![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Interesting Links for 29-05-2021
May. 29th, 2021 12:00 pm- Janssen single-dose Covid vaccine approved by UK (85% efficiency)
- (tags:Japan vaccine pandemic )
- The five neurodivergent love languages
- (tags:love neurodiversity viaSwampers )
- US Soldiers Expose Nuclear Weapons Secrets via Flashcard Apps
- (tags:secrecy weapons nuclearweapons OhForFucksSake )
- Primates change their 'accent' to avoid conflict
- (tags:monkey accents )
- Fully Paralysed Terminally Ill Patients Still Face Inhumane Benefits Process Almost Two Years After Promised Review
- (tags:welfare UK illness OhForFucksSake )
Tags:
Interesting Links for 03-01-2021
Jan. 3rd, 2021 12:00 pm- Dogger Bank's giant turbines herald a wind of change in UK industry
- (tags:windpower UK )
- A South-East English Accent from the 14th to the 21st Centuries
- (tags:accents language UK video England history viaNeilRodger )
- The EU's Digital Markets Act: There Is A Lot To Like, but Room for Improvement
- (tags:Europe internet regulation )
- A vaccinologist on whether it's reasonable to extend the time between doses
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1344949258483621888.html
(tags:vaccine ) - I do not believe this is a good way to teach a nice-year-old (if nothing else I'd hope that by 9 Sophia would Google for an answer)
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1345508384011816960.html
(tags:children WTF parenting ) - 75% of Manaus have had Covid. It's still going strong
- (tags:pandemic brazil doom )
Interesting Links for 10-03-2020
Mar. 10th, 2020 12:00 pm- Microsoft: 99.9% of compromised accounts did not use multi-factor authentication
- (tags:security )
- Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps
- (tags:video water heat uk history )
- Russia, the Middle East and the USA are having an oil war
- (tags:oil USA middle_east Russia viaDanielDWilliam )
- "I never realised everybody felt as happy as I do when I am around autistic people" - a thematic analysis of autistic adults relationships with autistic and neurotypical friends and family
- (tags:autism video )
- Computer generated JFK gives the 'Darth Plagueis the wise' speech
- (tags:speech accents USA video StarWars ai viaJohnBobShaun jfk )
- Sometimes Toes Spontaneously Fall Off and Nobody Knows Why
- (tags:viajoexnz feet wtf )
- Lead Poisoning in Rome - The Skeletal Evidence
- (tags:rome lead history archeology )
- The situation in Northern Italian hospitals is horrifying
- (tags:Italy disease doom )
- Putin submits plans for constitutional ban on same-sex marriage
- (tags:LGBT Russia OhForFucksSake )
- Russian Lawmakers Back Extension of Putin's Presidency
- (tags:Russia OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 14-10-2018
Oct. 14th, 2018 12:00 pm- The Horror Oscars: The Best Scary Movies of Every Year Since 1978’s ‘Halloween’
- (tags: horror movies )
- 'Not everything was looted': British Museum to fight critics
- (tags: history museums uk )
- Turkey obtains recordings of Saudi journalist's murder (via his Apple Watch)
- (tags: murder journalism saudiarabia turkey technology apple )
- Turns out GOOP's claims are only 90% pseudoscience
- (tags: fraud )
- Labour MPs reveal they are ready to rescue Theresa May's Brexit deal in Commons vote
- (tags: UK europe labour )
- Leaked emails reveal DUP chief ready for no-deal Brexit
- (tags: UK europe NorthernIreland DUP )
- Margaret Atwood on the magic of Neil Gaiman | Books | The Guardian
- (tags: margaretatwood neilgaiman )
- I'm curious how many women under the age of 40 know what life was like for women in the 60s.
- (tags: women history rights )
- Silicon Valley companies are desparate to ignore any responsibility they have for the effects they have on the world
- (tags: Technology society responsibility )
- Sorry to Crush Your Dreams, But We’re Not Colonizing Space Anytime Soon
- (tags: space )
- Legally, how does the USA declare war?
