Today I Learned #3: There's a wiki for everything!
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Speaking of structural racism, having black doctors could also mean that the local black community has higher living standards evidenced by their access to post-secondary education and high-prestige jobs -e.g. in medicine- which could also result in lower child mortality rates.
Or a bit of both.
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Oh. Florida.
What? Are they still voting?Oh. Florida.
I don't think this is the only probable conclusion, as Tak points out.
Another variant could be that maybe white doctors in mainly black communities might often be on a temporal position (or just starting), hoping to get to a different hospital (with e.g. better equipment, or closer to their home), whereas black doctors in black communities might be there more long-term, and therefore be better accustomed to the local situation and might just be doing better in their own hospital.
I'm not saying that it's not racist, but on this scale it involves an awful lot of humans to have them all being racist.
Racism is rarely conscious. Lots of humans who are avowed anti-racists have implicit racial biases and not even know it. And being medical professionals is no defence.
And indeed, if you raise the issue, they tend to get defensive. They can't be racist, they're good people.
And indeed, if you raise the issue, they tend to get defensive. They can't be racist, they're good people.
Til (or at least Tih) that after British prime minister Neville Chamberlain heard of the papers of the time printing his statement that "Britain will certainly guarantee the independence of Poland", he clarified in parliament that by that he meant Britain would guarantee Poland will continue existing, but that doesn't have to include all of its current territories.
TIL that we are locking people up for murder for singing about it
There was a "beef" between street gangs, the court heard. Most of those on trial were linked to the gang known as Northumberland Park Killers. Their victims were linked to the rival Wood Green Mob. In these "postcode killings", it was N17 versus N22. In Wood Green on 2 February 2019 CCTV images show mums with buggies fleeing as masked men ran amok with long knives. One man was shot and stabbed eight times but miraculously survived. Kamali Gabbidon-Lynck, 19, was less fortunate. He was chased into a hair salon where terrified customers, staff and children watched helplessly as he was stabbed to death.
Five people were charged with his murder and put on trial. Three of them were just 16.
The court heard how 'Trills' Tyrell Graham, one of the defendants, had rapped about a fatal gang shooting the previous year. We were shown the lyrics.
The first line is a reference to attacking opponents. The second to the victim.
The prosecution claimed there were only two possible explanations for Tyrell Graham's lyrics: "Either they describe the life he already leads or they describe the life he aspires to lead."
Drill lyrics were presented as evidence the defendants had embraced a culture of violence. The jury agreed what took place that night was an "organised sortie into enemy territory". They found all five guilty of murder.
The BBC looked at nearly 70 trials across the UK from 2005 where drill and rap was used in evidence. Most were in the last two years and often rappers were on trial. Many featured allegations of murder.
The vast majority of the defendants were young black men and boys. We identified a total of 232 people facing trial in the 67 cases. Only eight of them were female. Almost half were teenagers.
We should be "seriously concerned about what's happening in our courtrooms", says Abenaa Owusu-Bempah, an expert in criminal evidence at the London School of Economics.
She says the high number of black defendants "indicates a targeting of rap music because we aren't seeing it with other genres of music".
Prosecutors draw on "stereotypical imagery about young black men and boys as criminals" and use drill "to amplify pre-existing stereotypes", she says.
She has identified 30 cases which were appealed. Only one was successful.
For prosecutors that indicates the reliability and relevance of this type of evidence.
But for Assistant Professor Owusu-Bempah, "police, prosecutors and courts do not acknowledge or appreciate the artistic value of rap music".
Five people were charged with his murder and put on trial. Three of them were just 16.
The court heard how 'Trills' Tyrell Graham, one of the defendants, had rapped about a fatal gang shooting the previous year. We were shown the lyrics.
The first line is a reference to attacking opponents. The second to the victim.
The prosecution claimed there were only two possible explanations for Tyrell Graham's lyrics: "Either they describe the life he already leads or they describe the life he aspires to lead."
