Book read: Rebel Ideas by Matthew Syed

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47014225-rebel-ideas

Film: Star wars - The Rise of the Skywalker drected by J J Abrams

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2527338/

Book read: Factfulness by Hans Rosling

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34890015-factfulness

Film: Rounders Directed by John Dahl

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128442/

Film: Ford v Ferrari Directed by James Mangold

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1950186/

Prince of Wales arrives

The HMS Price of Wales has arrived in Portsmouth.  It will be interesting to see what happens with this one, my feeling is we will barely ever be able to get enough aircraft on Queen Elisabeth to make it cost effective:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-50445695

Book read: Novacene by James Lovelock

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43706493-novacene?from_search=true&qid=iWcLvYVMMU&rank=1

Book read: Range by David Epstein

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41795733-range?from_search=true

Woodford downfall

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50094982

Film: Ad Astra directed by James Gray

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2935510/

Royal Navy size

Good news article about the strength of the Royal Navy - although hardly a state secret what has happened.

https://news.sky.com/story/size-of-royal-navys-warship-fleet-is-pathetic-says-chairman-of-defence-select-committee-11771371

Poker AI

Interesting Alpha zero like approach to playing poker:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/facebook-ai-pluribus-defeats-top-poker-professionals-in-6-player-texas-holdem/

Reporting on the original paper in Science:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2019/07/10/science.aay2400

The original Alpha zero article:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/move-over-alphago-alphazero-taught-itself-to-play-three-different-games/

Book read: Chernobyl The history of a nuclear catastrophy by Serhii Plokhy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36204894-chernobyl

Paul Darrow Dies

A sad day, a true great of low budget 70s sci-fi:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48501099

Book read: The Shortest History of Germany by James Hawes

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34757960-the-shortest-history-of-germany

Book read: The end of Alchemy by Mervyn King

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30231791-the-end-of-alchemy

Ransomware article

Interesting article about a hacker who works to disabe ransomware

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/hated_and_hunted_the_computer_virus_malware_ransomware_cracker

Classic Horizon F1 Documentaries

Vintage 1980s Horizon documentaries on the ground effect in F1 cars of that era.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x659u24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS4pejg43Ug

Flyby for WWII US Airmen

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-47337174/flypast-for-ww2-us-bomber-crash-crew

Tornado retirement

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47291557

Book read: The internet is not the answer by Andrew Keen

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20763854-the-internet-is-not-the-answer