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1. "Lena" isn't about uploading (it's a great short story though): (tags:scifi society technology )
2. "My son says he is not a book person. Where did my parenting go wrong?": (tags:books children funny computers parenting )
3. What does the ICJ ruling mean for Gaza and Israel? Cambridge professor explains: (tags:rights law Palestine Israel )
4. Why You've Never Been In A Plane Crash (the no-blame culture of crash investigations): (tags:airplanes disaster organisation )
5. Pavement parking crackdown begins in Edinburgh: (tags:cars Edinburgh )
6. Edinburgh roads: Through traffic to be banned from key routes across city centre: (tags:transport edinburgh roads cars )
7. Talking points for calling your Senators about KOSA: (tags:politics usa OhForFucksSake internet regulation )
8. How a Worldcon happens, and what might happen to them next: (tags:conventions hugo china scifi )

1. Radical new forecast shows how rapidly the energy economy is changing: (tags:electricity renewables co2 thefuture )
2. Doctor Who Fandom in China: (tags:china conventions drwho )
3. Protesters face prison and £200,000 bill over injunction they knew nothing about: (tags:law UK OhForFucksSake protests )
4. Frodo laid a geas (Something I'd never noticed about the Lord of The Rings: I haven't read it for 30 years. Must do so when I'm reading again...
(tags:lotr )
5. Unprecedented diarrheal outbreak erupts in UK as cases spike 3x above usual: (tags:infection faeces health swimming uk )
6. What Palestinians Really Think of Hamas (They don't like them, wouldn't vote for them, and would like a two-state solution): (tags:gaza palestine )
7. Pregnant women in Gaza are being forced to have C-sections without anaesthetic: (tags:gaza palestine OhForFucksSake israel war childbirth )

UK replacement for EU regional funding cuts payments by billions: (tags:uk europe money OhForFucksSake )
The England/Wales consultation on banning conversion therapy is live for another couple of days. Take it now: (tags:lgbt uk consultation )
Slightly disconcerting and over the top alphabet: (tags:letter language )
AI-generated science fiction convention panels: (tags:ai conventions funny scifi )
Nearly 1,000 mysterious magnetic strands revealed in Milky Way's center: (tags:space magnets weird )
Calls to allow people to return to Edinburgh's Radical Road: (tags:edinburgh history park safety )
Ask for help face-to-face, not via phone or email, if you want results: (tags:advice psychology communication )
Gas stoves (and boilers) appear to hugely increase susceptibility to asthma: (tags:asthma gas cooking heating )
I also find social deduction games really stressful, but this looks like fun!: (tags:games lies )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4118930.html

British pies to be banned from EU unless ingredients come from Brussels-approved farms: (tags:uk safety food europe )
Are Jackson's movies good translations of Tolkien's books?: (tags:lotr movies books )
Dave Chappelle's "Some Of My Best Friends Are Trans" Story Doesn't Hold Up: (tags:LGBT transgender comedy lies )
Boris Johnson's Brexit protocol diverts Northern Irish trade from Britain to Republic: (tags:uk europe ireland NorthernIreland trade )
An emergent improv band forming around a cat drinking milk: (tags:milk cats video music improv viaNancyLebov )
This is why Amazon won't accept UK Visa credit cards from January: (tags:UK visa Amazon credit )
What happened to rock music in 1996?: (tags:music rock history USA radio )
The magic words that control cosplayers: (tags:cosplay conventions )
Mercedes Lackey on trans rights: (tags:LGBT transgender writing )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4114029.html

