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Interesting Links for 05-12-2023
Dec. 5th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Scottish Greens vote to ban 'Behaviour Modification' practices for disabled people
- (tags:Scotland disability autism abuse GreenParty )
- 2. Edinburgh council statement on their house emergency
- (tags:edinburgh housing homelessness )
- 3. Harvard Gutted Initial Team Examining Facebook Files Following $500 Million Donation from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
- (tags:Facebook corruption USA research academia )
- 4. Possibly the worst customer service of all time (cancelled plane edition)
- (tags:airplanes kenya epicfail )
- 5. Liz Truss to propose law banning biological males from single-sex spaces
- (tags:lgbt bigotry OhForFucksSake conservatives UK )
- 6. Did you know that the *Real* version of the Muppet Christmas Carol is on Disney+ (hidden in a submenu)
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- 7. Happy Clair Cameron Patterson day! He did a lot more than most to improve the world (by fighting to remove lead from so many things)
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- 8. Neurons in your eye help keep your view stable
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- 9. UK police are using AI data analysis to spot crimes. And they want to start predicting them.
- (tags:ai data predictions crime police uk )
- 10. Bye bye to the Edinburgh Zoo pandas
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- 11. "My $500M Mars Rover Mistake: A Failure Story"
- (tags:mars space epicfail )
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Interesting Links for 03-10-2023
Oct. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. How to Compete with Patreon
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- 2. International School Signs (what do your local ones show?)
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- 3. Dreamwidth's war against spam intensifies
- (tags:dreamwidth spam OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Scientists discover world's oldest human-built structure, built by an extinct species
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- 5. Does working from home damage productivity? Just look at the data.
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- 6. New Jersey police bought software to predict crimes. It was wrong 99% of the time.
- (tags:epicfail predictions crime police software )
- 7. How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet
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Interesting Links for 07-02-2023
Feb. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Star Wars, The Osmonds, and Twincest Predictions
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- 2. Scientists suggest way to help children get desensitised to peanut allergy (effective for 80% of them)
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- 3. Call of the Void: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370?
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- 4. How damaging is the trans prisoners row for the SNP?
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- 5. The kindest way to break up with a friend is to ghost them
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- 6. What actually helps reduce bullying?
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- 7. LGBTQ: Plan to make it easier to change gender in Wales
- (tags:lgbt wales transgender GoodNews )
- 8. I have regularly thought that more computing education should be as apprenticeships. I suspect the same is true of many other jobs.
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- 9. China is building a staggering amount of solar power, here's how
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Interesting Links for 18-11-2022
Nov. 18th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. "When We All Have Pocket Telephones": A 1920s Comic Accurately Predicts
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- 2. Stirling University Students' Union votes to go 100% vegan
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- 3. Edinburgh's 20mph roads: Plans to expand speed limit to 90 per cent of Edinburgh roads
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- 4. Artificial meat has been greenlit in the United States for the first time
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- 5. The world needs more derpy cat dragons
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- 6. Cambrian Explosion Lego!
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- 7. The history of Irish/Native American mutual aid
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- 8. How to stay warm in extremely cold temperatures
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- 9. How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT
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Interesting Links for 21-11-2021
Nov. 21st, 2021 12:00 pm- TDoR 2021: Remembering the 462 transgender people killed in the last year
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- Wired's 90s predictions of how the future could go wrong have basically all happened
- (tags:thefuture predictions Doom )
- I see the Labour purges continue
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- The "Great Green Wall" Didn't Stop Desertification, but it Evolved Into Something That Might
- (tags:trees desert viaNancyLebov )
- There are times when being a rules lawyer is a wonderful thing
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- Families in Cornwall offered £1,200 to take relatives out of NHS hospitals and free up space as crisis deepens
- (tags:Cornwall UK NHS Doom )
- SpinLaunch Flings a Test Vehicle Kilometers Into the air. Eventually, it'll Throw Them Almost all the way to Orbit
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Interesting Links for 12-04-2021
Apr. 12th, 2021 12:00 pm- The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme
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- French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights
- (tags:France flights globalwarming GoodNews transport )
- "Technologies I Thought My Son Would Never Use"
- (tags:technology history thefuture predictions )
- There is no good argument for modern sex-negativity
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- When I was a kid the insult "div" was quite common. To say its etymology is unclear would be an understatement.
