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Interesting Links for 11-05-2021
May. 11th, 2021 12:00 pm- Scottish independence referendum to go ahead when Covid crisis 'stable,' says SNP
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- How the transphobes harm cis women
- (tags:transgender women LGBT society )
- Covid vaccine: One AstraZeneca dose lowers chance of death by 80%, new research shows
- (tags:death pandemic vaccine GoodNews )
- "To an outsider we were success incarnate, but inside we were hollow": How my dream job at a board game startup became a nightmare
- (tags:business games OhForFucksSake kickstarter )
- How to make everyone in the company hate you with one email
- (tags:trains security bonus OhForFucksSake )
- By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons in one cave
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- Game developers break silence around salaries
- (tags:games salary software )
- What did Nicola Sturgeon's victory speech say
- (tags:politics Scotland snp independence )
- Exodus of EU truckers leaves UK hauliers facing acute driver shortages
- (tags:trade transport UK Europe )
- Very few writers make money. Here's how some do
- (tags:writing money business publishing )
- Some Analysis of the Scottish Election 2021 Results (what could have happened differently?)
- (tags:voting scotland )
- Covid in Scotland: Variant detected in Highlands cluster
- (tags:scotland pandemic )
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Interesting Links for 29-01-2020
Jan. 29th, 2020 12:00 pm- FactChecking the coronavirus
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- How microwaves and electricity are killing weeds
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- Woman With Coronavirus Symptoms Dodges Security to Eat in Michelin-Starred Restaurant
- (tags:disease food OhForFucksSake )
- It is important to talk about your salary
- (tags:salary transparency )
- The Fantastically Strange Origin of Most Coal on Earth
- (tags:prehistory carbon trees bacteria )
- Johnson won't say so, but the real decision about Huawei was made years ago
- (tags:China phones technology UK )
- The "where's my elephant?" theory of history
- (tags:UK Europe history society Doom )
- Genetically Engineered Self-Limiting Moth Is Released Into an Open Field | Technology Networks
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Interesting Links for 11-05-2018
May. 11th, 2018 12:00 pm- The strangest place people have written software
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- Jeremy Thorpe: Who was the Liberal Party leader and what led to his spectacular fall from grace?
- (tags: politics history liberal uk )
- Is Iran really the world’s leading state sponsor of terror
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- Salary transparency continues to be in everyone's interests except your boss'
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- Making tiny swords out of nails (and large ones out of railroad spikes)
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- Reasons why babies cry
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- Digital photocopiers contain copies of everything they've seen. Companies sell them without wiping them
- (tags: data Technology privacy fail )
- Google Grapples with ‘Horrifying’ Reaction to Uncanny AI Tech
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- Solo: First Reactions Twitter Roundup
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- If you tell people they're seeing an advert because you're tracking them they like it less
- (tags: advertising surveillance )
- Scientists Stuffed a Crocodile Into an MRI Machine to See If It Likes Bach
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- Positive parenting doesn't help children's friendships, but negative parenting harms them
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- Flexible work arrangements reduce wage gap for mothers
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- Stanford Study Shows the Productivity Boost of Working From Home
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- What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen?
- (tags: ux design restaurant viaSwampers )
- This Comic From 1919 Imagines What It’s Like to Have a Phone in Your Pocket
- (tags: phones comic thefuture )
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Interesting Links for 14-03-2018
Mar. 14th, 2018 12:00 pm- What does "Ireland First" mean, and how did we get here?
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- Man Behind Scottish Comic Cons is a Far-Right Fanatic
- (tags: comics Scotland conventions bigotry uk )
- Scottish Lobbying Register goes live
- (tags: scotland lobbying )
- Just how dangerous is bacon? And how can we make it safer?
- (tags: food bacon safety cancer health viaSwampers )
- The cliff that changed our understanding of time
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- Future of 1p and 2p coins questioned by Treasury
- (tags: cash money uk )
- A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
- (tags: death mind technology backup )
- Men and women have opposite genetic alterations in depression
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- There seems to be a racist bomber loose in Austin, Texas
- (tags: racism terrorism texas usa )
- Teach boys about periods
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- Kangaroos: Still terrifying
- (tags: animals scary australia )
- The terrifyingly early age that men start looking at girls sexually
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- 1946 U.S. document reveals Poles treated Jews as badly as Germans did
- (tags: Holocaust Poland germany history Jews )
- 'I want to explain arranged marriage to white people'
- (tags: Pakistan marriage games )
- Stephen Hawking, legendary theoretical physicist, dies at 76
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- "You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral"
- You can use it at mine, if you like
(tags: physics death viaElfy ) - Analysis discovers 187 genetic locations for intelligence, 583 genes in total
- (tags: genetics Intelligence )
- We now know 22 Trillion Digits of Pi, bringing us no closer to the end
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- How Hollywood Salaries Really Work
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Interesting Links for 19-10-2017
Oct. 19th, 2017 12:00 pm- The future is everyone having their own currency
- Clearly not. But it's an interesting idea. And fascinating how easy it is now.
(I'm reminded that Emperor Norton had one too)
(tags: currency Technology economics ) - The eyes of dyslexic people are different
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- Anyone can track your location by using $1,000 of mobile ads. (Never felt better about blocking ads)
- (tags: advertising surveillance OhForFucksSake )
- An open letter to anyone struggling to understand cryptocurrencies
- (tags: bitcoin software money )
- The concept of “compensation” makes sense of several autism puzzles
- (tags: autism psychology )
- A new LEGO set honors the women of NASA
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- Let's talk for a minute about "he knew what he signed up for."