Drill lyrics were presented as evidence the defendants had embraced a culture of violence. The jury agreed what took place that night was an "organised sortie into enemy territory". They found all five guilty of murder.
The BBC looked at nearly 70 trials across the UK from 2005 where drill and rap was used in evidence. Most were in the last two years and often rappers were on trial. Many featured allegations of murder.
The vast majority of the defendants were young black men and boys. We identified a total of 232 people facing trial in the 67 cases. Only eight of them were female. Almost half were teenagers.
We should be "seriously concerned about what's happening in our courtrooms", says Abenaa Owusu-Bempah, an expert in criminal evidence at the London School of Economics.
She says the high number of black defendants "indicates a targeting of rap music because we aren't seeing it with other genres of music".
Prosecutors draw on "stereotypical imagery about young black men and boys as criminals" and use drill "to amplify pre-existing stereotypes", she says.
She has identified 30 cases which were appealed. Only one was successful.
For prosecutors that indicates the reliability and relevance of this type of evidence.
But for Assistant Professor Owusu-Bempah, "police, prosecutors and courts do not acknowledge or appreciate the artistic value of rap music".
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when a guy names himself after the cost of a bullet that failed to kill him during some drug(?) affair and makes millions and becomes a global trademark , "kids" get an example to follow . They have nothing else , it sells and to make a name or what not , because it is cool , action must be taken . Rap might not be that innocent , despite the chewing ı once got about a piece that obliquely involved Snoop Dogg .
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TIL that "Findland does not exist" issue
I just googled that, because a) I wanted to send that to someone I know in Finland b) there's also a German meme that the town of Bielefeld doesn't exist, and came upon an article, which includes both and a few more things which don't exist https://www.theguardian.com/technol...rre-geographic-conspiracies-that-wont-go-away .
Thieving monkeys can spot top-dollar items
Macaques at the ancient Uluwatu temple in Bali judge which items are best to steal to earn the highest reward. Studying the monkeys’ interactions over 273 days, researchers found that macaques demanded more or higher quality food to return items such as wallets, prescription glasses and mobile phones than they did for lower value items, such as hairpins and camera bags. The longest ransom period lasted 25 minutes, including 17 minutes of negotiation between the tourist, temple staff and thief.
Robbing and bartering is an expression of cultural intelligence on the part of the monkeys, said Leca. “These behaviours are socially learned and have been maintained across generations of monkeys for at least 30 years in this population.”
Robbing and bartering is an expression of cultural intelligence on the part of the monkeys, said Leca. “These behaviours are socially learned and have been maintained across generations of monkeys for at least 30 years in this population.”
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Road closed and a golf course hole in my city.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/cu...-with-nz-over-a-sea-lion-road-and-golf-course
Sea lion mother and pup.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/cu...-with-nz-over-a-sea-lion-road-and-golf-course
Sea lion mother and pup.
TIL the Men in Black theme is a derivative of Forget Me Nots, a 1982 song co-written and performed by American R&B musician Patrice Rushen. Good tune.
TIL: WW1 made it acceptable for women in England to wear pyjamas, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ar...ion-in-the-type-of-clothing-women-wore-to-bed o_O .
I see they wore high heels on air raids. That's not very practical. I guess practicality hadn't gotten as far as the feet yet.
There is a song that is banned in Australia because of a prison break ~150 years ago:
In the 1860s, many Fenians -- an Irish nationalist movement with strong membership in the US that aimed to end the British occupation of Ireland -- were arrested by the British and jailed for crimes of rebellion.
The 62 Fenians sent to Western Australia were locked away in the infamous, British-run Fremantle Prison, located in the port of Fremantle in what's now the Perth metropolitan area.
{Whole long story about how the prison break happened, planned from the US 20,000 km away}
There is a song about it, the Ballad of the Catalpa so annoyed police that it was officially banned in Western Australia and remains banned today.