- (tags:language slang viaSarah )
- The story of a man who transitioned, and what happened to his family who didn't
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- On firebombs in Northern Ireland and homophobia in Scotland
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- What the Dufflepuds tell us about how CS Lewis thought
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Interesting Links for 06-01-2021
Jan. 6th, 2021 12:00 pm- Children have always been a major source of Covid infections. Closing schools is the second-best intervention we could make (I've not seen this evidence before.)
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1346362159446577154.html
(tags:children pandemic ) - Mirena (the IUD) has been the subject of multiple lawsuits
- (tags:law USA contraception viajoexnz )
- A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?
- (tags:technology apocalypse gambling thefuture predictions )
- 81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends
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- Covid travel: Why Instagram is still full of celebrities 'on holiday'
- (tags:celebrity advertising holidays UK OhForFucksSake )
- One In 50 People Are Currently Believed To Have Covid-19 In The UK (One in Thirty in London)
- (tags:pandemic uk )
- Why don't all demolition devices look like dinosaurs?
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- "You can't expect Brexit not to have consequences. The UK won't be a distribution hub for the EU any more. EU businesses will need to stop relying on UK hubs."
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1346746239874953217.html
(tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
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Interesting Links for 02-12-2020
Dec. 2nd, 2020 12:00 pm- This is a fascinating interview with a journalist, and the part on journalist cliques is excellent
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- Netflix content given age rating by algorithm
- (tags:algorithms age TV movies Netflix )
- Is it really impossible to do an economic analysis of the impact of Covid tiers?
- (tags:economics pandemic predictions )
- 'Juno' Star Elliot Page Announces He Is Transgender
- (tags:movies LGBT transgender )
- Bell v Tavistock: a quick explainer of the puberty blocker court case
- (tags:lgbt transgender hormones UK law )
- Study finds indications of life on Doggerland after devastating tsunamis
- (tags:UK prehistory viaDanielDWilliam )
- If you have an Apple device then make sure it's up to date right now!
- (tags:Apple security )
- Singapore approves lab-grown chicken meat
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Interesting Links for 18-11-2020
Nov. 18th, 2020 12:00 pm- Glasgow among areas placed into Scotland's toughest Level 4 coronavirus restrictions
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- By the way, Donald Trump could still launch nuclear weapons at any time
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- What is devolution and how does it work across the UK?
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- Trans Educational Resources
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- It's Been Exactly One Year Since the First Case of COVID Was Found in China
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- Shazam reveals most searched-for songs of all time
- (tags:music )
- David Cameron's austerity policies to blame for recession in UK, says Barack Obama
- (tags:UK austerity recession davidcameron barackobama )
- A fascinating discussion about how LGBT history, culture, and language has changed, and how it continues to do so
- (tags:LGBT language transgender history )
- Comparing the polls and predictive markets for the US election
- (tags:polls predictions USA elections )
- WAP/Devil Went Down To Georgia is a work of genius
- (tags:music remix funny )
- "Our plan for a moderate Labour party"
- (tags:labour politics UK )
- Dog! Plays! With! Balloon!
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Interesting Links for 24-07-2020
Jul. 24th, 2020 12:00 pm- Why the UK shouldn't want a trade deal with the USA
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- Swiss police automated crime predictions but has little to show for it (terrible false positive and false negatives rates)
- (tags:crime predictions Switzerland technology )
- How I Get It All Done: I Simply Don't
- (tags:women life achievement satire ViaDrCross )
- Report: ARM is for sale and Nvidia's interested, Apple isn't
- (tags:technology cpu processor business )
- UK and US say Russia fired a satellite weapon in space
- (tags:space military Russia )
- The First Man to Reach the North Pole was an African American Desk Clerk
- (tags:Arctic exploration history race )
- Male circumcision leads to a significantly worse sex life
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- Why is CSS the way it is?
