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1. Misery for motorists as Rishi Sunak's HS2 cut set to put half a million more lorries on the road: (tags:transport doom uk hs2 )
2. Bentham's Mugging (a short play, wherein moral purity is found wanting): (tags:morality philosophy funny )
3. WordPress makes its posts available via the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc): (tags:WordPress socialmedia )
4. 'Brahmastra Part One: Shiva' - for those people who like a very pretty religious superhero musical: (tags:religion movies trailer video india )
5. On Whataboutery in response to Hamas.: (tags:israel palestine terrorism )
6. Breakthrough in reading unopened ancient scrolls by scanning them: (tags:archaeology ai technology prehistory )
7. France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations: (tags:France Palestine protests )
8. Covid can cause our brain cells to fuse together causing cognitive impairment.: (tags:Pandemic brain Doom )
9. Edinburgh Princes Street closed due to 'incident' as buses and trams affected: (tags:Edinburgh transport buses trams )
10. Edinburgh's Princes Street closed and buses and trams disrupted after man found dead in early hours: (tags:death edinburgh )

1. cripes does anybody remember Google People (a short story): (tags:short_story Google technology AI scifi horror )
2. The world's oldest trigonometry table (1,500 years before the Greeks): (tags:archaeology mathematics )
3. Extreme Misogyny in Incels Probably Not Caused by Sexual Frustration (instead caused by trying to show how much inceller they are than any of their terrible friends): (tags:misogyny psychology )
4. How Insect Brains Melt and Rewire During Metamorphosis: (tags:insects brain )
5. U2 at the Sphere in Vegas looks mind-blowing: (tags:u2 video concert technology )
6. The 'Center of Edinburgh' Bollard: (tags:Edinburgh postoffices )
7. You cannot design a productive city around car transport: (tags:cars transport cities viaDanielDWilliam )
8. Animation vs. Math: (tags:mathematics animation video )
9. Oxford University Mathematician reacts to "Animation vs. Math": (tags:mathematics video animation )
10. The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History: (tags:security Technology epicfail hacking )

1. Justin Roiland: Rick and Morty creator and star dropped by Adult Swim (over assault charges): (tags:USA assault tv )
2. Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots (what happens when you train an AI on all the text a person leaves behind): (tags:ai writing communication death memory viaPatrickHadfield )
3. A lovely remembrance of a dying friend, and the last things he wanted to do.: (tags:archaeology death viaDanielDWilliam )
4. Edinburgh's iconic Granton gas holder to be transformed into new city park: (tags:Edinburgh gas park )
5. Clearly the best console gaming setup ever: (tags:gaming consoles video impressive )
6. Facebook follows Twitter in un-banning Donald Trump ahead of 2024 presidential bid, Nick Clegg confirms: (tags:Facebook politics USA )
7. What time is it on the moon?: (tags:time moon physics )
8. Christian decline UK: How it's measured and what it means: (tags:religion uk census demographics )
9. The UK's Biggest Cooking Myths: (tags:uk cooking myths )

In A Sports World Segregated By Gender, Figure Skating Has Often Blurred Those Lines: (tags:sports gender history )
One in three Americans have high levels of toxic weed-killing chemical in their bodies: (tags:usa hormones toxic pesticide )
COVID-19 takes serious toll on heart health—a full year after recovery: (tags:pandemic heart )
Underwater Photographer of the Year winner revealed: (tags:photography water viacmcmck )
How hard it is to get to Mars—and then to live there (very): (tags:mars spacex space )
Chalk drum from 5,000 years ago is the most important UK art find in a century: (tags:uk prehistory archaeology art )
A villain of Twitter: Redeemed!: (tags:Twitter reading pubs alcohol books )
Researchers confirm newly developed inhaled vaccine delivers broad protection against SARS-CoV-2, variants of concern: (tags:Pandemic vaccine GoodNews )
UK exports to EU plunge £20bn in first full year after Brexit: (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
Two former legal directors of the EHRC point out that it's draft guidance is unlawful: (tags:law LGBT transgender UK rights )
YouTube's Olympics Highlights Are Riddled With Propaganda: (tags:China Olympics propaganda YouTube )

