Interesting Links for 17-07-2014
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andrewducker- This Artist Takes These Silly Doodles And Makes Them...Awesome. (somewhat NSFW)
- Amazon's Prepping a "Kindle Unlimited" Subscription Service For Books
- The political party names the Electoral Commission has rejected since 2010
- Why an understanding of Relativity is vital to making GPS work
- Women talk more than men. And less. Depending on the context.
- What's the scariest thing in the world? Ask your teenage daughter
- I just backed "Ninja Pizza Girl" on Kickstarter.
- A Visit to One of Germany's "All Inclusive" Brothels
- We Didn't Start The Fire - with annotations!
- Conservatives plan Human Rights challenge (could see us kicked off the Council of Europe)
- There are no ring species
- The new Captain America is going to piss off a lot of terrible people :->
- Inside the Artificial Brain That’s Remaking the Google Empire
- How Google’s New Font Tries to Anticipate the Future
- Study challenges conventional wisdom about gender and math performance
- How tall can a Lego tower get?
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Date: 2014-07-17 01:32 pm (UTC)1. increasing the number of math-certified teachers in middle and high schools
2. decreasing the number of children living in poverty
3. ensuring gender equality
2 & 3 in particular seem left as an exercise for the reader ... (Or alternatively, the only reason we haven't succeeded in 2 & 3 yet, because we didn't realise they are vital for improving maths ability. Now we know that, we'll get right on it.)
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Date: 2014-07-17 07:18 pm (UTC)