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Interesting Links for 05-10-2022

Oct. 5th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
(tags:europe usb law )
2. New dominant Covid symptom as experts warn UK already in new wave
(tags:Pandemic Doom )
3. British police are arresting people over Kiwifarms posts
(tags:LGBT transgender police UK GoodNews )
4. More animals are social than you'd think
(tags:animals social behaviour )
5. LAPD Officer Killed During Exercise Was Investigating Cops Accused of Rape
(tags:police rape murder USA )
6. How Paris Will Become 100% Cyclable
(tags:France Paris bicycles transport )
7. Netflix has a bunch of good animation that you probably don't know about..
(tags:animation Netflix recommendation viaSwampers )
8. UK's economic policies could cause many more deaths than Covid
(tags:uk economics death )
9. The Balto/Togo theory of scientific development
(tags:dogs science )
10. Scotland's NHS given £600m to help it cope with winter and retain demoralised staff
(tags:scotland nhs money )
11. Six-month rent freeze for almost 1m households in Scotland approved by MSPs
(tags:scotland rental )
12. Forget the naughty step, your child (and probably you) need emotion coaching
(tags:emotion children psychology )
13. Labour urges Suella Braverman to ramp up asylum seeker deportations
(tags:labour asylum immigration )
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Interesting Links for 18-07-2019

Jul. 18th, 2019 01:35 pm
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I'd never heard of "Paris Syndrome" before. (Fascinating, but rare - Japanese people so shocked to discover that it's different to the movies they fail to cope)
(tags:japan france reality movies Paris mentalhealth )
Modeling the Mythical Man-Month (or: The ideal number of people in a team is about 3)
(tags:teams efficiency productivity )
Psychologists are studying polyamory
(tags:psychology polyamory relationships )
Human presence alone has lethal effect on large predators
(tags:humans predator behaviour animals wildlife )
Isn't Everyone On The Spectrum?
(tags:autism society )
Explaining Japan's 99.9% Conviction Rate
(tags:law japan )
Autistic Spectroscopy: Exploring what the "spectrum" means
(tags:autism )
How does OpenStreetMap keep track of where your home is when the continents won't hold still?
(tags:OpenStreetMap maps data earth time )
Trial By Trolley - a social game of philosophical conundrums
(tags:morality games kickstarter )
Live Action Warhammer 40,000 TV Show 'Eisenhorn' Announced
(tags:Warhammer tv )
Gorillas have humanlike social structure
(tags:gorillas social behaviour )
The Glorious, Profitable, Inescapable Art of Addiction (in games)
(tags:games addiction design )
Scottish town named top cruise ship destination in Western Europe
(tags:Scotland ocean holidays tourism )
No Deal Brexit forecast to lead to a £30 billion a year hit to the public finances per year, according to the first official projection from the Government's independent budgetary watchdog - the OBR
(tags:europe uk doom )
An interview with Margaret Hamilton: The woman whose programming helped us land on the moon
(tags:NASA space programming women history )
The lesson from the ruins of Notre Dame: don't rely on billionaires
(tags:charity wealth France fraud viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 24-09-2018

Sep. 24th, 2018 12:00 pm
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Majority Of Voters Back Urgent Reform Of Westminster System
(tags: reform voting uk )
Why it matters that Bert and Ernie are gay, which they are
(tags: lgbt muppets SesameStreet )
Octopuses on MDMA reveal genetic evolution link to human social behaviors
(tags: social octopus ecstasy psychology )
Continental Drift - It's amazing how recent anything even vaguely resembling modern continents arise
(tags: geology geography video time )
How the World Map Looks Wildly Different Than You Think
(tags: video maps world size )
Solar panels replaced tarmac on a motorway. Here are the results.
(tags: solarpower roads fail )
App update rejected for mentioning iPhone XR in release notes
(tags: apple wtf )
Chechnya starts concentration camps for gay men, first time after Hitler
(tags: lgbt homosexuality Chechnya fascism bigotry OhForFucksSake )
Labour's new Brexit referendum would not offer option to remain in EU, says John McDonnell
(tags: Labour UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
No one understands why DC is now removing Batman’s penis from comic
(tags: comics penis censorship )
Malware Disguised as Job Offers Distributed on Freelance Sites
(tags: jobs malware virus OhForFucksSake )
“Unadoptable” shelter cats get second chance at life by chasing mice
(tags: cats mice jobs )
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Interesting Links for 07-12-2017

