Interesting Links for 12-08-2020
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andrewducker- Sweet & Slim, Greasy & Grim: The Physical Traits that Define Men and Women in Literature
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- Rise in English Covid cases above 1,000 a day breached government target
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- Android is now the world's largest earthquake detection network
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- Vaping makes young people up to seven times more likely to get coronavirus
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- New rules may force online political adverts in UK to carry labels
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- Broken cable damages Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory's giant radio telescope
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- Terrible person sets up dating site for Covidiots
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- Final Blockbuster to let people sleep overnight in the 90s
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- How will exam results in England, Wales and NI work?
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- EU Law Analysis on the legal issues of asylum-seekers crossing the Channel
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- Facebook's new policy bans blackface and some Jewish stereotypes
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Date: 2020-08-12 12:01 pm (UTC)Sadly, there seems to have been a spate of "vaping causes SCARE X" studies and I still don't know why, but that makes me very reluctant to accept stories that would otherwise look legitimate, even if they SAY they've controlled for people vaping/smoking being more likely to loosely interpret rules and breathe in each others' faces.
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Date: 2020-08-13 12:18 am (UTC)Characters have a secret hidden base, connected to the internet over a VPN made from entangled particles to hide their location.
Other characters detonate multiple nuclear weapons.
By analyzing the pulses registered by the earthquake sensor of someone in the base, their location is revealed.
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Date: 2020-08-13 07:15 am (UTC)Covidiots dating each other
Date: 2020-08-13 01:28 pm (UTC)Re: Covidiots dating each other
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