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The UK housing market's perfect storm, and five steps to avoid it: Oh for a sensible housing policy
(tags: housing uk )
Theresa May's Brexit plans in ruins after France and Germany reject move on to discussing transitional arrangement: (tags: Europe uk doom )
How a negative review of Legend was spun into movie marketing gold: (tags: movies reviews fraud marketing )
Crispin’s Model (the best Lovecraftian short story I've read in a long time): (tags: hplovecraft short_story horror art )
Ghostbusters is a Surprising Antidote to Lovecraft’s Dismal Worldview: (tags: hplovecraft movie belief world )
Northern Ireland man can't marry fiancee from Japan because he holds Irish passport: (tags: UK immigration Ireland OhForFucksSake )
Saudi Man Causes Outrage And Praise For Posting Picture Of Wife Driving: (tags: women driving saudiarabia )
Independence in the Age of Disruption: questions for Scotland’s main parties: (tags: politics scotland )
Microsoft finally admits Windows Phone is dead: (tags: Windows Microsoft phones )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3623560.html

Decades of Sexual Harassment Accusations Against Harvey Weinstein: (tags: sex harassment movies )
Replacing Social Security Numbers Is Harder Than You Think: (tags: identity security )
Model Arvida Byström gets rape threats after an advert featured her hairy legs: (tags: abuse women bodies OhForFucksSake )
Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled White Nationalism Into The Mainstream: (tags: racism usa media )
Bank Behind Fearless Girl Statue Settles Gender Pay Dispute with 300 women: (tags: banking gender inequality usa art OhForFucksSake )
Amber Rudd: UK viewers of online terrorist material face 15 years in jail: (tags: terrorism uk video law )
Mass Shooters Aren’t Disproportionately White (but are disproportionately male): (tags: guns violence usa gender race )
Virgin Care asks staff not to report safety concerns to health watchdog: (tags: care safety OhForFucksSake virgin )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3623095.html

Wetin dey happen? The BBC's Pidgin news site is a huge deal: (tags: language bbc english africa )
Taylor! Swift! vs Andy! Samberg!: (tags: funny video music )
Moviemania - A huge collection of textless high-resolution movie wallpapers: (tags: movies art viaElfy )
How society went so horribly, horribly wrong: (tags: agriculture farming prehistory comic funny )
Nation Suddenly Realizes This Just Going To Be A Thing That Happens From Now On: (tags: weather usa satire )
Is this the best view from a toilet? (Rest of blog is totally worth reading, many gorgous photos): (tags: toilets nature photos )
How to make your own bottled water: (tags: water )
The Voynich manuscript has probably not been solved?: (tags: history viaFanf encryption )
'It was wonderfully scary': Tim Curry, Rob Reiner and Kathy Bates on the joy of adapting Stephen King: (tags: StephenKing horror movies interview )
Louis C.K. would rather ignore those assault rumours - here's why that's so disappointing: (tags: abuse sex society comedy )
Equifax Lobbied to Kill Rule Protecting Victims of Data Breaches: (tags: data privacy identity OhForFucksSake )
32 Puppies On Their First Days Of Work: (tags: puppy dogs viaPatrickHadfield photos )
The easy availability of temptations, combined with constant stress, is taking its toll on a whole generation: (tags: happiness pleasure addiction society )
Parents sue Christian school over boy allowed to wear a dress: (tags: OhForFucksSake lgbt school uk viaSwampers )
Offshore wind power cheaper than new nuclear in the UK: (tags: windpower nuclearpower UK )
How Russia Created the Most Popular Texas Secession Page on Facebook: (tags: russia usa propaganda )
Amazon now has more than 100,000 robots.: The claims about not losing jobs are...fairly unbelievable. I strongly suspect that at the least they aren't hiring as many temporary workers, or replacing people who leave through normal turnover.
(tags: amazon robots jobs )
Messages that work for your own side don't work for reaching others: (tags: morality politics )
Massive genetic study shows how humans are evolving: * Analysis of 215,000 people's DNA suggests variants that shorten life are being selected against. * tested more than 8 million common mutations, and found two that seemed to become less prevalent with age. A variant of the APOE gene, which is strongly linked to Alzheimer’s disease, was rarely found in women over 70. And a mutation in the CHRNA3 gene associated with heavy smoking in men petered out in the population starting in middle age. People without these mutations have a survival edge and are more likely to live longer, the researchers suggest. * certain groups of genetic mutations, which individually would not have a measurable effect but together accounted for health threats, appeared less often in people who were expected to have long lifespans than in those who weren't. These included predispositions to asthma, high body mass index and high cholesterol. * Most surprising, however, was the finding that sets of mutations that delay puberty and childbearing are more prevalent in long-lived people.
(tags: genetics age humans evolution )
1041 genes affecting intelligence found (responsible for 5% of variance): (tags: genetics Intelligence )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3615295.html

