Entries tagged with noise

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Interesting Links for 09-05-2024

1. Labour welcomes Tory MP who attempted to interfere with the judge in her husband's sexual assault case: (tags:Labour OhForFucksSake politics UK )
2. SNP appoint forced-birth anti-LGBT politician funded by the religious-right to deputy first minister: (tags:lgbt abortion snp OhForFucksSake )
3. New Strategy Could Lead to Universal, Long-Lasting Flu Shot: (tags:disease vaccine research )
4. The Problems with the 'Live Action' Disney Remakes: (tags:Disney movies OhForFucksSake )
5. Keir Starmer refuses to comment on Natalie Elphicke's remarks about ex-husband's victims: (tags:Labour women OhForFucksSake )
6. The Billion Dollar War for "Bluey" (the most successful TV show that most people have never seen): (tags:TV Disney children video viaSwampers )
7. I hadn't realised that the Eurovision backlash over Israel/Palestine was getting pubs to pull their showings: (tags:eurovision Gaza Israel genocide )
8. Major cities and towns in North America replaced by major cities across the Atlantic by latitude.: (tags:maps Europe USA )
9. A desire for a loud car with a modified muffler is predicted by being a man and higher scores on psychopathy and sadism: (tags:psychology cars noise )
10. Biden warns Israel US will halt weapons supplies if it invades Rafah: (tags:USA Israel Palestine )
11. Five babies have died with whooping cough in England this year as cases soar.: (tags:disease children )

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Interesting Links for 31-01-2022

When you're trying not to make any noise in the middle of the night: (tags:rickroll noise night video )
No, Ivermectin Is Not Making People Poop Out "Rope Worms". The Truth Is Much Worse: (tags:idiocy Pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Bigots Launch Attacks on the Women's Sector in Pursuit of a Trans-Free World: (tags:transgender women rights OhForFucksSake bigotry )
Spotify: Streaming giant announces plans to clamp down on Covid misinformation: (tags:lies Pandemic streaming )
Plant-based diets + rewilding provides massive opportunity to cut CO2: (tags:food globalwarming )
Huxley vs. Orwell - who was right?: (tags:AldousHuxley GeorgeOrwell society )
A Billion Years of Time Are Mysteriously Missing. Scientists Think They Know Why. (Glaciers): (tags:ice geology time )
University Study Finds Reducing Inequality Can Reverse Political Polarisation: (tags:inequality politics )
How the popularity of different movie genres has changed over time: (tags:movies visualisation time )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3949313.html

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Interesting Links for 29-10-2020

Covid in Scotland: 78 patients sent to care homes after testing positive: (tags:Scotland pandemic OhForFucksSake )
What SOFIA's discovery of water on the Moon is, and isn't: (tags:water moon )
What's going on with the sentencing of the police officer who murdered his lover: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1321425591531425792.html
(tags:murder police law UK )
Sexual Eeling (or how people spent 2000 years thinking new Eels spontaneously generate: (tags:fish reproduction history sex )
The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why: (tags:earth noise weird )
If you want people to work together on a shared solution take away the option to have their own private one. (this is why I'm against private schools): (tags:psychology inequality society )
Exposed: Special procurement channels for 'VIPs' and Cabinet contacts - offering up to 45% profit: (tags:UK corruption pandemic OhForFucksSake )
This hot tub brings all the birds to the yard: (tags:birds video winter )
Reminder that you don't actually own videos you "buy" from Amazon (or most other providers): (tags:videos intellectual_property amazon )
Zardoz child is the best Halloween costume: (tags:halloween children funny )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3813579.html

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Interesting Links for 14-11-2018

