Interesting Links for 15-02-2016

[andrewducker]

• Scottish universities need a lesson in democracy
  • democracy academia Scotland
• Intelligent people have 'unnatural' preferences and values
  • intelligence belief religion
• German poll finds one in three firms would leave UK after Brexit
  • Germany Europe UK
• The Man Making Sex Robots for the Masses
  • video sex robots
• Awesome people hanging out together
  • celebrity photos
• Aiko - A young girl, demons, swords, and gorgeous animation.
  • (I'm sufficienly intrigued by this trailer that I would happily watch a few episodes once it gets made)
  • trailer tv animation
• I demand immediate delivery of what are _clearly_ the cutest fluffy ears in the world!
  • dogs cute video
• Mythological Valentines day pick up lines
  • valentines_day funny mythology Greece
• Wiki Bacon - find the links from any Wikipedia article to Kevin Bacon
  • KevinBacon connection wikipedia
• I no longer understand my PhD dissertation (and what this means for Mathematics Education)
  • (Is doing a PhD really the best way to do this?)
  • mathematics phd education academia
• The "This Corrosion" flowchart.
  • goth music flowchart visualisation
• If you are British then this is the funniest discussion _ever_.
  • uk funny
• Futurama Tarot
  • futurama tarot
• 'Lost' Roads of Ancient Rome Discovered with 3D Laser Scanners
  • lasers maps UK history
• The most terrifying device in all of human history is...the tampon
  • menstruation OhForFucksSake men
• North Korea appears to be very, very slowly getting slightly better
  • NorthKorea reform

Comments

[miss_s_b]

*adds hiccup_the_samoyed to the increasingly long list of cute doggie accounts she is following on instagram*

I have to say the sighthound community on instagram is ace. :)

[miss_s_b]

Addendum:

"My mate was prosecuted for "Possession of a Toblerone with dimensions greater than a railway sleeper at one of Her Majesty's Airports." They did him under Civil Aviation Authority Rules on 'Movement of Strategic Defense Confectionery within Airports'"

*ded of teh laff*

[flick]

If you are British then this is the funniest discussion _ever_.

Oh, marvellous!

[coughingbear]

I followed the bag registration link last night when you tweeted it, and was quite a bit later to sleep than planned because I had to keep reading bits out to hano. I loved Strategic Defence Confectionery. And the Irish guy smuggling bags over the border.

[andrewducker]

Preventing people from sleeping is all the thanks I need :-)

[dalglir]

Aiko put me in mind of the Banner Saga

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TPhu-96zxz4

And:

The dog with the ears looked like a Samoyed which are just incredible dogs. Our neighbour had some and they were like physical manifestations of everything that is joyous about dogs. And floofiness.

[andrewducker]

They are utterly adorable. Very friendly, if I remember rightly.

And yes, it does remind me of that! I never played Banner Saga - did you?

[dalglir]

I really enjoyed Banner Saga - struggled with replay value but the first run through was beautiful and engaging.

Played on tablet and it worked very well on that medium.

[movingfinger]

Satoshi Kanazawa, the LSE "researcher" whose research is described in your first link, is the asshole idiot who stated a few years ago that black women are "subjectively" less attractive than women of other races and that Africa is a mess because black people overall are less intelligent than other races.

I am sure this latest "research" is of the same high standard.