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Interesting Links for 16-02-2015
Feb. 16th, 2015 12:07 pm- Inquiry into child sexual abuse by establishment figures could look at crimes as far back as 1945
- Now, I can see wifi signals
- Iain Banks asked Ken MacLeod to write the next Culture novel. Thankfully, he won't be. (Though I like Ken's work.)
- Goals are for Losers. Passion is Overrated.
- 100+ sites to legally download books
- Labour's shadow chancellor: always get a receipt for getting your hedge cut
- Idaho woman arrested for trying to convert Jewish acquaintance to Jesus by beating her
- Please do be aware that the "Vote for Policies" and "Political Compass" tests are not free from bias
- When a Bunch of People, Including Raymond, Got Superpowers
- Transgender: Evidence on the biological nature of gender identity
- The first reports are in of Fifty Shades of Grey causing people to behave criminally
Tags:
- alcohol,
- bias,
- books,
- brain,
- child_abuse,
- christianity,
- dilbert,
- fiftyshadesofgrey,
- free,
- gender,
- glasgow,
- goals,
- iainbanks,
- jews,
- labour,
- lgbt,
- links,
- ohforfuckssake,
- passion,
- politics,
- quiz,
- religion,
- short_story,
- success,
- superheroes,
- systems,
- tax,
- theculture,
- uk,
- usa,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- violence,
- visualisation,
- wifi,
- women
Interesting Links for 19-06-2014
Jun. 19th, 2014 12:00 pm- U.S. patent office cancels trademark for Redskins football team.
- 'Game of Thrones' showrunners talk season 5
- The Palestinian Christian family refusing to give up its Bethlehem hill farm for 98 years
- Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In All UK Public Schools
- 10 Scientific Ideas That Scientists Wish You Would Stop Misusing
- Rough day at work? Call of Duty can help you recover
- British university makes antibiotic resistance breakthrough
- The 'Trophy wife' stereotype is largely a myth
- You Can Finally Get Alan Moore's Miracleman, a Comic That Changed Everything, Then Vanished
- The Princess Bride: how does Thibault cancel out Capoferro?
- Measuring sex differences in personality finds an overlap of less than 30% (and possibly 10%)
- Kids whose time is less structured are better able to meet their own goals
- Manchester Schools teaching that abortion is wrong, evolution is a lie, and wives should submit to their husbands
Tags:
- abortion,
- alanmoore,
- antibiotics,
- bacteria,
- children,
- christianity,
- comics,
- creationism,
- education,
- evolution,
- football,
- gameofthrones,
- games,
- gender,
- goals,
- israel,
- links,
- manchester,
- marriage,
- movies,
- palestine,
- patent,
- personality,
- racism,
- science,
- stereotypes,
- stress,
- swords,
- uk,
- usa,
- women,
- work
Interesting Links for 09-01-2013
Jan. 9th, 2013 11:00 am- Which is more efficient, slow cooker, oven, or stove?
- Prince Charles is now very worried about which supernatural being the inheritor of the throne believes in.
- Stick to Your Goals This Year by Using Identity-Based Habits (I've found this is pretty much the only way that works for me)
- A toy company submitted a tender to run a train line. And got an absolutely delightful response
- Hot Chocolate Better in Orange Cups
- How to design the perfect welfare system
- Fairness and the welfare bill
- 'Don't Be That Guy' ad campaign cuts Vancouver sex assaults by 10 per cent in 2011
- 2012 was warmest year ever recorded in USA
- Six of Australia's hottest twenty days have been in 2013.
- What would the greatest technological leap you'd have to explain to someone who time traveled from the 1950's?
Tags:
- advertising,
- australia,
- behaviour,
- chocolate,
- cooking,
- crime,
- efficiency,
- electricity,
- energy,
- food,
- funny,
- gas,
- globalwarming,
- goals,
- identity,
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- monarchy,
- psychology,
- rape,
- religion,
- sex,
- taste,
- technology,
- toys,
- trains,
- uk,
- usa,
- viafrancescaelston,
- vianw,
- vianwhyte,
- weather,
- welfare
