Entries tagged with aid

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Interesting Links for 31-05-2024

1. US State Department official resigns, says US report on Israel blocking aid to Gaza is fraudulent: (tags:usa fraud gaza aid OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 18-06-2022

1. Scientists may have discovered the origins of the Black Death (in Kyrgyzstan): (tags:death disease history )
2. Citizen Kane (1941) but with a Velociraptor: (tags:dinosaurs movies funny )
3. Chores In Childhood May Improve Cognition And Academic Performance: (tags:children work psychology achievement )
4. The UK's biggest union just passed a motion in support of proportional representation: (tags:proportional_representation labour unions )
5. Long COVID 20-50% less likely after omicron than delta in vaccinated people: (tags:health pandemic vaccination GoodNews )
6. Is the Northern Ireland Protocol bill a breach of international law? (A video explanation): (tags:law uk europe trade doom NorthernIreland )
7. US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and services for little to no pay: (tags:slavery USA prison )
8. UNISON votes unanimously for trans equality in local government: (tags:UK unions transgender LGBT GoodNews )
9. The creator of Gravity Falls talks about the censorship he faced from Disney: (tags:Disney censorship TV children )
10. Boris Johnson breaks promise to deliver 100 million Covid vaccines to poor countries: (tags:BorisJohnson vaccine Pandemic inequality aid OhForFucksSake UK conservatives )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4074322.html

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Interesting Links for 17-08-2021

Scottish pubs are running out of beer: (tags:alcohol scotland doom )
Software development culture done right: (tags:software development working_hours )
Internet revamp for the humble UK landline: (tags:uk phones Technology )
Why does vaccine breakthrough happen? And why just in the throat?: (tags:vaccine immune_system pandemic )
Edinburgh's first fully electric double decker buses arrive: (tags:Edinburgh buses electricity )
Retail giant Hobby Lobby loses dogged 11-year battle to ban trans woman from bathroom: (tags:USA law transgender )
MasterCard to start phasing out magnetic stripes in 2024: (tags:money credit technology banking obsolescence )
Apple are just awful (this time: keyboard apps): (tags:Apple iPhone OhForFucksSake )
Some transphobes just lost a court case against the EHRC - here's the judgement explained: (tags:lgbt transgender law UK )
The rabbi who was also a priest: (tags:Jews OhForFucksSake christianity history USA viaPatrickHadfield )
microCOVID Project - estimating risk levels of various activities: (tags:pandemic risk )
UK To Increase Aid Spending On Afghanistan By 10% After Cutting It By 78%: (tags:uk aid afghanistan )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4061533.html

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Interesting Links for 15-07-2021

Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?: (tags:language uk history maps video )
Magic! Darkest magic!: (tags:video ViaDrCross magic )
The Ugly Carpets of Vegas are Hideously Clever Social Engineering at Work - Or Are They?: (tags:LasVegas design )
'Edinburgh Butterfly and Insect World to close doors for good after nearly 40 years (I was really looking forward to taking Sophia!): (tags:Edinburgh insects sad )
Why the government did not 'override' an Act of Parliament over overseas aid - the concerning thing is that the government acted in accordance with the law: (tags:law UK aid )
Labels keep 86% of streaming revenues, leaving a pittance for the artists: (tags:music money )
How To Fix Your Joycon Drift Permanently!: (tags:Nintendo video fail )
Racism fuelling far-right threat in UK - MI5's Ken McCallum warns: (tags:racism uk terrorism )
EU unveils sweeping climate change plan: (tags:europe globalwarming )
Is this Britain's oldest intact home? (9th century, carved out of rock): (tags:homes uk history )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4059701.html

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Interesting Links for 11-07-2021

Quest for "green" cement draws big name investors to $300B industry: Extra info https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27795416
(tags:materials co2 cement )
Off-Patent Osteoporosis Drug Also Found to Extend Lifespan: (tags:lifespan viaDanielDWilliam )
The Planets with the Giant Diamonds Inside (inside two fascinating planets you don't hear much about): (tags:space planets history astronomy )
Why Do Gamers Love Speedrunning So Much Anyway?: (tags:games speed )
Government's Mass Infection Plan pushed by Great Barrington Declaration Lobbying Effort to End COVID Protections: (tags:conspiracy vaccine pandemic UK government OhForFucksSake )
Not wearing a mask is associated with antisocial traits: (tags:psychology pandemic )
Boris Johnson's £11.6bn climate fund to be swiped from aid budget: (tags:UK globalwarming aid OhForFucksSake )
What is "The child-annihilating zipline"? (with bonus terrible kitchen redesign): (tags:death children engineering )
No bids for over 70% of Indian coal mines up for auction: (tags:coal India )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3713903.html

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Interesting Links for 10-08-2018

