Interesting Links for 03-08-2024
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- 1. Olympics to ban literally every athlete in order to avoid controversy around competitors with 'genetic advantages'
- (tags:genetics olympics satire )
- 2. Seven things to know before forming an opinion on boxing's Olympics gender row
- (tags:gender Olympics sports )
- 3. Thousands of unused affordable homes sitting empty because housing associations can't afford to take them on
- (tags:housing UK OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Fully-automatic robot dentist performs world's first human procedure
- (tags:dental automation )
- 5. The Untold Story of How Ridley Scott Saw 'Star Wars'—and Ended Up Making 'Alien'
- (tags:movies StarWars history alien RidleyScott )
- 6. Cycling trips on Leith Walk double - 9% of trips are now by bike
- (tags:cycling Edinburgh Scotland transport )
- 7. Digital Apartheid in Gaza: Unjust Content Moderation at the Request of Israel's Cyber Unit
- (tags:Israel Palestine socialmedia )
- 8. Old News, New Reality: A Year of Meta's News Ban in Canada
- (tags:Facebook news Doom )
- 9. The Emperor Claudius and the eclipse on his 54th birthday
- (tags:Rome eclipse history )
- 10. What are Labour and the Tories talking about on tax in the UK?
- (tags:tax UK Labour conservatives )