Karen Gillan returns home with new film about suicide: (tags: suicide movies KarenGillan )
Angela Merkel calls for creation of EU army: (tags: europe military )
Russian space leader suggests engineers test spacecraft Stalin’s way: (tags: Russia space testing )
Brits will need visas for trips to EU of more than three months after no-deal Brexit: (tags: UK europe )
EU court rules that food taste is not protected by copyright: HOW WAS THIS EVEN A QUESTION???
(tags: food taste copyright )
Ex-Detainee Describes Torture In China's Xinjiang Re-Education Camp: (tags: CHINA torture OhForFucksSake islam )
Today's YouGov daily survey results provide a clue as to why there seems to be so little joy in the hearts of UKIP supporters: (tags: ukip lego polls )
Amazon is buying its way into the shipping business: (tags: shipping amazon )
Hedge funds wager £3bn on the pound plunging this year amid no deal Brexit fears: (tags: UK europe finance )
Madeleine McCann investigation receives more funding: (tags: children money police )
Autism & Mental Health: taking it personally: (tags: autism mentalhealth NHS counselling diagnosis society )
Infinite procedurally-generated city with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm: (tags: algorithms design city games video )
Formerly deaf people talk about noises which weren't what they expected: (tags: noise deafness ViaDrCross )
EU says it ‘will retain all control’ under Theresa May’s agreement: (tags: uk europe doom )
Sometimes it's better to stop thinking: (tags: thinking )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3720291.html

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Interesting Links for 03-09-2018

The UK's Brexit trade proposals are not even slightly acceptable to the EU: (tags: uk europe trade doom )
Vredefort Crater, the world’s oldest and largest known impact structure: (tags: meteor asteroids earth geology )
On American presidents and nuance: (tags: usa politics president )
Why federated social media will struggle with moderation, by someone with a huge amount of experience dealing with abuse and harassment online: (tags: dreamwidth livejournal abuse socialmedia )
Quiet Carriages are an Autistic lifeline. Please don’t take them away.: (tags: transport autism noise trains mentalhealth )
Frank Baum's uncomfortable relationship with Oz: (tags: Oz writing )
Brexit will lead to majorities for Irish unification and Scottish independence: (tags: Ireland NorthernIreland Scotland uk europe independence )
masochistic epistemology - When you believe that "what hurts, is true." things can only get worse: (tags: philosophy mentalhealth life emotion )
Brexit: Things are about to get exceedingly intense: (tags: uk Europe doom )
Hysteria Was Not Treated With Vibrators: (tags: women orgasm history psychology fraud viaCipherGoth )
YouTube algorithm deliberately recommended Brexit videos: (tags: uk Europe youtube )
“A safety net for the people of Europe”: 65 years of the European Convention on Human Rights: (tags: rights europe )
Brexit: Hundreds of Whitehall officials leave department in charge of EU withdrawal: (tags: Europe UK fail )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3706137.html

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Interesting Links for 19-07-2018

