Interesting Links for 29-08-2018
Aug. 29th, 2018 12:00 pm- UK replicates 1 of the 300 trade agreements it already has. At a cost of £4,000,000,000
- (tags: trade africa uk )
- The housing crisis will not be solved by curbing speculation alone
- (tags: housing uk )
- Facebook put conversion therapy ads in young gay users’ feeds
- (tags: lgbt Facebook advertising OhForFucksSake )
- UK/EU talks have completely stalled. Have you started stockpiling yet?
- I'm planning on stockpiling in January, if they haven't got things moving by then.
Not at all confident they will, as the NI border issue seems unfixable.
(tags: NorthernIreland uk europe doom ) - Irish people mostly consider themselves Catholic, disagree with church on most things
- (tags: Ireland religion catholicism )
- Close ties with fathers help daughters overcome loneliness
- (tags: loneliness daughter children girls fatherhood )
- Cannabis is not a cause of schizophrenia - it's self-medication for schizophrenia sufferers
- (tags: schizophrenia marijuana )
- In upstate New York, a DMT-inspired psychedelic temple rises
- DMT was one of those things that I always wanted to try, but never got the chance
(tags: psychedelics drugs religion usa architecture ) - UK carbon emissions in 2017 fell to levels last seen in 1890 (no, that's not a typo)
- (tags: co2 globalwarming uk GoodNews )
- Xi Jinping sees some pushback against his iron-fisted rule
- (tags: china politics )
- There are people with names that computers won't accept. Here they commiserate. Hilariously.
- (tags: names computers Facebook funny viaSwampers )
- Pod of dolphins spotted swimming off Portobello
- (tags: edinburgh dolphins )
- Edinburgh University students to be given gender pronoun badges during freshers week
- (tags: language gender Edinburgh University identity )
- Air pollution causes huge reduction in intelligence
- (tags: intelligence pollution doom )
- 16 states want to be able to fire employees for being transgender
- (tags: law usa transgender OhForFucksSake lgbt )