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Interesting Links for 20-02-2023

1. Finally, proof that cats are pure evil: (tags:cats evil video )
2. The New York Times was called out by hundreds of contributors for it's transphobia. Its response is appalling (and I'm cancelling my subscription): (tags:nytimes OhForFucksSake bigotry LGBT transgender )
3. AI discovers weakness in other AI Go player, human delivers the payload: (tags:games ai )
4. Yes, Jimmy Carter Really Did Once Help Contain a Nuclear Meltdown: (tags:nuclearpower USA history )
5. How to keep your Twitter secure without giving Elon Musk any money: (tags:Twitter money business security )
6. The UK is locking intra-generational advantage more and more.: (tags:inequality uk viaRachel parents )
7. ControlNET and Stable Diffusion: A Game Changer for AI Image Generation (You can draw in what you want, and it will fill in the details): (tags:ai art )
8. Microsoft's new AI will now threaten to ruin your chances of getting a job if it doesn't like the way you talk to it: (tags:ai jobs microsoft OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 09-01-2023

1. The Oberkassel puppy is the oldest known domesticated dog: (tags:dogs prehistory Germany )
2. The Westminster Accounts - The first fully searchable database of the money being used to lubricate the machinery of British politics: (tags:money UK politics viaDanielDWilliam )
3. This is my favourite story about computers and bureaucracy: (tags:computers history bureaucracy )
4. Stephen Hawking's most important contribution may have been a very interesting question about black holes: (tags:physics space StephenHawking viaPatrickHadfield )
5. Baby! And! Cat!: (tags:babies cats video cute )
6. Why Conan is freed - a look at a pivotal moment in the movie: (tags:Conan movies writing )
7. The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene: (tags:genetics sports fat bodies research )
8. Countries as villains (as created by an AI): (tags:ai evil countries art )
9. Killings by US police reach record high: (tags:USA police death )
10. Bolsonaro weighs next steps with input from Trump aides Bannon, Miller (from November, just a reminder that this is all linked): (tags:USA SouthAmerica coup Brazil )
11. On the Russian soul, imperialism and moral obligations (and how Russians lie to themselves about their colonial past): (tags:russia )

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Interesting Links for 23-03-2021

A write up of how someone was scammed for their savings: (tags:banks fraud viaSwampers OhForFucksSake )
Some details on why Sturgeon was found to have not breached the ministerial code: (tags:Scotland government )
UK, EU and US impose joint sanctions against Chinese officials over Uighur 'industrial scale human rights abuses': (tags:UK USA rights Europe GoodNews )
Drone flight over a volcano: (tags:drone video volcano amazing )
Major employers scrap plans to cut back on offices: (tags:work office pandemic )
Edinburgh Sick Kids: The unusable hospital that is finally open: (tags:Edinburgh children hospital )
Making honey without bees and milk without cows: (tags:bees cows technology milk vegan )
Abortion: Brandon Lewis to take powers over Stormont laws: (tags:NorthernIreland law abortion )
UK and EU vaccine impasse ramps up: (tags:UK Europe vaccine )
At last: Rational Villainy: (tags:evil comic rationality funny )
Ed Brubaker has "mixed feelings" about The Falcon And The Winter Soldier: (tags:comics copyright tv marvel )
Food Exports To The EU Saw A Huge Collapse In January, With Salmon Sales Falling By 98%: (tags:trade europe doom uk food )
Result from LHCb experiment challenges leading theory in physics: (tags:physics )
Douglas Adams' motivational note to himself should go on every writer's wall: (tags:douglasadams writing )
What would the UK need to do to be ready for the next pandemic?: (tags:pandemic thefuture )
As things stand, the chances of defeating Johnson at the next election are miniscule (unless the economy goes horribly wrong or the opposition parties work together): (tags:politics uk viaDanielDWilliam )

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Interesting Links for 20-03-2021

Right and left have succumbed to the outrage machine: (tags:society )
The Secret Villains of the original Frozen movie (I don't believe this, but I do believe the plot has very messy bits that don't quite work): (tags:evil movies Disney )
Care workers lose 'sleep-in shift' court challenge: (tags:UK law sleep work care )
Young female Japanese biker with 16,000 followers turns out to be a 50-year-old man using FaceApp: (tags:faces socialmedia fraud photoshop )
This is the most powerful of the videomancer grandmas: (tags:video editing impressive viaSwampers )
This is the best excuse for being late to the pub: (tags:submarine photos )
Designing the NHS vaccine booking system to be more inclusive about gender identity: (tags:gender NHS web )
Zaadii - the real life eco superhero who never got to be (a very touching story. CW: Child death): (tags:death cars children comics superheroes viaBartCalendar )
The EU's vaccine supply problems seem to be because they were too trusting: (tags:UK Europe USA vaccine trade )
Why do amphorae have pointed bases?: (tags:history craftwork materials )
Humans versus sealions: triathlon edition: (tags:animals humans sport race )
Boris Johnson government in scandalous breach of Ministerial Code: (tags:BorisJohnson regulation corruption politics UK conservatives )
This pretty much sums up how I think brains work: (tags:brains evolution comic )
Domestic violence: Turkey pulls out of Istanbul convention: (tags:Turkey violence women OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3938440.html

