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

[cmcmck]

While legally being required to mask on the street has never been a thing here, he has been seen in places where he should have been when he wasn't- like when meeting hospital staff.

But this is Mr illegal party guy we're talking about..........

The masking rules are now no longer there so you'll no doubt see much more of Bojo's ugly fizz in future!