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Interesting Links for 28-11-2019
Nov. 28th, 2019 03:40 pm- SNP manifesto 2019: Key policies explained
- (tags:snp politics Scotland uk )
- Edinburgh office staff given self-service alcohol area
- (tags:edinburgh alcohol work )
- Secret NHS trade documents revealed by Jeremy Corbyn were available on Reddit for weeks without people noticing
- (tags:leaks reddit politics uk )
- Go master quits because AI 'cannot be defeated'
- (tags:games ai )
- FactCheck: Labour's NHS leak story explained
- (tags:trade NHS USA UK )
- Ketogenic diet helps tame flu virus (in mice)
- (tags:carbohydrates flu immune_system inflammation )
- Anti-inflammatories are an effective treatment of major depressive disorder
- (tags:inflammation depression research )
- Link between inflammation and mental sluggishness shown in new study
- (tags:inflammation thinking )
- The tide is turning in the drug war
- (tags:drugs politics )
- What Causes The Most Death? (Nice visualisation)
- (tags:death visualisation viaCipherGoth )
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Interesting Links for 14-08-2019
Aug. 14th, 2019 12:04 pm- How white boys are being recruited by the alt right
- (tags:propaganda fascism boys internet )
- Russian nuclear-powered cruise missile blows up, creating "mini-Chernobyl"
- (tags:nuclearweapons russia OhForFucksSake )
- There are multiple methods remaining to avoid a No Deal Brexit
- (tags:uk europe doom politics )
- This person's drone battery running out is the epic blockbuster movie of the year.
- (tags:drone batteries video viaSwampers )
- Solar-plus-storage is undermining the economics of existing coal-fired generation
- (tags:solarpower batteries coal renewables GoodNews )
- The women who were too cool to get laid
- (tags:sex women men OhForFucksSake viaTheFerrett )
- Danish bank launches world's first negative interest rate mortgage
- (tags:Denmark mortgages wtf economics )
- Epstein's Death Was On 4Chan Before Officials Announced It — And Authorities Had To Look Into It
- (tags:4chan suicide leaks prison )
- FactCheck: No evidence for government's plastic straw claims
- (tags:plastic UK myths environment )
- Making Peppa Pig terrifying with the power of makeup
- (tags:makeup pigs children TV video terrifying )
- Reminder that The Last Jedi is a well-received, commercially-successful, critically-acclaimed Star Wars movie and that a small collection of extremely vocal accounts solely devoted to telling you otherwise doesn't change that fact.
- (tags:StarWars )
- First ads banned for contravening UK gender stereotyping rules
- (tags:gender stereotypes uk advertising censorship )
- Investment managers don't understand how to rate funds managed by black people
- (tags:race racism investment usa )
- Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, UK police and defence firms (Plain-text passwords, and full fingerprints all leaked)
- (tags:biometrics security epicfail )
- Psytrance Guide (I am always fascinated at how many subgenres people can identify within a given field of music, or indeed any art, sport, craft, or other field of endeavour)
- (tags:music guide )
- Kevinism
- (tags:names germany class )
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Interesting Links for 06-12-2016
Dec. 6th, 2016 12:00 pm- Please stop saying people don’t vote against their economic interests. They do it quite deliberately, all the time.
- (tags: politics economics )
- Government memo demanding end to Brexit leaks is leaked
- (tags: uk europe government leaks funny )
- Ex-marine smashes record by running and climbing 24 Munros in under 24 hours
- (tags: mountains scotland )
- After seven years, The Last Guardian frustrates as much as it delights
- (tags: games )
- How I Wrote "Arrival" (and What I Learned Doing It)
- (tags: movies writing scifi )
- Caesarean births affecting human evolution
- (tags: caesarians evolution )
- The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
- (tags: computers skills )
- Momentum is tearing itself apart
- (tags: politics uk labour )
Interesting Links for 09-08-2015
Aug. 9th, 2015 12:00 pm- Amnesty should support decriminalisation of sex work
- Sex work battle: Hollywood actresses v Amnesty International
- Australian Whistleblower Leaks Spy Documents to 4chan, 4chan Ignores Them, Calls Them "Gay"
- Anti-Piracy Group Hits Indie Creators For Using the Word 'Pixels'
- Charles Darwin's genius revealed again as study shows his insight into sexual behaviour of the primrose was correct
- What really happened to the dwarves of Auschwitz?