- (tags: war law usa )
- Scottish weather too strong for waterfall
- (tags: scotland weather video viaSwampers )
- Fascist Spain meets British punk:Carlos Ezquerra and the subversive genius of Judge Dredd
- (tags: comics fascism JudgeDredd 2000AD history spain uk )
- RSC head of voice Kate Godfrey: ‘I want actors to use their own accents’
- (tags: shakespeare acting accents )
- A Map of Every Building in America
- (tags: maps usa )
Tags:
- 2000ad,
- accents,
- acting,
- apple,
- comics,
- dup,
- europe,
- fascism,
- fraud,
- history,
- horror,
- journalism,
- judgedredd,
- labour,
- law,
- links,
- maps,
- margaretatwood,
- movies,
- murder,
- museums,
- neilgaiman,
- northernireland,
- responsibility,
- rights,
- saudiarabia,
- scotland,
- shakespeare,
- society,
- space,
- spain,
- technology,
- turkey,
- uk,
- usa,
- viaswampers,
- video,
- war,
- weather,
- women
Interesting Links for 13-09-2018
Sep. 13th, 2018 12:00 pm- Comicsgate is the latest front in the ongoing culture wars
- (tags: comics fascism OhForFucksSake )
- Middle Earth Map Style
- (tags: maps lotr )
- Labour's Tom Watson 'reversed' type-2 diabetes through diet and exercise
- (tags: diabetes diet health )
- Microsoft intercepting Firefox and Chrome installation on Windows 10
- (tags: microsoft windows browsers OhForFucksSake )
- EU Parliament triggers Article 7 against Hungary
- (tags: Hungary Europe rights )
- Harrassing the children of people you don't like is counterproductive to your cause. And a terrible thing to do.
- (tags: children politics OhForFucksSake )
- Language fluency in speech and print
- (tags: language speech accents writing )
- Your reminder that Apple will delete movies you "bought" from your library. And keep your money.
- (tags: Apple movies copyright OhForFucksSake )
- Oregon novelist who wrote 'How to Murder Your Husband' charged with murdering her husband
- (tags: murder writing novel headline )
- This is the kind of behaviour from the Tories that pushes people towards independence
- (tags: Scotland Conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- MEPs vote to ban killer robots on battlefield
- (tags: robots war europe )
- Did the DC movie universe creators set out to make a mess? Because that's what they've produced
- (tags: dc comics movies )
- Ipswich town centre haunted by eerie nursery rhyme (creepiest story I've heard in some time)
- (tags: uk WTF scary )
- A Christmas Carol, a vanishing Italian, and a single lunch. A real life mystery.
- (tags: writing CharlesDickens italy weird )
- "No joke: TV editors cut me out of a panel show – and didn’t even notice"
- (tags: women tv comedy )
- Scientist Publishes A List Of Known Harassers in Academia
- (tags: academia abuse )
- Men Wish Women Would Stop Expecting These Things From Romcoms In Real Life
- (tags: movies men women behaviour relationships )
- EU Trials Tracker — Who's not sharing clinical trial results?
- (tags: Europe research fail )
- Horrible Science Stories #1a.k.a. How To Kill Several Thousand Women
- (tags: cancer research women breasts OhForFucksSake fraud )
- Juvenile or adult? Leap-year suspect poses conundrum for Australian court
- (tags: time age australia law )
- UK mass surveillance programme violates human rights, European court rules
- (tags: privacy rights uk europe )
Tags:
- abuse,
- academia,
- accents,
- age,
- apple,
- australia,
- behaviour,
- breasts,
- browsers,
- cancer,
- charlesdickens,
- children,
- comedy,
- comics,
- conservatives,
- copyright,
- dc,
- diabetes,
- diet,
- europe,
- fail,
- fascism,
- fraud,
- headline,
- health,
- hungary,
- italy,
- language,
- law,
- links,
- lotr,
- maps,
- men,
- microsoft,
- movies,
- murder,
- novel,
- ohforfuckssake,
- politics,
- privacy,
- relationships,
- research,
- rights,
- robots,
- scary,
- scotland,
- speech,
- time,
- tv,
- uk,
- war,
- weird,
- windows,
- women,
- writing,
- wtf
Interesting Links for 21-05-2018
May. 21st, 2018 12:00 pm- "What I Learned on My Date With a Sex Robot"
- (tags: sex robots )
- Capitalism and Magic The Gathering
- (tags: Capitalism games magic )
- Why, if the p-value for a study is 0.04, we can't say the study has a 4% chance of being a false positive
- (tags: statistics )
- On this day 1943: Should a woman or even a Yorkshireman be allowed to read the BBC news?
