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1. UK Medical Academies respond to the government consultation on Growing Up In An Online World: (tags:children internet health safety )
2. The Great Depopulation - how drastic is our population decline going to be?: (tags:population thefuture )
3. Starmer bans Labour councillors from doing deals with Green Party, happy to work with Tories: (tags:Labour GreenParty politics UK OhForFucksSake )
4. Ukrainian intelligence tricked Russian troops who wanted to activate Starlink terminals, got cash and precise locations out of them.: (tags:Ukraine Russia fraud intelligence war communications )
5. The Strange Melancholy of Slaying Monsters: (tags:games morality art violence )
6. Green sector is 5% of Scotland's GDP: (tags:scotland economics renewables )
7. Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn't really Google anymore (I use Kagi and it's great): (tags:search web recommendation )
8. Owner's relief as escaped tortoise found yards away: (tags:tortoise pets headline )

1. Trump plans to put military on the streets to catch criminals (See section 4): (tags:usa police military doom fascism )
2. Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search: (tags:search web )
3. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in Canadian Parliament: (tags:canada Conservatives politics funny )
4. Burying cables costs 10x-20x more than pylons: (tags:electricity infrastructure )
5. "Induced Atmospheric Vibration" may have caused the outages across Spain and Portugal. But what is it?: (tags:electricity )
6. People eat more when given ultra-processed foods than when given unprocessed food.: (tags:diet food weight )
7. White House hits back at Amazon plan to show tariff price rises: (tags:Amazon economics business politics USA )
8. Popular LLMs Found to Produce Vulnerable Code by Default: (tags:security ai fail )
9. Trump is the Godfather in Reverse: (tags:politics economics usa canada china )
10. Why translating Chinese food names into English is 'an impossible task': (tags:translation language china English food )
11. The British Government is not taking climate threats seriously: (tags:uk globalwarming doom )

1. Lake District sewage spill runs non-stop for 42 days after decades of inaction: (tags:water sewage pollution nature regulation UK OhForFucksSake )
2. How the US military made San Francisco gay: (tags:LGBT USA history gay sanfrancisco military )
3. The BBC covers Google's destruction of its search tool (and useful web sites): (tags:Google web search OhForFucksSake )
4. An Age of Gods and Demons: The Greatness of Princess Mononoke: (tags:ghibli review criticism nature Japan history fantasy )
5. When we're banning people from shops based on facial identification, how many errors are acceptable?: Can happen without technology too, of course. I was nearly thrown out of a pub before I opened my mouth and the staff realised I wasn't the person who caused trouble there the week before.
(tags:faces identity society crime UK )
6. The most interesting thing about the Tory National Service announcement is that they're quietly cancelling the "levelling up" funds to pay for it...: (tags:UK conservatives OhForFucksSake money )

Microwaving plastic waste can generate clean hydrogen: (tags:hydrogen plastic microwave )
We have so many things to learn from nature: (tags:nature comic funny )
How to Keep Players Engaged (Without Being Evil): (tags:games design video )
Fire and smoke alarms: changes to the law in Scotland (affects every home): (tags:safety Scotland fire regulation )
MPs to investigate whether artists are paid fairly for streaming music (turns out the labels keep almost 90% of the cash): (tags:music streaming money )
MPs vote to allow undercover agents to commit murder, torture and rape: (tags:murder rape torture law UK )
The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time: (tags:books fantasy )
UK banks not ready for negative interest rates: (tags:UK banking )
If Google disables your account then you can't find out why - even if your husband works there.: (tags:Google OhForFucksSake )
Coronavirus immunity likely to last for several months after infection: (tags:virus immune_system )
Centaurs are clearly insects: (tags:fantasy horses insects )
VIDEO: Amazing Recreation of 14th-Century Construction of Charles IV Bridge in Prague: (tags:construction architecture history video )
World's most prestigious scientific publications issue unprecedented critiques of the Trump administration: (tags:science politics USA viaElfy )
The closed Edinburgh cinema costing £20,000 a month to run: (tags:cinema Edinburgh Scotland pandemic )
Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search: (tags:music search google )
3.6 million people in the UK locked out of home buying. And (in a net basis) the last ten years of house building went to landlords.: (tags:UK housing OhForFucksSake )
'I'm sick of influencers asking for free cake' (and some good examples of them working well together): (tags:advertising food socialmedia )
Betelgeuse Is Neither as Far Nor as Large as We Thought: (tags:space )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3944072.html

