Interesting Links for 20-07-2017
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andrewducker- Which Anonymous Sources Are Worth Paying Attention To?
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- A neat video showing how Google Glass helps people with manual/technical work
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- Another cool video, talking to people who use Google Glass for their jobs (wire assemblies for planes)
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- Producing animated "art" faces based on real video and example art
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- Arguing against xkcd on free speech
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- Reducing lead levels in children reduces violent crime by a staggering amount
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- Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters
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- What Happens To Pornhub During Game Of Thrones
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- State pension age increase brought forward (I'll be working an extra year)
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- Lost Time - on Proust and Science Fiction
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- A common underlying genetic basis for social behavior in dogs and humans
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- Cop’s body cam films him planting drugs—he obviously didn’t know it was recording
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- Sea cave preserves 5,000-year snapshot of tsunamis
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- How Devastating was the Black Death?
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- Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape of Water" looks beautiful
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- "Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra Special Talking Mongoose"
- I can only conclude that many people are _so_ desperate to believe things that they will do so no matter what.
This is not, of course, a new observation.
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Date: 2017-07-20 12:50 pm (UTC)What was it? Almost certainly bubonic plague.
How many? A quarter to a third of the known world's population, maybe as much as half but the worldwide spread is harder to know.
Truth is, we can only ever guesstimate.
Whatever the figure, it was horrific.