Entries tagged with asimov

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Interesting Links for 05-11-2021

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Interesting Links for 09-01-2020

Twitter will test reply limiting feature to beat back trolls: (tags:Twitter abuse conversation )
Is too much screen time bad for children?: (tags:health mentalhealth technology children )
Scottish councils to get new powers to crack down on Airbnb-style lets: (tags:Scotland regulation housing )
U.S. cancer death rate drops by largest annual margin ever (due to lung cancer improvements): (tags:cancer GoodNews USA )
Local actress successfully deprograms member of hereditary cult: (tags:monarchy work satire funny UK )
Isaac Asimov, the bottom-pinching, breast-grabbing grandmaster of science fiction: (tags:scifi harrassment asimov )
2019 saw the rise of wind power and the collapse of coal: (tags:uk renewables windpower coal electricity )
Town of the Year push falls flat after failure to realise site is a city: (tags:fail city UK Conservatives viaSwampers )
Billionaire Charles Koch Doesn't Understand Why Character in First Place Can't Also Get Blue Shell: (tags:Mario inequality satire games funny )

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Interesting Links for 16-02-2018

Satire editor wearily hits “Repost” on mass shooting article again: (tags: guns satire usa OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
Not so fast: why you should think twice before restricting your diet: (tags: health food diet )
The NY Times Fires Tech Writer Quinn Norton, and It’s Complicated: (tags: writing racism society internet journalism )
IRS struggles to convert 50-year-old assembly language to Java: (tags: computers usa programming history java tax )
Undiagnosed adult ADHD could cost UK billions a year: (tags: adhd uk )
Review of The Tyranny of Metrics: (tags: management numbers statistics )
Transgender woman breastfeeds baby in first recorded case, study says: (tags: transgender breastfeeding uk )
Every Single Word: edited down popular movies to only the words spoken by people of color.: (tags: movies race videos )
Things Corbyn has said, done or written re: foreign policy: There are a few of these where I actually agree (Although I might not have phrased it that way). But many where I really don't.
(tags: Labour politics )
Why gun control works and drugs control doesn't. (In the UK): (tags: drugs guns law uk society )
One year ago: Trump Signs Bill Revoking Obama-Era Gun Checks for People With Mental Illnesses: (tags: guns republicans usa OhForFucksSake )
My employee insinuated I was having an affair … with my husband: (tags: relationships work advice )
The entirely unnecessary demise of Barnes & Noble (appalling, appalling management and terrible business decisions they don't understand how people work): (tags: business books )
HMRC wins tax case against BBC presenter: (tags: BBC tax uk )
Remarkable secrets of ketamine's antidepressant effect unlocked by scientists: (tags: ketamine depression )
Why "gun training" is not the answer: (tags: guns failure )
Twitter Says Impersonating A Journalist During A Mass Shooting Doesn't Violate Its Rules: (tags: fraud journalism abuse Twitter OhForFucksSake )
See a baby learn in real time: (tags: funny video baby )
Britain's bus coverage hits 28-year low: I wonder how much urbanisation is affecting this
(tags: buses transport uk )
Isaac Asimov's 1964 predictions of 2014: (tags: thefuture Technology asimov predictions )
Sinn Fein claims released documents show DUP walked out on deal to restore Northern Ireland government: (tags: NorthernIreland )
The Alt-Right Is Killing People: (tags: politics murder racism usa )
While the Media Panicked About Campus Leftists, the Far Right Surged: (tags: usa politics racism society university )
Inequality in British society is the biggest Issue that we face: (tags: inequality uk )

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Interesting Links for 30-06-2017

'EU pension' planned for people who move between countries: (tags: pensions europe )
UK in credit splurge as pay is squeezed (unsecured debt up 10%, spending power down 2%): So, how long until the country collapses into oblivion as people frantically try and keep their lifestyles propped up despite the economy falling apart?
(tags: debt uk )
John Bercow: MPs don't need to wear ties: (tags: clothing parliament uk )
This is how sperm whales sleep: (tags: whales sleep viaSwampers )
Government U-turns on NHS abortions for Northern Ireland women: I am not looking forward to multiple years of whiplash from the government. (I am glad that this has gone through though)
(tags: abortion government uk nhs )
Buy-to-let UK property sales fall by almost 50% in a year: (tags: uk housing )
The curse of the pseudo-data: How Rotten Tomatoes is Deciding What Movies You Don't See: (tags: movies reviews data )
When whimsical wildlife photography isn't what it seems: (tags: photography animals wildlife )
David Goyer and Josh Friedman adapting Isaac Asimov's Foundation for TV: Probably won't get made. If it does then will probably be terrible.
(tags: tv asimov )
Jeremy Corbyn sacks Labour shadow ministers for voting against Brexit: (tags: Europe UK labour politics )
Female first-year students earn a higher grade when paired with at least one other female for group projects: (tags: women Education )
The German and British children who became post-war friends: (tags: children Germany uk wwii history friendship )
German parliament votes to legalise same sex marriage: (tags: lgbt marriage Germany )
Ways In Which Programming Is Like Sex: (tags: programming sex funny )
Soon after giving birth, mothers typically experience a self-esteem dip lasting at least three years: (tags: motherhood self-esteem psychology mother )
Game of Thrones' Most Beloved Relationship Was Totally Improvised: (tags: relationships gameofthrones )
Trailer for Rick and Morty season 3, streaming from July 30th: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
(tags: animation trailer awesome excellent )
How do you cut a monolith in half? (musings on distributed systems): (tags: architecture programming network )
"Hidden rules that everybody knows" is not a useful mental model of how people act: (tags: society groups psychology rules )
Germany votes for 50m euro social media fines: (tags: germany censorship )

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Interesting Links for 29-08-2013

Generational shift in attitudes among young soccer players towards gay teammates
(tags: uk football sport lgbt )
Syria: what do Liberal Democrats want?
(tags: libdem syria )
The Middle East, explained in one (sort of terrifying) chart
(tags: middle_east )
Isaac Asimov's 1964 predictions for 2014.
(tags: asimov thefuture predictions )
Will we ever want to have sex with robots?
Obligatory Futurama: http://vimeo.com/12915013
(tags: thefuture robots sex )
Bedroom Tax costing more than it saves as housing benefit bill soars by £1.5bn
(tags: uk fail welfare )
An interesting take on Miley Cyrus
(tags: celebrity childhood )
Five reasons why Syria is not Iraq
(tags: middle_east libdem syria military )
In historic vote, New Zealand bans software patents
(tags: software epicwin newzealand patents )
Let me tell you one of my pet peeves: Space solar power.
(tags: ElonMusk solarpower space )
How one genius turns annoying cold calls into cash
(tags: phones )
Google Hangouts switching to VP8 and WebRTC
(tags: standards google html5 video )
Miniature human brain grown in laboratory
(tags: brains )
Study shows men just as likely to be depressed as women
(tags: gender depression )

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Interesting Links for 30-11-2011