Interesting Links for 15-11-2021

Nov. 15th, 2021 12:00 pm
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Why does the UK Government owe Iran £400million?
(tags:UK money Iran )
What makes it hard to leave academia?
(tags:academia meaning life work )
Artist Recreates What Roman Emperors Looked Like Using AI, Facial Reconstruction, And Photoshop
(tags:faces Rome history statues ai )
The state of modern Britain
(tags:UK society Europe war history )
The Royal Canadian Legion sold poppy NFTs. *sigh*
(tags:cryptography Canada war history )
All The Major Corruption Accusations Levelled At The Conservative Party
(tags:conservatives corruption )
Prehistoric cave paintings were animations
(tags:animation video prehistory art cave )
‘Please save us’: Refugees face death at Poland-Belarus border
(tags:Poland Europe Libya Syria asylum death refugee )
Covid Booster Vaccines For Over 40s Are Recommended By Vaccines Committee
(tags:uk vaccination pandemic )
Covid testing provider investigated over plans to sell on customer's DNA samples for medical research
(tags:Pandemic privacy OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 14-07-2018

Jul. 14th, 2018 12:00 pm
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The Labour position on Brexit is now slightly harder than the government’s. But neither is remotely realistic
(tags: Labour conservatives uk europe OhForFucksSake )
People Are So Annoying That Animals Are Becoming More Nocturnal
(tags: environment time humans animals )
Nokia 6.1 Review—The best answer to “What Android phone should I buy?”
(tags: phones nokia android )
Nasa works out precisely how fast universe is expanding – and finds bizarre result that could change our understanding of cosmos
(tags: space physics )
Microsoft Urges Congress to Regulate Use of Facial Recognition
(tags: faces vision regulation usa )
I Used A Phone Like Most People In The World And It Was Awful
(tags: inequality phones Technology india )
Women won big in Mexico’s elections — taking nearly half the legislature’s seats. Here’s why.
(tags: women Mexico elections )
Brutalist Web Design
(tags: design web )
Facebook touts fight on fake news, but struggles to explain why InfoWars isn't banned
(tags: fraud news facebook )
A years-old, one-letter typo led to Aliens: Colonial Marines‘ weird AI
HOW WAS THIS NEVER FIXED???
(tags: bugs ai wtf )
A rescue diver on what it was like to save the Thai boys in the cave
(tags: Thailand diving cave )
Trump's ambassador lobbied Britain on behalf of jailed right-wing activist Tommy Robinson
(tags: racism usa Republicans uk )
How The Scottish Island Where Trump's Mom Grew Up Became a Haven For Refugees
(tags: refugee immigration scotland )
How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books (says article which doesn't include any evidence of increased interest in books)
(tags: books minecraft Education )
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Interesting Links for 20-07-2017

Jul. 20th, 2017 12:00 pm
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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 )
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