Interesting Links for 09-01-2019

[andrewducker]

Archaeologists discover first known temple to "flayed god" Xipe Totec

(tags: religion archeology )

England needs millions of homes to solve housing crisis

(tags: housing england )

How auto-enrolment shows Brexit is doomed

(tags: process government )

The advertising barrage women get on Instagram is, frankly, toxic

(tags: advertising women OhForFucksSake )

People With Advantageous Personality Traits Have More Nerve-Fibre Insulation (Myelination) In Key Brain Areas

(tags: personality brain )

Challenging Uber by Uniting the World's Cab Drivers

(tags: taxi transport Technology )

Impossible for Seaborne's Brexit port to be ready for March

So DfT has awarded £millions contract to a company: - with no ferries or experience - from a port that needs dredging before it can be used - with dock facilities too narrow for available vessels - to another port that won’t be ready Right. Glad we’re straight on that.
(tags: uk europe shipping doom )

Washington downgrades EU mission to US

(tags: europe usa diplomacy OhForFucksSake )

Theresa May suffers Commons defeat over no-deal Brexit

(tags: UK europe politics )

There are very good reasons why the BBC can’t just load iPlayer with archive content

(tags: BBC history rights money intellectual_property )

Q&A: Alex Salmond's legal victory

(tags: Scotland snp AlexSalmond abuse law )

Ministers discuss prospect of the break-up of the UK in the event of a no-deal Brexit

(tags: UK europe Ireland Scotland NorthernIreland )

Bees! Wearing Tiny! Backpacks! For! Science!

(tags: bees awesome )

In Unprecedented Move, U. Of Washington Fired a Professor for Sexual Harassment

(tags: university usa harassment academia )

T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters

(tags: location surveillance phones OhForFucksSake )