Teacher who violently attacked her husband for 12 years caught out when he set up secret hidden camera: Look at the way he defends her, and wishes there wasn't a restraining order...
(tags: abuse relationships )
This 164 year old quote explains why we should openly share & discuss security holes: (tags: security history )
How to Choose Wisely: (tags: decisions advice )
"I downloaded an app. And suddenly, was part of the Cajun Navy.": (tags: emergency texas )
The Corpus Christi Prime (turning ASCII art into prime numbers): (tags: numbers art )
Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News: (tags: news rss Technology )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3615105.html

China's web users will have their identity verified from 1st October: (tags: identity china web )
"100% grated parmesan cheese" doesn't mean that something contains 100% cheese. Apparently.: (tags: cheese law food usa )
FDA Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation for MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD: (tags: drugs ecstacy psychology )
Google’s ARCore brings augmented reality to millions of Android devices: (tags: android augmentedreality )
Moderate consumption of fats, carbohydrates best for health, international study shows: (tags: fat carbohydrate diet food health )
Sky stops broadcasting Fox News in UK: (tags: FoxNews uk )
Drawing Autism: A Visual Tour of the Autistic Mind from Kids and Celebrated Artists on the Spectrum: (tags: autism art )
Terry Pratchett's unpublished works crushed by steamroller: (tags: death writing terrypratchett )
Fans watch Taylor Swift. Economists watch the fans.: (tags: music economics attention )
Women Entrepreneurs Create A Fake Male Cofounder To Dodge Startup Sexism: (tags: sexism business OhForFucksSake )
Why Speedos are mandatory in France: (tags: clothing france swimming )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3612001.html

Sadly many people today, often in without realizing it, endorse a key tenet of Hitler's social project: the theory of "degenerate art".: (tags: art nazis criticism )
Your kids will see internet porn. Deal with it: (tags: porn children society )
The Web’s Most Toxic Trolls Live in … Vermont?: (tags: troll usa maps )
There is no such thing as the true self, but it’s still a useful psychological concept: (tags: identity psychology )
Sperm Count in Western Men Has Dropped Over 50 Percent Since 1973: (tags: reproduction men )
Home Office used charity data map to deport rough sleepers: (tags: UK homelessness immigration )
Yoga and meditation improve mind-body health and stress resilience: (tags: stress meditation )
14 per cent of the variance in social skills comes from two genes: (tags: genetics social sociability )
Greetings from Liverpool, where one of the world's greatest ever bands have sort of reformed: (tags: music klf )
"I've got questions about the Rainbow Cinematic Universe": (tags: children tv funny )
People worry far too much about the Eclipse: (tags: sun eyes )
"My Personal Feminism": (tags: feminism )
The great free speech online debate: (tags: freespeech )
Noel Edmonds new TV show is "the worst idea in the world, stretched out for all eternity": (tags: tv review )
Game of Thrones theory: what does the Night King really want?: (tags: gameofthrones )
Unable to get a domain, racist Daily Stormer retreats to the Dark Web: (tags: web censorship nazis )
Driver’s license facial recognition tech leads to 4,000 New York arrests: (tags: crime faces identity usa )
Branch Prediction - how computer processors guess what they're going to do next: (tags: processor computer Technology )
Inside a super fast CSS engine: (tags: firefox web performance )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3610117.html

Why people fall for "clean eating" (tl;dr charisma+despair - the usual way cults work): When people lose trust in experts, and want a set of rules, they'll go for charisma and stories which resonate over complication.
(tags: food health fraud )
New divorce form 'invites name and shame' of adulterers: (tags: divorce law england )
Think like a supermodel if you want to win from the gig economy: (tags: work employment economics Technology )
Britain needs an anti-Brexit centrist party, says politician studiously ignoring the Lib Dems: (tags: libdem satire politics UK )
“Bloom”. Edinburgh International Festival, August 2017. (Gorgeous projections onto buildings): (tags: art edinburgh festival light photos )
Reviving the U.K.'s Giant Network of Bike Highways (Built in the 1930s!): (tags: history bicycles uk )
Mark Buckingham Is "Primarily Focused On Getting Miracleman Done": (tags: comics awesome alanmoore neilgaiman )
Hugo awards 2017: NK Jemisin wins best novel for second year in a row: (tags: Hugo awards scifi )
Defending Indiana Jones, Archaeologist: (tags: archeology movies )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3606775.html

