Interesting Links for 17-02-2017

[swampers]

The writing system only women could write

(tags: women writing language China )

The Ghost In The Shell Movie Has Some Very Expensive Statues

If you ever wanted a 1/4th sized robo-Geisha, here's your chance
(tags: movies merchandising wow anime )

Cheater Ends Up In Match With Pro Overwatch Players, Gets Wrecked

(tags: Overwatch cheating karma )

Donald Trump Told Chris Christie To Eat Meatloaf

To be fair, Frankenfurter made everyone eat Meat Loaf
(tags: wtf politics )

Scarier Than 'Psycho': Twitter Erupts Over Trump's 'Bats**t' Press Conference

Unsure if this is an interesting read or just worth remembering as the 'good times' when the shells are dropping all around
(tags: wtf politics USA )

The Amazon Fire Stick Juggernaut

(tags: Amazon data sales )

Scientists appeal for more people to donate their brains

(tags: brains neurology science )

Hans Rosling – the World’s Greatest Data-Storyteller

(tags: data visualisation )

British queuing and 'the power of six'

(tags: queueing UK society anthropology )

How to Tame Quantum Weirdness

(tags: puzzles quantum-mechanics physics )

Researchers Tap a Sleep Switch in the Brain | Quanta Magazine

Includes the best fragment I'll see all day: "...a colony of narcoleptic dogs at Stanford..."
(tags: sleep science neurology )

Examining relationships between further education and financial responsibility

(tags: education finance data stats )

What are the Celtic Languages?

(tags: languages Wales Scotland Ireland )

The rise of the £300 smartphone—you want how much for a flagship?

(tags: phones technology sales economics )

Comments

[fub.livejournal.com]

That article about Nüshu reminded me of the emergence of the Japanese hiragana alphabet. It, too, was used by women who had not learn to write. They used simplified Chinese characters that started with a certain syllable to represent that syllable. That turned into poetry and things like that.
Big difference is that the men did get into that sweet phonetic writing after some time too.

[swampers]

Just took a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana#History - that's quite intriguing how similarly the two languages arose! Thanks for that!