Jersey companies incorporated to implement tax scheme were UK resident, says tax tribunal: (tags: tax UK law )
Employment tribunal fees unlawful, Supreme Court rules: (tags: law work UK GoodNews )
A third of female employees were deemed 'a distraction' to male colleagues at work: (tags: clothing gender work uk )
Streaming music and video vastly overwhelms physical media in the UK: (tags: streaming video music uk )
Labour could change its Brexit stance if public mood shifts says member of Jeremy Corbyn's top team: (tags: Labour politics Europe )
Great Scott! This astronaut has probably endured more extremes than anyone: (tags: space mountain arctic )
An interesting piece on Brexit and Corbyn: (tags: politics europe labour uk )
Google Has Dropped Google Instant Search: Shame, I found it really handy.
(tags: Google search )
Facebook’s profits up 71% as it stuffs adverts everywhere: (tags: Facebook advertising business )
Anti-Semitic incidents at record level in UK: (tags: Jews bigotry racism )
Cultural Appropriation: Whose culture is it anyway, and what about hybridity?: (tags: culture intellectual_property cultural_appropriation race )
What if All I Want is a Mediocre Life?: (tags: life )
Robot lawnmowers deployed in Edinburgh parks: (tags: automation edinburgh )
Why was homosexuality only decriminalised in Scotland in 1980?: (tags: scotland law lgbt history )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3602262.html

40% of people find happiness again after major depression (supportive relationships help a lot): (tags: relationships depression happiness )
Google to punish sites that use intrusive pop-over ads: (tags: advertising google search )
"Please never pay a farmer to ask me to marry you": (tags: marriage funny advice )
Virgin trains to have more seats than Labour by 2020: (tags: trains politics funny labour uk )
Hinkley Point nuclear power station: Whitehall officials 'exploring ways UK could pull out of deal': (tags: nuclearpower uk china )
The Guy With The Lowest Possible Rank In Overwatch: (tags: games viaSwampers funny )
Pokemon scanner maths puzzle: (tags: games maths )
How to start a conversation with a girl: (It's early dialogue from Dark Souls)
(tags: games funny relationships )
If sirens sang about things other than sex: (tags: mythology sex funny song )
Margot Robbie on Harley Quinn: (tags: psychology relationships movies comics dc )
The Accidental Origin of the Hit Song ‘American Woman’: (tags: video music history )
We the People, Ewe the Sheeple: (tags: politics democracy )
Lasting Relationships Rely On 2 Traits (kindness and engagement): (tags: relationships )
The Macaroni in 'Yankee Doodle' is Not What You Think: (tags: history fashion uk usa )
What’s New in C# 7.0: (tags: c# programming )
People in Fife are the happiest in Scotland: (tags: scotland happiness viaLizzieCassMaran )
Farming Invented Twice in the Middle East, Genomes Study Reveals: (tags: farming prehistory middle_east genetics )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3497719.html

Hands-free phone use by drivers equally distracting: (tags: phones driving cars safety )
Microsoft Finds Cancer Clues in Search Queries: So, should they tell people that they might have cancer?
(tags: cancer data search microsoft )
Clinton and Sanders: Time to move on: (tags: politics usa )
The best of Feminist Hacker Barbie: (tags: feminism computers hacking )
Some people think that wrestling is unscripted. I...beg to differ.: (tags: dance video impressive )
Lyudmila Pavlichenko: The Deadliest Female Sniper in History: (tags: military women war russia nazis wwii history )
How altered gut microbes cause obesity: (tags: microbiome insulin obesity )
EU immigration has no negative impact on British wages, jobs or public services: (tags: immigration eu uk )
EU Referendum: Know the four possible legal outcomes of Brexit: (tags: europe referendum )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3463675.html

Tax credit cuts will leave the low-paid facing a 93 per cent effective tax rate
- (tags: welfare work tax uk )
Google Turning Its Lucrative Web Search Over to AI Machines
- (tags: Google ai search )
Former Greece finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is setting up a Europe-wide movement to democratise the EU
- (tags: democracy Greece Europe )
Processed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on good science
- (tags: cancer science meat media reporting )
What time is it now? Confusion reigns in Turkey as no one knows whether the clocks have gone back or not
- (tags: turkey time viaPatrickHadfield )
Bart needs your help fucking with Facebook
- (tags: Facebook drugs OhForFucksSake )
The writer of Borderlands comes out as asexual
- (tags: borderlands asexual sexuality )
Talking Female Characters, “Friendzoning,” and Representation With The Writers Of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
- (tags: borderlands representation LGBT feminism Games )
After receiving threats, SXSW cancels panel about online harassment
- (tags: harrassment gaming )
Breaking down cultural appropriation
- (tags: cultural_appropriation )
The Fukushima accident was preventable
- "...if international best practices and standards had been followed, if there had been international reviews, and had common sense prevailed in the interpretation of pre-existing geological and hydrodynamic findings"
- (tags: nuclearpower epicfail )
Hot dog sausages contain human DNA, study says, and many vegetarian ones contain meat
- (tags: food meat people )
Did a study _really_ show that hot dogs are contaminated with human DNA?
- (tags: dna research meat food viaErindubitably )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3359651.html