Dec. 7th, 2017 01:00 pm
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Screaming dinosaurs and pop music. What's not to like?
(tags: music dinosaurs video )
Bitcoin’s energy consumption, explained
(tags: bitcoin electricity )
Sad poop emoji gets flushed after row
(tags: emoji faeces )
Person of the Year: Time honours abuse 'silence breakers'
(tags: abuse media )
Theresa May "I have a method for avoiding a hard Irish border, but it is too large to fit in this margin"
(tags: Ireland NorthernIreland UK europe politics OhForFucksSake )
Autistic social problems partially down to neurotypicals shunning them
(tags: autism communication social psychology viaJennieRigg )
Genetically mutated rats could be released in Britain to solve rodent problem
(tags: rats genetics uk )
The impossible heterosexuality of losing weight.
(tags: lgbt desire weight society viaLizzieCassMaran )
Extinct kangaroo-like lion discovered in Australia
(tags: Australia animals )
China's debt levels pose stability risk, says IMF
(tags: China debt )
What is the secret to being more assertive? Having self respect
(tags: psychology self-esteem respect )
Australian stock exchange to move to blockchain
(tags: database stocks Technology )
The Big Vitamin D Mistake
(tags: vitaminD )
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Interesting Links for 16-10-2017

Oct. 16th, 2017 12:00 pm
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No link found between psychedelics and mental health issues
(tags: mentalhealth psychology psychedelics )
Great Ormond Street Hospital failing intersex children
(tags: lgbt sex children uk )
When you find out one of your friends is a creep
(tags: abuse society )
Stranger Danger: Drone Edition
(tags: drone children wtf )
I have always felt that the USA was a bit...untidy
(tags: usa design comic )
How to negotiate your own Brexit, a simple guide
(tags: UK Europe politics OhForFucksSake )
A “negative emissions” plant has opened in Iceland
(tags: Iceland co2 Technology )
New figures show Britain £500bn poorer than thought
(tags: UK money OhForFucksSake debt )
Were There Dark Ages?
Read the comments.
(tags: history )
More details on Britain being £500Bn poorer than we thought.
Oddly, paywalled on mobile for me, but not on desktop. No idea what the Telegraph is playing at!
(tags: money uk europe economics OhForFucksSake )
Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to eavesdropping
(tags: wifi Technology security fail )
Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination
(tags: gender biology hormones genetics )
Find a gym buddy – not letting them down may be the most powerful incentive to get exercising
(tags: exercise psychology motivation social )
Frequent hair dye use linked to increased breast cancer risk
(tags: cancer breasts hair )
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Interesting Links for 13-10-2017

Oct. 13th, 2017 12:00 pm
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EU tells Britain it will make no concessions to break 'disturbing deadlock' in Brexit negotiations
(tags: uk europe )
Predicting the next five years of Virtual Reality technology
(tags: VirtualReality Technology thefuture )
New York Is Throwing Money at Film Shoots, But Who Benefits?
(tags: movies newyork money )
Harvey Weinstein: Did everyone really know?
(tags: abuse hollywood movies media )
Horseshoe bus seats introduced to encourage passengers to talk to each other
(tags: OhForFucksSake transport social )
Every warning sign has a story.
(tags: sign )
Las Vegas Is Only the Deadliest Shooting in US History Because Black Lives Aren’t Counted
(tags: usa violence death racism )
Finally! The real explanation for why cats behave the way they do
(tags: cats funny viaJennieRigg )
Why I’m not surprised when I hear that powerful men are fucking creeps
(tags: abuse rape work )
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy to return in 2018
(tags: HHG2G radio )
Fighting racism: Teaching kids to identify individual black people can reduce racial bias
(tags: racism psychology )
TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code
For the intro text, explaining how it came to be.
(tags: programming fail )
Eating magic mushrooms can treat depression
(tags: psychedelics depression psychology )
Food poverty in the UK is, frankly, disgusting
(tags: food poverty inequality uk )
DNA, tribal identity, and a new history of the old New World
(tags: usa history genetics race )
Birmingham Islamic faith school guilty of sex discrimination for segregating children
(tags: islam school discrimination gender children )
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Interesting Links for 05-10-2017

