Interesting Links for 24-08-2016
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andrewducker- Britain’s Hardest Workers: the most gobsmacking reality TV show to date
- (tags: work tv poverty )
- What kind of game is No Man's Sky, and what kind of game is it not?
- Framing is everything.
(tags: games space ) - The Rio Games Were An Unjustifiable Human Disaster, And So Are The Olympics
- (tags: olympics sport corruption inequality OhForFucksSake )
- America’s First Offshore Wind Farm May Power Up a New Industry
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- Six ways to tackle the gender pay gap
- (tags: gender pay money inequality viaSwampers )
- Dragon Age Cosplay Is Better With Dogs
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- Very cute programming game
- (tags: game programming viaTheWeaselKing )
- 31 Essential Science Fiction Terms And Where They Came From
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- First study to explore language and LSD since the 1960s
- (tags: language psychedelics lsd )
- Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move From Above
- (tags: surveillance usa police )
- Wasting time on the internet? There's a book for that
- (tags: viaSwampers internet )
- More than 400 Tb of live streaming were transferred during the Olympic Games Rio 2016 (In Brazil alone!)
- I wonder what percentage watched on TV vs over the internet.
(tags: video olympics Technology brazil internet ) - Of kimono and cultural appropriation
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- Learning difficulties linked with winter conception
- (tags: children time Intelligence weather )
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Date: 2016-08-26 03:20 am (UTC)So I'll complain to -you-.
[Point #13 earlier use of term than was credited = ‘generation ship’ was first used by Robert A Heinlein in 1941 for his 2-part-when-serialized, later published as a novel: ‘Orphans of the Sky’.]
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Date: 2016-08-27 12:05 pm (UTC)(And I loved that one when I was a kid.)