Perfectionism as a risk factor for suicide: (tags: perfectionism suicide psychology )
The Twitter Joke Trial, as remembered by one of the lawyers: (tags: law freespeech twitter uk )
Why IBM has special permission to use software for evil: (tags: evil ibm software funny video )
European commission to crack down on offshore tax avoidance: (tags: tax europe )
How to Make a Clichéd High Fantasy Cover: (tags: fantasy funny art viaJamesNicoll )
The theocratic democracies of Iran and the UK: (tags: religion politics uk iran )
On The 50th Anniversary Of The Sexual Offences Act 1967, Look How Far We've Come: (tags: lgbt history )
Capitol Police Forced Journos to Delete Footage of AHCA Protesters.: (tags: police freespeech journalism usa )
Genetic evidence suggests the Canaanites weren’t destroyed after all: (tags: history middle_east )
Scotland receive £4,000 fine from Fifa for booing God Save the Queen: (tags: Scotland UK politics royalty )
Please Don't Say Just Hello In Chat: (tags: advice chat im viaSwampers )
Religious people believe because emotional resonance overrides logic: Which doesn't surprise me. Most people at least start off believing things because they lead to a conclusion that they like. Starting at axioms and working your way forward to whatever they lead to is distinctly uncomfortable at times
(tags: belief logic religion psychology )
'Eureka' moment pinpointed in the brain: (tags: brain learning psychology )
Regret improves children's decision-making: I've had a few. And sometimes they've helped me avoid doing the stupid thing again.
(tags: psychology learning behaviour )
Ketamine for depression encouraging, but questions remain around long-term use: (tags: depression psychology )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3602537.html

A chart that shows where robots are going to replace humans on Wall Street: (tags: automation finance )
Chicago SlutWalk joins in with anti-Semitic ban: (tags: Jews feminism OhForFucksSake usa )
Wings Over Scotland increases defamation claim against Kezia Dugdale to £25,000: (tags: lgbt law scotland independence politics )
Brexit: Theresa May refuses to rule out weakening of food standards in trade deal with US: (tags: food health usa uk europe )
How economists rode maths to become our era’s astrologers: I remember reading an article where the author pointed out that the hallmark of good science was the discarding of failed theories. And noting that economics never discards a theory.
(tags: history economics fail )
Brexit is dying – don’t worry about how we finish it off: (tags: europe uk )
If you want to understand where Corbyn is coming from on free movement of labour, Asquith Xavier has the answer. But you won't like it.: (tags: immigration racism Labour history unions )
Peter Davison is wrong about a female Doctor Who, but he's not sexist: (tags: drwho feminism )
Crewless electric cargo ships may be on the horizon in Norway: (tags: automation shipping transport )
When you think about it, Lord of the Rings is the only appropriate metaphor for the PhD Journey. Let me explain....: (tags: lotr academia phd awesome )
Money can buy you happiness (by paying to get out of negative things): This is on top of, of course, the "Money as a way of not being hungry/homeless" and "Money as a way of not letting your lifestyle decrease", both of which impact on happiness.
(tags: money time happiness )
Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder: Which seems odd to me. I can't quite figure out what they'd do with it.
(tags: privacy cleanliness automation )
India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs: (tags: jobs cars India automation OhForFucksSake )
Essex nursery 'closes because of universal free hours scheme': (tags: children money UK government )
How Nolan forgot the Indians at Dunkirk: (tags: India wwii history movies )
Snopes Faces an Ugly Legal Battle: (tags: law business facts fail )
Microsoft Paint avoids brush with death: (tags: software art microsoft )
Food security in a post-Brexit world: (tags: Food UK europe )
22 reasons the hyperloop and driverless cars don't mean we don't need HS2: (tags: trains transport thefuture )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3601748.html

