Interesting Links for 22-11-2025
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andrewducker- 1. Where nobody knows your name... - Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.
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- 2. The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed 600,000 people, most of them children
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- 3. Pope Leo XIV Gives His Apostolic Blessing to the Bedlam of Noise and Nightclub Worship Styles
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- 4. The Batman effect (putting someone in a Batman costume on a train makes people twice as likely to give up their seat for a pregnant woman)
- (tags:batman psychology )
- 5. Andy Burnham: "Here's how I would fix Britain"
- (tags:politics labour uk housing )
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Date: 2025-11-22 12:59 pm (UTC)I don't recognise him from the photo.
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Date: 2025-11-22 02:47 pm (UTC)The juxtaposition of 4 & 5 made me think Andy Burnham was going to deploy Batman on trains.
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Date: 2025-11-22 03:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-11-23 03:14 am (UTC)In a followup study, experimenters will compare the effects of Batman to both other heroes and villains. Does the presence of the Joker stir one to action or freeze one in one's seat, for example?
As regards Item 3
Date: 2025-11-23 03:58 am (UTC)