Sunday Misc 12AUG18

The peculiar collection of strange bed-fellows which are jostling for attention in my 'mind' this week.

• Bodging an outboard motor.
• Dan Knights studies gut bacteria and health in wild and captive primates.
• Other research suggests gut microbiome modulates mental illness.
• NNAs aka First Nationeers are privileged in their rights but still regularly jerked around by the Feds at the US border
• I often quote clips from Office Space - here's a retrospective by cast members.
• Penny Chisholm is one of The Blob's Wimmin in Science. Here she is talking about her microbes
• brmmmm: seeing issues with driverless cars; not so simple
• For your eating pleasure: 
• zombie pie-crust
• Philly cheesesteak looks like something you'd scrape off your shoe a griddle
• More than you ever want to know about comparative cheesesteak
• WTF is cheez whiz? A long way from cheese this was r'ared.
• We were at Brú na Bóinne droning ancient marks in the landscape. Here's a WWII sign recently exposed by fire on Bray Head
• Cruises [prevs]: about 20 million starts a year; of which 200 die at sea; and 10 go MIA never to be seen again
• End of days shelters under the streets of Helsinki
• Insider's view of the California fires: prevention beats fighting.