Entries tagged with cleanliness

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Interesting Links for 11-01-2022

What are the biggest non-diet causes of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, etc?: (tags:society sleep stress disease weight diabetes )
Leaked email shows 100 No 10 staff were invited to a party during lockdown restrictions: (tags:UK conservatives Pandemic law OhForFucksSake )
Repeat after me: Covid doesn't spread on surfaces: (tags:Pandemic cleanliness )
Adversarial Wordle: (tags:games language )
Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior through effects on harm aversion: (tags:morality serotonin psychology )
Male elite chess players are quicker to quit when dominated by a female player: (tags:men behaviour psychology games sexism )
"Why I went from being an actor to a clowndoctor": (tags:acting children comedy )
In 1st, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient: (tags:pigs organs surgery )
UK health officials misinterpreted US guidance on Covid self-isolation period: (tags:pandemic )
Dolphin females have working clitoris: (tags:sex dolphins clitoris )
Beautiful trees: (tags:trees beautiful )
Impressive shepherding: (tags:dogs birds impressive training )

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Interesting Links for 28-04-2021

This is the first house to be 3D printed from raw earth: (tags:3dprinting housing architecture Technology )
Autistic teens face 'barbaric' treatment, parents tell MPs: (tags:autism children UK OhForFucksSake )
Poor people spend much longer waiting for things than rich people: (tags:organisation society inequality bureaucracy )
What's Boris Johnson really like?: (tags:BorisJohnson )
Teenage girls playing football face twice concussion risk of boys: (tags:injury girls football )
Early alphabetic writing in the ancient Near East: the 'missing link': (tags:language writing prehistory )
Tory donor who paid for PM's Downing Street refurb won lucrative public contracts worth up to £120m: (tags:conservatives money BorisJohnson )
If someone tells you your room is a pig sty they're giving you a compliment: (tags:pigs video cleanliness )
The 7th time this ranger was struck by lightning was also the 22nd time he fought off a bear with a stick: (tags:lightning bears luck )
The Josh Battle Royale! (Many Joshes enter - one Josh leaves!): (tags:names funny fighting )

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Interesting Links for 30-07-2020

Scotland won't need to repay the UK's national debt if it's independent unless the UK does as well - and there's almost no chance of that (happy to see any well written responses to this): (tags:Scotland UK debt independence viaDanielDWilliam )
Soap dodger: meet the doctor who says we have been showering wrong: (tags:microbiome soap cleanliness )
Das Kapital in 8 tweets.: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1287862670834663424.html
(tags:economics capitalism Twitter )
Software that changes photos of you so that your friends will still recognise you but facial recognition won't: (tags:faces software recognition )
Russian Intelligence Agencies Push Disinformation on Coronavirus Pandemic: (tags:Russia pandemic )
Turns out I pretty much agree with the original meaning of "cultural appropriation" before it got twisted out of shape: (tags:culture society race cultural_appropriation )

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Interesting Links for 21-03-2019

Remain would win second Brexit referendum 61% to 39%: (tags:UK europe )
Woman capable of sniffing out Parkinson's disease offers hope for new diagnosis method: (tags:disease smell )
Women's Pain Is Different From Men's???the Drugs Could Be Too: (tags:pain drugs gender )
Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up? (because your food is too soft): (tags:food teeth humans evolution )
Not Everything Is Horrible: BILL & TED 3: FACE THE MUSIC Gets A Release Date (My birthday! Next year!): (tags:movies KeanuReeves )
Pensioner Catches A Mouse That Kept Cleaning His Shed (the video is terribly cute): (tags:mice cleanliness video viaElfy )
Labour's policy on Brexit is a con job: (tags:Labour UK europe OhForFucksSake )
A trans man explains teenage boys: (tags:teenagers testosterone boys )
If you're looking for something uplifting today, this is the story for you.: (tags:comic cancer photography )
Britain humiliated on global stage as it begs EU for more time: (tags:uk europe doom )
Smartphone Addiction Is Associated With Impaired Decision-making: (tags:decisions psychology phones )
Mount Everest: Melting glaciers expose dead bodies: (tags:everest mountains death )
Article 50 petition: Government website crashes after more than 600,000 demand Brexit is cancelled: (tags:uk petition europe )

