I used to live in an area famous for its legal casinos. The stories about gambling addictions are heart-breaking. It's a joke on the relationship advice subreddit that commenters quickly suggest "you should break up." But after hearing about how half a married couple can unilaterally damage both spouses' finances, I'd quickly suggest "legal divorce" if one spouse has a gambling addiction.

My attempt at summarizing:

There's a relatively shallow part of the North Sea between Great Britain and continental Europe. Some of this area was above sea level during ice ages, and that area is called Doggerland. It's believed to have been a full land bridge at one point, but it became islands as the sea level changed. Its largest island, referred to as Mesolithic Doggerland (MD), might have been inhabited until about 8000 years ago. Land slides in Norway probably caused tsunamis, including a major one called the Storegga tsunami. The tsunamis could have wiped out the inhabitants there or at least led to their decline.

The Doggerland entry on Wikipedia suggests that it isn't fully known how quickly the sea level changed at times.

A friend of mind just named her youngest son Henry. In my whole life, I've never met a Henry (that I know of). My friend said that not only did she just become aware of several kids named 'Henry' in her area that are the same age as her son, two of them have the same middle name.

Or maybe there was a period when parents were very unoriginal with naming their kids.

I picked up a copy after seeing several redditors mention it. An excellent book about a very grim subject.

Fine point: but it doesn't sound like there is lead in the water so much as there are old metal fixtures (like old water faucets) at the schools that contain lead. Lead used to be used as solder to join pipes together, and it used to be more common in metal alloys. Water dissolves some of it if it remains in contact with the surface for a long time (like when the water hasn't been run in an empty school over the weekend). Usually samples at schools are collected at a time to see the "worst case scenario" of water that's been sitting still in contact with pipes and fixtures.

It's a problem that needs to be addressed. However, it doesn't mean that the water going to the schools has an unsafe level of lead in it.

Well, they also represented the asteroid belt. Perhaps they should have called it the "Solar system walk" instead of "planet walk."

I attended a "planet walk" hosted by the astronomy department of a state university. It was about a mile long. Participants start at the sun and as they walk along there is a little model and informational placard about each planet. When I got to Neptune, I got a little sad and kept walking. Turned out that they included a model of Pluto. When I returned to the beginning, I mentioned to one of the host students how delighted I was to see it. I asked why it was included despite the fact it wasn't a planet anymore.

"It's still there," she answered.

In the film, his girlfriend became distant toward him after he became disabled (he longs for her to visit him). In real life, she visited him.

His story was made into a decent film in 2007. It was nominated for 4 Academy Awards (Oscars), among other distinctions.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The film follows him as he starts his rehabilitation. It's intercut with moments from his life before before his incapacitation as he reflects on them, so it's not all bedside footage. It does take some liberty with his story (his real-life girlfriend didn't react the way she was depicted in the film), but I still think it was a good film. Actually, years later it's one of those stories that I still think about from time-to-time, which is one of the best compliments I can give a film.