Here are the changes that will happen between the EU and the UK come the first of January: (tags:UK Europe Doom )
Vast Brexit customs clearance centre to be built in Kent: (tags:trade Europe UK )
Incredible restored video of Tokyo from 1913-1915: (tags:Japan history video )
CNN asked Black artists from Mississippi to design a new state flag: (tags:flags USA design )
Did you even know you needed 3D printed pasta?: (tags:pasta 3dprinting food technology )
How small satellites are radically remaking space exploration: (tags:space technology )
A fascinating, personal, story of transition, detransition, and transition again.: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281537118183895041.html
(tags:gender transgender LGBT )
Scientists develop new antibody test which gives results in seven minutes: (tags:virus GoodNews )
Nearly all married women take their husband's last name - the patriarchy is alive and well: (tags:names patriarchy uk marriage )
A gold ring, a thieving Roman, and...JRR Tolkien?: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281534833320222721.html
(tags:Tolkien archaeology rome viaDanielDWilliam )
The idea that the working class have limited interests is ahistoric, and just plain wrong: (tags:class culture history )
We have too much efficiency: (tags:efficiency society )
Why are toys such a bad business?: (tags:toys business )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3898146.html

This is what happens to fathers’ hormone levels when they watch their kids play football: (tags: sports children fatherhood hormones )
Seattle judges throw out 15 years of marijuana convictions: (tags: marijuana law GoodNews usa )
Brexit: Boris Johnson's plans could collapse government after they are rejected by DUP: (tags: uk europe NorthernIreland DUP )
If the world’s population lived like…: (tags: population world demographics environment visualisation )
How time systems should work: a modest proposal: (tags: time funny comic xkcd )
The Trump administration is arguing that climate change is both real and will be catastrophic -- so catastrophic that we may as well just go ahead and loosen fuel efficiency standards because we're already dead: (tags: globalwarming republicans OhForFucksSake )
What 61,000 hidden structures reveal about Maya civilization: (tags: history archaeology guatemala SouthAmerica )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3728255.html

Campus leftists under fire for refusing to engage in debate with escaped zoo tiger: (tags: politics freespeech satire funny )
Israel in turmoil over bill allowing Jews and Arabs to be segregated: (tags: apartheid Israel Jews OhForFucksSake )
Scotland to host first UK spaceport: (tags: Scotland space )
Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication: (tags: herpes alzheimers )
How much trouble is the US economy in?: (tags: usa economy doom )
The 5 Love Languages of Britney Spears: (tags: funny love relationships music viaSwampers )
Russian pro-gun activist linked to NRA charged with spying in US for Moscow: (tags: Russia spying usa guns )
AI will create as many jobs as it displaces: (tags: ai jobs )
LeoCAD - Virtual LEGO CAD Software: (tags: Lego design computers )
Vote Leave fined and referred to police over Brexit campaign spending, Electoral Commission announces: (tags: uk Europe referendum law )
We really need to talk about the difference between educating people who are trying to learn in good faith, and "debating" bigots who just want to dehumanize us and pretend it's a free exchange of ideas.: (tags: community debate bigotry )
Think everyone died young in ancient societies? Think again: (tags: age death history archaeology )
Key social reward circuit in the brain impaired in children with autism: (tags: children brain autism neuroscience )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3705774.html

The dry summer is revealing archeological sites: (tags: archeology weather farming )
After Brexit, farming is fucked: (tags: farming doom uk Europe )
Hacker Steals Military Docs Because Someone Didn’t Change a Default FTP Password: (tags: military security fail drone )
The EU has just passed a law that could end the problems with free movement (employers undercutting locals by bypassing minimum wage requirements): (tags: minimumwage Europe immigration )
Solar power in the USA is now ridiculously cheap: (tags: solarpower usa GoodNews )
What Babies Know About Their Bodies and Themselves: (tags: babies neuroscience psychology bodies )
A Massive, Black Sarcophagus Has Been Unearthed in Egypt, And Nobody Knows Who's Inside: (tags: Egypt archaeology )
Whitehall’s ‘potty’ plan to keep NI lights on if no Brexit deal: (tags: UK Europe NorthernIreland )
Ministers draw up secret plans to stockpile processed food in case of a 'no deal' Brexit: (tags: UK Europe doom )
Hilariously bad translations at the zoo: (tags: zoo translation funny fail )
Elusive trigger for cooling 13,000 years ago might have been found: (tags: Canada atlantic temperature prehistory )
LED lights reduce seabird death toll from fishing by 85 percent: (tags: light birds ocean )
Whole-fat dairy foods aren't bad for you: (tags: food milk dairy health )
Humans did not stem from a single ancestral population in one region of Africa: (tags: Africa evolution humans )
Trump Aide Connected To 2006 Overseas Attack On US Marines: (tags: usa Ukraine russia )
Ministers urged to up public spending on rail, green energy and digital: (tags: investment economy )
Einride's T-log Is a Self-Driving Truck Made for the Forest: (tags: forests transport electricity automation )
Hard Brexiteers Set Out How They Will Thwart Theresa May's Negotiating Plan: (tags: UK conservatives Europe doom )
Here is a horrifying example of how the media make women's achievements invisible: (tags: women football media OhForFucksSake sexism )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3703950.html