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Interesting Links for 05-10-2020

The technology needed to make a game as beautiful as "Ori And The Will of the Wisps" work on the Switch makes my brain ache: (tags:technology video games computers animation )
The order of operations in mathematics does not quite work the way you expect it to: (tags:mathematics language )
How universities tricked students into returning to campus: (tags:university UK pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Trump-linked consultant tied to FB pages warning election will cause civil war: (tags:OhForFucksSake civilwar USA )
The Rules for Displacing an Ailing Presidential Candidate: (tags:law voting politics USA viaDanielDWilliam )
'It's like church:' The movie theater still hosting audience-less showings of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show': (tags:movies pandemic viaTheFerrett )
Testosterone Alone Does Not Cause Violence - Scientific American: (tags:testosterone behaviour dominance psychology violence )
It's official: They have come for the Communists: (tags:fascism USA OhForFucksSake immigration )
Home Secretary Priti Patel declares herself against both lawyers and those who do good.: (tags:UK immigration evil OhForFucksSake conservatives )
UK Covid-19 data underreported due to file size limit exceeded: (tags:incompetence pandemic computers )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3830793.html

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Interesting Links for 13-10-2019

Eliud Kipchoge is the first human to run a marathon in less than two hours!: (tags:running )
How to Love Your Introvert: (tags:introversion love poetry video )
The end of uBlock Origin for Google Chrome?: (tags:adblock Google Chrome web )
Meet the Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement: (tags:money globalwarming fraud OhForFucksSake )
Old Man Yells At Cloud (Marvel edition): (tags:MartinScorsese movies art marvel )
Is crude oil is a genuine eldritch horror?: (tags:oil evil satire )
DUP's Nigel Dodds rejects double customs Brexit solution: "It cannot work": I'm not sure why the EU is even trying to negotiate something that the ERG and DUP will vote against...
(tags:europe uk NorthernIreland )
Some downsides to being in the EEA rather than the EU: (tags:europe Norway trade )
New, smaller, banks are all losing money: (tags:Banking fail )
How Italians Became 'White': (tags:racism USA history )
Some details on the Brexit withdrawal deal being put together. Can't see it getting past parliament, but we'll see!: (tags:UK Europe )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3719854.html

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Interesting Links for 01-09-2018

Mystery of the cargo ships that sink when their cargo suddenly liquefies: (tags: ocean shipping physics materials viaFanf )
The Howard Rule: A Modest Proposal for Libdem policy: (tags: libdem politics uk )
Well this is one of the least Jewish things I’ve ever read...: (tags: Jews OhForFucksSake middle_east )
American border police are defending them against...Dungeons & Dragons Artists: (tags: dungeonsanddragons immigration usa OhForFucksSake )
EAT CHEESE LIVE FOREVER EAT CHEESE NEVER DIE: (tags: cheese journalism funny satire research health )
The Irreverent Joys of a Japanese Sherlock Holmes: (tags: tv SherlockHolmes Japan viaSwampers )
How well does population density predict U.S. voting outcomes?: (tags: voting demographics statistics usa )
Maersk installed 100-foot-tall rotating sails on one of its tankers to cut fuel costs: (tags: ocean shipping wind )
The Dark Core of Personality - I scored 2: (tags: evil psychology testing )
You are mostly not stardust.: Nor, as autocorrect would insist, are you mostly starfish.
(tags: physics space )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3667611.html

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Interesting Links for 12-03-2018