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Interesting Links for 18-09-2018

Details on the end of European time changes: (tags: time europe )
Early gender tests leading to selective abortions of girls in UK: (tags: patriarchy uk abortion )
Who likes to be alone? Not introverts: (tags: introversion personality loneliness psychology )
Household cleaning products may contribute to kids being overweight by altering their gut microbiota: (tags: children microbiome cleanliness weight )
Growing up in a violent environment is bad for kids, whether or not you are directly bullied: (tags: violence bullying children behaviour )
How safety standards made infant walkers 90% safer: (tags: safety children walking )
People tend to cluster into four distinct personality groups: (tags: personality psychology )
Using literally figuratively is literally prehistoric: (tags: language history )
Only a quarter of Mail readers think UK will get good Brexit deal. Mostly they blame the British government: (tags: UK Europe fail polls newspapers DailyMail )
In January 2019 Britain will switch from a pro-Brexit to an anti-Brexit country - even if nobody changed their minds: (tags: UK Europe demographics )
Coca-Cola in talks to develop cannabis drinks: (tags: marijuana cocacola inflammation )
Sixteen gambling regulators unite to grumble about loot boxes and skin gambling: (tags: gambling games regulation )
A memory of Rees-Mogg: (tags: Conservatives politics class )
Value of EU citizens to the economy is the equivalent of 5p on income tax: (tags: europe uk tax doom )
UK children with maths difficulties (dyscalculia) are 100 times less likely to receive an official diagnosis than peers with dyslexia: (tags: mathematics children fail uk )

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Interesting Links for 19-07-2018

Astronomers can now get sharper images from the ground than the Hubble can from space: (tags: astronomy space technology )
European Commission fines Google €4.34 billion for illegal practices regarding Android mobile devices to strengthen dominance of Google's search engine: (tags: Google Europe fines )
EU signs its biggest free trade deal with Japan: (tags: europe japan trade )
Critical realism in 100 words: (tags: reality philosophy )
UK facing longest fall in living standards for over 60 years (this is *before* a hard Brexit is taken into account): (tags: UK economy epicfail )
The 10 Phases of a 10 Minute Shower With a Baby at Home: (tags: cleanliness babies funny true viaJane )
‘Meghalayan Age’ announced as official new chapter in Earth’s history (starting 4,200 years ago): (tags: prehistory geology )
Hackers account for 90% of login attempts at online retailers - successful 3% of the time: (tags: hacking passwords security )
Edinburgh's Leith Street to reopen after almost a year: (tags: Edinburgh roads transport )
The end of all things is upon us: (tags: UK Europe doom )
Michael Scheuer, the former senior CIA official and NYT bestselling author of Imperial Hubris, is calling for Trump supporters to kill Trump opponents: (tags: WTF civilwar usa )
Homophobic University chaplain removed after holding service to atone for Gay Pride event: (tags: homophobia religion catholicism glasgow Scotland uk )
Timeline of the far future: (tags: thefuture )
As I assumed, the Chequers agreement is totally unacceptable to the EU: (tags: UK Europe doom fail )
Labour don't have the numbers to keep the UK in the EU: (tags: UK Europe labour )
Zuckerberg defends Facebook users' right to deny the Holocaust: (tags: Facebook freespeech lies Holocaust )
Israeli defense firm demos kamikaze drone bomb that can be called off: (tags: drone weaponry military )
Do not debate holocaust deniers. If possible, shut them down: (tags: Holocaust bigotry fraud history )
Labour politician refuses to quit despite calling women ‘b***h’, ‘cow’ and ‘c***’ in misogynistic hate campaign online: (tags: Labour misogyny Manchester )
Non-religious countries experience greater economic growth, study finds: (tags: religion success economy )
Spain to introduce ‘yes means yes’ sexual consent law: (tags: law rape Spain consent )
The women choosing to love their natural grey hair: (tags: women hair age )
Chief whip Julian Smith told MPs to defy pairing deals: (tags: politics conservatives OhForFucksSake uk )
Some notes on She-Ra from the guy who co-created her: (tags: writing women children animation )
"I was right to confront Jeremy Corbyn over Labour’s antisemitism": (tags: labour Jews bigotry )
Israel passes law enabling apartheid: (tags: israel bigotry racism )
Morrisons 'quiet hour' for autistic shopping introduced: (tags: shopping autism noise uk )
How democratic are the reformed electoral systems used in Britain’s devolved governments and English mayoral elections?: (tags: voting uk )
Looking at Test Driven Developmen: An Academic Survey: (tags: research testing development software )
Visualizing street orientations on an interactive map: (tags: design roads cities )
After a 400-Year Absence, A Rare Ibis Returns to European Skies: (tags: birds Europe GoodNews )

