Interesting Links for 18-12-2018

Workers get new rights in the UK

(tags: rights work uk )

How "The Tinkerbell Theory of History" is carrying us down the road to ruin.

(tags: history uk myths )

The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got

(tags: programming advice viaFanf )

How Peter Jackson Made WWI Footage Seem Astonishingly New

(tags: wwi movies history peterjackson )

This is why techy 'solutions' for ageing and emergency care scare me. This one went out of business and this poor woman probably died thinking someone had been called.

(tags: death technology OhForFucksSake )

Gently stroking babies reduces pain felt during medical procedures

(tags: pain babies touch )

People with extreme political views cannot tell when they are wrong

(tags: thinking politics thought )

NAACP returns Facebook donation, calls for boycott on Tuesday, December 18

(tags: facebook racism usa )

Hull hotel cancels Christmas bookings for homeless people

(tags: OhForFucksSake homelessness )

America uses corn for nearly everything

(tags: usa food weird )

A Texas Elementary School Speech Pathologist Refused to Sign a Pro-Israel Oath, Now Mandatory in Many States — so She Lost Her Job

(tags: israel wtf law usa )

Deer poacher sentenced to watch Bambi in prison - BBC News

(tags: deer Disney crime prison usa )

Banks to be banned from charging higher fees for unarranged overdrafts

(tags: banking UK )

'Overactive Immune System' May Be The Cause Of ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

(tags: immune_system )

Labour will wait until Brexit deal defeated for government no-confidence vote

(tags: labour UK europe doom )

Packaging producers to pay full recycling costs under waste scheme

(tags: UK environment )