Brazilian gang kidnap nurses to vaccinate poor locals: (tags: vaccination Brazil crime )
Watch Nature Reclaim These Abandoned Buildings: (tags: photos nature urban )
In Winston Churchill, Hollywood rewards a mass murderer: (tags: history torture murder UK empire India afghanistan OhForFucksSake )
JK Rowling passed on her ideals to a generation. Now they're upset she isn't living up to them.: (tags: jkrowling harrypotter )
'Super Monster Wolf' robot protects crops in Japan: (tags: headline robots farming japan )
Watching a film with mum on Mother’s Day? Don’t see these: (tags: movies mother )
Local News Anchors Now Have to Read Pro-Trump Propaganda: (tags: OhForFucksSake tv news usa )
The three mistakes of centrism: (tags: politics )
Democrats are looking for a polite, reasonable, explanation of Republican values which does not exist: (tags: politics usa republicans racism )
Awful Animals: (tags: animals aieeee! comic )
Please don't forget to peel your sheep: (tags: sheep funny )
Noted for next time someone claims women can't be evil: (tags: evil women )
Saturated fat does not clog the arteries: coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition: (tags: fat inflammation heart )
“A torture for the eyes”: Chinese moviegoers think Black Panther is too black: (tags: China movies marvel racism )
A friend is researching generational differences towards leadership. If you have five minutes, fill in their questionnaire: (tags: leadership research )
Fantasy races as dogs: (tags: dogs fantasy roleplaying )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3659841.html

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Interesting Links for 13-02-2018

I’m Just a Misunderstood Marbled Crayfish (Overlord) Who is Certainly Not Planning World Domination: (tags: funny animals viaSwampers cloning dna evil )
No shared leave for shared leave minister: (tags: paternity parenting uk parliament OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
Marmite maker Unilever threatens to pull ads from Facebook and Google: (tags: facebook google advertising )
Where Old, Unreadable Documents Go to Be Understood: (tags: history writing )
German workers win right to 28-hour week following industrial action: (tags: work germany working_hours )
Brain scans show why people get aggressive after a drink or two: (tags: alcohol aggression brain behaviour psychology )
Do the Freemasons’ claims stack up?: (tags: charity law discrimination secrecy uk )
The diabolical genius of the baby advice industry: (tags: babies advice marketing OhForFucksSake )
The terrifying robot dogs can open doors now: (tags: video robots terrifying )
Just a Joke: Where Alt-Right Guys Get Their Start: (tags: school fascism society bullying OhForFucksSake comic )
Firms on Caribbean island chain own 23,000 UK properties: (tags: tax property uk )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3657726.html

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Interesting Links for 05-02-2018

Uma Thurman Almost Died While Filming Kill Bill: (tags: movies QuentinTarantino OhForFucksSake safety )
Wales is leading the way on democratic reform. The Prime Minister should take note: (tags: voting UK Wales England scotland )
Venice without water: (tags: Italy water transport )
Things that were more likely to kill you in 1970s Britain than today: (tags: uk death GoodNews )
When Jacob Rees Mogg says that Brexit will reduce the cost of food, wine and clothes “by 20 per cent”, whose model, and assumptions, is he relying on?: (tags: economics uk europe OhForFucksSake )
A ten-second video which sums up how much of a dick cats are: (tags: cats evil video )
Almost-Classics: SF Concepts and Settings That Deserve Better Execution: (tags: writing scifi )
How Superman is finally defeated: (tags: comics funny comic superheroes )
The Economists for Brexit predictions are inconsistent with the basic facts of international trade: (tags: economics trade europe uk fraud viaPatrickHadfield )
Ann Widdecombe isn’t a harmless comedy old lady – she’s a homophobe: (tags: abortion lgbt Conservatives )
Some amusing examples of people improvising when they didn't know the language: (tags: language funny )
A brief note on the genitals on transgender people: (tags: transgender genitals lgbt )
In praise of open borders: (tags: immigration usa )
You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entangled time: (tags: quantum time )
People Aren’t Having Babies Because the Rent Is Too Damn High: (tags: money housing children society cities )
Actual Nazi Will Be GOP Nominee In Illinois Congressional Race: (tags: nazis republicans holocaust OhForFucksSake politics usa )
The Icefish Has Clear Blood (because it's so damn cold oxygen dissolves into plasma): (tags: fish blood oxygen cold )
Solo: A Star Wars Story (first teaser): (tags: trailer StarWars )
DPD courier who was fined for day off to see doctor dies from diabetes: (tags: business death health OhForFucksSake delivery )
Modern CSS Explained For Dinosaurs: (tags: css )
Baby boomers to get far more welfare support than Generation X and Millennials: (tags: welfare OhForFucksSake uk )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3616166.html

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Interesting Links for 14-09-2017

