Interesting Links for 07-04-2022
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andrewducker- 1. What leads people to believe they have been abducted by aliens?
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- 2. New part of the body found in the lungs
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- 3. Boris Johnson's new nuclear plants expected to raise energy bills by over £80 a year - not be ready in time for anything useful
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- 4. You all know about the millions of people in the Congo that Belgium killed and maimed to steal their resources, right?
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- 5. New 1,350 home village to be built in West Edinburgh
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- 6. Five Swift Answers to The Problem of Baby-Eating Authors
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- 7. Fluoride in water in Scotland would save NHS a fortune
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- 8. A new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.
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- 9. UK government: "No need for government Child Poverty Unit because we abolished child poverty targets"
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- 10. Black households three times more likely to be food insecure than the national average
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- 11. The fashion capital of the prehistoric world has been revealed
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- 12. Germany boosts renewables with biggest energy policy reform in decades
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- 13. Long Covid cases in UK reach 1.7 million in record high. ⅓ of whom have had it for a year
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- 14. Dunbar's number, optimal group sizes, and how speaking is 2.8x better than picking fleas
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Belgian Congo
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Date: 2022-04-08 09:08 am (UTC)4. Yes.
7. I've always been surprised that fluoridation is still the subject of so much hysteria in Western countries. I suppose they can afford the extra healthcare costs. In my own experience, having lived in places both with and without fluoride in the water, it does make a difference to the amount of effort you have to put into regular dental care.
13. Yet another reason not to catch COVID-19 in the first place...