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3193896.html

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3189826.html

Miliband barred Lamont from attacking bedroom tax for 12 months
(tags: Labour politics )
Victorians Pulling Faces
(tags: history photos )
Treasury's RBS email leak came from Westminster 'referendum dirty tricks' department
(tags: politics Scotland independence )
I am a 14-year-old Yazidi girl given as a gift to an ISIS commander. Here’s how I escaped.
(tags: Iraq isis middle_east )
Riker Googling
(tags: funny StarTrek Google search )
You can blame the British for inventing time in 1850
(tags: time sleep WarrenEllis )
On the dangerous irresponsibility in the latest Doctor Who
(tags: mentalhealth children drwho )
The bottom 90 percent of Americans are poorer today than than in 1987
(tags: inequality poverty usa )
John Wick: An Idiot Killed His Puppy and Now Everyone Must Die
(tags: KeanuReeves assassination movies dogs )
A Gorgeous Short Film About a Magician Who Builds Solar Systems
(tags: space video )
Alcoholics Anonymous: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
(tags: addiction research alcohol )
How many lives do doctors save?
(tags: doctors healthcare )
New findings will improve the sex lives of women with back problems
(tags: sex pain back )
Falling wages are still spoiling Osborne's boasts on growth
(tags: wages UK economics )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3177837.html

Bill Gates has one skill. Sadly, he's never made any money from it.
(tags: billgates )
The search terms that lead people to relationship advice pages are illuminating
(tags: search advice )
California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater
(tags: fracking oil water usa )
About That ‘Common Core’ Math Problem Making the Rounds on Facebook…
(tags: math learning education )
53 Reasons Living In Edinburgh Ruins You For Life
(tags: Edinburgh photos )
Below the poverty line: slum Britain in the 1960s
I'd certainly like to hope that we don't have places as bad as this any more.
(tags: poverty history UK )
The best suggestion I've ever heard for an alternative Harry Potter approach
(tags: harrypotter funny )
"Best quote from Clacton by-election: "Yes I voted UKIP, the Tory MP has done nothing for years"
(tags: politics UK )
What makes for a stable marriage? (with graphs!)
(tags: marriage relationships statistics )
The truth about cows
(tags: cows funny )
10 things female students shouldn’t have to go through at university
(tags: university academia misogyny )
This is what teachers think of Tristram Hunt's 'Hippocratic oath' idea
(tags: teaching EpicStupidity UK )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3166798.html

We're getting closer to understanding how salamanders regenerate limbs
(tags: regeneration biology )
Average Home Sizes Around the World
(tags: housing homes )
The seven craziest findings in the US investigation of Apple’s tax avoidance practices
(tags: tax apple )
Amazon gets into the fanfic business
(tags: fanfic amazon )
How to post-master an album
(tags: music )
Why Facebook Is Doomed And Google Isn't
(tags: google facebook advertising )
Some thoughts on the contract for Amazon's fanfic publishing
(tags: fanfic amazon )
What depression feels like
(tags: comic funny depression )
Authors: Making money by lying to you.
(tags: comic funny fiction )
The world that only formerly-blind people can see
(tags: blindness )
Could the Royal Navy really operate a US Aircraft carrier?
(tags: navy )
You can cross a Corgi with just about anything to get cuteness (and I don't even like Corgis!)
(tags: dogs cute )
How Racism Turned an Interracial Family's Trip to Walmart into a Kidnapping Investigation
(tags: racism usa )
How My Mom Thinks Search Engines Work
(tags: google search )
UKIP MEPs vote against tackling tax evasion
(tags: europe tax ukip )
Google gets into the airborne wind turbines business
(tags: google windpower )
Baby's life saved with groundbreaking 3-D printed device that restored his breathing
(tags: 3dprinting medicine healthcare )
Your Body Does Not Want to Be an Interface
(tags: ui technology ux interface )
'Boys will be boys' in US, but not in Asia
(tags: behaviour gender children )
Iain Banks' mainstream novels subsidised his SciFi
(tags: scifi writing IainBanks )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2917829.html

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