How autistic adults are being let down by the healthcare system: (tags: autism healthcare )
The 20-Year Journey of 'The Meg'—the Movie the Internet Wouldn't Let Die: (tags: sharks movies )
It's taken me almost ten years, but I now have 25,000 geek points. If only I could spend them on something ;-): (tags: geekery geek )
Inside The Culture Of Sexism At Riot Games: (tags: games sexism business )
This is precisely how I feel about voting software: (tags: voting software doom comic xkcd )
Women navigate almost as well as men in countries with more equality: (tags: equality navigation gender )
Germany relaxes ban on Nazi symbols in video games: (tags: Germany games nazis )
North American diets require more land than we have: (tags: diet farming environment )
The war between Labour and Europe continues: (tags: Labour UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
Lovely stop-motion video about woodworking with Lego: (tags: Lego video stopmotion )
Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry (much, much more interesting than I thought it would be): (tags: family business counselling psychology japan )
French police accused of harassing aid workers at Calais (they deny it, because nobody has reported the police to...the police: (tags: police immigration aid France OhForFucksSake )
Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She’ll Thank You Later.: (tags: mathematics girls )
Moose are big. Really big. No, bigger than that: (tags: animals size video )
Women with partners higher in trait conscientiousness get more pleasure from sex: (tags: sex psychology behaviour )
Cable networks are speeding up TV shows to cram in ads: (tags: advertising tv OhForFucksSake usa )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3645183.html

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Interesting Links for 21-12-2017

Islamic instant divorce not legal under EU law: (tags: law Europe divorce islam )
BBC to air more religious programming: (tags: bbc religion )
Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15: (tags: google chrome adblock advertising )
Who's work is entering the public domain in 2018?: (tags: copyright )
EU takes first step towards sanctions against Poland to stop drift towards authoritarianism: (tags: poland europe )
Lightwear: Introducing Magic Leap's Mixed Reality Goggles: (tags: augmentedreality Technology thefuture )
The Russian Embassy asked Channel 4 to FactCheck William Hague. Here’s what we found: (tags: russia facts )
Game of Thrones: Scientists use model to explain Westeros’s strange climate and extended seasons: (tags: gameofthrones climate simulation )
Britain is, and was, deluded about its negotiating power with the EU: (tags: UK europe )
BBC criticised for labelling England games as ‘Scottish productions’: (tags: Scotland BBC OhForFucksSake )
Scientists finally establish why there is no life on Mars: (tags: mars space )
Higher class is directly associated with a lower propensity to reason wisely in interpersonal situations.: (tags: class conflict society )
Struggling to get your kids to eat healthy? 'Don't give up!' researchers say: (tags: children food )
Scotland investigates how to modernise elections (online voting is still a terrible idea): (tags: voting Scotland )
Donald Trump threatens to cut aid to countries over UN Jerusalem vote: (tags: usa aid Israel OhForFucksSake )
Berlin's Plan to Become a City for Cyclists: (tags: germany cities cycling )
Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Fionavar Tapestry Set for TV Treatment: (tags: tv books fantasy )
Police made appalling errors in using internet data to target suspects: (tags: police uk OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3131895.html

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Interesting Links for 11-08-2014

J.R.R. Tolkien's 10 Tips For Writers
(tags: Tolkien writing advice )
How a Basic Income would make it easier to work flexibly, and be a better fit for modern society
(tags: GuaranteedIncome work )
11 Problems With The House Of Lords Explained Using Cats
(tags: law houseoflords cats politics reform )
Amazon opens up a new front in its war. This time with Disney.
(tags: Disney Amazon media movies business )
What happens when you apply science to Anime Magical Girls
(tags: anime Japan science )
Here’s a map that lets you cyberstalk cats all around the world
(tags: cats stalking maps )
47% of initial applications for our Hacker Retreat came from women. This is how we did it.
(tags: computers women )
5 Things I Learned as a Foreign Aid Worker
(tags: aid )
What Is Google Genomics?
(tags: Google genetics )
First-person Hyperlapse videos are a pretty neat idea
(tags: video Microsoft timelapse )
Here's What Happens When Your Joke Goes Massively Viral On Twitter
(tags: funny Twitter viral )
The crooked ladder - how criminals used to achieve upward mobility, and why it doesn't happen any more
(tags: gangs crime drugs class race USA )
OpenStreetMap - 2007 vs 2014
(tags: maps history )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2965815.html

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Interesting Links for 01-09-2013

Military Strikes Are An Extremely Cheap Way To Help Foreigners
(tags: aid charity syria military )
A fantastic response to the recent Watterson money/art comic.
(tags: art money )
Men fighting The Patriarchy
(tags: funny tumblr patriarchy )
On Marvel Comics, Movies, and Writing Vulnerable Characters
(tags: marvel movies writing comics Character )
Linux kernel swear counts
(tags: swearing linux )
These amazing photos are the winners of the Red Bull Illume Photo Contest 2013
(tags: photos )
Surprise! It looks like Google’s been planning a smartwatch for quite a while
(tags: technology google watches )
Tor's ebook typesetting is appalling (with example of @KariSperring )
(tags: ebooks publishing )
Wow. Labour whip's physical bulling of MPs is appalling.
(tags: politics uk assault labour )
Collaborating with a 4-year Old (to make awesome art)
(tags: art children )
This is the best explanation I've seen of the situation in Syria
(tags: syria )
Japanese Velociraptor Prank Is The King Of Pranks
(tags: funny dinosaurs video )
A properly untranslateable word
(tags: translation language viafanf )
Things Your Yoga Teacher is Dying to Tell You (But Probably Won't).
(tags: life teaching yoga )
The lead writer of Borderlands 2 talks about inclusivity and computer games
(tags: games diversity people )
Loki: Bringing people together.
(tags: relationships comics geekery )
Making friends with a paedophile: 'We can't kill him, so we help him not to do it again'
(tags: uk canada Child_abuse paedophilia rehabilitation )