Interesting Links for 14-05-2012

• 100,000 LED lights float down the Sumida River
  (tags: viaMyBrotherHugh pretty lights )
• Why Hawkeye is awesome
  (tags: avengers comics Hawkeye )
• Why (most) politicians don’t get the internet
  (tags: technology politics internet )
• Why has the UK got so few women scientists?
  (tags: uk science women gender )
• The IFS backs a land value tax
  (tags: uk tax )
• 100-year-old photos of British India
  (tags: photographs india history )
• Civil Partnerships and Marriage: What's The Difference?
  (tags: lgbt law uk marriage )
• Thinking About God Improves Our Self-Control
  (tags: religion god self-control )
• Damon Lindelof talks about "Prometheus", rewrites, and how it changed from being a prequel to "Alien"
  (tags: RidleyScott DamonLindelof movies alien )
• DSM-5, what's in and what's out in the psychiatric profession's diagnostic manual
  (tags: diagnosis psychology )
• The Occupy movement now has a manifesto.
  (tags: politics occupy )
• Someone wants to know if there is a modern browser that runs on Windows 3.1.
  (tags: funny history windows )
• The $144,146,165 Button
  (tags: behaviour taxi technology )
• George Lucas Does Something Admirable
  Movies
  (tags: georgelucas )
• An awesome iPad engraving
  (tags: brains ipad )
• Edible Chocolate Brain from MRI Scan - 3D Printing FTW!
  (tags: brains food chocolate 3dprinting )
• RE: The Dark One, In Case It Should Arise from Its Horrible Abyss
  (tags: fiction short_story )
• The dangers of chiropractic treatments are under-reported
  (tags: chiropractic research )

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