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Interesting Links for 16-08-2023
Aug. 16th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The 16 brutal restrictions imposed on women in Afghanistan during two years of the Taliban
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- 2. 'We want a second baby, but can't afford one': The rise of Britain's one-child families
- (tags:children money uk )
- 3. Edinburgh is new Covid hotspot as active cases double during Festival Fringe
- (tags:pandemic edinburgh festival fringe )
- 4. Positive Association between Altitude and Suicide across the USA
- (tags:usa suicide oxygen )
- 5. Council Tax Reform is Necessary — and so is Understanding
- (tags:Scotland politics tax )
- 6. Brains of teenage smokers may be different than non-smokers
- (tags:cigarettes neuroscience brain teenagers )
- 7. Google DeepMind's game-playing AI just found another way to make code faster
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Interesting Links for 20-06-2023
Jun. 20th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. This is how much restaurants are really making from your meal
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- 2. Keir Starmer's flip-flopping is becoming a huge danger for the Labour Party
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- 3. Japan to open up Apple and Google app stores to competition
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- 4. Two Ways to Visualize Canada's Wildfires
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- 5. Google doesn't want its employees using code created by its own AI
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- 6. Mum's microbes might boost brain development of c-section babies
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- 7. Edinburgh's Smart City programme
- (tags:Edinburgh technology viaJackie )
Interesting Links for 24-04-2023
Apr. 24th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. What did Diane Abbott think would happen when she claimed that Travellers, Irish and Jewish people don't experience racism?
- (tags:labour racism OhForFucksSake )
- 2. The Scottish Question: an overview
- (tags:Scotland politics law )
- 3. This is how "We won't need coders" conversations always sound to me.
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- 4. A Simple Exercise to Strengthen the Lower Esophageal Sphincter and Eliminate Gastroesophageal Reflux
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Interesting Links for 05-01-2023
Jan. 5th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. How calculus was invented
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- 2. Scientists discover first known organism thriving exclusively on diet of viruses
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- 3. Surgical smart knife detects womb cancer in seconds
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- 4. Me, when my code doesn't work
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- 5. Scientists Revived 32,000-Year-Old Plant DNA From Siberian Permafrost
- (tags:plants prehistory Russia )
- 6. Over the last 40 years US food purchasing power has dropped by 85%
- (tags:USA food money Doom )
- 7. Facial Recognition Tech Used To Jail Black Man For Louisiana Theft - He's Never Been To Louisiana (and doesn't look like the criminal)
- (tags:racism faces technology OhForFucksSake )
- 8. The "People Of Color In Tech" website provides an interesting perspective if you're not one.
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- 9. Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery
- Paper here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/an-upper-palaeolithic-protowriting-system-and-phenological-calendar/6F2AD8A705888F2226FE857840B4FE19
(tags:prehistory calendars art ) - 10. Arizona inducing labor of pregnant prisoners against their will
- (tags:usa prison labour childbirth OhForFucksSake )
- 11. Using AI to make all of your arrays infinite
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Interesting Links for 16-11-2017
Nov. 16th, 2017 09:37 pm- When Hate Speech Is Soundtracked to Music You Wrote
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- Artificial Intelligence Is Now Your Coworker
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- David Davis promises that bankers will get freedom of movement after Brexit
- (tags: banking freedom UK europe )
- This is frankly one of the most exciting things I've seen in collaborative coding in a very long time
- (tags: coding development Microsoft collaboration )
- Young people out of love with their own bodies
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- Musings on grammar, notably Czech grammar
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- The movie about the creator of Wonder Woman does not sound great. Or good. Or, indeed, not awful. Shame, really
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- ‘Jews are gross’ said Gay Times editor who tweeted homophobic, transphobic posts
- (tags: racism homophobia lgbt OhForFucksSake )
- Elon Musk: The sad fuzzy bear who's inventing the future
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- Landmark study links austerity to 120,000 deaths
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- The Surprising Link Between Autism, Gender, and Courteney Cox
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- In historic move, Christopher Tolkien resigns as director of Tolkien Estate
- I'd been wondering what was going on there.
(tags: Tolkien ) - We must imagine Sisyphus happy and also as an otter
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- The Hungarian approach to education - and how it helps people learn to think
- (tags: thinking Education hungary math )
- Boys are more likely to perform well in schools with a higher proportion of girls
- (tags: gender Education )
- The number of people in work _and_ out of work have both fallen. Anyone care to dig into this?
- (tags: employment uk unemployment )
- Twitter punishes Nazis! By...removing a small blue tick.
