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Barcelona moving to open source: (tags: Spain software opensource )
How does an MP resign and what happens next?: (tags: politics uk )
"Milkshake duck" announced as Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year: (tags: internet society language )
Drinking more than one unit of alcohol per day is bad for your mental ability (and worse for older people): (tags: alcohol Intelligence )
Jeremy Corbyn tightens grip on Labour as left-wingers sweep NEC election: (tags: labour politics uk )
Brexit could cost Scottish economy £16bn a year: (tags: UK Europe Scotland economy )
1,000 Danish youths face charges for sharing 15-year-olds’ sex videos: (tags: videos sex children crime denmark )
Albert Hofmann describes the very first usage of LSD: (tags: lsd drugs history )
Google is losing its memory: (tags: Google history fail )
'A monumental change': how Ireland transformed transgender rights: (tags: transgender lgbt Ireland uk )
Man faces online abuse after taking wife's surname on getting married: (tags: abuse names patriarchy men )
Plan to create ‘European boulevard’ in centre of Edinburgh: (tags: edinburgh )
Pointing out how Ted Chian's article on AI risk is nonsense: (tags: ai )
The worst volume control UI in the world: (tags: design satire funny )
Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apostrophes: (tags: language punctuation kazakhstan )
Dietary fat, changes in fat metabolism may promote prostate cancer metastasis: (tags: fat cancer prostate mice )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3652347.html

Scientists need money so they’re yelling on Twitter: (tags: ViaDrCross research twitter funny )
Brexit: Government has done no economic assessment of the UK crashing out of EU without deal: (tags: uk europe economy OhForFucksSake epicfail government )
Surprise pig is surprising: (tags: pigs cute ViaDrCross )
Petition · Westminster: Indyref2 to be decided with trial by combat. Sturgeon V May.: (tags: funny petition independence scotland viaJohnBobShaun )
The Brexit bucket list: what to do before you leave the EU: (tags: europe uk )
The Oxford comma: A Maine court settled the grammar debate over serial commas with a ruling on overtime pay for dairy-truck drivers: (tags: grammar punctuation oxford law )
Why They Changed the Original Rogue One Ending: (tags: StarWars movies )
CMON Announce A Song Of Ice And Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game!: (tags: gameofthrones games )
Marine A's colleagues 'wanted Afghan insurgent dead': (tags: death war afghanistan law uk military )
Seven Ways to Win a Second Indy Referendum: (tags: independence referendum scotland advice )
Genetic variant accelerates normal brain aging in older people by up to 12 years: (tags: age brain genetics )
The new American Gods trailer looks awesome: (tags: trailer tv myths neilgaiman )
The genes, neural circuits behind autism's impaired sociability: (tags: social psychology autism genetics )
Female sexual desire is WEIRD and CONFUSING: (tags: women sex psychology viaJennieRigg )
Cold Does Not Increase Odds of Catching Cold: (tags: cold colds disease myths )
The SPRITE and the Carthorse: How to automate research fraud - now with carrots!: (tags: food fraud research viaDrCross )
Unsealed documents show Monsanto ghost wrote research papers on RoundUp: (tags: research fraud business )
How a "command & control" approach produces famine and cities nobody wants to live in: (tags: cities liberal architecture design agriculture history )
Four things to note about record electoral fine against Conservative Party: (tags: Conservatives elections )
Clean Energy Could Spark a Trade War Between the US and China: (tags: renewables energy usa china Technology research )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3560667.html

This "Proud To Be British" Hoodie On Amazon Has A Small Apostrophe Problem: (tags: funny english punctuation nationalism )
Thinking of loved ones lessens our need to 'reconnect' through anthropomorphism: (tags: people psychology )
Robot tractors 'could help solve post-Brexit farm worker shortage': (tags: automation farming uk )
Nanobionic spinach plants can detect explosives: (tags: explosions nanotech plants Technology )
Modernist British safety posters from the middle of the 20th century.: (tags: safety design uk )
8 Sex Positive Things You Can Say To Your Kids That Have Nothing To Do With Sex: (tags: sex children parenting viaSwampers )
Livejournal finally gets "Like" functionality: (tags: livejournal )
Sharia councils treat Muslim women unfairly: (tags: islam women divorce religion uk )
Women running for office are judged on competence more harshly than men: (tags: politics gender )
Three low-carb meals within 24 hours lowers post-meal insulin resistance by more than 30 percent: (tags: diet insulin )
Sexual pleasure is a kind of trance: Orgasm is all about rhythmic timing: (tags: neuroscience psychology brain sex orgasm dancing )
Airline introduces child-free zones on all its flights: (tags: airplanes children )
On the Science of Changing Sex (loads of fascinating information): (tags: sex gender psychology science )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3520348.html

