Interesting Links for 21-03-2018

[andrewducker]

Researchers showed participants the fictional biographies of two senators, identical except gender. When described as “ambitious” and having “a strong will to power,” the man was more popular. But the same description about woman provoked moral ou

(tags: politics women usa OhForFucksSake )

A Brexit withdrawal agreement in name only

(tags: uk europe )

Toxic management cost award-winning Telltale Game Studios its best developers

(tags: games management OhForFucksSake )

15 Ways Men Can Fight Workplace Gender Bias

(tags: bias work men )

FactCheck: Did the BBC edit a photo of Jeremy Corbyn to make him look close to Russia?

(tags: labour russia bbc funny )

Ricky Gervais is so achingly desperate to offend trans people in new Netflix special that he didn’t bother with much comedy

(tags: transgender comedy review lgbt )

Macular degeneration cured in stem-cell breakthrough

(tags: sight age stem_cells thefuture awesome )

What would constitute 'genuinely affordable home'?

(tags: housing UK epicfail )

If you invented New Orleans nobody would believe the maps were real

(tags: maps new_orleans funny fantasy )

Subsidy-free renewable energy projects set to soar in UK

(tags: renewables uk GoodNews )

There's something delightful about tennis champion Serena Williams discussing Avatar: TLA on Twitter

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“Queen & Country” Definitive Edition review (I read the first collection years ago and liked it. This is going on the wish list)

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A man has just been convicted of a criminal offence for filming his dog giving Nazi salutes. Please let me try and convince you in a few tweets why this is a bad thing

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Settlers of Catan - now available in VR

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A Firefox add-on to let you read the FT and WSJ

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Comments

[calimac]

What I mostly want to read the WSJ for is Terry Teachout columns linked to from his blog. Up till now I've had to go the public library for them, but the add-on works, at least for now.

[andrewducker]

Fingers crossed the hackers remain smarter than the people implementing the paywall!

[ironymaiden]

I was in Pennsylvania during the run up to a special election, and was struck by how Pelosi was featured in attack ads. They were showing images of her and quoting her, with just the thesis at the end mentioning the actual candidate. (And it was all "vote against this Democrat" with no mention of the Republican candidate.) This was BIG MONEY - prime time during the Olympics.

[andrewducker]

It is shockingly awful.

[erratio]

er, are the last 5 links intended to have no tags?

[andrewducker]

Nope. Pinboard having problems.

Which has also broken its RSS in general, which is why there have not been links today :-(

[nojay]

The "no subsidy in the future" renewables claim is from the CEO of a big renewables company (Vattenfall) who wants the UK government's plans to reduce and eventually eliminate subsidies for renewables to be reversed for a few years (or a decade or more), just to cover the gap you understand and then everything will be glorious. We just need the subsidies right now please please don't stop giving us money!

[agoodwinsmith]

The macular degeneration info is really excellent. My auntie's MD was caught in time to save her sight - but it required injections directly into the eyeball while she was awake. Eyeball frozen, no pain, but you can see the needle coming. It was more than once. She had to ask my uncle to hold her head so she wouldn't flinch - which drew blood.

ARGH.

[andrewducker]

Argh indeed!

I once had a wisdom tooth removed. They needed to stitch up the gum. Watching the needle go under my field of vision and out of sight into my mouth was horrifying.

[melchar]

-Loved- the article about the New Orleans map. It could have kept going, trust me