Interesting Links for 09-01-2014

• TED isn't a recipe for 'civilisational disaster'
  (tags: science communication )
• Scientists tell us their favourite jokes
  (tags: science jokes funny )
• On Labour Faux-Superiority
  (tags: politics )
• When Doctors Google Their Patients
  (tags: privacy google medicine healthcare doctors )
• Coalition defeated over 'annoyance' clampdown (and thank fuck for that!)
  (tags: freespeech politics uk )
• Artificial Insemination Nightmare Revealed by DNA Test
  (tags: genetics parents children )
• Lexical Distance Among the Languages of Europe
  (tags: language linguistics europe )
• Models Are So Thin Magazines Have To Photoshop Them Fatter (Seriously, it's disturbing)
  (tags: photoshop models weight women )
• The Silmarillion Project - an illustration for each chapter, by the creator of Dresden Codak
  (tags: lotr fantasy art )
• Headline of the week: Cormac McCarthy's Ex-Wife Brandishes Vagina Gun In Alien Dispute
  (tags: news epicwtf )
• L Ron Hubbard's Great Grandson gives a hypnotising performance as he talks about his family.
  (tags: performance scientology video viaPatrickHadfield )
• Scientists find new mechanism underlying depression
  (tags: depression stress brains )
• The cafe which costs 3p per minute, but the coffee is free.
  (tags: cafe )
• Brilliantly written piece on what it's like to be an addict
  (tags: drugs addiction )
• Electoral Commission fails to make the case for voter ID at polling stations
  (tags: voting uk identity )
• Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy
  (tags: democracy politics liberal )
• Chewing Gum is Often the Culprit for Migraine Headaches in Teens
  (tags: migraine )
• Australian science agency apologises to little girl for failing to ‘make her a dragon’
  (tags: dragons australia )
• What blogging was
  (tags: blogging internet communication )