Little Red Riding Wolverine
(tags: wolverine fairytale funny )
On GamerGate: A letter from the editor
(tags: games journalism abuse )
I rather like this string quartet version of "This is Halloween"
(tags: music halloween )
What the mess in your house says about you
(tags: mess psychology )
EU chief warns 'no possibility' of UK reducing immigration – right of free movement is fundamental
(tags: immigration UK Europe )
Scottish Labour: in the beartrap?
(tags: Scotland Labour devolution politics )
Average number of languages spoken by the EU population
(tags: language Europe viafanf )
We Have a Saudi Arabia Problem, Not an Islam Problem
(tags: saudiarabia islam terrorism )
Sex was invented in Scotland. No. Really.
(tags: sex Scotland )
New test scans all genes simultaneously to identify single mutation causing child's rare genetic disease
(tags: genetics )
Women make better decisions under stress
(tags: women stress decisions )
An amusing guide to the ideas and words of Gamergate
(tags: games abuse funny )
The case of George Lucas and the incorrect ellipsis.
(tags: punctuation georgelucas starwars )
5p Minimum charge for carrier bags introduced today in Scotland
(tags: Scotland )
Emma Goldman: A Biography for Space Aliens
(tags: biography scifi short_story history anarchy society )
Decades of lie detection research has been unrealistic
(tags: lies psychology )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3173839.html

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3039135.html

Bitcoin Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About the Future of Money
(tags: bitcoin )
How the Daily Mail Conquered England
(tags: journalism DailyMail uk )
Pop music is louder, less acoustic and more energetic than in the 1950s
(tags: music history )
The US FDA shuts down 23andMe
(tags: genetics usa law regulation )
Upworthy: Springfield
(tags: funny )
The Period, Our Simplest Punctuation Mark, Has Become a Sign of Anger
(tags: punctuation language )
3D and The Day of the Doctor
(tags: 3d drwho viaJohnCoxon )
Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies
(tags: logic argument discussion )
What You Should Know About The Iran Nuclear Deal
(tags: iran usa nuclearweapons nuclearpower israel )
Scott Adams Blog: I Hope My Father Dies Soon
(tags: death euthenasia pain )
New Warning: Morning-After Pill Doesn't Work for Women Over 176 Pounds
(tags: contraception weight )
The truth about women and sex : They start younger and have more partners – and those are not necessarily men
(tags: sex women uk lgbt )
Britons having sex less often than they did ten years ago
(tags: sex uk )
7 Little Known Facts About Ghostbusters
(tags: movies vianwhyte )
A Letter I Will Probably Send To The FDA (on 23andMe)
(tags: genetics regulation usa )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3009833.html

UKIP voters most likely to demand fictitious legislation be repealled
(tags: politics uk ukip )
28 Newspaper And Magazine Layout Disasters
(tags: epicfail newspapers )
Some Seriously Smart Stray Dogs in Russia
(tags: dogs russia )
8 New and Necessary Punctuation Marks
(tags: funny punctuation )
Dear Hollywood, please stop pandering to the old folks.
(tags: movies )
The sex manual for ultra-Orthodox Jews
(tags: sex jews )
Fathers Recognize Their Babies' Cries Just as Well as Mothers - If they make the effort to spend time with them.
(tags: parents children )
All of Star Wars: Episode IV retold in a one-minute animation
(tags: video starwars )
Cancer researchers are looking more deeply into why some treatments work for the exceptional few
(tags: research cancer )
The reason Doctor Who is the best thing on TV
All of which is besides the fact that I haven't actually watched this week's episode yet, due to a surfeit of almost certainly better TV. In fact, I'm largely watching it at the moment so I can keep up with the online conversation, more than because I'm actually enjoying it.
(tags: tv drwho )
BBC News - Google boss defends UK tax record (We need to change the law, frankly)
(tags: law uk europe google tax )
VSRE: very short reply expected (a proposal for email ettiquette)
(tags: email ettiquette viafanf )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2905157.html

There's a "Right-wingers are less intelligent than left wingers" article in the Daily Mail. For once you _should_ read the comments!
(tags: DailyMail politics intelligence )
How Republican opposition derailed SOPA and Protect IP
(tags: politics republicans copyright usa )
An interview with Nick Clegg
(tags: nickclegg politics uk libdem )
Porn for Pregnant Ladies
(tags: porn pregnancy funny )
The first page of H.G. Wells’s version of Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds
(tags: funny HGWells WarOfTheWorlds )
A sudden realisation as to why the Republican party hate gay people.
(tags: funny politics usa republicans lgbt )
Darkness, a gorgeous, funny and thoughtful comic (done in 24 hours too!)
(tags: storytelling darkness relationships comics )
Less than six months until the Europe IPV4 address pool runs out
(tags: networking ipv4 ipv6 )
A patent attorney's guide to why Apple are in trouble in Germany
(tags: motorola motor apple germany patents )
Clearly we need new punctuation
(tags: comic dinosaurs punctuation language )
GMs dicuss what the nerdiest thing theyve ever written into a game design is.
(tags: roleplaying geekery )
Ducker's 7th law - ask the hardest, nerdiest question you can think of and someone will instantly answer.
(tags: trivia geekery scifi )
Why You Won't Quit Your Job
I went through three different jobs where everyone complained, and eventually I left to get a better job, with people saying they'd be right behind me. A couple of years later I'd bump into someone and they were still in the job they hated, complaining all the time, and not doing anything about it.
(tags: conditioning life work )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2647191.html

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