- Context here.
(tags: war politics usa death OhForFucksSake ) - Dying chimpanzee recognises old human friend before smiling and embracing him
- (tags: chimpanzees death )
- Millennial Women, More Than Older Women, Think Men Have It Easier
- (tags: women society usa )
- 75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas
- (tags: insects OhForFucksSake doom )
- New law bans California employers from asking applicants their prior salary
- (tags: salary usa privacy )
- Giant robots clash in US-Japan battle
- (tags: robots funny video usa japan )
- Google's AI now learns without human intervention
- (tags: ai learning )
- More girls aged 13 to 16 are self-harming than ever before - but why?
- (tags: girls women children mentalhealth uk )
- Spain moves to suspend Catalan autonomy
- (tags: Catalonia spain democracy )
- Kevin Smith to donate residuals from his Weinstein-produced films to Women in Film
- (tags: women abuse movies GoodNews kevinSmith )
- Why are the Illuminati advertising on my journal? And why don't they have their own domain?
- (tags: illuminati spam conspiracy )
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Interesting Links for 03-08-2016
Aug. 3rd, 2016 12:00 pm- There Will Officially Be no more X-Men in Marvel Comics
- (tags: comics movies marvel xmen )
- 23andMe Pulls Off Massive Crowdsourced Depression Genetics Study
- (tags: genetics depression )
- New Navy Tech Makes It Easy to Land on a Carrier. (Good acronym too)
- (tags: airplanes ocean automation )
- Millennial generation turning their backs on sex in highest numbers since the 1920s
- (tags: sex demographics )
- Looking at the next phase of improving the Edinburgh to Glasgow train network
- (tags: trains transport edinburgh glasgow scotland uk )
- Massachusetts makes it illegal for an employer to ask you your previous salary during an interview
- (tags: jobs salary usa money law )
- A Unified Theory Of Randomness
- (tags: mathematics random )
- Men cite their own research way more than women do
- (tags: research gender science )
- Dark Ages royal palace discovered in Cornwall
- (tags: uk history archaeology )
- Walt Disney's & Salvador Dali's collaboration: "Destino"
- (tags: animation art Disney )
- China's glass walkway opens in Tianmen mountain
- (tags: china nature beautiful scary )
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Interesting Links for 24-11-2015
Nov. 24th, 2015 12:00 pm- On some issues, liberals are more dogmatic than conservatives
- How Period Trackers Have Changed Girl Culture
- The Thing All Women Do That You Don’t Know About (I do. But I was shocked when I found out. Around age 33)
- How Patek Philippe produces one of its most ridiculously complex/expensive watches
- Americapox: An interesting theory about why there were no plagues in America to bring back to Europe
- Why You Should Tell Coworkers Your Salary
- xkcd: 10 Questions with Randall Munroe (answered in cartoon form)
Interesting Links for 20-01-2014
Jan. 20th, 2014 11:00 am- Q&A on the allegations against Lord Rennard. (My conclusion: it’s a mess.)
- What's really going on in Pachelbel's Canon?
- Anchorman 2 was Paramount’s final release on 35mm film
- Suddenly I understand how Radians work!
- Lions and donkeys: 10 big myths about World War One debunked
- The Global Divide on Homosexuality
- Most writers earn less than £600 a year, survey reveals
- Early Dr Who fan art by Peter Capaldi
- US tech firms make eleventh-hour attempt to halt tax avoidance reforms
- A big step towards generational and compacting GC for Firefox
- What Happens When the Poor Receive a Stipend? (Much less stress, better outcomes, pays for itself)
- Children's mental health menaced by 'unprecedented toxic climate'
- Three Myths on the World's Poor
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Interesting Links for 01-12-2011
Dec. 1st, 2011 11:00 am- The BBC asks if a family can really live on £40,000 in an article that makes me _really_ angry.
- Landlords Use Computers to Arrive at the Right Rental Fee
- Evidence at the inquiry into journalistic practices shows that some journalists are just scum.
- How to report a strike -- a guide for the British press
- A petition on the Government website to have MP pensions brought into line with the rest of the public sector.
- Fast jet stream winds cannot contribute much renewable energy after all
- Fahrenheit 451 becomes e-book despite author's feelings (Is that the smell of melting plastic?)
- Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps (Android, Blackerry and Nokia affected)
- UK Government opens up more data for free. Met Office, House Prices, Public Transport and more
- Rail line to be reopened between Oxford and Bedford. Nice to see new lines being opened!
- Warren Ellis does an awesome Alan Moore impression
- 11 Celebrities Who Were Secretly Total Badasses
- A brief history of the universe.
- Researcher shows how to "friend" anyone on Facebook within 24 hours (and then steal their identity)
- Boy, 6, Charged With Sexual Assault for Playing Doctor, Parents Sue D.A.
- The 5 Best Toys of All Time. I've played with all of these, and they're awesome.
- HELLO THIS IS LIVEJOURNAL (a spoof of the current password phishing issues)
- 'Aliens on Ice': The Review. Dammit, not playing in Scotland!
- Italian court: Online editors not responsible for reader comments
- The psychological effect that having a high security clearance can have
- Spiritual practice as performance/art. That's something I can live with.
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