The government has scrapped the planned electrification of railway lines in Wales, the Midlands and the North.: (tags: transport trains electricity uk )
Meet Rob Spence, the film-maker with the camera eye: (tags: cyborg video )
Should there be non-selective universities?: (tags: university academia Education uk )
Do I know any Edinburgh software people who want to work with underwater drones?: (tags: drone ocean robots jobs edinburgh )
Oh dear, even people with neuroscience training believe an awful lot of brain myths: (tags: brain myths fail )
Scientists Reverse Brain Damage in Drowned U.S Toddler: (tags: children brain amazing )
"Why my ‘gig economy’ review favours gradual change over quick fixes" (from the leader of the recent review): (tags: jobs employment uk pay )
Why Cutting Carbs Is So Tough: (tags: carbohydrates food insulin diet )
What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness: (tags: happiness age advice )
On the toxicity of Japan: (tags: japan OhForFucksSake )
The Tempest - Alan Moore And Kevin O'Neill's Final League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Announced: (tags: comics alanmoore )
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a fan project, in the best and worst ways: (tags: movies scifi fandom )
What's really behind The Sun's decision to publish Jodie Whittaker nudes: (tags: drwho misogyny nudity women )
The hypnotic illustrations of Visoth Kakvei: (tags: art )
Gene carried by 25% of the population, increases depression odds by 20%: (tags: depression genetics )
Sexually abused children as young as 12 refused compensation on grounds they 'consented': (tags: consent abuse children rape UK OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3600606.html

Which Anonymous Sources Are Worth Paying Attention To?: (tags: politics reporting media advice )
A neat video showing how Google Glass helps people with manual/technical work: (tags: work glass google Technology )
Another cool video, talking to people who use Google Glass for their jobs (wire assemblies for planes): (tags: google glass Technology work airplanes )
Producing animated "art" faces based on real video and example art: (tags: art video faces )
Arguing against xkcd on free speech: (tags: freespeech xkcd comics )
Reducing lead levels in children reduces violent crime by a staggering amount: (tags: lead crime behaviour )
Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters: (tags: gender comics analysis visualisation )
What Happens To Pornhub During Game Of Thrones: (tags: gameofthrones porn statistics visualisation )
State pension age increase brought forward (I'll be working an extra year): (tags: pensions uk viaSwampers )
Lost Time - on Proust and Science Fiction: (tags: time scifi writing )
A common underlying genetic basis for social behavior in dogs and humans: (tags: dogs humans genetics socialisation personality )
Cop’s body cam films him planting drugs—he obviously didn’t know it was recording: (tags: transparentsociety police cameras )
Sea cave preserves 5,000-year snapshot of tsunamis: (tags: sea cave tsunami earthquake history )
How Devastating was the Black Death?: (tags: history death disease )
Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape of Water" looks beautiful: (tags: movies GuillermoDelToro trailer video )
"Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra Special Talking Mongoose": I can only conclude that many people are _so_ desperate to believe things that they will do so no matter what. This is not, of course, a new observation.
(tags: magic belief history weird )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3600001.html

YC is compiling a blacklist of venture capitalists accused of harassing women: (tags: investment harassment misogyny usa )
If Norman Rockwell painted African-American culture today: (tags: race art usa viaSupergee )
Meet Lilli, the High-end German Call Girl Doll who became America's Iconic Barbie: (tags: toys history sex viaSupergee )
Texas Republican Blocks State's Bathroom Bill: "I Don’t Want The Suicide Of A Single Texan On My Hands": (tags: usa lgbt GoodNews )
The untold origins of Gamergate — and the gaming legends who spawned the modern culture of abuse: (tags: abuse games viaSupergee )
Nichelle Nichols on naming and being cast as Uhura: (tags: StarTrek history )
Here’s the Deal With Gluten (Most sensible article I've read on the subject): (tags: gluten food )
Dying Lion Sure Doesn't Feel As Though He's Completing Some Great Cosmic Circle: (tags: life death )
Areas Where Artificial Intelligence is Outpacing Humans: (tags: ai )
Goldman Sachs relaxes dress code for techs in fight for talent: (tags: clothing society )
Trudeau Blames Opposition For Not Reading His Mind On Electoral Reform: (tags: canada voting reform )
How to reduce queueing at the ladies room: (tags: toilets gender )
Man loses legal bid to prevent council burying parents: Even odder than it sounds.
(tags: death )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3598262.html

