Interesting Links for 18-04-2022
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andrewducker- 1. The impact of 'pile-ons' and trolling by transphobic Twitter users
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- 2. Rwanda genocide orphans told to leave hostel to make room for UK asylum seekers
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- 3. On Jimmy Saville and the price of joining the British establishment
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- 4. "My skin was irritated, red and blotchy for years until I found out why because of lockdown"
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- 5. UK Shared Prosperity Fund gives Scotland one sixth of what they got from the EU
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- 6. The power of inflation
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- 7. As a parent, if offered a choice of my birth child or the one I had raised I would absolutely make this same choice
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- 8. A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? Does it understand? And what does that mean?
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- 9. Put people in an unfamiliar place and only half their brain sleeps at a time (I wonder if this is also true of parents)
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- 10. The modern chicken is more than 4x the size of one from 50 years ago
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- 11. Happy "Virus Freedom Day" to everyone in Scotland!
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- 12. Two versions of the trolley problem elicit similar responses everywhere
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Date: 2022-04-18 04:38 pm (UTC)10. You can see the chicken size thing clearly in old cooking shows---particularly the one in which Julia Child displays different ages of butchered chickens and tells their weights and how they're best prepared! Recipes calling for a single chicken part (e.g. breasts, to be paillarded or stuffed etc.) are also a clue...