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Interesting Links for 08-05-2018

The vetting files: How the BBC kept out ‘subversives’: (tags: bbc uk surveillance )
Trans Lib Dem candidate called ‘disgusting’ in barrage of Twitter abuse: (tags: twitter abuse lgbt transgender libdem )
Who doesn't want an iron skull with a magnetic demonic beard?: (tags: magnets video awesome )
Behold: The future of my child!: (tags: thefuture babies funny comic )
This is my favourite ever Rube Goldberg machine: (tags: video awesome )
Does growing up poor harm brain development? (A multi million dollar experiment investigates): (tags: GuaranteedIncome poverty intelligence children )
Trump Isn’t Playing 3D Chess — He’s Playing Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe: (tags: games politics )
The battle of the gas-sucking mega giants is set to begin: (tags: gas australia )
Wet wipes could face wipe-out in plastic clean-up: (tags: plastic cleanliness waste )
Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming: (tags: programming mathematics children )
Obamacare Calorie Count Rules Ushered In (I hadn't realised the USA didn't already have these): (tags: usa food )
Britain's first private police force to go nationwide after success in London's wealthiest neighbourhoods: Of course they aren't actually police - they're a private security firm based on the streets.
(tags: police uk )
The Cyborg Drummer - help an amputee drummer with an experimental robot arm: (tags: cyborg drums music kickstarter viaAlexTFish )

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Interesting Links for 05-01-2018

The Transgender Scientist Who Changed Our Understanding of the Brain: (tags: brain lgbt research viaSwampers )
HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel?! (amazing, funny, talk. With maths): (tags: photography excel video funny Technology )
Get a grip, get a smartphone, and move into the 21st century: (tags: technology thefuture phones )
U.S. to End Policy That Let Legal Pot Flourish: (tags: usa marijuana legalisation OhForFucksSake )
'Would you be willing?': words to turn a conversation around (and those to avoid): (tags: psychology language communication viaFrancescaElston )
Aversion to holes driven by disgust, not fear: (tags: fear emotion disgust psychology )
Eating more foods with choline during pregnancy could boost baby’s brain: (tags: babies brain food )
Having science students do lab work doesn't actually teach them anything: (tags: education science )
Rosamund Pike says actors won't play second fiddle to actresses: (tags: acting Hollywood movies gender )
HBO will make Game of Thrones fans wait until 2019 for final season: (tags: gameofthrones tv thefuture )
Demolition complete at St James Centre site: (tags: Edinburgh construction architecture )
Stop asking ‘what about men?’: (tags: gender society )
'Swedish death cleaning' is the new decluttering trend: (tags: death cleanliness )
New measurement confirms: The ozone is coming back: (tags: environment GoodNews )
SyFy Announces Nightflyers (based on the GRRM novella): (tags: scifi tv GeorgeRRMartin )
Vienna ‘New Year’s Baby’ Greeted First With Hate, Then Hearts: (tags: austria racism )
Mapping technique finds links between brain connections and IQ: (tags: IQ intelligence brain )
The common ancestor of all humans lived about 3,600 years ago: (tags: history humans genetics )
"My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright claims!": (tags: copyright youtube OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 29-07-2017

