Entries tagged with creativity

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Interesting Links for 20-12-2023

1. A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to “hacks-for-hire” controversy.: (tags:Technology hacking india censorship )
2. Animation vs. Physics: (tags:physics animation video )
3. Baby It’s Cold Outside discourse is the same as Macbeth discourse.: (tags:shakespeare funny )
4. NHS dentistry as we know it 'gone for good': (tags:UK NHS teeth OhForFucksSake )
5. Why MAs at Oxford had to swear an oath against a man who'd been dead for over 500 years.: (tags:history university uk oxford murder viaPatrickHadfield )
6. New income tax band for people in Scotland earning over £75,000: (tags:scotland income tax )
7. Teams are more creative when they're sitting next to each other: (tags:creativity teams work psychology )
8. Iceland volcano erupts leaving 2.5-mile crack (with live video): (tags:iceland volcano )
9. Tom Bombadil and The Ring, a Christmas story: (tags:Christmas lotr fanfic )
10. Lord of the Rings fan fiction writer tries to sue Amazon/Tolkien, gets countersued into a smoking crater: (tags:copyright fanfic EpicStupidity lotr Tolkien )
11. A series of charts showing how awful the Conservatives are for the economy: (tags:UK economy conservatives Labour )
12. Tory attempts to ban social transitioning in schools held up by lack of evidence showing it causes any problems: (tags:LGBT law schools UK )

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Interesting Links for 24-11-2021

Covid stamp duty holiday cost £6.4bn and helped rich house buyers in south: (tags:housing uk OhForFucksSake )
In simple English, what does it mean for a number to be transcendental?: (tags:numbers )
Americans are struggling to deal with a rising tide of hatred and extremism: (tags:USA hate bigotry school LGBT )
What gets to be a valid word? A linguist's view: (tags:language )
The woman with XY chromosomes: (tags:women genetics )
New licencing laws for short term lets in Scotland: (tags:rental Scotland housing )
The Moral of the Roller-Skating Christmas Pudding - the Significance of the Absenteeism of the Lord Chancellor: (tags:politics law uk )
The Conspiracy Chart: (tags:conspiracy visualisation )
When Americans think each season starts: (tags:time date usa polls )
Striving For Perfection, Rather Than Excellence, Can Kill Creativity: (tags:psychology creativity perfectionism )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3974346.html

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Interesting Links for 07-03-2020

Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity: (tags:caffeine problems thinking creativity psychology )
The majority of popular films, including those for children, have at least one torture scene, and the scenes are usually depicted as achieving the torturer's goal: (tags:children torture society movies OhForFucksSake )
Complete moral collapse on the Greek border: (tags:asylum immigration racism greece Turkey Syria war Europe OhForFucksSake )
Government asks Labour for ideas on social care reform. Labour refuses to give them: (tags:Labour wtf )
Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All Policy Would Likely Increase Wages and Create Jobs, New Economic Analysis Shows: (tags:healthcare USA economics )
Alien nation: Myths about UK immigration are fueling ignorance: (tags:bigotry immigration UK )
Why a lot of black Southern voters will never vote for Bernie.: (tags:politics USA democrats race )
What it's like to be anaesthetised: (tags:drugs surgery )
Hundreds Of Guardian Staff Have Signed A Letter To The Editor Criticising Its Transphobic Content: (tags:guardian bigotry LGBT transgender )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3774787.html

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Interesting Links for 19-03-2019

"Safe When Alone, Yet Lost In Their Aloneness" - What It's Like To Live With Avoidant Personality Disorder: (tags:psychology personality )
Foods from agricultural lifestyles may have made it easier to form some sounds: (tags:humans food prehistory language speech )
Council revises its EU list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions - adding ten countries: (tags:tax europe )
Interesting discussion on children and presents: (tags:children creativity presents )
A "Bar Chart Race" animation showing the changing ranks of the 10 biggest cities in the world since 1500.: (tags:history cities )
An excellent range on the appalling behaviour of MPs: (tags:politics uk )
Vladimir Putin signs sweeping Internet-censorship bills: (tags:Russia censorship internet )
Your brain does not finish "growing up" until you are in your 30s: (tags:adult development brain psychology )
Inflammation links heart disease and depression: (tags:inflammation heart depression )
'Inflamm-aging' causes loss of bone healing ability in the elderly: (tags:age inflammation )
Fertility app 'Dot' found to be as effective as other family planning methods: (tags:contraception apps )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3676484.html