- (tags:CSS web history )
- Politics are a matter of life and death. No wonder more Scots want to leave the UK
- (tags:Scotland pandemic UK independence )
- Star Trek: Lower Decks looks like fun
- (tags:StarTrek animation funny video trailer )
- The trailer for "The Great" (A Catherine The Great comedy) made me giggle several times
- (tags:history comedy russia video trailer )
- The Space Force has a horse, of course
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Interesting Links for 25-07-2019
Jul. 25th, 2019 01:09 pm- Vote Leave takes over Boris Johnson's government
- (tags:UK Europe government Doom Conservatives )
- Fresh Labour Brexit confusion as spokesman insists it is 'not a Remain party'
- (tags:politics Labour UK europe )
- Khorne the Blood God confirmed as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in cabinet reshuffle
- (tags:warhammer politics uk funny )
- Bayesian and predictive coding accounts of autistic cognition
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- Why British train lines don't cope well with unusual heat
- (tags:trains UK heat )
- Non-English Phrases With Their Hilarious Literal Meanings
- (tags:English language translation funny )
- Teenager can walk again thanks to Dutch 3D printed spinal implant
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- We have the worst cabinet in UK history.
- (tags:UK politics conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- Jo Swinson has a put a confidence motion down ... challenge from her to Corbyn on whether he'd back it.
- (tags:UK government libdem )
- Virgin Media pledges gigabit broadband to millions of homes
- Personally I struggle to use even the 100MBit connection we currently have
(tags:internet Virgin broadband UK )
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Interesting Links for 30-05-2019
May. 30th, 2019 12:57 pm- Retirement should be a right. But it's in danger of becoming a privilege for the rich
- (tags:inequality UK )
- Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction
- (tags:advertising happiness )
- What incels really are
- (tags:relationships OhForFucksSake patriarchy )
- In 1996 Terry Pratchett interviewed Bill Gates and accurately predicted how the internet would propagate and legitimise fake news. Gates didn't believe him.…
- (tags:terrypratchett billgates news fraud predictions )
- Chrome is about to lose a bunch of its ad blocking capability
- (tags:advertising web Chrome Google OhForFucksSake )
- Twitter Has Started Researching Whether White Supremacists Belong on Twitter
- (tags:Twitter nazis )
- Why Britain should be building more nuclear plants
- (tags:nuclearpower globalwarming )
- You should pretend to be a whale. It's good for your brain.
- (tags:whales oxygen brain weird )
- People Who Self-Harm May Be Compensating For Their Difficulty Interpreting Bodily Signals of Emotion
- (tags:self-harm bodies emotion psychology )
- The USA is apparently now beyond satire
- (tags:USA wtf energy )
- FactCheck: Labour rulebook doesn't mention IHRA antisemitism definition or examples
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- Further extensions to Rock Paper Scissors
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- Post Mortem: What the European elections tell us about a second referendum
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Interesting Links for 21-11-2018
Nov. 21st, 2018 11:00 am- George R.R. Martin, now 'in hiding,' has wondered if he'll ever finish The Winds of Winter
- (tags: gameofthrones GeorgeRRMartin )
- The predictions of Robert A. Heinlein, from the Cold War to the waterbed
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- Flat Earth conference attendees explain how they have been brainwashed by YouTube and Infowars
- "It looks like you're easily taken in, how about you watch a video about how to join cults next?"
(tags: youtube videos fraud OhForFucksSake ) - Nicola Sturgeon vows to work with Tory rebels and Labour to build Commons 'coalition' against May's Brexit deal
- (tags: SNP uk europe )
- They Shall Not Grow Old was an amazing piece of documentary filmmaking. I was riveted.
