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Interesting Links for 20-11-2023
Nov. 20th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot?
- (tags:ai learning humans )
- 2. Myth-busting the Van Halen brown M&M Story
- (tags:bands music history myths )
- 3. No, "the Church" did not kill Joan of Arc
- (tags:religion history Europe France uk )
- 4. Thread of wheelchair representation so far in televised Doctor Who
- (tags:disability drwho TV )
Interesting Links for 09-12-2015
Dec. 9th, 2015 12:00 pm- So you want to write a dark spin on a fairy-tale...
- FactCheck: is Saudi Arabia more extreme than ‘Islamic State’?
- Awesome use of Wikipedia to scam your way backstage
- The air that makes you fat
- How Elmo Ruined Sesame Street
- Why we built Known
- That time I was nearly burned alive by a machine-learning model and didn’t even notice for 33 years
- Which actor played the 9th incarnation of Doctor Who?
- Twitter Is Monkeying Around With The Order Of Tweets In Your Timeline
- How a Jellyfish-Obsessed Engineer Upended Our Understanding of Swimming
- Finland's experimental government approach is why it can implement a basic income experiment
- Ironically, modern surveillance states are baffled by people who change countries
- Being homeless a struggle — even with a $100,000 job offer (particularly when you were falsely convicted)
- Why has Jar Jar Binks been banished from the Star Wars universe?
- Understanding Tony Blair, as explained by Tony Blair
- Every so often, a journalist discovers the top 0.001% of game players can make money at it. (As with sports)
- Judges rule that lying to the people who elect you isn't strictly illegal
- 1984: When Women Stopped Coding
- The DWP is cutting a disability benefit that already leaves a third of recipients struggling to afford food
- Worldwide Smartphone Market Will See the First Single-Digit Growth Year on Record
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Interesting Links for 25-08-2015
Aug. 25th, 2015 12:00 pm- Crowdfunding Is Driving A $196 Million Board Game Renaissance
- This is a clever horse.
- Doing things that are sexist
- The upside of Saturday's events for John C. Wright
- Crippling court costs force poverty-stricken people to plead guilty to crimes they didn't commit
- Over the Hill at 24: Persistent Age-Related Cognitive-Motor Decline in Reaction Times.
- Backstreet Boys and 'NSync to make zombie horror film
- Which rappers have the largest vocabulary?
- 50 years ago today the word "hypertext" was introduced
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Interesting Links for 29-03-2012
Mar. 29th, 2012 05:00 pm- Ursula K LeGuin on the continuing life of the book.
- Female crash-test dummies survive unscathed much less often than male ones.
- You know what they call The Hunger Games in Paris?
- Watch Woman Get Attacked By Wolves (With Kisses)
- A gorgeous map of the wind right now in the USA
- People seem to be finally noticing that Pinterest is built on copyright violation
- Origami-Inspired Paper Sensor Could Test for Malaria and HIV for Less than 10 Cents
- Body mass index not linked to post-surgical complications, survival in esophageal adenocarcinoma
- Software patents: Now used to silence disabled children
- Jeff "Amazon" Bezos has found the engines from Apollo 11.
Meanwhile, James Cameron is at the bottom of the Marianas Trench. I wanna be a billionaire!
- World Map: Metal Bands per 100,000 People.
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