Why Are The Lib Dem Leadership So Keen on Brexit?: (tags: libdem europe OhForFucksSake )
Let’s Debate Female Viking Warriors Yet Again: (tags: Viking history archaeology women )
23andMe Is Digging Through Your Data for a Parkinson's Cure: (tags: disease genetics )
Atheists are nicer to Christians compared to the other way around if their religious identity is known: (tags: religion atheism )
Jewish opposition to Israeli policies: (tags: israel Jews )
Tipping Point Leadership: (tags: leadership viaSwampers )
What's going on with all the directors on the Star Wars films?: (tags: StarWars movies )
Mother! - Movie Review (Oh very dear) (spoilers): (tags: review movies )
6 Reasons Good People Turn Into Monsters: (tags: morality groups psychology evil )
I clearly _really_ need to watch Robocop again: (tags: movies robots police awesome )
This timeline of the various versions of the Church of Scotland is impressive: (tags: Scotland religion visualisation )
When Roald Dahl's Editor Decided He Was Too Much of a Prick To Publish: (tags: writing publishing viaFJM )
Government spends four times more subsidising private housing than building affordable homes: (tags: housing uk OhForFucksSake )
Game of Thrones to shoot multiple endings of final season to stop story leaks: (tags: gameofthrones )
Autistic boys and girls found to have hypermasculinised faces: (tags: faces testosterone autism )
Autonomous Robots Plant, Tend, and Harvest Entire Crop of Barley: (tags: farming robots automation )
Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security: (tags: security faces )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3611363.html

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Interesting Links for 27-08-2017

This is the relationship I have with my to-read list: (tags: internet life )
A good piece on Joss Whedon: (tags: JossWhedon marriage buffy tv writing women viaJennieRigg )
Here Is What Happens When You Run Away From All Of Your Problems: (tags: life advice )
You can only use the Wi-Fi at St Pancras station if you give them control of your Twitter account: (tags: Twitter wifi OhForFucksSake )
Hope Lies In Rebellion — Some Analysis Of “The Music of Rogue One”: (tags: music StarWars viaFanf )
Can we know what animals are thinking?: (tags: animals thought mind )
A short history of tool use: (tags: tools technology )
NASA sent one identical twin brother to space for a year and studied how it changed him: (tags: NASA space genetics twins )
Maybe We All Need a Little Less Balance: (tags: life advice )
Explaining just how evil Joe Arpaio is: (tags: evil usa police )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3602537.html

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Interesting Links for 28-07-2017

Perfectionism as a risk factor for suicide: (tags: perfectionism suicide psychology )
The Twitter Joke Trial, as remembered by one of the lawyers: (tags: law freespeech twitter uk )
Why IBM has special permission to use software for evil: (tags: evil ibm software funny video )
European commission to crack down on offshore tax avoidance: (tags: tax europe )
How to Make a Clichéd High Fantasy Cover: (tags: fantasy funny art viaJamesNicoll )
The theocratic democracies of Iran and the UK: (tags: religion politics uk iran )
On The 50th Anniversary Of The Sexual Offences Act 1967, Look How Far We've Come: (tags: lgbt history )
Capitol Police Forced Journos to Delete Footage of AHCA Protesters.: (tags: police freespeech journalism usa )
Genetic evidence suggests the Canaanites weren’t destroyed after all: (tags: history middle_east )
Scotland receive £4,000 fine from Fifa for booing God Save the Queen: (tags: Scotland UK politics royalty )
Please Don't Say Just Hello In Chat: (tags: advice chat im viaSwampers )
Religious people believe because emotional resonance overrides logic: Which doesn't surprise me. Most people at least start off believing things because they lead to a conclusion that they like. Starting at axioms and working your way forward to whatever they lead to is distinctly uncomfortable at times
(tags: belief logic religion psychology )
'Eureka' moment pinpointed in the brain: (tags: brain learning psychology )
Regret improves children's decision-making: I've had a few. And sometimes they've helped me avoid doing the stupid thing again.
(tags: psychology learning behaviour )
Ketamine for depression encouraging, but questions remain around long-term use: (tags: depression psychology )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3581858.html

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Interesting Links for 26-05-2017