Gustav Born had an intensely interesting life: (tags: Germany obituary medicine research )
Why there has never been a movie like Avengers: Infinity Wars before: (tags: movies marvel )
Forty-four genomic variants linked to major depression: (tags: depression genetics )
Dammit, I want a capybara: (tags: cute )
Melatonin’s role in labor progress: (tags: childbirth )
EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming neonicotinoids,: (tags: bees europe GoodNews )
Voter ID plans 'deeply flawed', says Electoral Reform Society: (tags: reform voting identity uk )
Why Do Judges Cite Jane Austen in Legal Decisions?: (tags: writing women law usa )
Wooden Statue Found in Late 1890s Likely Dates Back More Than 11,000 Years: (tags: archaeology prehistory )
Prof says he'll grade students on a curve, so they organize a boycott of the exams and all get As: (tags: exams university )
Quiz: can you guess the world city from its cold war Soviet spy map? (I got 9/11): (tags: maps russia )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3682069.html

Why sugar could be to blame for your bad memory – and can it get you hooked?: (tags: addiction sugar memory )
Scan technique reveals secret writing in mummy cases: (tags: Egypt archaeology technology )
New Zealanders build island in bid to avoid alcohol ban: (tags: newzealand alcohol )
LIDAR is key to self-driving cars. Cheaper, better versions are right around the corner: (tags: Technology thefuture cars automation )
Airline safety: 2017 was safest year in history: (tags: airplanes safety death GoodNews )
What you shouldn’t put in your vagina: 2017’s greatest hits: (tags: vagina health OhForFucksSake )
Gamergate FBI file shows no charges brought despite confessions: (tags: abuse OhForFucksSake usa crime )
Is *your* child dabbling in dangerous postmodernism?: (tags: comic satire philosophy meaning )
What I've Learned About Female Desire From Reading - The Toast: (tags: funny desire women writing society )
Star Wars: Regency style is just amazing: (tags: StarWars art )
2018 Is the Last Year of America's Public Domain Drought: (tags: copyright usa OhForFucksSake )
'Fare-dodger' gets penis stuck in ticket barriers at Covent Garden Tube station: (tags: headline penis tube London uk viaPatrickHadfield )
Most Personality Quizzes Are Junk Science. Here's One That Isn’t.: (tags: personality psychology )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3648305.html

How One Woman's Digital Life Was Weaponized Against Her: (tags: abuse Technology OhForFucksSake )
The ice ceiling that held women back from Antarctic exploration: (tags: antarctic women history )
A New Study of Economics as a Science Says It's Still Dismal: (tags: research fail economics )
Firefox 57 gets a Preference to open bookmarks in a new tab: (tags: firefox )
Star Wars: Battlefront II is, basically, Pay-To-Win: (tags: games StarWars OhForFucksSake )
The Words Men and Women Use When They Write About Love: (tags: gender writing love )
Edinburgh needs 3,000 new homes a year (for the next twenty years): (tags: housing edinburgh scotland )
Nigel Farage forced to retract remarks about anti-fascist charity Hope Not Hate after losing £100k legal battle: (tags: law UK UKIP )
Estate agent says millennials buy too many sandwiches: (tags: housing OhForFucksSake )
Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal: Interesting news on cap & trade too
(tags: Germany coal globalwarming )
What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like?: (tags: food history )
Deliveroo claims victory in self-employment case: (tags: law jobs uk )
Down with the negation sign!: (tags: mathematics )
Mutant gene found in Amish people that makes them live 10 years longer: (tags: age death genetics )
Australians back marriage equality in non-binding vote: (tags: lgbt australia marriage )
Zimbabwe's Military in Apparent Takeover, Says It Has Custody of President: (tags: zimbabwe )
Grading foxes: (tags: fox cute )
Horses: dragons in disguise?: (tags: horses dragons )
If you enjoy the tearing apart of terrible vampire fiction...: (tags: vampires fiction awful )
Explaining the proportions on Neolithic statues of women: (tags: archaeology art women )
Former British MI6 spy reveals how to remember information without writing it down: (tags: memory spying )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3634495.html

