Interesting Links for 14-01-2023
Jan. 14th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Jewish university students had swastikas drawn on them and told 'Hitler was right', damning NUS report reveals
- (tags:students jews bigotry university unions )
- 2. What Games Are Like For Someone Who Doesn't Play Games
- (tags:games ux video )
- 3. A long thread of people whose fathers or partners just walked out one day
- (tags:parenting OhForFucksSake men abandoned )
- 4. Quote Tweeting: Over 30 Studies Dispel Some Myths
- (tags:Twitter communication research )
- 5. The age of energy abundance may be closer than we think
- (tags:electricity renewables thefuture )
- 6. The Economic Secret Hidden in a Tiny, Discontinued Pasta (That once you lose the ability to manufacture something, no matter how simple, regaining it is a *lot* of work)
- (tags:pasta manufacturing Doom )
- 7. The idea that in earlier societies men were the hunters while women were the gatherers is a myth
- (tags:gender society history prehistory )
Interesting Links for 12-07-2020
Jul. 12th, 2020 12:00 pm- Here are the changes that will happen between the EU and the UK come the first of January
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- Vast Brexit customs clearance centre to be built in Kent
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- Incredible restored video of Tokyo from 1913-1915
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- CNN asked Black artists from Mississippi to design a new state flag
- (tags:flags USA design )
- Did you even know you needed 3D printed pasta?
- (tags:pasta 3dprinting food technology )
- How small satellites are radically remaking space exploration
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- A fascinating, personal, story of transition, detransition, and transition again.
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281537118183895041.html
(tags:gender transgender LGBT ) - Scientists develop new antibody test which gives results in seven minutes
- (tags:virus GoodNews )
- Nearly all married women take their husband's last name - the patriarchy is alive and well
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- A gold ring, a thieving Roman, and...JRR Tolkien?
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281534833320222721.html
(tags:Tolkien archaeology rome viaDanielDWilliam ) - The idea that the working class have limited interests is ahistoric, and just plain wrong
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- We have too much efficiency
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- Why are toys such a bad business?
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Interesting Links for 04-04-2018
Apr. 4th, 2018 12:00 pm- Six reasons why Edinburgh trams project was so badly run
- (tags: edinburgh trams OhForFucksSake )
- Our Statement from Jewdas On Their Seder
- (tags: Jews labour )
- Ten Simple Ways To Make Renting Less Awful
- (tags: rental UK OhForFucksSake )
- US law enforcement officers beat their wives or girlfriends at nearly double the rate of the rest of the population
- (tags: police assault USA OhForFucksSake )
- Pasta may not be as bad as other carbohydrates
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- Long-term caffeine worsens Alzheimer’s disease
- (tags: caffeine alzheimers )
- Most people have no idea what the letter g looks like
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- Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text
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- Three-month-old infants can learn abstract relations before language comprehension
- (tags: language thinking babies )
- Orange Order in Scotland is on the brink of collapse
- (tags: bigotry religion Ireland NorthernIreland Scotland GoodNews )
- The UK has no trade strategy, and the government is in chaos
- (tags: UK government europe fail OhForFucksSake )
- What’s The Deal With Transparent Aluminum?
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- The genealogy of the Saudi royal family is...tricky to validate
- (tags: family saudiarabia names )
- And a member of Jewdas on Corbyn and antisemitism
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- On systemic racism in the romance publishing world
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- Japanese couple apologise for ignoring work pregnancy timetable by conceiving ‘before their turn’
- There are a lot of things I've heard about Japanese business practices that make me sure I wouldn't want to live there
(tags: Japan pregnancy OhForFucksSake work viaSwampers ) - 'Bill And Ted 3' Now Has A Title, A Director, And More
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- Brexit Committee MPs demand Norway-style deal with the EU
- (tags: uk europe norway )
- How not to fix the Irish border problem
- (tags: ireland europe uk borders trade )
- How to interpret breaking news
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Interesting Links for 17-10-2014
Oct. 17th, 2014 12:00 pm- The effect of transgender students on America's women's colleges.
- The myth of a wild British countryside
- Bill Gates on "Why Inequality Matters"
- After California decriminalized marijuana, teen arrest, overdose and dropout rates fell
- Behind Labour’s attempt to lure the Green vote
- "Anonymised data" turns out not to be - huge database of where everyone took taxis in NYC is now public
- Smith Commission timetable 'unrealistic' (I am shocked! It's as if they made a promise without thinking it through!)
- Is reheated pasta less fattening?
- Genetics and intelligence differences: five findings
- Why Germany Is So Much Better at Training Its Workers
- How Text Messages Change from Dating to Marriage
- Does anyone actually care about pricey Apple iPads any more?
- Facebook Deleted Accounts of Native Americans On Columbus Day For Having ‘Fake Names’
- Man Gets Stuck inside Waterstones Bookstore, Creates Twitter Storm
Interesting Links for 26-03-2014
Mar. 26th, 2014 11:00 am- Fair bosses pay the price of burnout
- Labour's economic policies are almost identical to the Coalition
- Jimmy Wales responds to a petition about changing Wikipedia to be friendlier to "holistic healing".
- My inner pedant is 85% under control. How about you?
- Radical Islam Website Readers May Be Prosecuted
- What can we learn from the mating habits of animals?
- The EU's economy and finance chief on protecting the weakest in society
EU economy and finance chief
- Socially Awkward Isn't An Excuse
- Now I know how they make spiral pasta. And it's AWESOME.
- The Humble eBook Bundle has a Scalzi, Uglies, and a book by Yahtzee. Sold!
- Facebook just bought Oculus VR. I feel remarkably conflicted by this.
- Exploding stars prove Newton's law of gravity unchanged over cosmic time
- Your bones are full of shock-absorbing goo
- There is no more room for women in action movies
- Upcoming Genre Movies That Aren't Sequels, Remakes or Reboots