Intel, Nvidia, TSMC execs agree: Chip shortage could last into 2023: (tags:computers economics )
Covid eight times more likely to cause rare brain clot than AstraZeneca vaccine: (tags:vaccination pandemic brain blood )
Scottish election 2021: SNP policies explained: (tags:Scotland snp politics )
Mystery tree beast turns out to be croissant: (tags:headline bread funny Poland )
Ministers block reappointment of two women to male-dominated Channel 4 board: (tags:UK conservatives channel4 diversity OhForFucksSake )
Mumsnet and the Fostering of Anti-Trans Radicalization: (tags:transgender bigotry parents mother UK )
Cameron, May, Johnson - who, in constitutional terms, is the worst prime minister?: (tags:Europe UK conservatives OhForFucksSake )
Viral video of Boris Johnson lying to parliament approaches 10 million views: (tags:BorisJohnson lies government parliament UK video )
How we learned that Bees Perceive Time 🐝⏱: (tags:bees time perception video viaSwampers )
DisCon III Declines to Comment on Code of Conduct Issue About George RR Martin: (tags:GeorgeRRMartin conventions fandom )
The real reason why He-Man had a tiger: (tags:tiger toys TV video )
Gnome shortage: Lockdown and Suez canal blockage blamed: (tags:gnomes garden trade Doom viaPatrickHadfield )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4024504.html

A story about 1,000 baby praying mantises.: (tags:insects viaFJM )
Ukraine and Russia exchange prisoners in landmark deal: (tags:Ukraine russia )
Lib Dems: Why is the party's LGBT+ group angry?: (tags:LGBT libdem politics uk )
GRRM on the Hugo Losers Party: (tags:GeorgeRRMartin party conventions scifi )
What if the Prime Minister deliberately broke the law over extending Article 50?: (tags:law UK Europe politics )
What happened with Stephen Kinnock's amendment, and what does it mean?: (tags:uk law politics europe )
MPs checked with EU chiefs over Brexit delay before passing bill: (tags:UK Europe )
Boris Johnson has chosen the 'left behind' towns he wants to help (and most of them are Tory marginals): (tags:corruption election Conservatives )
Canada's view: British politics today is what results from the collision of an unstoppable force, an immovable object and a clown car.: (tags:UK Europe Doom Canada )
There are large gender differences in how men and women experience opposite-sex friendships: (tags:gender friendship psychology attraction )
Gender-neutral bathrooms can save women from waiting forever in line: (tags:toilets gender )
Will Brexit Affect Your Prescriptions? (Can anyone explain to me why it's already affecting some drugs?): Explanation from a friend:
3 factors so far:

(1) Supplier stockpiling = less for immediate demand.
(2) Some drugs now supplied to pharmacies on monthly quota. No backfill if exceeded.
(3)Suppliers agree set price over fixed term with NHS. Value of Â£ dropping = selling at loss so, some drugs diverted to other markets.
(tags:medicine UK Europe doom )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3821564.html

The Nine World convention seems to be imploding: (tags: conventions scifi fail )
The Messed-Up Teachings of Jesus: (tags: christianity religion viaCipherGoth )
On having been a fascist teen: (tags: teenagers racism fascism )
"How many Doctors does it take to change a light bulb?": (tags: drwho )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3750728.html

Orangemen, priests and the limits of freedom of expression: (tags: freespeech religion scotland )
Eerie Skyglow Called 'Steve' Isn't an Aurora, Is 'Completely Unknown' to Science: (tags: space earth light )
Ableism, architecture, Disney, ghosts, and the Winchester House: (tags: Disney disabilities age architecture design history )
No healthy level of alcohol consumption, says major study: (tags: alcohol health )
WTO warns on disruption to UK of no-deal Brexit: (tags: trade UK Europe doom )
Demolishing Peter Lilley's WTO Brexit nonsense: (tags: wto trade Europe UK fraud )
Russia trolls spreading vaccination misinformation to create discord: (tags: Russia vaccination OhForFucksSake )
On disability at Worldcon: (tags: disability conventions scifi )
The slow death of the Edinburgh Fringe: (tags: Edinburgh Festival fringe comedy )
How Brexit will affect drug prices and approval in the UK: (tags: medication UK Europe doom )
The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America: (tags: usa children age )
Orange Lodge cancels Glasgow march after order to keep clear of Catholic church: (tags: religion Scotland Glasgow bigotry )
The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History: (tags: Russia Ukraine hacking )
Father Illustrates The Friendship Between His Tiny Baby And Giant Dog And The Comics Are Adorable: (tags: comic dogs babies funny )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3718099.html

