Interesting Links for 03-06-2018
Jun. 3rd, 2018 12:00 pm- University union leader pleads for unity amid resignation calls
- (tags: unions academia )
- Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
- (tags: web facebook Google youtube )
- George Osborne’s London Evening Standard sells its editorial independence to Uber, Google and others – for £3 million
- (tags: fraud newspapers OhForFucksSake )
- Canon has sold its last film camera
- (tags: cameras technology history )
- Unaffordable Edinburgh risks repeat of London's housing crisis
- Maybe we could...Build More Housing???
(tags: Edinburgh housing OhForFucksSake ) - Trans activists slam deeply transphobic school resources Crowdfunder
- (tags: lgbt OhForFucksSake )
- Hope vs horror: HP Lovecraft and Dr Strange: Embracing the Unknown
- (tags: marvel hplovecraft horror science )
- Industrialists warn May they will not invest if Brexit uncertainty persists
- (tags: UK Europe business )
- Structural variants in genes associated with human Williams-Beuren syndrome underlie stereotypical hypersociability in domestic dogs
- (tags: dogs personality genetics )
- UK Brexit paper proposes ‘magic’ Irish border staffed by fairies
- (tags: UK Europe Ireland satire )
- Belfast's forgotten underground river
- (tags: Belfast NorthernIreland rivers history )
- Why universal basic income is worth a serious look (by Nicola Sturgeon)
- (tags: GuaranteedIncome scotland )
- Northern Irish women protesting against anti-abortion laws 'take illegal termination pills in front of police
- (tags: robots abortion NorthernIreland )
- As Uber and Tesla struggle with driverless cars, Waymo moves forward
- (tags: cars automation )
- Irish Government gives Theresa May two weeks to solve Border issue
- “There’s a new idea or solution being mooted every week,” said a senior Government source, adding that Dublin was only “interested in proposals that are written down”.
“On paper like. Or on a screen. We are at legal text stage. We need legal texts to draft and debate.”
(tags: Ireland NorthernIreland OhForFucksSake ) - Tales from the far-flung Faroes (way too remote for me, but very scenic)
- (tags: denmark ocean life )
- New Hybrid Robot Uses Living Muscle Tissue to Move
- (tags: organic bodies robots cyborg )
- The processed food debate is MSG-sprinkled class war
- (tags: food society class uk )
- The best explanation I've read about why Northern Rail is completely fucked right now
- (tags: trains transport epicfail )
- From Hell: Eddie Campbell explains why he’s coloring graphic novel
- (tags: comics alanmoore colour murder )