- (tags: history accents bbc gender )
- What is the most sophisticated piece of software/code ever written?
- (tags: software nuclearweapons viaSwampers )
- Acts versus consent: to what am I allowed to consent?
- (tags: sex consent bdsm )
Tags:
- accents,
- bbc,
- bdsm,
- capitalism,
- consent,
- games,
- gender,
- history,
- links,
- magic,
- nuclearweapons,
- robots,
- sex,
- software,
- statistics,
- viaswampers
Interesting Links for 09-08-2017
Aug. 9th, 2017 12:00 pm- Death as a social privilege?
- (tags: death euthanasia race )
- Computer says no: Irish vet fails oral English test needed to stay in Australia
- (tags: OhForFucksSake ireland language accents australia )
- Unlearning the myth of American innocence
- (tags: usa history )
- Adorable Black Metal Comics That’ll Satisfy Your Dark Side
- (tags: music funny metal )
- Rare 'pink rainbow' spotted in sky over Bristol
- (tags: pretty sky )
- How a children’s cartoon ignited a debate about skin color in Roman Britain, and what it has to do with genetics
- (tags: genetics Rome UK history )
- The Broken US Economy, in One Simple Chart
- (tags: usa inequality )
- Edinburgh tram decision in September, with line due in 2022
- (tags: Edinburgh trams )
- The Most Common Error in Coverage of the Google Memo
- (tags: google diversity journalism )
- Keep them busy and poor
- (tags: unions politics students )
- How does biology explain the low numbers of women in computer science
- (tags: biology gender mathematics programming )
- Researchers are studying psychopathic chimps to better understand the human variety
- (tags: monkey psychology psychopath )
- Second whole-class failure of Inverness College media exam
- I would love to know how this happens. Do the teachers not understand what the exam boards want? Is there total incompetence on the part of the college?
(tags: Education fail )
Tags:
- accents,
- australia,
- biology,
- death,
- diversity,
- edinburgh,
- education,
- euthanasia,
- fail,
- funny,
- gender,
- genetics,
- google,
- history,
- inequality,
- ireland,
- journalism,
- language,
- links,
- mathematics,
- metal,
- monkey,
- music,
- ohforfuckssake,
- politics,
- pretty,
- programming,
- psychology,
- psychopath,
- race,
- rome,
- sky,
- students,
- trams,
- uk,
- unions,
- usa
Interesting Links for 21-09-2014
Sep. 21st, 2014 12:00 pm- From bauxite and corn starch to cans in the fridge - how Coca Cola is made
- Patrick Stewart Recites a Poem In His Native Huddersfield (Yorkshire) Dialect
- A fantastic piece on the death of design in magazine covers and movie posters
- We now know the physical/chemical process by which stress makes people less sociable or able to think clearly.
- The real benefit of Agile (It's cheaper to do badly than waterfall)
- Since Thursday 4000 people have joined the SNP and 2000 have joined the Greens
Interesting Links for 13-09-2013
Sep. 13th, 2013 12:00 pm- Harry Potter: New Movies Based on Original Series in the Works (I await the implosion of the internet...)
- Bacteria enhance growth of fruit trees up to 40 percent
- There are more than two kinds of diabetes
- A quarter of people are sadistic
- If World War One was a bar fight.
- The Hornsleth Deep Storage Project is deeply, darkly, weird
- Russell Brand Kicked Out of GQ Awards For Pointing Out Hugo Boss Made Nazi Uniforms
- This Insect Has The Only Mechanical Gears Ever Found in Nature
- Kentucky Fried DEATH METAL
- Things cut in half
- The Life Cycle of Medical Ideas
- DC/Marvel Mash-up is really nicely done.
- Nice illusion. Took me a few seconds to work it out. Nice beards too.