Babies in prams exposed to 60% more pollution: (tags: babies pollution )
Argumentative relationships open the door to disease: Study links couples' hostility and gut bacteria, inflammation in bloodstream: (tags: relationships microbiome inflammation )
Judge throws out challenge to Scots abortion pill move: (tags: abortion scotland GoodNews )
A Lesson From Germany on How to Cover Far-Right Leaders: (tags: Germany politics journalism )
Jeremy Corbyn wreath row explained: (tags: Israel Palestine assassination terrorism Labour history )
Not on your life: six means of science fictional transportation I would not use.: (tags: transport scifi )
Chris Grayling has no credible plan for 'no-deal' Brexit, road hauliers warn: (tags: transport UK Europe doom )
Pixel Objectness - spotting objects in photos automatically: (tags: photos vision ai )
Uber still losing billions per year, somehow still considered valuable: (tags: driving business fail )
How Star Wars was saved in the editing suite (I just learned a lot): (tags: starwars video )
How Wakandacon, the first Black Panther-themed convention, escaped the fan con curse: (tags: conventions movies comics race )
Patrick Stewart: 'I find it difficult to know what Labour stands for': (tags: Labour PatrickStewart )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3715747.html

How piracy protects our culture: (tags: history culture copyright piracy )
Julian Assange Went After a Former Ally. It Backfired Epically.: (tags: JulianAssange OhForFucksSake )
France approves 720MW of solar as price falls another 5%: (tags: solarpower france )
Portugal Dared to Cast Aside Austerity. It’s Having a Major Revival.: (tags: economics Portugal austerity GoodNews )
The Future of Nine Worlds: (tags: conventions )
Jeremy Corbyn admits being present at wreath-laying for Munich terrorists but denies paying tribute himself: (tags: labour terrorism israel )
The Handmaid's Tale highlights the difference between the demands of novels and TV: Do you tell a coherent story with a beginning, middle, and end, or do you just keep going on as long as the viewers will last?
(tags: tv writing books margaretatwood )
Sainsbury's supermarket goes 'till-free': (tags: technology shopping )
Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the USA: a population-based disease burden and cost analysis: (tags: iq endocrine usa doom )
Edinburgh council debating new plaque on monument of former colonial secretary Henry Dundas (who delayed Britain's exit from the slave trade by fifteen years): (tags: Scotland slavery OhForFucksSake video history )
Link between herpes virus and cardiovascular damage: (tags: herpes heart health age )
‘Undruggable’ cancers treated by slowing growth could be 'holy grail', researchers say: (tags: cancer research )
Premier League: 10 of 20 clubs could have made profits in 2016-17 without fans at games: (tags: football money business tv )
Why some computer viruses refuse to die: (tags: virus history computers )
Jacob Rees-Mogg prepares to announce a rival to the Chequers plan: (tags: Conservatives europe uk trade )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3715234.html

The Times comes out for dictatorship: (tags: newspapers uk politics OhForFucksSake )
What, exactly, are the WorldCon committee up to?: (tags: conventions wtf scifi )
This is the Tories advertising for people to stand in the street tomorrow, to welcome the President of Qatar. Because we are a joke of a nation: (tags: qatar acting wtf )
Brexit: What happens if UK leaves the EU with no deal?: (tags: UK Europe doom )
Terry Crews Speaks Out In Support Of Brendan Fraser: (tags: abuse assault hollywood )
There are cultures all across the world, throughout history, who saw more than two genders: (tags: gender )
The Onion's Review of ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ is just perfect: (tags: review movies video music fun )
Offshore owners of British property to be forced to reveal names: (tags: corruption housing uk transparency )
A Complete Electron Microscopy Volume of the Brain of a fruit fly, at neuron level: (tags: brain insects scanning neuroscience )
2018’s “Board Game of the Year” award goes to… Azul!: I've played this with someone. Can't remember who!
(tags: games )
Britain only finished paying off slave owners in 2015: (tags: slavery uk debt viajoexnz )
Jeremy Corbyn to highlight economic 'benefit' of Brexit: (tags: Labour UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
First of ScotRail's new electric trains take to track: (tags: Scotland trains transport electricity )
The Genetics of Staying in School: One reason is to look at how genes and environments interact.“If you did a study like ours 100 years ago, the strongest genetic predictor of education would be how many X chromosomes you had, because society was set up in a way that it was much harder for women to get educated than men,” says Benjamin. Likewise, many of the genes that are associated with education today are likely important “because of how today’s educational system is set up. It requires people to sit at desks for hours, and listen to instructions from a teacher. People who get restless, or are less obedient to authority, will fare less well in that environment.”
(tags: genetics Education )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3708750.html

