Interesting Links for 10-08-2015

[andrewducker]

• The many origins of the English language (with graphs!)
  • (tags: language English visualisation viasupergee )
• What's the reason that Russia is and has always been so poor
  • (tags: Russia politics )
• A software company discovers that you can't just get rid of hierarchy
  • (tags: hierarchy organisation business )
• Jeremy Corbyn is right to blame the banks, not Labour, for the financial crisis
  • (tags: banks economics UK Labour )
• Target Removes Gender Labels From Kids Sections
  • (tags: children toys gender )
• Women exist in a sea of comfortable misogyny
  • (tags: misogyny society )
• ‘Fantastic Four’: A Spoilereview of a Very Bad Film
  • (tags: movies review fail comics marvel )
• What Is The European Convention On Human Rights And Why Does It Matter? (a great, quick, read)
  • (tags: rights Europe )
• The biggest family movie of 2015 is one you've never heard of.
  • (tags: movies viaSwampers )
• What it's like developing software that manipulates your PC/Phone to install adware on it.
  • (tags: advertising adware )
• Paris Review interviews Ursula K. Le Guin
  • (tags: writing leguin scifi interview )

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[needled_ink_1975]

That link about Russia was one of the most awesomely informative things I've read in yonks. Yeah, he summarized the Stratfor article, but whoever wrote *that*... Nope. When can Mr. Estes write a book? :)

Thanks

–N