Kalashnikov develops autonomous weapons: (tags: robots military weapons )
Interesting piece on suicide: I've never craved suicide. And only once thought that not existing might be nice (and even then only in passing, and purely theoretically).
(tags: suicide viaSwampers )
High refined sugar intake linked to a 23% higher risk of mental disorders: (tags: mentalhealth sugar )
Rules for data science, explained using xkcd: (tags: data research xkcd comics )
Lessons from Denmark: how district heating could improve energy security: (tags: heat power uk denmark )
CEO says iRobot will never sell your Roomba data: (tags: robots cleanliness privacy )

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Interesting Links for 25-07-2017

A chart that shows where robots are going to replace humans on Wall Street: (tags: automation finance )
Chicago SlutWalk joins in with anti-Semitic ban: (tags: Jews feminism OhForFucksSake usa )
Wings Over Scotland increases defamation claim against Kezia Dugdale to £25,000: (tags: lgbt law scotland independence politics )
Brexit: Theresa May refuses to rule out weakening of food standards in trade deal with US: (tags: food health usa uk europe )
How economists rode maths to become our era’s astrologers: I remember reading an article where the author pointed out that the hallmark of good science was the discarding of failed theories. And noting that economics never discards a theory.
(tags: history economics fail )
Brexit is dying – don’t worry about how we finish it off: (tags: europe uk )
If you want to understand where Corbyn is coming from on free movement of labour, Asquith Xavier has the answer. But you won't like it.: (tags: immigration racism Labour history unions )
Peter Davison is wrong about a female Doctor Who, but he's not sexist: (tags: drwho feminism )
Crewless electric cargo ships may be on the horizon in Norway: (tags: automation shipping transport )
When you think about it, Lord of the Rings is the only appropriate metaphor for the PhD Journey. Let me explain....: (tags: lotr academia phd awesome )
Money can buy you happiness (by paying to get out of negative things): This is on top of, of course, the "Money as a way of not being hungry/homeless" and "Money as a way of not letting your lifestyle decrease", both of which impact on happiness.
(tags: money time happiness )
Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder: Which seems odd to me. I can't quite figure out what they'd do with it.
(tags: privacy cleanliness automation )
India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs: (tags: jobs cars India automation OhForFucksSake )
Essex nursery 'closes because of universal free hours scheme': (tags: children money UK government )
How Nolan forgot the Indians at Dunkirk: (tags: India wwii history movies )
Snopes Faces an Ugly Legal Battle: (tags: law business facts fail )
Microsoft Paint avoids brush with death: (tags: software art microsoft )
Food security in a post-Brexit world: (tags: Food UK europe )
22 reasons the hyperloop and driverless cars don't mean we don't need HS2: (tags: trains transport thefuture )

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Interesting Links for 14-01-2017

Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out: (tags: surveillance obama usa )
Your appendix is a reservoir for gut bacteria (which may explain why mine are _rubbish_): (tags: bacteria microbiome body )
#ItAintRape - The Worst Trending Hashtag I've Seen Yet: (tags: rape RapeCulture twitter )
Why don't schools teach debugging?: (tags: bug Education computers )
Civil Partnerships for opposite-sex couples just got filibustered: (tags: politics relationships law uk )
Before-and-after photos show California storm's incredible impact on water levels: (tags: water california photos )
A Forgotten Adventure With a Telepathic Tribe: (tags: history amazon geography weird )
The Life-Changing Magic of Decluttering in a Post-Apocalyptic World: (tags: cleanliness funny apocalypse comic )
Hamilton brings in paperless ticketing system to combat touts: (tags: theatre money tickets )
Disney meeting with Carrie Fisher's estate over her continued appearance in the Star Wars franchise: (tags: StarWars )
Should we be taking masturbation breaks at work?: (tags: masturbation productivity )
Pornhub's 2016 Year in Review: (tags: porn statistics viaBartCalendar )
First use of new Scots welfare powers over Universal Credit: (tags: scotland welfare )
Explorers find disease-cursed City of the Monkey God and nearly lose their faces to flesh-eating parasite: (tags: headline archeology )
Lucasfilm denies plans to digitally recreate Carrie Fisher: (tags: StarWars )