Police cuts mean forces can't handle terror threat without Army help, Police Federation says: (tags: uk police Conservatives )
An Epic Landslide in California, Before and After: (tags: california earth photo roads )
Star Wars: The glass-half-full gift of the only official unaltered original trilogy DVDs: (tags: StarWars )
Ancestry.com denies exploiting users' DNA (they can totally exploit mine if it helps cure anyone of anything): (tags: genetics data )
Mindfulness-focused childbirth education leads to less depression: (tags: mindfulness depression childbirth mother )
Netflix and Amazon streaming service rivals put BBC 'download and keep' service out of business: I have never "bought" a tv show on digital. Really can't imagine ever doing so. Happy to "rent", and subscribe for streaming though.
(tags: tv bbc vod streaming viaSwampers )
The Handmaid's Tale, Dystopia & Life Imitating Art: (tags: women scifi tv dystopia )
I was not aware quite how large crocodiles got: (tags: crocodile video )
Brain images reveal roots of kids' increasing cognitive control: (tags: psychology neuroscience children brain )
When Will Machines Exceed Human Performance? Survey of AI Researchers.: (tags: ai thefuture )
Fathers' brains respond differently to daughters than sons: (tags: parenting fatherhood psychology )
It Is Really Important to Humanize Evil: (tags: evil society psychology slavery humanity )
A collection of terrible terrible book jokes: (tags: books jokes funny )
Americans discover that you can put butter on bread _with other things_. Not satire. I think.: (tags: food usa wtf )
IFS criticises Labour and Tory plans - Neither major party is being "really honest" with voters: (tags: labour Conservatives economics tax welfare uk OhForFucksSake )
Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (an essay from 1922): (tags: advice business )
Whales are the largest animals on Earth. Now we know why they got so big: (tags: animals ocean prehistory evolution climatechange )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3558967.html

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Interesting Links for 11-03-2017

NASA finds lunar spacecraft that vanished 8 years ago: (tags: NASA space india )
Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days is the time-mangling, single-player cooperative tactical shooter you didn't know you needed: (tags: games review time movies )
How an online fight about dogs became one of 2016’s greatest memes: (tags: meme twitter dogs viaSwampers )
Scotland is the only part of the UK which exports more than it imports: (tags: scotland trade uk )
The Fight to Legalize a Machine That Melts Flesh From Bone: (tags: death bodies chemistry )
Singapore regulator reports successful inter-bank payments using blockchain: (tags: banking Technology )
CRISPR used to genetically modify viable human embryos for the first time: (tags: genetics )
Swindon ‘just like Harry Potter’, say American tourists: (tags: harrypotter funny satire )
Which browser uses the least memory?: (tags: browser memory )
Inside the cruellest RollerCoaster Tycoon park ever created: (tags: games evil )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3555178.html

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Interesting Links for 24-02-2017

Government meddling has led to sky-high electricity prices: (tags: uk electricity fail )
On the Matter of Empathy For Horrible People: (tags: empathy evil bigotry )
2000AD at Forty: (tags: 2000AD comics history )
Giraffe birth live webcam back on after complaints it was sexually explicit: (tags: animals birth video OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3554355.html

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Interesting Links for 21-02-2017

The Programming Interview from Hell (So glad I haven't had to interview for 12 years): (tags: interview jobs work )
Oppenheimer and the atom bomb: The story behind 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds': (tags: quotes nuclearweapons history india religion )
Build an Amazing (Free) Markdown Editor Using Visual Studio Code and Pandoc: (tags: text writing )
"I Discuss Things With My Husband, But I Don't Ask For Permission": (tags: relationships )
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?: (tags: men leadership fail women management )
This video helped me understand what fractional dimensions are (and thus, fractals): (tags: fractals mathematics video viaSwampers )
Fuckers: A scientific inquiry: (tags: science evil comics satire )
Mismatch between the way our senses evolved and modern world is making us ill: #modernlifeisrubbish
(tags: life Technology world )
4chan: How a group who define themselves by their powerlessness are the skeleton key to the rise of Trump: (tags: viaCahwyguy politics economics society power men patriarchy )
Daily Mail exactly the same in parallel universe where Nazis won: (tags: DailyMail satire scifi )
The power and danger of women who take up space.: (tags: women fat society )
All you need to know how to influence the EU in one easy chart: (tags: europe politics viaFanf )
Pssst, wanna see some sleeping puppies?: (tags: dogs cute )
Fresh Guacamole - an Oscar-nominated (very) short film: (tags: video food funny )
Single women hide their ambtion if others can see them.: (tags: feminism women jobs society )
"I’m a commis in a Chinese restaurant kitchen, this is what I do": (tags: food china cooking )
Some people wanted to know what my most-used tags are...: (tags: links categorisaton )
The Moon: A propaganda hoax!: (tags: moon conspiracy satire funny )
A lovely Calvin and Hobbes sketch - in 3D: (tags: 3d comics art )
An actual Calvin & Hobbes comic recreated in 3D: (tags: comic 3d )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3416442.html

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Interesting Links for 27-02-2016

People feel less responsible for their actions when they're taking orders: (tags: psychology evil organisation )
FactCheck Q&A: will Brexit lead to independence for Scotland?: (tags: independence scotland euro uk europe )
Star Trek: CBS reboot sees return of veteran writer Nicholas Meyer: (tags: StarTrek )
Apple vs the FBI: What's at the root of things?: (tags: security apple encryption )