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Nov. 3rd, 2011
Interesting Links for 3-11-2011
Nov. 3rd, 2011 11:00 am- Israel rushes settlement growth in retaliation on Palestinian membership of Unesco
- Gay couples allowed to host civil ceremonies in churches in England and Wales
- Forty years on the Daily Mail is still bitter about decimalisation
- Agincourt, Hasting, WWII and other great British myths
- Trance stare led researchers to discover a genuine hypnotic state
- Aging slowed in mice. Best result I've seen in longevity research.
- By ape standards, humans are completely insane.
- This Is Probably the Weirdest, Goofiest Video NASA Ever Made
- Being bullied? Just act less gay, advise teachers
- Legalizing medical marijuana does not increase use among youth
- NASA studying ways to make tractor beams a reality
- Autistic people superior in multiple areas: Scientists must stop emphasizing autistics' shortcomings, expert urges (Another paper I'd love to read)
- New platform to give you access to your movies on every device is, unsurprisingly, more frustrating than torrenting.
- Amazon Prime’s new killer app: Kindle books by subscription. (very limited though)
- From March 2012 all Mac Apps installed from the App Store will be sandboxed. No more plugins...
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- aging,
- amazon,
- ape,
- apple,
- astronauts,
- autism,
- books,
- bullying,
- cell,
- culture,
- dailymail,
- drm,
- drugs,
- empathy,
- england,
- epicfail,
- health,
- history,
- humans,
- hypnosis,
- israel,
- kindle,
- law,
- legalisation,
- lgbt,
- links,
- longevity,
- mac,
- marijuana,
- marriage,
- medicine,
- money,
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- nasa,
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- palestine,
- physics,
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- psychology,
- religion,
- rent,
- schools,
- science,
- society,
- software,
- technology,
- uk,
- video,
- wales,
- wtf
"The Culture" in this case refers to the space-faring civilisation in Iain Banks' awesome series of novels.
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