The 62 Fenians sent to Western Australia were locked away in the infamous, British-run Fremantle Prison, located in the port of Fremantle in what's now the Perth metropolitan area.
{Whole long story about how the prison break happened, planned from the US 20,000 km away}
There is a song about it, the Ballad of the Catalpa so annoyed police that it was officially banned in Western Australia and remains banned today.
Spoiler Do not look if you are an Aussie :
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There is an hour long documentary on the escape.
Anything more would be a spoiler.
Link Wray's Rumble is the only instrumental to be banned in the US.
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TIL I learned that Innsbruck is named for the River Inn. I actually came to it the other way: The Inn Valley is mentioned in the book I'm reading about a WWII battle in Austria that took place near Worgle, from which I figured there was probably a river at the bottom of the valley, and I wondered if it ran by Innsbruck. Sure enough. According to Wikipedia "Innsbruck" means "bridge over the Inn." The name Inn doesn't appear to relate to the English word inn. Wikipedia says the river's name is derived from a Celtic word, en or enios, which meant water. They note that the river was once called the Wasser, which means water in German. A river named 'water' seems a little on-the-nose, if you ask me, but alright. Also, searching Google for the River Inn turns up a whole bunch of inns on rivers. I searched for "Inn Valley" instead and then the first result is the river.
TIL that in April 1945, Heinrich Himmler ordered that all males aged 14+ residing in a home displaying a white flag should be summarily executed. Civilians were trying to announce themselves to the advancing Allied armies. In some cases, such as in Austria, civilians would show a non-[National Socialist] flag, such as the pre-1938 Austrian flag. Of course many soldiers and police were ignoring the order, but some diehards - SS and Gestapo, for some - were actually carrying it out, enough that some Wehrmacht looking forward to the end of the war had to worry about the civilians around them, and not (just) because of the advancing Allied armies. In the book I'm reading, a Wehrmacht Major - German, not even Austrian - was so worried that the SS he was embedded with would start executing civilians that he became the military commander of the local resistance cell and helped them stockpile weapons and ammunition to defend themselves against the crazies, German-on-German, until the Americans could arrive. I knew a little bit about this particular battle at Schloss Itter before I started reading the book, and I knew that part of the story was that the risk to civilians from the SS prompted a Wehrmacht unit to side with the Americans, but I didn't realize it was a broad order from Himmler and not just a few "last stand" nutjobs going fully 'round the bend. So I'm wondering now whether this sort of thing happened in other places across Germany.
TIL that in April 1945, Heinrich Himmler ordered that all males aged 14+ residing in a home displaying a white flag should be summarily executed. Civilians were trying to announce themselves to the advancing Allied armies. In some cases, such as in Austria, civilians would show a non-[National Socialist] flag, such as the pre-1938 Austrian flag. Of course many soldiers and police were ignoring the order, but some diehards - SS and Gestapo, for some - were actually carrying it out, enough that some Wehrmacht looking forward to the end of the war had to worry about the civilians around them, and not (just) because of the advancing Allied armies. In the book I'm reading, a Wehrmacht Major - German, not even Austrian - was so worried that the SS he was embedded with would start executing civilians that he became the military commander of the local resistance cell and helped them stockpile weapons and ammunition to defend themselves against the crazies, German-on-German, until the Americans could arrive. I knew a little bit about this particular battle at Schloss Itter before I started reading the book, and I knew that part of the story was that the risk to civilians from the SS prompted a Wehrmacht unit to side with the Americans, but I didn't realize it was a broad order from Himmler and not just a few "last stand" nutjobs going fully 'round the bend. So I'm wondering now whether this sort of thing happened in other places across Germany.
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Almost as on-the-nose as a river named "Avon". There are quite a few of those in the UK, and former British colonies...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Avon
(because the word is derived from a proto-Celtic root, reflected in modern Welsh as "Afon", i.e. 'river'!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Wales
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