Interesting Links for 06-03-2015
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andrewducker- The dangers of intermediate targets: IQ, cholesterol, and 99%-ile latency
- Do different kinds of groups have different natural limits on their sizes?
- Psychedelics not linked to mental health problems or suicidal behavior
- Magnificent Faucet Swirls Water into Elegant Patterns
- I will not be doing this 22 hour Avengers marathon at the cinema.
- Fifty Shades of Grey schoolboy causes stir at school
- When someone steals your identity to carry out online relationships.
- A Note on Call-Out Culture
- Could a 'citizen's income' work?
- Brain pathway linking anxiety and obesity discovered.
- The greatest program ever written
- Ferguson police report: Most shocking parts
- Next up for Edinburgh's ongoing transformation: Regent Road
- A new OECD study challenges stereotypes about children, gender, and academic ability
- Why Software Maker Fog Creek Is Helping Its Competitors Hire Women
- If Programming Languages Were Harry Potter Characters
- North Korea's creeping economic reforms show signs of paying off
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Date: 2015-03-06 09:45 pm (UTC)Cambridge cinemas haven't given times for AoU yet, so I don't know if it's going to be possible to do a midnight showing in 2D. (And I will need at least the morning off work if I'm doing that again - I loved seeing CA:TWS at midnight last year, but I was SO tired at work the next day.)
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Date: 2015-03-06 10:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-06 10:14 pm (UTC)I did watch GotG for the second time just today (C was off school for teacher training, and I was off work to be with him, and he asked in advance if we could get and watch it) and I'd forgotten a) how much I enjoyed the vast majority of it b) how startling the few really misogynistic bits are, and how upsetting.
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Date: 2015-03-07 01:06 pm (UTC)I'm sure they wanted to make him less likeable at the start, but the bit where he kicked the frog-thing across the room nearly put me off him permanently.