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Interesting Links for 25-11-2016

The war against the squirrels has begun!: (tags: squirrel )
Wages will be dreadful for more than a decade: (tags: pay money economy thefuture )
Senegal To Introduce A New Blockchain Based National Digital Currency, Second Country To Have Digital Currency: (tags: bitcoin Technology currency africa )
A list of everyone who can now see your entire internet history, including the taxman, DWP and Food Standards Agency: (tags: internet surveillance uk OhForFucksSake )
Why every office should scrap its clean desk policy: (tags: cleanliness office creativity work )
The truth about trade agreements – and why we need them: (tags: trade economics )
On Structures (and why voting systems are important): (tags: voting reform )
The Fake News About Post-Truth: (tags: media journalism lies history )
Low social status can damage immune system: (tags: psychology society immune_system )
Why young children are terrible at hiding: (tags: children psychology )
Germany’s Chinese investment problem: China has a plan. The EU doesn't: (tags: Germany China Europe business investment )
Ryanair makes no money from tickets, and £1bn from pricey extras: (tags: airplanes money )
Why are some of us better at handling contradictory information than others?: (tags: epistemology psychology )
Homeless village to be built in Edinburgh: (tags: homelessness edinburgh scotland uk )
Repeal the new Surveillance laws (A petition): (tags: surveillance law uk petition )

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Interesting Links for 03-09-2016

The Emu War: (tags: funny history australia comic birds war )
The Ghostbusters VR exhibit sounds _amazing_: (tags: VirtualReality )
Using bristle BBQ brushes can cause unending pain and damage: (tags: food cooking health safety )
Future Airplanes Will Fly On Twistable Wings: (tags: airplanes design thefuture )
FDA bans antibacterial soaps; “No scientific evidence” they’re safe, effective: (tags: bacteria cleanliness fail )
Maybe Blockchain Really Does Have Magical Powers: (tags: bitcoin Technology finance )
OpenOffice, after years of neglect, could shut down (Long live LibreOffice!): (tags: opensource software epicfail )
Three's ad-blocker plans thwarted over net neutrality: (tags: phones internet advertising )
If Your Boyfriend Does These 12 Little Things, Hang on to Him Forever: (tags: relationships funny lists viaSwampers )
Bizarre ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker: (tags: insects Poland ants )

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Interesting Links for 27-08-2016

French court suspends 'burkini' ban: (tags: france women clothing law )
Plasma wings could change the way airplanes are designed and flown: (tags: Technology physics airplanes )
Human-induced global warming started in 1830: (tags: globalwarming history )
Do you suffer from "The wrong emotion"?: (tags: emotions happiness viaSupergee depression life )
St. Louis school sees 90% of their students' attendance increase because of washing machines: (tags: cleanliness school usa viaAmaebi )
So what would Proxima Centauri look like from Proxima b?: (tags: space maths light )
Finally, an explanation for The Matrix: (tags: movies funny physics maths )
Everyone Wants a Level 5 Self-Driving Car—Here’s What That Means: (tags: automation cars )
How a Self-Published Writer of Gay Erotica Beat Sci-Fi’s Sad Puppies at their Own Game: (tags: scifi disability identity autism lgbt porn )
The killer whales who did a deal with whalers: (tags: whales Intelligence )
What it's like to take acid regularly for 10 months.: (tags: lsd psychedelics death )
Why you shouldn't compare Trump to Hitler: (tags: hitler politics funny )
In Texas everything is shaped like Texas: (tags: usa design wtf )
The Goofy Yell: Disney's Wilhelm Scream: (tags: Disney sound video )
If you like dogs then this is the best thing: (tags: dogs awesome )
Big cats eating their own tails: (tags: cats cute )

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Interesting Links for 12-04-2016