What does "Ireland First" mean, and how did we get here?: (tags: Ireland uk europe )
Man Behind Scottish Comic Cons is a Far-Right Fanatic: (tags: comics Scotland conventions bigotry uk )
Scottish Lobbying Register goes live: (tags: scotland lobbying )
Just how dangerous is bacon? And how can we make it safer?: (tags: food bacon safety cancer health viaSwampers )
The cliff that changed our understanding of time: (tags: geology time history )
Future of 1p and 2p coins questioned by Treasury: (tags: cash money uk )
A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”: (tags: death mind technology backup )
Men and women have opposite genetic alterations in depression: (tags: gender depression genetics )
There seems to be a racist bomber loose in Austin, Texas: (tags: racism terrorism texas usa )
Teach boys about periods: (tags: menstruation boys )
Kangaroos: Still terrifying: (tags: animals scary australia )
The terrifyingly early age that men start looking at girls sexually: (tags: sex society girls age )
1946 U.S. document reveals Poles treated Jews as badly as Germans did: (tags: Holocaust Poland germany history Jews )
'I want to explain arranged marriage to white people': (tags: Pakistan marriage games )
Stephen Hawking, legendary theoretical physicist, dies at 76: (tags: StephenHawking obituary )
"You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral": You can use it at mine, if you like
(tags: physics death viaElfy )
Analysis discovers 187 genetic locations for intelligence, 583 genes in total: (tags: genetics Intelligence )
We now know 22 Trillion Digits of Pi, bringing us no closer to the end: (tags: pi infinity )
How Hollywood Salaries Really Work: (tags: money movies actors salary hollywood )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3668040.html

I should clearly watch 'Jupiter Ascending': (tags: movies scifi )
From Colorado, a glimpse at life after marijuana legalization: (tags: marijuana drugs legalisation )
Opposites do not attract. We crave the like-minded: (tags: relationships friendship psychology )
David Cameron blasts Israel's 'genuinely shocking' illegal settlements: (tags: israel davidcameron )
Microsoft are now displaying ads on the Windows 10 lock-screen. Here's how to turn it off.: (tags: microsoft advertising OhForFucksSake )
Why is it so hard to persuade people with facts?: (tags: facts discussion psychology )
The Importance of Having and ENFORCING Harassment Policies at Cons: (tags: conventions harrassment )
The truth about Stan Lee: (tags: history comics )
Testing The Leap Motion In VR. (Contains Happy Swearing): (tags: VirtualReality video )
The Best Toy In The History Of The World: (tags: toys StarWars )
Saying 'Neckbeard' Isn't Hurtful in the Way You Think – Why We Need to Drop This Insult: (tags: feminism )
Conservatives prefer using nouns, liberals adjectives: (tags: politics grammar psychology )
Why the technology in Star Trek is always going wrong: (tags: StarTrek funny Technology )
Beware awful diet journalism: (tags: journalism diet health fraud fail )
Inside the topless sisterhood (life as a showgirl): (tags: dancing viaSwampers )
NHS - over budget or underfunded?: (tags: healthcare budget money politics )
Ofcom tells BT to open up cable network to rivals (but doesn't split OpenReach off): (tags: BT phones internet communication regulation uk )
Two Attitudes In Psychiatry: (tags: healthcare doctors brain mentalhealth )
Flexible working - not as simple as you might think: (tags: work jobs time )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3415594.html