Astronomers can now get sharper images from the ground than the Hubble can from space: (tags: astronomy space technology )
European Commission fines Google €4.34 billion for illegal practices regarding Android mobile devices to strengthen dominance of Google's search engine: (tags: Google Europe fines )
EU signs its biggest free trade deal with Japan: (tags: europe japan trade )
Critical realism in 100 words: (tags: reality philosophy )
UK facing longest fall in living standards for over 60 years (this is *before* a hard Brexit is taken into account): (tags: UK economy epicfail )
The 10 Phases of a 10 Minute Shower With a Baby at Home: (tags: cleanliness babies funny true viaJane )
‘Meghalayan Age’ announced as official new chapter in Earth’s history (starting 4,200 years ago): (tags: prehistory geology )
Hackers account for 90% of login attempts at online retailers - successful 3% of the time: (tags: hacking passwords security )
Edinburgh's Leith Street to reopen after almost a year: (tags: Edinburgh roads transport )
The end of all things is upon us: (tags: UK Europe doom )
Michael Scheuer, the former senior CIA official and NYT bestselling author of Imperial Hubris, is calling for Trump supporters to kill Trump opponents: (tags: WTF civilwar usa )
Homophobic University chaplain removed after holding service to atone for Gay Pride event: (tags: homophobia religion catholicism glasgow Scotland uk )
Timeline of the far future: (tags: thefuture )
As I assumed, the Chequers agreement is totally unacceptable to the EU: (tags: UK Europe doom fail )
Labour don't have the numbers to keep the UK in the EU: (tags: UK Europe labour )
Zuckerberg defends Facebook users' right to deny the Holocaust: (tags: Facebook freespeech lies Holocaust )
Israeli defense firm demos kamikaze drone bomb that can be called off: (tags: drone weaponry military )
Do not debate holocaust deniers. If possible, shut them down: (tags: Holocaust bigotry fraud history )
Labour politician refuses to quit despite calling women ‘b***h’, ‘cow’ and ‘c***’ in misogynistic hate campaign online: (tags: Labour misogyny Manchester )
Non-religious countries experience greater economic growth, study finds: (tags: religion success economy )
Spain to introduce ‘yes means yes’ sexual consent law: (tags: law rape Spain consent )
The women choosing to love their natural grey hair: (tags: women hair age )
Chief whip Julian Smith told MPs to defy pairing deals: (tags: politics conservatives OhForFucksSake uk )
Some notes on She-Ra from the guy who co-created her: (tags: writing women children animation )
"I was right to confront Jeremy Corbyn over Labour’s antisemitism": (tags: labour Jews bigotry )
Israel passes law enabling apartheid: (tags: israel bigotry racism )
Morrisons 'quiet hour' for autistic shopping introduced: (tags: shopping autism noise uk )
How democratic are the reformed electoral systems used in Britain’s devolved governments and English mayoral elections?: (tags: voting uk )
Looking at Test Driven Developmen: An Academic Survey: (tags: research testing development software )
Visualizing street orientations on an interactive map: (tags: design roads cities )
After a 400-Year Absence, A Rare Ibis Returns to European Skies: (tags: birds Europe GoodNews )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3650897.html

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Interesting Links for 11-01-2018

Facebook has open-sourced encrypted group chat: (tags: chat Facebook encryption )
"Science" makes progress on reproducibility: (tags: research )
Jeremy Corbyn promises to force nationalised railways to sell the Daily Mail: I mean, I can't really think of another way of interpreting it, seeing as they weren't banned from selling it before - they just made a choice not to. So if he wants to reverse the current policy then presumably it's because he wants to force them to sell it. Either that or they have no idea what they're talking about...
(tags: DailyMail labour wtf )
Why do humans re-read stories?: (tags: stories )
A collection of management consulting frameworks & graphics that make no sense: (tags: management work organisation )
Exposure to light makes fat cells shrink: (tags: fat light )
Sleeping for longer leads to a healthier diet: (tags: diet food sleep )
If you're going to commit bigamy you probably shouldn't go on tv with, well, either wife: (tags: marriage crime EpicStupidity )
Ikea Wants You to Pee on This Ad. If You’re Pregnant, It Will Give You a Discount on a Crib: (tags: pregnancy urination advertising )
Autonomous transportation launching to 125k residents in Florida: (tags: Florida automation cars )
UCL to investigate eugenics conference secretly held on campus (last year's keynote speaker: Toby Young): (tags: racism intelligence London University uk )
Marvel Moving Forward With ‘Black Widow’ Standalone Movie: Should have happened years ago, of course.
(tags: marvel movies women scarlettjohansson )
How Much Does the Entire Internet Weigh?: (tags: weight internet electrons )
Two genes in Chromosomes 13 and 14, linked to Homosexuality: (tags: lgbt genetics )
Looking for Female Participants for a Board Game Study: (tags: women games )
Incredible 'Hypatia' Stone Contains Compounds Not Found in the Solar System: (tags: space )
Over half of Heathrow's near 79,000 noise complaints last year came from 10 people: (tags: airplanes noise London complaints uk )
Don't Judge People at the Supermarket for Buying Pre-Chopped Vegetables: (tags: disabilities food )
Definition of marriage has now evolved to include same-sex couples, EU court says: (tags: europe marriage lgbt equality )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3389227.html

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Interesting Links for 17-07-2015

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Interesting Links for 22-11-2012

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Interesting Links for 31-03-2012