- (tags: wwi history documentary peterjackson )
- Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline
- (tags: android linux )
- An independent Scotland should be allowed to rejoin EU, Spanish foreign minister says
- (tags: Scotland Spain Europe )
- New Labour was far more leftwing than it is given credit for
- (tags: labour UK history )
- Ruth Coker Burks, the cemetery angel
- (tags: aids usa history death )
- Brain-Destroying Prions Also Spread Through Victims' Eyes
- (tags: eyes brain disease )
- RPGs are Done with Edgelords and Bigots | Pop Culture Uncovered
- (tags: roleplaying society racism sexism OhForFucksSake )
- Amber Rudd admits new Brexit referendum on table if Theresa May's deal rejected by parliament
- (tags: uk europe )
- A mathematical proof that every odd integer is the difference of two squares - which fits in a tweet!
- (tags: twitter mathematics )
- The greatest Christian schism in hundreds of years happened last month.
- (tags: christianity russia ukraine )
- Lancet restaurant gives medical professionals discounts based on publication impact factor
- (tags: medicine research food china )
- The Brown One, The Honey Eater, The Shaggy Coat, The Destroyer - why bears are called anything but their real name
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Interesting Links for 16-02-2018
Feb. 16th, 2018 12:00 pm- Satire editor wearily hits “Repost” on mass shooting article again
- (tags: guns satire usa OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
- Not so fast: why you should think twice before restricting your diet
- (tags: health food diet )
- The NY Times Fires Tech Writer Quinn Norton, and It’s Complicated
- (tags: writing racism society internet journalism )
- IRS struggles to convert 50-year-old assembly language to Java
- (tags: computers usa programming history java tax )
- Undiagnosed adult ADHD could cost UK billions a year
- (tags: adhd uk )
- Review of The Tyranny of Metrics
- (tags: management numbers statistics )
- Transgender woman breastfeeds baby in first recorded case, study says
- (tags: transgender breastfeeding uk )
- Every Single Word: edited down popular movies to only the words spoken by people of color.
- (tags: movies race videos )
- Things Corbyn has said, done or written re: foreign policy
- There are a few of these where I actually agree (Although I might not have phrased it that way). But many where I really don't.
(tags: Labour politics ) - Why gun control works and drugs control doesn't. (In the UK)
- (tags: drugs guns law uk society )
- One year ago: Trump Signs Bill Revoking Obama-Era Gun Checks for People With Mental Illnesses
- (tags: guns republicans usa OhForFucksSake )
- My employee insinuated I was having an affair … with my husband
- (tags: relationships work advice )
- The entirely unnecessary demise of Barnes & Noble (appalling, appalling management and terrible business decisions they don't understand how people work)
- (tags: business books )
- HMRC wins tax case against BBC presenter
- (tags: BBC tax uk )
- Remarkable secrets of ketamine's antidepressant effect unlocked by scientists
- (tags: ketamine depression )
- Why "gun training" is not the answer
- (tags: guns failure )
- Twitter Says Impersonating A Journalist During A Mass Shooting Doesn't Violate Its Rules
- (tags: fraud journalism abuse Twitter OhForFucksSake )
- See a baby learn in real time
- (tags: funny video baby )
- Britain's bus coverage hits 28-year low
- I wonder how much urbanisation is affecting this
(tags: buses transport uk ) - Isaac Asimov's 1964 predictions of 2014
- (tags: thefuture Technology asimov predictions )
- Sinn Fein claims released documents show DUP walked out on deal to restore Northern Ireland government
- (tags: NorthernIreland )
- The Alt-Right Is Killing People
- (tags: politics murder racism usa )
- While the Media Panicked About Campus Leftists, the Far Right Surged
- (tags: usa politics racism society university )
- Inequality in British society is the biggest Issue that we face
- (tags: inequality uk )
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Interesting Links for 27-11-2017
Nov. 27th, 2017 12:00 pm- A recent study claimed that 41 per cent of transgender prisoners are sex offenders – this is why it's false
- (tags: transgender prison uk fraud )
- Who _doesn't_ want an acapella mashup of "Carol of the Bells" and "The Bells of Notre Dame"???