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3595664.html

That Dire Helium Shortage? Vastly Inflated: (tags: chemistry materials )
Trial! By! Cake!: (tags: history cake funny viaSwampers )
The Pinkest Pink Versus the Blackest Black: (tags: colour art Technology )
Scotland may close its first train station for 31 years: (tags: rail scotland transport )
Workplace gender quotas weed out incompetent men and make businesses more efficient: (tags: gender equality business politics )
Scots ban on puppy tail docking relaxed after Holyrood vote: (tags: dogs scotland )
Helpful criticism from a true fan...: (tags: fandom funny true comic )
Where do you fit in? (Enter your income, discover how many people earn less than you): (tags: income )
Gender Variance Around the World Over Time: (tags: lgbt history )
House cat challenges a lion: (tags: lions cats video )
Virtual reality controllers take another step forward: (tags: VirtualReality ux )
Brexit: Leave voter realises his fruit farms could collapse without EU migrant workers: (tags: europe UK jobs farming OhForFucksSake )
Ron Howard taking over as director of Star Wars Han Solo film: (tags: StarWars movies )
System detects, translates sarcasm on social media: I bet it works *fantastically*
(tags: meaning language )
If you build it, they will ride: pop-up bike lanes show that demand exists: Oh to have a bike lane to work
(tags: bicycles transport )
Finnish citizens given universal basic income report lower stress levels and greater incentive to work: (tags: GuaranteedIncome finland GoodNews )
Teenage boys wear skirts to school to protest against 'no shorts' policy: (tags: clothing heat gender )
New Hampshire Accidentally Approved A Bill Allowing Pregnant Women To Commit Murder: (tags: law women pregnancy usa murder )
Taylor Swift makes $200,000 per week since returning to Spotify: (tags: money spotify streaming music )
UN vote backing Chagos Islands a blow for UK: (tags: uk law unitednations )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3591170.html

Finally, definitive proof of whether or not there are aliens: (tags: aliens comic satire politics )
IBM unveils world’s first 5nm chip: (tags: processor cpu ibm Technology computers )
Queensferry Crossing builders set to lose £100 million in penalties for finishing project late: (tags: construction money fail scotland )
UK schoolchildren attempting suicide to qualify for mental health treatment: (tags: suicide mentalhealth uk OhForFucksSake )
I just hate-read this article on rich people making terrible property decisions.: Will someone please fix the housing crisis that now seems to plague many parts of the world? Possibly by building a lot more housing?
(tags: housing privilege money canada )
Why we don't need more anti terrorism laws: (tags: law terrorism UK )
UK workers have had the worst wage peformance in the OECD except Greece: (tags: uk wages money fail )
Meet Poe's Law, the bigot's shield for being bigoted on the internet: (tags: racism sexism internet satire )
Martin Scorsese on the power of film-making as an art form: (tags: art film movies )
The Brexit no-one wanted: (tags: UK Europe politics )
Millions of dollars of almonds, walnuts, and pistachios are being stolen in California: (tags: USA for theft crime )
Over 100 economists sign a letter backing Labour's economic plans: (tags: economics labour politics uk )
How do you get over losing your dream job as an MP?: (tags: politics jobs )
After 17 Years, Terry Gilliam has finally finished shooting his Don Quixote movie.: (tags: TerryGilliam movies time )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3584656.html

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General election 2017: Where Britain's parties stand on Brexit: (tags: uk europe politics )
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 review: fun, but forgettable: (tags: movies marvel review )
Male academic evaluators become less favorable toward female candidates as soon as a female evaluator joins the committee: (tags: academia men women )
Intel Optane Memory: How to make revolutionary technology totally boring: This is a shame. I shall hope that in a couple of years it's rather more useful.
(tags: storage computers Technology )
Workers don bulletproof vests while taking down New Orleans’ Confederate monument in middle of the night: (tags: usa racism history )
Waitress drags massive goanna from restaurant as shocked diners watch: (tags: video animals )
Oakland will give convicted marijuana users the first legal weed permits: (tags: marijuana law usa legalisation )
Solar System in a Bottle (to scale): The sun would be about 28cm across, I think. And would therefore need its own bottle. Or bucket.
(tags: space art viaSwampers )
Book Review: The Hungry Brain: (tags: food diet )
London Rental Opportunity of the Week: We Are Officially Beyond Parody Now: (tags: housing london anxiety OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3572138.html

Don’t believe Theresa May. The election won’t change Brexit one bit: (tags: UK Europe elections )
'Everything's on fire' - the scramble to organise an election: (tags: elections uk )
Dragon Phylogeny: (tags: dragons biology evolution )
The Hubris of Ignorance: (tags: politics usa history OhForFucksSake )
How Humans Are Shaping Our Own Evolution: (tags: biology evolution genetics cyborg thefuture )
The Narrative of Beltane – in Photos: (tags: photos beltane )
Creepily smiliing classical art and other Faceapp discoveries: (tags: art photoshop ai funny )
Aurora photographers find new night sky lights and call them Steve: (tags: auroraborealis funny names )
"Allow me to womansplain the problem with gendered language": (tags: language gender )
Behold the wonder of the ages! A dog doing breast stroke!: (tags: dogs swimming video viaElfy )
Driverless cars trial set for UK motorways in 2019: (tags: automation cars driving uk )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3571636.html

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