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The Highest City in the World Celebrates Its Indigenous Culture with Neo-Andean Architecture: (tags:design Bolivia architecture colour )
Boris Johnson bridge to Northern Ireland would cost over £300bn and should not be built, government review finds: (tags:uk NorthernIreland trains )
Edinburgh's tram extension: Leith Walk faces longer closure after project hits problems (still within overall budget and timescales though): (tags:construction Edinburgh trams )
Study: How Conservative Think Tanks are Destroying the Planet: (tags:globalwarming Doom apocalypse conspiracy conservatives republicans )
I'm starting to think that the UK government is *trying* to collect all the variants: (tags:Pandemic southafrica OhForFucksSake )
Disney TV channels are losing about 10% of their viewers per year. I wonder if that applies generally to broadcast TV: (tags:TV Disney broadcast )
"Count To Ten" - a short animated comic I rather enjoyed, about taking the wrong road: (tags:life comic animation video )
Visually-impaired artists share their world: (tags:art disability sight )
Novel mind-body program outperforms other treatments for chronic back pain: (tags:pain back )
The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire: (tags:internet design security )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4117795.html

Far Cry 6âs accessibility options are a breath of fresh air: (tags:games disability sight )
Who, in the UK, has a license to kill?: (tags:murder uk law )
Children poisoned by birthday cake decorations loaded with lead, copper (Ah, America): (tags:USA lead cakes food children )
Drone footage shows extent of Dumfries flooding: (tags:Scotland flooding video )
Fishing row a test of UK's credibility - Macron: Better translation: It âis essential toÂ demonstrate to European public opinion that respect for formal commitments is not negotiable and that Â leaving the Union has more disadvantages than remaining within it.â
(tags:UK France fishing )
Fisher Price have turned an educational toy into a pure piece of entertainment. That's a shame: (tags:toys children education )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4106202.html

Help! I don't understand relationships! Can I use crypto to make her not leave me???: (tags:relationships money cryptography OhForFucksSake )
Covid causes brain damage (in the parts to do with taste and smell): (tags:pandemic brain )
The Mystery at the Heart of Physics—That Only Math Can Solve: (tags:physics quantum mathematics )
Labour are apparently picking a new group of voters each month to alienate. This month: Muslims!: (tags:Islam labour politics UK wtf )
How your eyes lie to you. And then lie about the past too.: (tags:viaEatSoylentGreen eyes sight brain fraud )
More Husband than Female: Gender Renegades in the 18th and 19th century: (tags:history transgender LGBT )
Do you like receiving parcels, but have too much stuff? Packajoy has a solution for you!: (tags:funny satire viaEatSoylentGreen )
Could Mitochondria Be the Key to a Healthy Brain?: (tags:mitochondria disease autism )
Review of Scottish education system finds that exams are the problem: (tags:exams Education scotland )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4052005.html

Who had Michael Bay in the "making a movie about the pandemic far too soon" sweepstakes?: (tags:movies michaelbay pandemic )
Recovered COVID-19 patients test positive but not infectious: (tags:virus pandemic )
The public do not??understand logarithmic graphs used to portray COVID-19: (tags:visualisation communication pandemic )
Why some Animal Crossing players are restarting Islands they've put hundreds of hours into: (tags:games stress pandemic viaSwampers )
Life in lockdown - from a seven-year-old's perspective!: (tags:poetry children Scotland pandemic video )
In the history of Disney animated movies there have been exactly 18 types of songs: (tags:music Disney ontology )
Neil Gaiman: An apology: (tags:neilgaiman apology pandemic )
Blind people 'read' letters that are traced on their brains with electricity: (tags:cyborg sight technology blindness )
UK government hasn't banned gay conversion therapy two years after pledge to end practice: (tags:LGBT UK OhForFucksSake )
South Korean football team apologises for using sex dolls to fill stands: (tags:headline football sex korea )

What do the EU think about the current UK approach to Brexit?: (tags:UK Europe politics )
Parents say religious worship is least appropriate activity for school assemblies: (tags:religion school uk )
Islamophobic incidents rose 375% after Boris Johnson compared Muslim women to 'letterboxes': (tags:islam racism uk Conservatives BorisJohnson OhForFucksSake )
Boris Johnson is completely deluded about the EU: (tags:Europe UK Doom wtf )
The Simpsons dubbed with Half-Life SFX: (tags:games Simpsons video weird )
In which a final ship arrives from the Grey Havens: (tags:lotr comics )
Emperor's New Clothes - A brilliant spoof of Kickstarters for board games: (tags:games satire kickstarter funny viaDanielDWilliam )
Teenager ends up with severe eye damage (enough to be registered blind) from living off crisps and chips.: What annoys me here is that there's clearly a sensory issue going on, but nobody seems to be trying to help them work through this. Just "Eat some veg". People don't restrict their diet this much because they like crisps a lot. They do it because the texture of anything else makes them feel awful.
(tags:food sight OhForFucksSake )
How did pole vaulting even get invented?: (tags:sports slowmotion video )
Labour set to block snap general election over fears of a Boris Johnson no-deal Brexit trick: (tags:UK Europe elections politics )
Scottish elections could move to every five years: (tags:elections scotland )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3820194.html