10 points to consider about Brexit and the EU Referendum: (tags: europe referendum )
Perception: Your brain integrates features directly to patterns: (tags: perception vision brain )
Facebook uses AI to map people's homes: (tags: facebook maps )
How I learnt to stop worrying and love Basic Income: (tags: GuaranteedIncome politics welfare work uk poverty )
FactCheck: how Britain is split on the EU: (tags: europe demographics )
Why Aren’t More Male Pop Stars Speaking Up for Kesha?: (tags: music rape )
The Hadza, the Honeyguide Bird, and the Naturefakers: (tags: birds anthropology nature fraud )
Pets That Are Stuck But Pretending Everything Is Fine: (tags: cats funny dogs animals cute )
But what does Scalia _mean_?: (tags: funny usa law viaTheWeaselKing )
Your Life is a line.: (tags: life comic )
This girl who mastered dubstep dancing by just using YouTube: (tags: video dance )
Review: The Keys of Middle-earth: Discovering Medieval Literature through the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien: (tags: history literature Tolkien )
How to fix Twitter: (tags: twitter )
Edinburgh has a Sci-Fi convention this weekend!: (tags: scifi conventions edinburgh scotland )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3414890.html

Prosthetic hand lets man actually feel what he touches for the first time
- (tags: prostheses cybernetics )
Will a robot take your job?
- (tags: robots jobs )
HMRC reports record £1bn tax take from use of accelerated payment notices
- (tags: tax UK )
Malnutrition common in obese people
- (tags: obesity nutrition food health )
Nine out of 10 new diesel cars exceed EU pollution limits (by massive amounts)
- (tags: cars pollution )
The best idea about Pratchett and the Hugos
- (tags: terrypratchett hugo )
AdultPlayer Android porn app takes photos of you masturbating and then blackmails you
- (tags: masturbation crime android phones porn )
Real programmers don't use Pascal
- (tags: languages history funny computers )
Army of Lame Ducks: Is copyright irrelevant in the viral age?
- (tags: ducks copyright viral video )
I'm fairly sure this video is why the internet was invented
- (tags: video music ducks funny )
Football Manager, the World's Most Influential Video Game
- (tags: games football )
Ron Weasley Made Me Sad (This is the kind of celebrity convention I have no interest in)
- (tags: celebrity conventions viaDrJon )
Harry Potter and the set of all sets that do not contain themselves
- (tags: mathematics funny harrypotter viaCipherGoth comic )
George Osborne's biggest benefit cuts are for people who actually have jobs, IFS says
- (tags: money conservatives pay UK )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3340479.html

Marvel villains are now quoting David Cameron
- (tags: davidcameron marvel conservatives )
Procrastination as a voice in your head
- Also applies to coding, cooking, or anything else you worry about doing "wrong"
- (tags: art creativity procrastination )
Clearly finest Super Mario level of all tim
- (tags: mario nintendo video )
How different people recording the data may be to blame for reporting of obesity
- (tags: obesity Scotland healthcare )
The Sasquan WorldCon doesn't seem to have dealt very well with harrassment
- (tags: harrassment conventions scifi viaTheWeaselKing )
How the Ballpoint Pen Changed Handwriting
- (tags: writing technology )
Homeopathy: another day in court + another defeat
- (tags: homeopathy healthcare NHS UK )
Lasting Relationships Rely On Kindness and Generosity
- (tags: relationships marriage love psychology )
The cliches blamed on Tolkien are not Tolkien's fault
- (tags: Tolkien lotr fantasy writing )
Crocodile goes wheeeeeeeee!
- (tags: crocodile animated_gif )
How TV propaganda is affecting Russian society
- (tags: Russia propaganda tv )
Lies, damned lies, and the BBC's coverage of Ukraine
- (tags: Russia ukraine bbc )
Borderline personality traits linked to lowered empathy
- (tags: empathy BorderlinePersonalityDisorder psychology )
BMW: All Models Electric Within Decade
- .
- (tags: cars electricity )
20 Most Profound Things People Thought Of In The Shower. #9 Is My Favorite
- (tags: thought funny )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3332871.html

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