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Interesting Links for 09-04-2018

8 tips to help you become more resilient: (tags: emotion advice )
Best Breast Pumps 2018 (mostly saved for later for me): (tags: breastfeeding Technology review )
The Oral History Of The Poop Emoji: (tags: faeces emoji history )
The Racist and Sexist History of Keeping Birth Control Side Effects Secret: (tags: contraception racism sexism OhForFucksSake history usa )
Why did fans leave LiveJournal, and where will they go after Tumblr?: (tags: fandom socialmedia community )
Dark Souls speed run in 55 minutes with no glitches: By comparison it took me a few dozen hours.
(tags: games video impressive )
Publishers Haven't Realized Just How Big a Deal GDPR Is: (tags: privacy europe advertising surveillance )
GDPR Requirements in Plain English: (tags: privacy Europe law surveillance )
Star Wars turns out to still be popular, despite loud whining on the internet about ruined childhoods: (tags: StarWars )
Brexit: Nearly 20 banks have committed to Frankfurt since vote to leave EU: (tags: Germany banking europe )
Childbirth stories are the stuff of life. We should share them: (tags: childbirth birth stories )
The "Solo: A Star Wars Story" trailer actually looks pretty good: (tags: StarWars trailer )
An introduction to cat behaviour for dog owners: (tags: cats dogs behaviour )
I simply don't believe that security on the iPhone works this badly. I assume it's a hoax of some kind.: (tags: security iphone apple wtf )
Content aware scaled cats are delightfully odd: (tags: cats photoshop weird ViaDrCross )
Fear mongering about cell phones and cancer: (tags: phones cancer fraud OhForFucksSake )
The handwriting of Bowie, Cobain, Lennon and more are now downloadable typefaces: Both cool and creepy
(tags: font music viaElfy )
Gut microbes are vulnerable to wide range of drugs: (tags: microbiome drugs )
Does the “Article 50 Challenge” have any merit?: (tags: uk europe law )
Myth busting: Why didn't the Skripals die on the spot?: (tags: poison russia )
Why fat piles on when the body’s daily cycles are in disarray: (tags: fat sleep time hormones stress )
Too many toys stifles toddler creativity: (tags: toys creativity )
GTA 5 Is The Most Profitable Entertainment Title Of All Time, Over 90 Million Units Sold, $6Billion made: (tags: money media games entertainment )
Bacteria found in the small intestines of mice and humans can travel to other organs and trigger an autoimmune response: (tags: immune_system bacteria microbiome )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3649108.html

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Interesting Links for 04-01-2018

Digital streaming behind biggest rise in UK music sales for two decades: (tags: business music streaming spotify uk )
Here’s what the evidence shows about the links between creativity and depression: (tags: creativity depression psychology )
Iceland introduces fines for firms that don’t pay men and women equally: (tags: Iceland gender pay equality )
'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign: (tags: bug processor design epicfail Intel )
Wrestler vs 9 Year Old Girl (I can't see how anyone would think that wrestling was faked): (tags: Wrestling girls video funny viaElfy )
The latest horribly dangerous health fad: unfiltered untreated water: (tags: health water OhForFucksSake )
High doses of vitamin D rapidly reduce arterial stiffness: (tags: vitaminD health heart )
Trump didn't think he could be president - and didn't think he should be.: (tags: politics usa OhForFucksSake )
Genetic analysis of ancient Alaskan child suggests the region was settled by people crossing from Asia 25,000 years ago: (tags: Alaska prehistory America asia )
Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo From Apollo 8?: (tags: photos moon history space )
Some quotes illustrating why the government's new Universities Regulator isn't suitable to hold *any* job: (tags: sexism Twitter OhForFucksSake Conservatives )
If you earn an average UK salary, by the end of today a top boss will have earned more than you do all year.: (tags: uk pay inequality )
A Breakthrough Blindness Treatment Will Cost $425,000 Per Eye, If It Works: (tags: eyes medicine money )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3539630.html

