Interesting Links for 20-11-2017
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andrewducker- But when is International Women's Day?
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- How childhood gender-stereotyping damages boys
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- Fact checking the "half of all trans prisoners are sex offenders" reporting
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- Morrissey Defends Kevin Spacey And Harvey Weinstein, Saying Victims Should’ve Known What Could Happen
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- Morrissey was never in The Smiths, say fans
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- The UK government doesn't understand The Good Friday Agreement
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- Why decentralised social networks aren't catching on
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- I found the best post on Tumblr!
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- How George Washington tried to get back his escaped slave
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- As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops
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- A message from the Chair of LGBT+ Liberal Democrats
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- Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat
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- A quarter of people actively feel pain when they see others in pain
- I do get a sense of nausea when I see some kind of injuries being inflicted on people. Fascinating how different people's reactions can be.
(tags: pain psychology ) - Were there camels in Roman Britain?
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- FactCheck: how many bankers were jailed for their part in the financial crisis?
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- Meet The Spreadsheet That Can Solve NYC Transit (and the Man Who Made It)
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Date: 2017-11-20 01:04 pm (UTC)I was once sitting on a bus, and noticed someone ahead of me was brushing their hair. Each time the brush caught in their hair and they pulled at it, I could feel it as a tug on my scalp. Very weird!
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Date: 2017-11-20 04:22 pm (UTC)What I'm now wondering is whether people kept using camels in Roman Britain after it stopped being Roman Britain and why?
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Date: 2017-11-20 08:42 pm (UTC)I wonder when horses became universal.
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Date: 2017-11-20 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-11-20 04:47 pm (UTC)Seventy and that's both male and female.
So that makes around 35 if this wasn't an outright lie which, of course, it is.
I think this is what they call a gee whizz figure.......
And this they publish on the same day as TDR commemorating the murders of several hundred trans people last year which, naturally, they choose NOT to report.
Stay classy, Times!