Interesting Links for 22-02-2022

[andrewducker]

The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency (for free!)

(tags:fraud jobs OhForFucksSake )

Benefits changes could have serious consequences on mental health, warns UK psychologists' body

(tags:mentalhealth welfare uk OhForFucksSake )

Lit-Up Fishing Nets Dramatically Reduce Catch of Unwanted Sharks, Rays and Squid

(tags:light fish fishing sharks squid )

First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children

(tags:genetics Jews medicine )

How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading

(tags:reading books organisation )

Some Reasons why Babies Cry in the First Three Months, How to Tell Them Apart, and What to Do

(tags:babies advice )

Where Are All the Men in Science Fiction?!?

(tags:scifi men gender women publishing )

The "Peacemaker" Opening Credits are just...amazing. (I just about held it together until the eagle. And then the giggling started.)

(tags:tv superheroes video funny )

Wordle, confirmation bias, and conspiracy theories

(tags:conspiracy words game psychology )

Boris Johnson takes away the tools people use to avoid killing their relatives

(tags:conservatives Pandemic OhForFucksSake )

We are in an unprecedented era of UK relative macroeconomic decline

(tags:economics uk doom Conservatives viaDanielDWilliam )

Comments

[reverancepavane]

As a piece of trivia Alan Tudyk was the inspiration/test dummy for the Peacemaker dance number, since his wife, Charissa Barton, was the choreographer responsible for it.

Apparently there is an unreleased tape of his performances...