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Interesting Links for 31-12-2016

Africa's naming traditions: (tags: africa names )
Insurance firm to replace human workers with AI system: (tags: japan ai insurance jobs )
Nobody should ever do business with this company: (tags: xkcd business data funny names )
Russia vows to delete all White House videogame saves: (tags: games funny satire russia usa hacking )
Inside the Lab that Grows Human Skin to Test Cosmetics: (tags: testing cosmetics makeup humans bodies )
25 Masterpieces That Prove 2016 Was an Incredible Year for Architecture: (tags: architecture design )
Once mocked, Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram was a stroke of genius: (tags: facebook photos business )
Foxconn aims to totally automate its factories: (tags: automation manufacturing )
China announces ban on ivory trade by end of 2017: (tags: china elephants GoodNews )
How Watership Down was written: (tags: writing creativity rabbits stories uk history )
The History of Keeping the Damned Women Out (of university): (tags: history Education uk women viaFanf )
The Guardian’s Summary of Julian Assange’s Interview Was Completely False: (tags: guardian OhForFucksSake JulianAssange news )
White House fails to make case that Russian hackers tampered with election: (tags: russia usa hacking fail )
5 Rules for Hosting a Crappy Dinner Party (and Seeing Your Friends More Often): (tags: food social )
Saudi Arabia jails man for a year after he publically called for end of male control over women: (tags: women saudiarabia rights OhForFucksSake )
There's nothing less electable than "electability": (tags: politics )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3533486.html

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Interesting Links for 12-12-2016

Confirmation of the topology of the Wendelstein 7-X Stellerator magnetic field to better than 1:100,000: (tags: fusion Technology )
Cats: Helping you read since 8,000 BC: (tags: cats books cute )
11 Habits of Highly Creative People: (tags: creativity comic funny )
Revamped Bubble Wrap Loses Its Pop (Could 2016 get any worse?): (tags: packaging )
Please don't volunteer abroad until you've asked yourself these four questions: (tags: charity volunteers )
No post-Brexit EU citizenship for us!: (tags: uk europe citizenship )
Unhappiness more likely to result from poor mental health or being single than economic factors: (tags: happiness mentalhealth )
New £41m Edinburgh Gateway station now open (Connecting Fife to the trams/airport): (tags: edinburgh trains trams transport )
Bill Gates announces $1bn investment fund for clean energy technology: (tags: billgates energy )
Homes being built in the wrong place are contributing to housing shortage: (tags: housing uk )
China 'seriously concerned' after Trump questions Taiwan policy: (tags: china usa diplomacy politics )
A map of the internet as of May 1973: (tags: maps internet history )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3528561.html

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Interesting Links for 28-11-2016

Princess Beatrice 'slices Ed Sheeran's face with ceremonial sword' while attempting to 'knight' James Blunt at party: (tags: royalty UK alcohol viaBartCalendar )
Steven Strogatz on chaos theory, game theory, and why math isn’t boring: (tags: mathematics Education creativity art )
Patients with Bipolar Disorder are more likely to be infected by T. gondii: (tags: ToxoplasmaGondii bipolar mentalhealth Parasites )
Ill-treatment, torture, death: Amnesty’s verdict on how Fidel Castro treated opponents: (tags: torture dictators )
Theresa May reveals how her faith in God gives her confidence she is 'doing the right thing': (tags: religion politics Conservatives )
Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians: (tags: psychology morality libertarianism )
The Psychology of Eye Contact, Digested: (tags: psychology eyes )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3527706.html

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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 )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3510969.html

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Interesting Links for 06-10-2016

