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Interesting Links for 24-08-2017
Aug. 24th, 2017 12:00 pm- Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers Have Had Enough
- (tags: Amazon work )
- Rescued piglets served up as sausages to firefighters
- (tags: fire food pigs viaSwampers )
- Whether you snack or not is more about the presence of temptation than your willpower
- (tags: willpower food self-control )
- AccuWeather Caught Sending User Location Data, Even When Location Sharing Is Off
- (tags: weather apps location OhForFucksSake )
- End of fixed prices within five years as supermarkets adopt electronic price tags
- (tags: shopping pricing Technology )
- Wall Street Banks Warn Downturn Is Coming
- (tags: economics )
- French firm offered spyware to 'find out if your son is gay'
- (tags: lgbt surveillance hacking OhForFucksSake children )
- Time on a therapist’s couch yields persistent personality changes
- (tags: counselling psychology personality )
- Women-only train carriages are a terrible idea
- (tags: women trains transport uk )
- Alaska's permafrost is filling the air with carbon dioxide, worsening climate change
- (tags: Alaska usa globalwarming )
- How 139 countries could be powered by 100 percent wind, water, and solar energy by 2050
- (tags: power renewables thefuture )
- Smokers in clinical studies who say they've quit often haven't
- (tags: smoking fraud research )
- The most popular pop songs are the most surprising
- (tags: music psychology )
- Best ever image of a star's surface, atmosphere
- (tags: space stars )
- Vegan Vlogger discovers that meanness sells, has no ethical qualms
- Particularly for the bit where he refuses to accept that his actions have consequences, or that he's at all responsible for anything more than "entertainment".
(tags: abuse OhForFucksSake videos vegetables ) - Cognitive-behavioral therapy particularly efficient in treating ADHD in adults (neurofeedback useless)
- (tags: cbt adhd )
- On The Enlightenment, and why Europe was different
- (tags: history Technology science )
- The 2017 General Election: Volatile Voting, Random Results
- (tags: voting uk fail )
- Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars
- (tags: automation cars driving google )
- The Brilliant Sorcery of England's 7-Circle Magic Roundabout
- (tags: transport design uk driving )
- Five ways in which the Home Office is "demonstrably not fascist"
- (tags: UK politics OhForFucksSake )
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