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3806828.html

An astrobiologist tries cooking in Antarctica at -70ÂºC.: (tags:viaFanf antarctic cooking temperature )
I Don't Think a Woman is Electable In 2020 Because Last Time Around the Female Nominee Only Got Three Million More Votes Than Her Opponent: (tags:politics USA women satire )
Your eyes are the key to distracted driving, not your brain: (tags:driving sight )
The Cannabis Debate: Brits think UK should follow Canada and make drug legal: (tags:UK marijuana legalisation )
Liberals are rising up to oppose 'populists' like Putin, Trump and Farage: (tags:liberal libdem politics )
Straws: UK government to bring in new controls on plastic: (tags:UK plastic )
All the ways in which flag-fetishist "patriots" are actually disrespecting the symbol they claim to venerate.: (tags:flags usa )
Sean Bean finally gets the role he was born for: (tags:yorkshire tea advertising )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3803948.html

Researchers showed participants the fictional biographies of two senators, identical except gender. When described as “ambitious” and having “a strong will to power,” the man was more popular. But the same description about woman provoked moral ou: (tags: politics women usa OhForFucksSake )
A Brexit withdrawal agreement in name only: (tags: uk europe )
Toxic management cost award-winning Telltale Game Studios its best developers: (tags: games management OhForFucksSake )
15 Ways Men Can Fight Workplace Gender Bias: (tags: bias work men )
FactCheck: Did the BBC edit a photo of Jeremy Corbyn to make him look close to Russia?: (tags: labour russia bbc funny )
Ricky Gervais is so achingly desperate to offend trans people in new Netflix special that he didn’t bother with much comedy: (tags: transgender comedy review lgbt )
Macular degeneration cured in stem-cell breakthrough: (tags: sight age stem_cells thefuture awesome )
What would constitute 'genuinely affordable home'?: (tags: housing UK epicfail )
If you invented New Orleans nobody would believe the maps were real: (tags: maps new_orleans funny fantasy )
Subsidy-free renewable energy projects set to soar in UK: (tags: renewables uk GoodNews )
There's something delightful about tennis champion Serena Williams discussing Avatar: TLA on Twitter: (tags: )
“Queen & Country” Definitive Edition review (I read the first collection years ago and liked it. This is going on the wish list): (tags: )
A man has just been convicted of a criminal offence for filming his dog giving Nazi salutes. Please let me try and convince you in a few tweets why this is a bad thing: (tags: )
Settlers of Catan - now available in VR: (tags: )
A Firefox add-on to let you read the FT and WSJ: (tags: )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3670664.html

Why you shouldn't body shame Donald Trump: (tags: shame bullying bodies )
Be my eyes - helping partially sighted people out using a simple app: (tags: sight apps disabilities )
The British Drea - your slogans collapsing in real time.: (tags: politics uk satire funny ViaDrCross )
What's going on with inflation?: (tags: economics inequality )
Anna and the Apocalypse: A zombie-Christmas-high school musical can’t be this good: (tags: movies zombies review )
An introduction to North Korean graphic design: (tags: NorthKorea design )
London's Hidden Tunnels Revealed In Amazing Cutaways: (tags: London 3d design )
Australian police ran world's largest child porn forum for a year: (tags: children rape police web )
Elon Musk debates the singularity with Rick and Morty tweeting about the singularity: (tags: singularity wtf )
MagicLeap - still making millions from made-up tech: (tags: technology augmentedreality fail )
Freedom of Speech Isn't About Speech: (tags: freespeech )
Be amongst the first people to see the brain’s lymphatic system: (tags: brain )
"I was in the MAPS MDMA for PTSD study": (tags: ecstasy drugs mentalhealth psychology ptsd )
This is what the pilot sees and the passengers do not seeDuring landing at Queenstown New Zealand: (tags: airplanes video )
Trump administration rejects Theresa May’s post-Brexit agriculture deal with EU: (tags: UK Europe usa trade )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3623401.html