- (tags: twitter nazis Yay )
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Interesting Links for 01-04-2016
Apr. 1st, 2016 12:00 pm- There's a beauty contest for women in tech called IT Princess
- (tags: princess beauty computers OhForFucksSake )
- Bugs in our code? No waaaay....
- (tags: coding programming computers )
- An LJ suggestion I made in _2013_ has finally been posted.
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- How to be the perfect rape victim
- (tags: rape viaTheFerrett )
- ‘Bloody do-gooder’ desperately confused as to why this is a bad thing
- (tags: society funny viaCipherGoth )
- 25 Superhero Films Just As Bad As Batman vs Superman
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- Mathematicians mapped out every “Game of Thrones” relationship to find the main character
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- GlaxoSmithKline to 'drop patents in poor countries for better drug access'
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- Is it better to treat mentally ill people in the community, or to lock them up?
- (tags: mentalhealth healthcare freedom )
- Scotland to give legal recognition to people who are neither male nor female
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- How Batman vs Superman should have gone
- (tags: batman superman funny comic )
- Shiny: A very entertaining stop-motion short (albeit with a couple of bits that annoyed me)
- (tags: video animation viaSkreidle )
- Watchmen April Fools is the best April Fools
- (tags: funny watchmen photoshop )
- 22 Teachers Caught Being Awesome
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- Best explanation of alignment charts that I've seen in a long time
- (tags: roleplaying morality )
- Government announces separate internets for annoying people
- (tags: internet funny )
- April Fool's Day: 10 stories that look like pranks but aren't
- (tags: news funny )
- Satirical website not really sure what to do today
- (tags: news satire funny viaTaheerah )
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Interesting Links for 25-03-2016
Mar. 25th, 2016 12:00 pm- Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day
- (tags: ai funny racism )
- A bunch of administrators reminisce about the time they deleted their production systems
- (tags: epicfail computers )
- Luke's Force Theme and Rey's Theme intertwine with each other
- (tags: music StarWars video )
- Defending good unions doesn't mean protecting bad ones (a story of really hideous corruption)
- (tags: politics unions labour corruption uk )
- Reviewing Pornhub’s New Virtual Reality Porn
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- Some Kind Of Abstraction: Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho 25 Years On
- (tags: writing books psychopath history )
- Extremely Shortened Versions of Classic Books For Lazy People
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- More excessively abbreviated works of literature
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- DailyMotion has a vast archive of unsold and unaired TV pilots
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- Rage-quit: How one coder unpublished 17 lines of JavaScript and “broke the Internet"
- (tags: coding programming internet development )
- Houdini: Maybe The Most Exciting Development In CSS You've Never Heard Of
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Interesting Links for 19-12-2015
Dec. 19th, 2015 12:00 pm- Star Wars medley on bass. I rather liked the laid-back feel of this.
- Learn To Code, It’s Harder Than You Think
- What to say about fucking weirdo feminists
- What's really going on with "Baby it's cold outside"
- Baby Cakes by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Katy Riddell
- There seems to be a fundamental disconnect between what students and lecturers think university is for.
- A positive experience from a woman in tech
- How Ben Schwartz Became the Voice of BB-8 in 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'
- Denmark wants to seize jewelry and cash from refugees
- fairly
- Watching Star Wars for the first time, aged 29
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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 08-02-2015
Feb. 8th, 2015 11:00 am- Samsung: watch what you say in front of our TVs, they're sending your words to third parties
- Is 50 Shades of Grey abuse?
- If you don’t genetically engineer your kids, you are a bad parent. It’s that simple.
- Girls outscored boys in anonymous maths exams, but boys outscored girls when teachers knew their names
- A mother despairs of the amount of tissue her teenage boys use...
- What if Bilbo's dialogue had been more...canon?
- Why Learning to Code is So Damn Hard
- Adding up the wealth of the poor makes no sense
- Awesome Photos of Goth Icons Then and Now
- Heavenly Nostrils: If Hobbes was a snarky unicorn and Calvin was an awesome little girl
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Interesting Links for 20-03-2014
Mar. 20th, 2014 11:00 am- Oculus announce their second dev kit - 960x1080 per eye, positional tracking, and lower latency
- Gender diversity promotes radical innovation
- Lied-to children more likely to cheat, lie
- Pair Programming: faster for average coders, not for the elite.
- Why people are missing the point of the "no makeup selfie" trend on Facebook
- Budget 2014: Winners and losers
Interesting Links for 12-11-2013
Nov. 12th, 2013 11:00 am- The Narcissism of Small Code Differences
- Virgin Media to launch 152 Mbps service in February 2014
- Modern Renaissance Superhero Designs
- Sweden closes four prisons as number of inmates plummets
- Everything You Know About Your Personal Hygiene Is Wrong
- Children discriminate, unless you teach them not to.