- Time May Change Me (An animated David Bowie morphs through every phase of his careeer)
- 2015 is the year the old internet finally died
- Contrarians, Crackpots, and Consensus
- How bee hives work (and why Britain doesn't have any wild ones)
- The Power of Kawaii: Viewing Cute Images Promotes a Careful Behavior and Narrows Attentional Focus
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- prostitution,
- psychology,
- science,
- sexwork,
- sharing,
- society,
- spying,
- viafrancescaelston,
- vianwhyte,
- web,
- wwii
Interesting Links for 23-05-2015
May. 23rd, 2015 12:00 pm- Leaked AdultFriendFinder database tells the world if you were having an affair
- UK sells off unused net addresses
- What do AI researchers think about AI risk?
- New deep learning technique enables robot mastery of skills via trial and error
- The skyscrapers of the future will be made of wood
- SNP takes control of two Westminster committees
- Alistair Carmichael admits Nicola Sturgeon memo leak
- EU dropped pesticide laws due to US pressure over TTIP, documents reveal
- Fine particulate air pollution linked to risk of childhood autism
- The UK Government will double your donation to Womankind until 5th June
- Florida Agency Classifies Uber Driver As Employee, Says He Is Eligible For Unemployment
- Scotland Office memorandum leak: Cabinet Office inquiry statement
- How to catch a kangaroo in 32 seconds
- On A Plate: How inequality persists
- Did the Japanese have any idea as to what language the Navajo code talkers were speaking in?
- Imperial: Revisiting X-Wing And TIE Fighter
- How Britain voted in 2015 (broken down by age, class, gender, housing type, etc.)
- Tracing the dynamic life story of a Bronze Age Female
- Is Carmichael vulnerable to an election petition?
- Amazon to begin paying corporation tax on UK retail sales
- 5 helpful answers to societys most uncomfortable questions
- "You didn't ask to be born half-way up a mountain, but you were, and I need you to look down and realize that mountain is really a pile of bones."
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- uk,
- unemployment,
- usa,
- viamorag,
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- voting,
- war,
- wildlife,
- women,
- wood,
- work,
- wwii
Interesting Links for 04-04-2015
Apr. 6th, 2015 07:00 pm- Watching CSS being written and animated is amazing
- 7 Myths And Facts About Breastfeeding
- I bet this happens in Westeros _all the time_
- How to Criticize with Kindness: The Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently
- What I Want to Know Is Why You Hate Porn Stars
- Occasionally I forget that the current government are, essentially, murdering people
- Warwick Uni to outsource hourly paid academics to subsidiary
- What _is_ going on with the "leak" about Nicola Sturgeon?
Tags:
- academia,
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- breastfeeding,
- business,
- conservatives,
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- heart,
- impressive,
- labour,
- leaks,
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- myths,
- politics,
- porn,
- programming,
- scotland,
- sex,
- snp,
- society,
- uk,
- viatheferrett,
- welfare,
- work
Interesting Links for 21-04-2012
Apr. 21st, 2012 12:00 pm- Phone GPUs to overtake consoles by 2014. Phone + HDMI + Bluetooth controllers = console replacement?
- Has the ereader reached its zenith? Or is it DRM that's preventing creativity?
- IBM creates high-density, light-weight, lithium-air battery - 500 miles on one charge (in 10 years)
- GlobaLeaks - The Open Source Whistleblowing Framework
- Nobody knows what "randomness" is.
- A good review of The Cabin in the Woods, which does a nice job of pointing out its flaws (while appreciating it)
- Adam West weighs in on Christopher Nolan's final Batman chapter. Turns out he's both smart and right!
- Cameron and the civil service coup
- Context-Free Patent Art - lots of video-game patents that had me wondering what the submitters were on...
- Appropriation as art. (Sometimes it's refreshing to step into a world I know nothing about, and be boggled)
- People Who Don’t Know How to Spell “Cologne”
- THE KITTEN APPROACHETH!
- Why is the "missionary position" called that?
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- privacy,
- random,
- reviews,
- salinger,
- sex,
- technology,
- transparentsociety,
- twitter,
- uk,
- video,
- wikileaks,
- writing