The Shortest History of Germany review (I read this, and highly recommend it): (tags: books Germany history )
A 30-minute lesson in the malleability of personality has long-term benefits for anxious, depressed teenagers: (tags: depression anxiety mentalhealth psychology teenagers )
Scientific review offers chance for more people to give blood: (tags: blood donations uk )
Tesco have gotten into the Christmas spirit early this year: (tags: Christmas shopping funny satire )
UK needs to expand house building (because it has under built for fifty years): Sadly, far too sensible for any government to actually do it.
(tags: housing uk economics viaDanielDWilliam )
Vince Cable says direct rule should be imposed if British overseas territories fail to tackle unacceptable tax practices: (tags: tax uk )
Britain tries to water down EU anti-tax haven measures days after Paradise Papers revelations: (tags: Tag UK europe )
Logitech wants people to upgrade to their new tech - so they're disabling the old tech: (tags: technology obsolescence OhForFucksSake )
Facebook asks users for nude photos in project to combat revenge porn: (tags: nudity photos facebook )
The Early 20th-Century ID Cards That Kept Trans People Safe From Harassment: (tags: Germany history transgender lgbt viaElfy )
We asked 86 burglars how they broke into homes: (tags: theft crime advice viaMonique )
Agate carving dating to around 1450 B.C., recovered from the grave of Griffin Warrior at the site of Pylos in Greece: (tags: archaeology greece art war )
Why does Taylor Swift write so many one-note melodies?: (tags: music )
Life Advice: For the sake of your friends, family, and sanity, do not throw yourself into a new career with no idea of how it works, assuming your enthusiasm will overcome your total ignorance and utter incompetence: (tags: OhForFucksSake food business fail idiocy )
A short story about perfection and time and reaching beyond your grasp: (tags: life time short_story )
Scottish government launches consultation on making legally changing gender easier: (tags: gender scotland law transgender )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3633141.html

Why Are The Lib Dem Leadership So Keen on Brexit?: (tags: libdem europe OhForFucksSake )
Let’s Debate Female Viking Warriors Yet Again: (tags: Viking history archaeology women )
23andMe Is Digging Through Your Data for a Parkinson's Cure: (tags: disease genetics )
Atheists are nicer to Christians compared to the other way around if their religious identity is known: (tags: religion atheism )
Jewish opposition to Israeli policies: (tags: israel Jews )
Tipping Point Leadership: (tags: leadership viaSwampers )
What's going on with all the directors on the Star Wars films?: (tags: StarWars movies )
Mother! - Movie Review (Oh very dear) (spoilers): (tags: review movies )
6 Reasons Good People Turn Into Monsters: (tags: morality groups psychology evil )
I clearly _really_ need to watch Robocop again: (tags: movies robots police awesome )
This timeline of the various versions of the Church of Scotland is impressive: (tags: Scotland religion visualisation )
When Roald Dahl's Editor Decided He Was Too Much of a Prick To Publish: (tags: writing publishing viaFJM )
Government spends four times more subsidising private housing than building affordable homes: (tags: housing uk OhForFucksSake )
Game of Thrones to shoot multiple endings of final season to stop story leaks: (tags: gameofthrones )
Autistic boys and girls found to have hypermasculinised faces: (tags: faces testosterone autism )
Autonomous Robots Plant, Tend, and Harvest Entire Crop of Barley: (tags: farming robots automation )
Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security: (tags: security faces )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3616166.html

Children as young as four believe in karma – good things happen to those who do good: (tags: children morality belief )
Row over AI that identifies gay faces: (tags: lgbt ai )
Labour: The UK will definitely be leaving the single market: (tags: europe uk labour OhForFucksSake )
Can Macron and Merkel agree on how to fix the eurozone?: (tags: economics germany france europe )
In the volcanic ice caves under Antarctica, life has hidden for many strange aeons: (tags: life antarctic volcano )
From dinosaurs to birds - Scientists track the brain-skull transition: (tags: dinosaurs birds archaeology )
Scientist finds secret to thriving: (tags: happiness success psychology )
Photographer wins 'monkey selfie' legal fight: (tags: monkey rights photography law viaSwampers )
Australians told to eat more kangaroo as population hits double that of humans: (tags: Australia animals )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3615570.html

Why were the US polls wrong?: tl;dr - people voted who normally don't.
(tags: polls usa politics )
VR Is Totally Changing How Architects Dream Up Buildings: (tags: architecture VirtualReality )
Psychological safety is crucial for great teamwork—but it has a dark side: (tags: psychology teams )
What does history tell us about what may happen next with Brexit & Trump?: (tags: history archaeology war usa europe epicfail )
Is the Internet changing democracy as we know it?: (tags: internet democracy )
No, you cannot disguise a brothel as a porn studio: (tags: prostitution porn law usa )
Find porn stars who look like people you know using facial recognition: (tags: porn faces Technology )
2 percentage points can make all the difference in the world.: (tags: voting politics usa )
Trump's First 100 Days: Here Is What The President-Elect Wants To Do: (tags: politics usa OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3523177.html

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