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Interesting Links for 25-06-2013
Jun. 25th, 2013 12:00 pm- Housing report critical of government short termism (tl;dr: BUILD MORE)
- What's going on with the EU's farming subsidies?
- Basic income versus the robots
- Stephen Fry writes about Loneliness
- This is how I learn to use new tools
- Some entries for the computer contradictionary
- Do we know whether pornography harms people?
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Interesting Links for 01-06-2013
Jun. 1st, 2013 12:00 pm- What we can learn from one of the worst charities in the world
- College in Sweden is free but students still have a ton of debt. How can that be?
- Giant genome study finds tiny links between genetics and schooling (0.02%)
- Nearly 1 billion people have been taken out of extreme poverty in 20 years. The world should aim to do the same again
- The world is slowly turning into the one Max Headroom promised us
- Some women want to stay home with children and feminism needs to make peace with that
- Earth Structural Layer Cake. (I am damned impressed)
- Patrick Stewart continues to be an amazing person
- Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella as armed graffiti
- Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers?
- The former president of the Association of Chief Police Officers agrees with me on privacy and terrorism
- Wikipedia has a list of notable sandwiches. Guess which one is top!
- I love that there is Mass Effect fanfic seven times as long as Lord of The Rings
- A Prison Letter from a CIA Whistleblower
- 5 Celebrities You Won't Believe Were Badass Soldiers/Heroes
- Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests
- If this was a pill, you’d do anything to get it
- 10 popular myths debunked
- Patients offered the choice of local anaesthetic+a movie vs general anaesthetic
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Interesting Links for 25-02-2013
Feb. 25th, 2013 11:00 am- Why the way tax is discussed is so appalling.
- Code Mocking: Totally a real thing.
- Burning calcium supplements summons Cthulhu
- Male soldiers in Germany are growing breasts - but just on the left side.
- Computers prescribe better treatment than doctors.
- How “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” Ruled The Internet
- Students to e-textbooks: no thanks
- Watch an astronaut sing with the Barenaked Ladies. From space. I _love_ living in the future.
- How I Became a Feminist Porn Star
- In Australia homeopathy website gets taken to court for misleading information.
Interesting Links for 16-01-2013
Jan. 16th, 2013 11:00 am- How to have 100% test coverage and still have bugs
- Hobbit! Pancake! Art! (Who fancies second breakfast?)
- How the UK's irrational drugs policies incentivise experimenting with the unknown
- A right-wing view on The Lord Of The Rings
- Baby and alsatian fighting over food are exceptionally cute.
- How I feel about multiple spaces after periods.
- The unstoppable dinosaur
- Fancy becoming a cyborg who can always sense North? Only $149!
- Fresh insight into the brain function behind Borderline Personality Disorder
- Scottish independence: Constitutional Rights detailed
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Interesting Links for 14-01-2013
Jan. 14th, 2013 11:00 am- If your CEO has a kid, better hope it's a girl.
- Toy Story, recreated live action style.
- How high wages lead to innovation
- A petition for Edinburgh council to have a better mechabnism for whistleblowing.
- In the 1950s Quaker sold Canadian land by the inch.
- What programming language should I learn first?
- Play.com shuts down (only really ever existed because of a Jersey tax loophole.)
- Analysing password security in Deus Ex
Interesting Links for 13-12-2012
Dec. 13th, 2012 11:00 am- What did the people who said "Other" for religion in the 2011 census actually say? (6,242 believers in Heavy Metal!)
- Scottish Government publishes equal marriage law. Looks like we'll get there first.
- If you have Internet Explorer open _at all_ then it can leak all of your mouse movements.
- Comparing Russian and American culture.
- The Mad Men Miracle: How changing business practices brought us a rush of great TV
- Student submits his homework to online forum, nice takedown from his teacher.
- The Shakespeare Programming Language
- Own up, you've always wanted a computer that looks like a TARDIS.
- The complexity of marriage law (what is and isn't allowed under the new laws)
- Couple sing a song a day #1435 times, and then break up. In song.
- What did angry mobs ever do for us?
- Dave Sim does Judge Dredd
- Black Metal Babysitting Tips - I shall remember this next time I'm looking after the nephew...
- GravityLight: lighting for developing countries. A genius idea!
- GoodGym - Do good, get fit
- A Photo History of Male Affection
- Facebook is scanning private messages for brand page mentions, and then "Like"ing them for you.
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