- On the Lobbying Bill
- EU telecoms market reforms unveiled
- EastEnders is turning Glaswegians Cockney
- David Attenborough warns that humans have stopped evolving
Tags:
- accents,
- art,
- bacteria,
- beards,
- comics,
- cthulhu,
- davidattenborough,
- dc,
- diabetes,
- europe,
- evolution,
- fashion,
- food,
- funny,
- gears,
- hair,
- harm,
- harrypotter,
- heavymetal,
- humans,
- insects,
- interesting,
- jkrowling,
- language,
- links,
- lobbying,
- london,
- marvel,
- mechanics,
- medicine,
- movies,
- music,
- nazis,
- ocean,
- optical_illusion,
- phones,
- politics,
- psychology,
- research,
- science,
- scotland,
- telecoms,
- trees,
- tv,
- uk,
- wwi
Interesting Links for 07-09-2013
Sep. 7th, 2013 12:00 pm- Europe drafts law to ban mobile roaming charges
- NIH Studies Explore Promise of Sequencing Babies’ Genomes
- Iran foreign minister Zarif tweets happy Jewish new year
- Pornography reinforces sexist attitudes (but only in some people)
- Michael Keaton, Samuel L Jackson, and Gary Oldman in...Robocop?
- New drug mimics the beneficial effects of exercise
- Here's How Tipping Actually Works
- On language and Harry Potter
- Performing Shakespeare’s plays with their original English accent
Tags:
- accents,
- children,
- drugs,
- europe,
- exercise,
- garyoldman,
- genetics,
- goodnews,
- harrypotter,
- healthcare,
- iran,
- jews,
- language,
- latin,
- links,
- movies,
- phones,
- pornography,
- samuelljackson,
- sexism,
- shakespeare,
- tips
Interesting Links for 05-09-2013
Sep. 5th, 2013 12:00 pm- Does pressing the pedestrian crossing button actually do anything?
- The top code comment here is a classic
- Fascinating discussion of accents, how people change them, and the effect they have.
- Using harsh verbal discipline with teens is counterproductive and harmful
- 2013 bedroom poll explores sleep differences among six countries
- Architect behind the deathray building had previously built a different deathray building.
- WTF Is This Weird Web-Tower Thing? We Asked Around. No One Knows
- A _fascinating_ theory about music and human evolution
- What can you tell about changing demographics by looking at the NY Times wedding section?
- A concise list of everything in the universe
- Didn't Get Enough Sleep? You Might As Well Be Drunk
- What's it like to eat nothing by Soylent for a week?
- Report shows UK's infrastructure is rubbish. Politicians use it to score points. *sigh*
- You cannot offer upgrade pricing for Mac App Store purchases
Tags:
Interesting Links for 18-11-2011
Nov. 18th, 2011 11:00 am- Some interesting changes being recommended for the Scottish justice system
- The Gamburtsevs - Earth's most extraordinary mountains
- Intel shows off its Knights Corner one teraflops chip - Larrabee finally pays off!
- Is slow TV taking over the airwaves? (No. But it's nice to see some)
- Ex-MI5 boss to call for cannabis to be decriminalised
- Young jobseekers told to work without pay or lose unemployment benefits.
Surely this violates minimum wage laws?
- 5 Skills You Need To Thrive In Modernity (That Nobody Bothered To Teach You)
- Have taxpayers got a decent deal on the Northern Rock sale?
- Comedy foreign accents: Are they ever a good idea?
- Boffins build bigger, better battery.
- National Geographic Photo Contest 2011. Wow. These are _amazing_
- When a coyote climbs into your fridge.
- How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nationwide Drop in Violent Crime - Jobs & Economy - The Atlantic Cities
- Mozilla deploying BrowserID on its own sites
- Boys’ brains, girls’ brains: How to think about sex differences in psychology.
- France needs to upgrade all nuclear reactors
- Training in concrete thinking can be self-help treatment for depression
Tags:
- abstraction,
- accents,
- advice,
- amazing,
- animals,
- antarctic,
- banking,
- batteries,
- benefits,
- browserid,
- chicago,
- cocaine,
- computers,
- concrete,
- coyote,
- crime,
- depression,
- drugs,
- economics,
- france,
- gender,
- humour,
- identity,
- intel,
- law,
- links,
- mountains,
- mozilla,
- national_geographic,
- nature,
- neuroscience,
- northernrock,
- nuclear,
- photography,
- power,
- processor,
- psychology,
- rights,
- safety,
- scotland,
- slavery,
- technology,
- teraflop,
- thinking,
- treatment,
- tv,
- uk,
- usa,
- violence,
- virgin,
- voice,
- welfare,
- work