- (tags: music video christmas Disney )
- ‘I was threatened for suggesting gender-neutral language’
- (tags: gender language school UK media OhForFucksSake )
- On Autism “Cures”
- (tags: autism )
- On Renewables And Being Cheaper Than Gas
- (tags: renewables economics electricity thefuture )
- Ultraman vs The Very Cute Fluffy Kaiju
- (tags: cats funny )
- Poledancing with your cat
- (tags: cats cute dancing )
- I had no idea that coyotes and badgers hunt cooperatively (amazing photos)
- (tags: animals cooperation )
- Photovoltaic growth: reality versus projections of the IEA
- (tags: solarpower electricity thefuture predictions )
- Spaniards face ham shortage as Chinese market gets taste for jamón ibérico
- (tags: China Spain pigs food )
- The GDPR Will Drain the Ad Tech Cookie Pool
- (tags: surveillance privacy Europe data advertising )
- When numbers aren’t neutral: the hidden politics of budget calculators
- (tags: tax society politics ViaDrCross )
- Momentum loyalty test planned for would-be Labour MPs
- (tags: Labour politics uk )
- Nazis Are Just Like You and Me, Except They're Nazis
- (tags: nazis satire media usa )
- Why most men won't dance
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- 'Relay crime' car theft caught on camera
- (tags: video car theft crime )
- Successful actress Meghan Markle to wed former soldier
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Interesting Links for 10-11-2017
Nov. 10th, 2017 12:00 pm- What are the personalities line of people who share images of their pets on social media?
- (tags: personality cats dogs socialmedia psychology )
- Unprofessional Astronomy
- (tags: astronomy space research OhForFucksSake )
- Improvements in renewables are slowing. A renewable future now depends on improvements in storage
- (tags: renewables batteries thefuture )
- Niantic’s follow-up to Pokémon Go will be a Harry Potter AR game launching in 2018
- (tags: harrypotter augmentedreality games )
- Germany serial killer: Niels Hoegl killed at least 100
- (tags: murder germany )
- Low-status men are hostile to women to minimize the loss of status resulting from women competing with them
- (tags: women games men society sexism )
- UK's biggest solar farm planned for Kent coast
- (tags: uk solarpower )
- Model student says she was sent home from school for wearing an 'inappropriate' outfit
- (tags: clothing school UK OhForFucksSake )
- Rian Johnson Is Developing a New Trilogy of Star Wars Movies
- Chances are there will be a new Star Wars movie every year for the rest of your life.
(tags: StarWars movies ) - Law 'rebels' put spotlight on using skills to help vulnerable
- (tags: law scotland )
- Gender pay gap widening for women in their 20s, data shows
- (tags: gender pay uk )
- CEOs Don’t Steer (Deeper, and more interesting, than it sounds)
- (tags: business )
- Bank of England looking at Machine Learning for making predictions
- (tags: uk banking economics predictions ai )
- The end of the housing supply debate (maybe)
- (tags: housing economics )
- Why Theresa May can't sack Boris Johnson
- (tags: politics uk OhForFucksSake )
- Uber loses court appeal against drivers' rights
- (tags: taxi uk rights work )
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Interesting Links for 15-10-2017
Oct. 15th, 2017 12:00 pm- Analysing hundreds of terror interrogations, two scientists revolutionise the art of extracting the truth
- (tags: torture crime terrorism psychology )
- Why the assholes are winning: money trumps all.
