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This is the first house to be 3D printed from raw earth
(tags:3dprinting housing architecture Technology )
Autistic teens face 'barbaric' treatment, parents tell MPs
(tags:autism children UK OhForFucksSake )
Poor people spend much longer waiting for things than rich people
(tags:organisation society inequality bureaucracy )
What's Boris Johnson really like?
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Teenage girls playing football face twice concussion risk of boys
(tags:injury girls football )
Early alphabetic writing in the ancient Near East: the 'missing link'
(tags:language writing prehistory )
Tory donor who paid for PM's Downing Street refurb won lucrative public contracts worth up to £120m
(tags:conservatives money BorisJohnson )
If someone tells you your room is a pig sty they're giving you a compliment
(tags:pigs video cleanliness )
The 7th time this ranger was struck by lightning was also the 22nd time he fought off a bear with a stick
(tags:lightning bears luck )
The Josh Battle Royale! (Many Joshes enter - one Josh leaves!)
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"I thought I knew about feminism - then I started work in a women's prison"
(tags:prison women feminism )
Brexit extension unavoidable if MPs reject deal, says Merkel
(tags:UK europe )
Johnson's deal: The reality of what is being proposed
(tags:UK Europe trade )
UK Chick-fil-A outlet to close in LGBT rights row (after 8 days!)
(tags:homophobia LGBT chicken uk )
ME Services in the UK Not Fit for Purpose
(tags:healthcare uk fail )
The time signature of the Terminator score is a mystery for the ages.
(tags:music terminator )
Explaining how fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode
(tags:networking games fighting prediction time )
FactCheck: even if Johnson's deal passes, there's another no-deal threat ahead
(tags:UK Europe Doom )
Brexit: The uncomfortable truth about Boris Johnson's deal
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The 4,800 Year Old Artificial Eye
(tags:eyes archeology iran )
Alphabet's Wing begins making commercial drone deliveries in the US
(tags:drone shopping USA delivery )
US Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system
(tags:military technology USA )
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Simon Pegg & Nick Frost To Adapt 'Rivers of London'
(tags:tv books fantasy )
Court Case Conclusively Proves a Hash Brown is Not a Phone
I mean, not really, but it's a great headline
(tags:phones driving law )
Norway finds 'Russian spy whale' off Arctic Coast
(tags:russia spying whales )
Release of '13 Reasons Why' associated with 30% increase in youth suicide rates
(tags:suicide tv )
Arya Stark is left handed. Maisie Williams is not. She's just more badass than you thought. She made the choice to play Arya left handed when she was 12 and stuck with it for a decade
(tags:gameofthrones fighting acting impressive )
Blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome could speed diagnosis
(tags:ChronicFatigueSyndrome blood )
Corbynista left splits over Brexit referendum
(tags:UK europe labour politics )
Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me would be better if he'd read any of the Science Fiction he looks down on
(tags:scifi writing review )
Interesting piece about the latest Game Of Thrones episode
(tags:gameofthrones viaSwampers )
Gamers Blame Socialism for Making Women in Mortal Kombat 'Ugly'
(tags:beauty women games design OhForFucksSake )
Labour's process for dealing with racism accusations is shockingly awful
(tags:labour racism OhForFucksSake )
How do people see the different parties in terms of Brexit?
(tags:UK europe polls )
Why is Game of Thrones so dark? We asked the cinematographer
(tags:film tv gameofthrones )
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Sucralose could intensify symptoms in those with Crohn's disease: Promotes 'bad' bacteria and intestinal inflammation; findings may guide dietary habits in human patients -- ScienceDaily
(tags: microbiome health food )
UK planning to basically not bother manning its borders, hope EU does likewise
(tags: borders UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
If other professions interviewed like some of the worst parts of the tech industry
(tags: interviews satire Technology )
How about if before people can comment they have to prove they've read the article
(tags: community discussion Technology )
This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up
(tags: environment photos usa history )
MP's bid to ban unpaid trial shifts fails
(tags: money work UK OhForFucksSake )
Stephen Hawking escapes the physical universe
(tags: obituary StephenHawking physics )
China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains
(tags: transport behaviour China OhForFucksSake )
Infants can't talk, but they know how to reason
(tags: babies Intelligence )
Yes, but how _do_ you kill a tyrannosaur with a sword?
(tags: dinosaurs fighting )
Margaret Atwood says Handmaid's Tale TV show profits went to MGM, not her
(tags: money books scifi )
Romanian court tells man he is not alive
(tags: bureaucracy law life death )
Eleanor Rigby as JRPG Battle Theme
(tags: music beatles games )
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15,000 jobs at risk as Brexit exposes U.K. to worldwide raid on Airbus wing production
(tags: airplanes manufacturing UK europe )
Forth Road Bridge to reopen to public transport
(tags: transport edinburgh scotland )
EU rejects Brexit plan for banks by Britain's financial industry
(tags: finance UK europe )
How to fight in a dress
(tags: fighting clothes women )
Pro-Leave MPs are happy to gamble on Brexit, because they know someone else will pay for it
(tags: UK Europe OhForFucksSake Conservatives )
Children receive new ears grown from their own cells in world first
(tags: ears technology thefuture )
'Holy grail' blood test for early Alzheimer’s indicators could help patients begin treatment before they show symptoms
(tags: alzheimers GoodNews )
Subnautica is gaming's ultimate safe place
(tags: games exploration )
3D-printed fabric armour
(tags: armour material 3dprinting )
"You don't look autistic"
People tell me I'm always calm when there's an emergency.
(tags: autism behaviour )
Cook book covers are all about men helping women to chop cucumbers
(tags: cooking food books society marketing advertising viaBartCalendar )
Placebo effect doesn't seem to exist outside of pain relief
(tags: placebo )
Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice
(tags: cancer mice GoodNews )
Super Mario film announced by Nintendo, will hopefully be less shit than the last one
(tags: Mario nintendo movies )
Measuring QUIC vs TCP on mobile and desktop
(tags: networking tcp internet google )
West Ham suspend Tony Henry over claims of club policy against signing Africans
(tags: racism football )
Theresa May lacks power to force hard Brexit through parliament, warns George Osborne
(tags: uk europe politics Conservatives )
Where Dutch directness comes from
(tags: netherlands behaviour history religion society )
MIT launches its Intelligence Quest
(tags: Intelligence ai Technology research )
In praise of the headphone jack
(tags: Technology audio )
Apparently this was the first thing I bought on Amazon (October 1999)
(tags: Amazon history )
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Humanists' legal challenge to school religious observance in Scotland
(tags: scotland religion school )
The 50-Year Mission reveals the egomania and idealism that built Star Trek
(tags: StarTrek history )
What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?
(tags: mathematics viaFanf )
How to make the single market more inclusive after Brexit
(tags: viaFanf welfare economics europe )
Inside The Violent, Geeky World Of Hardcore International Medieval Combat
(tags: fighting history swords )
Chemistry says Moon is proto-Earth’s mantle, relocated
(tags: moon prehistory space )
How The World’s Most Beautiful Typeface Was Nearly Lost Forever
(tags: font history )
How not to convert the measurements in your science-fiction novel
(tags: funny scifi writing )
A map of underground sex-slave bars in the U.S.
(tags: usa slavery rape map )
A timeline of Earth's average temperature since the last ice age
(tags: globalwarming climatechange prehistory history comic xkcd )
Sugar industry bought off scientists, skewed dietary guidelines for decades
(tags: sugar diet health fraud bribes usa )
All songbirds originated in Australia
(tags: australia birds music )
MPs call for medical cannabis to be made legal
(tags: marijuana law uk )
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