Failed replication shows literary fiction doesn't boost social cognition: (tags: writing psychology fiction )
Exercise releases hormone that helps shed, prevent fat: (tags: exercise hormones fat weight )
Cannabis users are less aware of their mistakes, and not good at creative thinking: (tags: marijuana drugs creativity mistakes )
Police use-of-force data is finally coming to light: (tags: usa police data violence )
It feels as though we learn better via our preferred learning style, but we don’t: (tags: learning psychology )
Is globalization bad for the global poor? This study ran an experiment to find out.: (tags: globalization research economics )
Big decision ahead? Just roll the dice: (tags: decisions advice )
Squad devs blast Kerbal Space Program studio for high crunch and low pay: (tags: games pay business OhForFucksSake )
The post-truth future is departing ever further from reality: (tags: russia politics lies propaganda usa viaPatrickHadfield )
When the eye of a hurricane goes directly over a weather buoy: (tags: )
Thailand's "Failed" Drug Policy Is Full Of Lessons For The Philippines: (tags: politics drugs )
The 13 things making me very angry right now: (tags: politics uk )
11 Ideas Philosophers REFUSE To Take Seriously (#8 is my favorite): (tags: lists funny philosophy satire feminism )
What is the Conservative Party actually for?: (tags: Conservatives politics uk )
RBS, NatWest and SEB banks employ virtual staff: (tags: automation customerservice banking )
'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' worse than expected: (tags: ocean waste )
Pleasant family leisure at home may satisfy families more than fun together elsewhere: (tags: family psychology relationships )
Being kind to others does make you slightly happier: (tags: psychology happiness )
Understanding of norms: Children overeagerly seeking social rules: (tags: society rules children psychology )
Replacing the Sacred, Spherical Cows of Physics: (tags: physics )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3442680.html

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Interesting Links for 21-04-2016

Shakespeare: The strange way people looked at food in the 16th Century: (tags: food history shakespeare )
UK's Osborne Exempts Members of Parliament, Other "Politically Exposed Persons" From Money Laundering Oversight: (tags: money politics Conservatives )
Dark Souls - The Board Game looks cool. Will wait for release rather than joining the Kickstarter though.: (tags: games kickstarter )
What are the skills every 18-year-old needs?: (tags: age advice life viaSwampers )
The kid whose mom used Craigslist to find him a feminism tutor. (And turns out to actually be a fake. And a dick): (tags: abuse feminism internet viaSwampers OhForFucksSake )
What convolutional neural networks look at when they see nudity: (tags: nudity ai nsfw )
Every semi-competent male hero has a more talented female sidekick. Why isn’t she the hero instead?: (tags: movies feminism )
Canada to introduce legislation to decriminalize recreational cannabis: (tags: canada legalisation marijuana epicwin )
‘Unforgiven’ Being Remade as Samurai Film Starring Ken Watanabe: (tags: japan movies )
Cancer patients may have more chance of survival if they take a low dose of aspirin: (tags: cancer )
This is why the research on creativity and mental illness is so contradictory: (tags: mentalhealth creativity psychology )
Clinical psychologist tries VR, believes it might be _very_ useful for dealing with social anxiety disorder: (tags: anxiety psychology VirtualReality viaHugh )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3384222.html

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Interesting Links for 22-12-2015

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Interesting Links for 05-12-2015

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Interesting Links for 11-10-2015

New Research Says Overthinking Worriers Are Probably Creative Geniuses
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Zoetrope Cakes!
- (tags: cake video animation )
Why can’t we treat mental illness by simply fixing the brain?
- (tags: mentalhealth brain neuroscience )
What happens when you mix software documentation and Lovecraft?
- (tags: lovecraft funny software viaSwampers )
An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar.
- (tags: racism media police grammar reporting language )
Stem-Cell Dental Implants Grow New Teeth in Your Mouth (well, in 5-10 years)
- (tags: teeth thefuture stemcells viaSwampers )
Like black coffee? You're a psychopath
- (tags: psychology psychopath )
How to make a dildo ice lolly/popsicle
- (tags: food sextoys cold )
Funny single-line summaries of classic works
- (tags: funny media )
The Spock approach to dealing with invasive/irrational thoughts
- (tags: thought happiness StarTrek )
Keanu Reeves is a vampire. Or a time-lord. Or a highlander.
- (tags: KeanuReeves immortality vampires )
The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics
- (tags: morals ethics philosophy morality )