterranean Sea Dried Up
Wild! And another description of it here.
About 5.9 million years ago, due to a combination of tectonic movements and changes in climate, the Mediterranean Sea mostly dried up for over 600,000 years. The Messinian salinity crisis may have raised global sea levels by as much as 33 feet and decreased the salinity of the world’s oceans, raising the freezing point. And then, much more suddenly, it was refilled in less than two years in the Zanclean Flood.
What Happened in 1922
Why is this relevant? Well, my dear Grandmother celebrated her 100th birthday on Friday and I thought I'd take a peek back at what was going on back then. And neatly summarised on Twitter by Guy...
Fascinating that the Soviet Union was formed and disbanded in her lifetime, and Irish war, Insulin!
Fascinating indeed!
In case you haven't seen alpacas jumping a puddle before
The last one especially!
I recently interviewed for a management job deeper inside government
If you ever look around the room and wonder why all the folk there are white men, this is a pretty good explainer about how that might have happened and the barriers in place to greater diversity in the workplace.
Changes this week is with my husband Tom Bell. We discuss Tom's adult diagnosis of ADHD
Yeah, still banging on about ADHD and neurodiversity, sorry. This is probably the best explainer I've found so far and works so well in the format of a conversation between husband and wife. Listening to this utterly broke me as it was just so close to home and so so relatable.
Everything Must Be Paid for Twice
This resonated in lots of ways in terms of getting that cool new thing and the effort and work required to get satisfaction out of the cool new thing. Not a very good summary, just read the article maybe.
I’m all about these photos of Steve Buscemi
God, they're just so good. Especially the last image.
Real Time Oxygen
Or, why plants are so important! Just incredible.
While we don’t mean keep visitors away from Llancillo church...
One of my favourite Twitter accounts is Friendless Churches. Just so good hearing about these abandoned churches and the history around them. Always feel like planning a bike ride to them.
It will soon be 10 years since Asperger Syndrome was removed from the DSM
What is the DSM I hear you say? Well, I'm glad you asked...
In case you haven't seen alpacas jumping a puddle before
The last one especially!
I recently interviewed for a management job deeper inside government
If you ever look around the room and wonder why all the folk there are white men, this is a pretty good explainer about how that might have happened and the barriers in place to greater diversity in the workplace.
Changes this week is with my husband Tom Bell. We discuss Tom's adult diagnosis of ADHD
Yeah, still banging on about ADHD and neurodiversity, sorry. This is probably the best explainer I've found so far and works so well in the format of a conversation between husband and wife. Listening to this utterly broke me as it was just so close to home and so so relatable.
Everything Must Be Paid for Twice
This resonated in lots of ways in terms of getting that cool new thing and the effort and work required to get satisfaction out of the cool new thing. Not a very good summary, just read the article maybe.
I’m all about these photos of Steve Buscemi
God, they're just so good. Especially the last image.
Real Time Oxygen
Or, why plants are so important! Just incredible.
While we don’t mean keep visitors away from Llancillo church...
One of my favourite Twitter accounts is Friendless Churches. Just so good hearing about these abandoned churches and the history around them. Always feel like planning a bike ride to them.
It will soon be 10 years since Asperger Syndrome was removed from the DSM
What is the DSM I hear you say? Well, I'm glad you asked...
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the handbook used by health care professionals in the United States and much of the world as the authoritative guide to the diagnosis of mental disorders. DSM contains descriptions, symptoms, and other criteria for diagnosing mental disorders.
What I didn't know about Asperger Syndrome is that Hans Asperger was a Nazi collaborator!
The phrases “high” and “low” functioning were popularized by Dr. Hans Asperger.
“High” functioning meant someone with autism could perform enough menial tasks to be sent to a camp, and “low” functioning meant that they couldn’t perform those tasks and they were killed.
A VERY windy walk up Sugarloaf this morning
I will never tire of this genre of dog video "Spaniels in windy situations".
DOLLS HOUSES, 1983
In 1983 Architectural Design Magazine launched a competition to for architects to design a doll house...
That's all for this week, see you again sometime.
Love as always,
Andy x
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