Interesting Links for 05-04-2023
Apr. 5th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. There's no evidence that any ethnic group is responsible for child sexual exploitation, but that won't stop the Tories from blaming Pakistanis
- (tags:racism Conservatives children abuse )
- 2. Raising an autistic child for 12 years has shown me all the ways neurotypical people are flawed
- (tags:autism children society )
- 3. Conservatives continue to agree that housing in the UK is broken. And then not do anything about it.
- (tags:Conservatives housing uk epicfail )
- 4. Frequently shouting at, isolating, and physically punishing young children made it 1.5 times more likely that a child would be at high risk of developing poor mental health by age nine
- (tags:children mentalhealth parenting abuse )
- 5. People Are More Prone to Believe in God than Identify as Religious. Western Europe is the least-religious part of the world
- (tags:religion belief polls )
- 6. Grooming gangs and ethnicity: What does the evidence say?
- (tags:ethnicity children rape abuse uk )
- 7. Driverless bus service goes live in Scotland in world first (will still have a safety driver aboard, and someone to assist people).
- (tags:scotland buses driving automation )
- 8. Catan creator, board game pioneer Klaus Teuber dead at 70
- (tags:games SettlersOfCatan obituary )
- 9. People who live beyond 100 have a better immune system than average
- (tags:immune_system age )
- 10. A Toxic Time Bomb Is Ticking in the Arctic
- (tags:environment pollution arctic doom )
- 11. Conflict in Israel and Gaza: What do Jews in the UK think?
- (tags:israel Jews uk )
- 12. Very! Bad! Volume! Controls!
- (tags:design ux music funny )
- 13. Key lessons from the quest design of The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077
- (tags:design games )
- 14. Why people sometimes feel a 'presence' in an empty room
- (tags:psychology hallucinations )
- 15. The Rule of Three - how organisations change as they grow
- (tags:business organisation psychology )
- 16. Apparently the EHRC doesn't understand how book clubs work
- (tags:books bigotry gender UK wtf )
- 17. Using AI to describe logos and then recreate them from that yields some lovely results (I think Twitter is my favourite)
- (tags:logo ai design )
- 18. More games should use "Overkill"
- (tags:games death design )
Interesting Links for 11-10-2017
Oct. 11th, 2017 12:00 pm- Heads-up, ceos: Corporate social responsibility may get you fired
- (tags: society work success )
- The Absurdly Underestimated Dangers of CSV Injection
- (tags: security data google microsoft )
- Frankie Muniz doesn't remember starring on 'Malcolm in the Middle'
- (tags: tv memory brain )
- When did it become unacceptable for celebrities to rape people? and is political correctness to blame?
- (tags: rape society celebrity )
- The whole web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank
- (tags: Firefox graphics computers browser )
- The Rock Test: A Hack for Men Who Don’t Want To Be Accused of Sexual Harassment
- (tags: assault harassment advice men satire )
- The Lush Billion-Tree Spectacle of China's Great Green Wall
- (tags: China desert trees )
- MPs shocked to discover how many jobs work
- (tags: work uk )
- A list of myths about the European Union
- (tags: Europe myths )
- US Drug ads gloss over risks with a mind trick—that’s backed by the FDA
- (tags: drugs safety usa advertising )
- Viking Age script deciphered – is ancient Arabic, and mentions ‘Allah’ and ‘Ali’
- (tags: islam viking history )
- Huge effect of ethnicity on life chances revealed in official UK figures
- (tags: uk ethnicity society work success )
Interesting Links for 19-08-2017
Aug. 19th, 2017 12:00 pm- The Eclipse Conspiracy
- (tags: conspiracy funny sun eclipse satire )
- How many house points Harry and the others have won/lost for their house
- (tags: harrypotter viaDanielDWilliam )
- You’re not the hero of Pyre’s revolution, and that’s the point
- (tags: games morality revolution )
- What a Border Collie Taught a Linguist About Language
- (tags: dogs linguistics language )
- Evidence of a Toxic Environment for Women in Economics
- (tags: economics misogyny )
- What do we know about the ethnicity of sexual abuse gangs?
- (tags: ethnicity sex abuse rape uk )
- Bank Of Scotland, Lloyds and Halifax customers face up to 52% APR overdraft fee
- (tags: banking )
Interesting Links for 22-07-2015
Jul. 22nd, 2015 12:00 pm- Why do white people still refuse to believe black people about being black?
- The big list of panic attack coping mechanisms
- Why your self-driving car won’t have a steering wheel
- No, This Viral Image Does Not Explain the History of Arabic Numerals
- The French Scrabble champion who doesn't speak French
- How Democracy Works (vs how the Labour Party seem to think it works)
- How to get which part of Asia people are from
- The perfect dystopia-themed female cosplay.
- Demons! Tiny cute bounding demons! (Ok, cats. But clearly demonic ones)
- Upside-down synchronised-swimming looks amazing
- If anyone can find it for me on YouTube I'd appreciate it...
- Finding a strategy for democratic reform