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andrewducker) wrote2015-08-24 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2015-08-24 12:00 pm
Entry tags:
- bbc,
- carbon,
- co2,
- communication,
- cpu,
- economics,
- efficiency,
- emotion,
- emotions,
- health,
- hours,
- lgbt,
- links,
- martialarts,
- materials,
- money,
- nanotech,
- ocean,
- relationships,
- russia,
- ship,
- socialskills,
- technology,
- time,
- tv,
- venezuela,
- women,
- work,
- working_hours,
- writing
Interesting Links for 24-08-2015
- Reminder: If you're working more than 40 hours per week then you're harming your health and getting less done.
- Finally, I have a list of reasons people hate me
- Martial art acrobatics. Really impressive, in a simple way.
- Hyperinflation is about to hit Venezuela
- The Russian Ghost Ship Drifting Through International Waters
- What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect programmers?
- Transgender sitcom Boy Meets Girl ushers in new era for TV
- Electrolytic Process Converts Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide into Valuable Carbon Nanofibers
- It's a long way from production, but interesting tech.
- Five Books By Female Authors
no subject
My
innerouter rules-lawyer can't help wondering if it counts if all the books are by the same author. If the aim is to enforce even a very low minimum bar for 'widely and diversely read', it seems to me that these days a ridiculously large number of people would be able to answer 'Yes, I've read Harry Potter' and achieve basically nothing towards that goal.(Hell, even I could give that answer, in spite of not having finished the series – because I didn't lose patience with it until book 5...)