- (tags: money economics society )
- Hogwarts Express rescues family stranded in Highlands
- (tags: harrypotter trains scotland )
- An environmental journalist on why they never write about overpopulation
- (tags: population environment )
- UPS drivers take cute pictures of the dogs they meet
- (tags: dogs postage usa photos )
- Online dating connected to increased interracial marriage
- (tags: usa dating relationships race society )
- Orc Slavery Made Me Quit ‘Middle-earth: Shadow of War’
- (tags: lotr games slavery )
- The IKEA Dictionary (Unofficial)
- (tags: ikea dictionary )
- There's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence
- (tags: thefuture ai predictions )
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Interesting Links for 08-08-2017
Aug. 8th, 2017 12:00 pm- Moral Decision-Making and the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex
- (tags: morality brain )
- Personality has greater impact on success than IQ
- (tags: personality Intelligence success )
- Study Finds Advanced Reactors Will Have Competitive Costs
- (tags: nuclearpower electricity viaDanielDWilliam )
- Netflix buys comic book company behind Kick-Ass and Kingsman
- (tags: comics tv movies scotland )
- Love is not dead because two people fell out of it
- (tags: love relationships )
- Bilingual infants as young as 20 months of age efficiently and accurately process two languages
- (tags: language children )
- Media portrayals of pregnant women, new moms are unrealistic and harmful
- (tags: pregnancy motherhood media depression )
- Pilot-wave quantum theory gains experimental support.
- (tags: quantum viaFanf )
- A Summary of the Metaclasses Proposal for C++
- (tags: programming )
- Government accused of squandering £1.6bn a year on anti-drug policy
- (tags: drugs UK epicfail law Conservatives )
- Time Travel Heals All Wounds
- It's nice to know that things can always be worse.
(tags: comic politics funny timetravel ) - Why don't more physicists subscribe to Pilot Wave Theory
- (tags: quantum viaFanf )
- Your country needs funds: The extraordinary story of Britain’s early efforts to finance the First World War
- (tags: war finance money investment wwi history uk )
- The Single Greatest Predictor of Future Stock Market Returns
- (tags: investment economics markets finance )
- The enthusiasm for prediction markets has outpaced the evidence
- (tags: markets predictions )
- Economic sanctions to Iraq didn't actually kill lots of children
- (tags: iraq death children fraud )
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Interesting Links for 29-06-2017
Jun. 29th, 2017 12:00 pm- 1 year ago: What you will wake up to if we vote to Leave... (Turned out to be entirely accurate)
- (tags: europe uk epicfail predictions )
- Why do England's high-rises keep failing fire tests?
- (tags: health safety fire fail )
- Turkish Government Seizes Fifty Churches, Monasteries
- (tags: turkey religion OhForFucksSake )
- Man travels between Newcastle and London via Minorca because it's cheaper than a direct train
- (tags: viaDrJon trains uk travel )
- The Postal Service is losing millions a year to help you buy cheap stuff from China
- (tags: postoffices usa china wtf )
- An easter egg for one user: Luke Skywalker
- (tags: games programming StarWars funny )
- Under-screen fingerprint sensor unveiled
- (tags: phones fingerprints )
- If you're asking 'What real poor person could be at Glastonbury?' you've never been poor
- (tags: poverty society )
- "Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job?"
- (tags: automation work questions )
- Why Are Transgender People Immune To (Some) Optical Illusions?
- (tags: optical_illusion transgender lgbt brain psychology )
- The Detransitioners: What life is like for people who come out as transgender, and then change their mind.
- A tiny percentage, but fascinating to see their viewpoint.
(tags: lgbt transgender ) - Edinburgh trams make a profit two years ahead of schedule
- (tags: edinburgh trams GoodNews business )
- Massive HIV Treatment Study Found Zero Transmissions Between Couples
- (tags: hiv medicine GoodNews relationships sex )
- You'd think that if someone circumcised your child without your consent the police would take an interest. But no...
- (tags: circumcision uk OhForFucksSake )
- German power company wants to use giant salt caverns as batteries
- (tags: germany batteries power )
- Abortion reform matter for Stormont, court rules
- (tags: abortion law NorthernIreland uk )
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