Interesting Links for 28-05-2018

[andrewducker]

Reminder that Labour blocked extending abortion rights to Northern Ireland so that the DUP would back longer detention without trial

(tags: Labour abortion NorthernIreland DUP )

DUP demands same post-Brexit laws as rest of UK, apart from all the abortion and gay rights stuff

(tags: satire NorthernIreland DUP abortion lgbt )

Interest rates have been declining since the 14th century

(tags: history economics )

Why “children,” not “childs”?

(tags: language history )

What's going on with people who aren't celiac, but can't eat wheat

(tags: wheat gluten celiac FODMAPS food viaFJM )

On being a working class academic

(tags: money academia class )

Ditch Your Scumbag Friend: A Life Hack for Men Who Want to Be Feminists

(tags: feminism men )

What the world's fascination with nüshu, a female-only Chinese script, says about cultural appropriation

(tags: cultural_appropriation China women viaSwampers )

Unifying Theories of Psychedelic Drug Effects

(tags: psychedelics )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

My mum says that many of her country relatives used the word eggen for eggs.