Britain's housing shortage takes marriage, children, and careers off the agenda for millions: (tags: society housing uk relationships marriage )
Panama Papers Show How Rich United States Clients Hid Millions Abroad: (tags: usa tax )
The Condorcet Paradox at work? Rock-paper-scissors in the EU referendum: (tags: referendum europe immigration voting paradox viaFanf )
Uncovering a 30 year old C64 bug: (tags: bug Technology history )
The Five Monkeys Experiment Obviously Never Happened: (tags: monkeys science psychology meme )
Babies don't just look cute, they even smell cute: (tags: cute babies smell sight touch )
The Simulation Argument FAQ: (tags: simulation matrix philosophy reality )
A friend in Edinburgh is starting up a parent+kids choir: (tags: music edinburgh )
Saturday Morning Watchmen - disturbingly entertaining!: (tags: watchmen animation funny )
Genetic variations linked with social, economic success: (tags: genetics genes success )
In US, poverty dampens genetic influence on IQ: (tags: iq genetics genes poverty usa )
Connection established between anxiety control, inflammation, Type 2 diabetes: (tags: anxiety diabetes inflammation )
2001 A Space Odyssey Fail (when every member of the orchestra plays the wrong instrument): (tags: music fail video )
Disadvantages of purely functional programming: (tags: programming )
NoScript is harmful and promotes Malware!: (tags: advertising web OhForFucksSake )
Psychopathic colleagues can be helpful and co-operative: Or, perhaps more accurately, "psychopathy is a mixture of different traits, not all of which are necessarily harmful."
(tags: psychopath psychology work )
It’s Not Just Robots: Skilled Jobs Are Going to “Meatware”: (tags: work Technology thefuture )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3462220.html

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3133185.html

Tax avoidance investigations into big businesses get more aggressive - and pull in nearly £1billion more
(tags: tax uk )
The curious case of the blind man who could still see.
(tags: blindness sight brains odd )
Fifty Shades of Grey is now the bestselling book ever on Amazon - beating off Harry Potter.
(tags: FiftyShadesOfGrey books publishing amazon business harrypotter )
New drywall building material can cut buildings' energy consumption by 40% by stabilising temperature.
(tags: temperature construction housing technology )
I just pledged towards a Kickstarter for finding out how to make America more like Scandinavia
(tags: usa scandinavia liberal society economics books kickstarter TimWorstall )
Dan "Community" Harmon has _three_ shows in development. Yaaaaaay!
(tags: viaJohnCoxon tv community DanHarmon )
Wrigley Co. Uses Bestiality to Sell Skittles
(tags: funny food bestiality viaJWZ )
Real life mech! Or possibly very nicely faked mech! Either way: mech!
(tags: awesome video robot mecha )
Cabinet discusses full nationalisation of RBS
(tags: uk banking rbs )
007 - The Business of Bond
Don't forget to click "adjust for inflation" to see how the early movies compare. Particularly considering their budgets.
(tags: money JamesBond movies )
Valve's Source Engine runs faster on Linux than it does on Windows.
(tags: valve windows linux games computers opengl )
E-book festival aimed to attract 25,000 people - manged less than 100.
(tags: ebooks festival EpicFail )
Hamas blasts Palestinian official's Auschwitz visit
(tags: palestine israel Holocaust Jews )
No-frills savings plans outlined by the UK Treasury.
Can't see them being popular, myself. If the government wants a good baseline savings product it could do them itself, via the Post Office.
(tags: banks savings uk )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2762250.html

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2639669.html

On Parenthood. A touching and funny piece on the changes children bring.
(tags: children life emotion )
Tony Blair is now doing Public Relations work for repressive regimes
(tags: tonyblair diplomacy kazakhstan )
Man demoted for having non-job-related opinions on Facebook.
(tags: freespeech lgbt uk social_networking facebook )
Zimbabwe's PM Morgan Tsvangirai in gay rights U-turn
(tags: lgbt rights zimbabwe )
Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing. Nice cast.
(tags: shakespeare joss_whedon )
Emotional experiences are lessened by talking about them, utilitarian ones are increased.
(tags: emotion experience psychology )
Exposure to chemical BPA before birth linked to behavioral, emotional difficulties in girls
(tags: children gender development emotion )
More time outdoors may reduce kids' risk for nearsightedness
(tags: sight eyesight )
Physicist Cracks BBQ Mystery
(tags: cooking food barbequeue science )
How Valve experiments with the economics of video games - GeekWire
"The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates."
(tags: valve economics games business steam )
FBI Changes Rape Definition
(tags: rape usa fbi )
The Hobbit as JRR Tolkien imagined it – in pictures
(tags: Tolkein thehobbit )
Which? magazine to test value of degrees
(tags: education university reviews )
“We’re a culture, not a costume." - an eye-catching anti-racism campaign
(tags: race cultural_appropriation )
There are 10cm wide single-celled organisms living 6 miles down under the sea.
(tags: sea life )
Financial incentives for wave and tidal energy schemes to double, wind,biomass to drop by 10%
(tags: renewables electricity uk )
American-style sugar daddy parties are coming to UK. I had never heard of this.
(tags: uk usa relationships age )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2566384.html

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