Entries tagged with asthma

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Interesting Links for 10-01-2023

1. Speech synthesis is getting a lot better at copying human voices - still mostly sounds artificial though: (tags:speech voice ai microsoft )
2. Fine dining may not be possible in a world where workers are treated fairly (and the world's best restaurant is closing): (tags:restaurant food work business inequality )
3. NI Protocol: UK and EU reach agreement on trade data sharing: (tags:UK Europe GoodNews NorthernIreland )
4. Major donors call on Rishi Sunak to reform political funding system: (tags:money politics UK reform corruption )
5. Federal agency considers ban on gas stoves following report linking them to childhood asthma: (tags:gas asthma USA )
6. Suffix 'ussy' is American Dialect Society's word of the year: (tags:LGBT words language sex vagina )
7. Looking at Edinburgh pedestrian deaths: (tags:edinburgh transport cars buses death safety roads viaDanielDWilliam )
8. What an octopus must think of a human (told in the style of lovecraftian horror): (tags:hplovecraft octopus perception humans )
9. Almost 90% of games sold in UK in 2022 were digital: (tags:games internet business uk )

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Interesting Links for 02-02-2022

UK replacement for EU regional funding cuts payments by billions: (tags:uk europe money OhForFucksSake )
The England/Wales consultation on banning conversion therapy is live for another couple of days. Take it now: (tags:lgbt uk consultation )
Slightly disconcerting and over the top alphabet: (tags:letter language )
AI-generated science fiction convention panels: (tags:ai conventions funny scifi )
Nearly 1,000 mysterious magnetic strands revealed in Milky Way's center: (tags:space magnets weird )
Calls to allow people to return to Edinburgh's Radical Road: (tags:edinburgh history park safety )
Ask for help face-to-face, not via phone or email, if you want results: (tags:advice psychology communication )
Gas stoves (and boilers) appear to hugely increase susceptibility to asthma: (tags:asthma gas cooking heating )
I also find social deduction games really stressful, but this looks like fun!: (tags:games lies )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4002244.html

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Interesting Links for 18-02-2021

Edinburgh tram extension: First tram tracks laid in Leith Walk: (tags:Edinburgh trams )
Half of men have had unwanted sexual experiences, UK study finds: (tags:abuse boys men children rape UK OhForFucksSake )
Critical Thinking Isn't Just a Process: (tags:thinking advice )
How To Fight A Baby: (tags:video babies funny viaMyBrotherHugh )
Facebook says it will stop people viewing or sharing news in Australia: (tags:Facebook news Australia )
Citibank just got a $500 million lesson in the importance of UI design: (tags:ui epicfail finance )
Large majority of Britons dissatisfied with Boris Johnson's Brexit deal (49% want to be closer, 24% happy, 12% move further away. 15% don't know): (tags:polls UK Europe )
What Makes For A "Meaningful" Death In Fiction?: (tags:meaning fiction death psychology )
The world's second-most popular desktop operating system isn't macOS anymore: (tags:operatingsystems osx chrome )
Why there is no 'one-size-fits-all' treatment for asthma: (tags:asthma )
What do we know about the safety of reopening schools?: (tags:pandemic schools )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3629470.html

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Interesting Links for 29-10-2017

The Collapse Of Visceral's Ambitious Star Wars Game: (tags: games StarWars fail )
A vision of Middle Earth: (tags: lotr Tolkien art )
Giant Frog Farms of the 1930s: (tags: frogs history )
Russian 'methbot' fraud steals $180 million in online ads: (tags: advertising fraud web )
EU governments want to give record labels control over what we can post: (tags: censorship europe copyright OhForFucksSake )
How Deliveroo's 'dark kitchens' are catering from car parks: (tags: food delivery uk )
Dogs may protect against childhood eczema and asthma: (tags: children dogs asthma eczema )
Octopuses! Invade! Wales!: (tags: Wales octopus )
Look to Sheffield: this is how state and corporate power subvert democracy: (tags: democracy business uk OhForFucksSake )
Delaware's Odd, Beautiful, Contentious, Private Utopia: (tags: law usa freedom weird society )
The Scientific Case for P≠NP: (tags: mathematics frogs science )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3501997.html

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Interesting Links for 08-09-2016

Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children: (tags: Intelligence children mathematics )
Our assumption that spacetime is a continuum leads to many challenges in mathematical physics: (tags: mathematics physics )
People are switching to drinking water. Drinks companies reportedly not happy: (tags: water drinking business )
A 16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese people name their babies: (tags: viaSwampers names china )
Artist-in-residence stuck on bankrupt container ship that no port will accept: (tags: ocean business ship art )
Unwieldy LEGO Sculptures Reveal a Multitude of Hidden Shadow Designs: (tags: lego light design )
High variability suggests glycemic index is unreliable indicator of blood sugar response: (tags: sugar food carbohydrates )
Is sufficient sleep the key to successful antidepressant response?: (tags: sleep depression antidepressants )
Acetaminophen (paracetamol) not associated with worse asthma in kids -- ScienceDaily: (tags: asthma drugs )
Brand-name drugs, drug patents, and how do we get good quality drugs for less?: (tags: drugs patents intellectual_property economics )
Shakespeare's language not as original as dictionaries think: (tags: shakespeare language history )
Fasting for three days can regenerate entire immune system, study finds: (tags: immune_system food )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3489509.html

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Interesting Links for 07-08-2016

Asthma pill could prove 'game-changer' for people with severe symptoms: (tags: asthma )
Modeling Poses Done Better by Cats: (tags: cats models funny )
Scottish people refer to all fizzy drinks as ‘juice’: Um. Not satire. Just true. Water = "Council juice". Milk = "Cow juice"
(tags: scotland language drink food )
Neurodiversity and Mental Health: (tags: mentalhealth diversity )
The 39th Root of 92 - and how it applies to wiring.: (tags: mathematics electronics Technology )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3488606.html

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Interesting Links for 04-08-2016

What would the voters do if Labour split?: (tags: labour politics uk )
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is fastest-selling UK book in a decade: (tags: harrypotter books sales )
The transgender woman wanting to rejoin the Orange Order: (tags: transgender lgbt religion NorthernIreland )
Trump Asked "Three Times In An Hour Briefing, 'Why Can't We Use Nuclear Weapons?'": (tags: nuclearweapons OhForFucksSake apocalypse usa republicans viaSwampers )
I have nowhere to put a "This is Fine" Plush Dog, but I'm sure some of you do...: (tags: dogs meme kickstarter viaSwampers )
Shape analysis in Star Wars: (tags: StarWars design funny )
When Nintendo's lawyers get through with the Pokémoan dildo there will presumably just be a smoking crater left: (tags: nintendo sextoys )
Extreme Amazing Super-Chess is clearly the best game: (tags: video games )
Amish house dust has unique properties that protect children against asthma: (tags: asthma animals microbiome children )
This is Not Fine: (tags: comic satire )
Former nuclear weapons operator goes ballistic about Trump in 20 tweets: (tags: twitter nuclearweapons usa politics viaSwampers )
There have always been women terrorists: (tags: terrorism women history )
A lot of "voice hearing" isn't an auditory experience at all: (tags: hearing hallucinations psychology )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3271889.html

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Interesting Links for 23-04-2015

Disney unveils Age of Ultron merchandise, Black Widow conspicuously absent
(tags: Disney marvel movies women )
Facebook is changing the posts it shows you.
(tags: Facebook )
AdBlock Plus defeats German publishers in court
(tags: adblock advertising newspapers web )
A nice explanation of how the Jedi fucked up so badly over Anakin
(tags: starwars choice morality )
Probably the finest crossword of all time
(tags: games words history politics )
These Laser Scans of London Are a New Way to See the World
(tags: lasers scanning London )
Probable asthma cause and 'cheap' treatment discovered (in Mice)
(tags: asthma research )
7 things we've learned about Earth since the last Earth Day
(tags: earth ocean mountains )
General Election 2015: An SNP takeover? Whatever happened to democracy?
(tags: satire politics Scotland UK SNP )
Chinese scientists genetically modify human embryos
(tags: China genetics babies )
Facebook Messenger Accounts For 10% of Global Mobile VoIP
(tags: Facebook voip phones )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3178982.html

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Interesting Links for 29-10-2014

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Interesting Links for 06-01-2014

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Interesting Links for 18-12-2013

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Interesting Links for 06-04-2012