Oct. 5th, 2017 12:00 pm
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Could Catalonia make a success of independence?
(tags: independence catalonia spain europe )
The U.S. Has Never Been So Polarized On Guns
(tags: guns usa polls )
Prosocial attitudes predict depression
(tags: depression social psychology )
Dimming of Tabby’s Star likely caused by something less sexy than aliens
(tags: space )
Mental training changes brain structure and reduces social stress
(tags: brain stress meditation )
We need better sex education in schools
(tags: sex education school uk porn )
Bids in 300MW Saudi solar tender breach two cents
(tags: solarpower saudiarabia )
Gender Bias in AI translation
(tags: translation Google bias society gender OhForFucksSake language turkey )
Pretending to be Batman helps kids stay on task
(tags: batman psychology concentration )
Theresa May's shift towards presumed-consent organ donation praised by charities and patients
(tags: organdonor England )
List: Everything You Know About Me, the Female Character You’re Falling in Love With in a Romantic Film/TV Show Written by a Man
(tags: Gender writing romance tv movies )
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Interesting Links for 23-08-2017

Aug. 23rd, 2017 12:00 pm
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Sadly many people today, often in without realizing it, endorse a key tenet of Hitler's social project: the theory of "degenerate art".
(tags: art nazis criticism )
Your kids will see internet porn. Deal with it
(tags: porn children society )
The Web’s Most Toxic Trolls Live in … Vermont?
(tags: troll usa maps )
There is no such thing as the true self, but it’s still a useful psychological concept
(tags: identity psychology )
Sperm Count in Western Men Has Dropped Over 50 Percent Since 1973
(tags: reproduction men )
Home Office used charity data map to deport rough sleepers
(tags: UK homelessness immigration )
Yoga and meditation improve mind-body health and stress resilience
(tags: stress meditation )
14 per cent of the variance in social skills comes from two genes
(tags: genetics social sociability )
Greetings from Liverpool, where one of the world's greatest ever bands have sort of reformed
(tags: music klf )
"I've got questions about the Rainbow Cinematic Universe"
(tags: children tv funny )
People worry far too much about the Eclipse
(tags: sun eyes )
"My Personal Feminism"
(tags: feminism )
The great free speech online debate
(tags: freespeech )
Noel Edmonds new TV show is "the worst idea in the world, stretched out for all eternity"
(tags: tv review )
Game of Thrones theory: what does the Night King really want?
(tags: gameofthrones )
Unable to get a domain, racist Daily Stormer retreats to the Dark Web
(tags: web censorship nazis )
Driver’s license facial recognition tech leads to 4,000 New York arrests
(tags: crime faces identity usa )
Branch Prediction - how computer processors guess what they're going to do next
(tags: processor computer Technology )
Inside a super fast CSS engine
(tags: firefox web performance )
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Interesting Links for 16-08-2017

Aug. 16th, 2017 12:00 pm
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Advice to the Only Actor Who's Realized They're in a Shitty Film 
(tags: movies bad advice )
Why Nazi symbols should not be covered by Freedom of Speech
(tags: freespeech nazis )
Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong
(tags: mathematics research )
Who runs a social media campaign without checking how it can be abused?????
Seriously. How incompetent do you have to be nowadays???
(tags: twitter fail OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
Words Used to Describe Genitals in Fanfic
(tags: fanfic genitals funny language )
Amazon’s Instant Pickup turns it into Argos
(tags: Amazon )
Same-sex couples do not influence their adoptive children's gender identity
(tags: lgbt gender children )
Video presentation on C# 7
(tags: programming c# microsoft )
Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome (fascinating, and related to autism)
(tags: social anxiety autism psychology )
Red panda and bull amongst animals that escaped Edinburgh Zoo - one of which made it to Cramond!
(tags: zoo edinburgh animals fail )
America At The End of All Hypotheticals
(tags: freespeech nazis politics usa )
The companies who want to dissolve your dead body
(tags: death chemistry technology business )
Deep in the belly of a giant fiberglass triceratops, eight rare bats have made a home
(tags: bats dinosaurs )
SNP-Labour coalition in Edinburgh reveals plans for the next five years
(tags: Edinburgh )
More intelligent people are quicker to learn (and unlearn) social stereotypes
This would be me. I had to go through stereotypes and out the other side to get any kind of understanding of people.
(tags: stereotypes Intelligence )
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Interesting Links for 20-03-2017

Mar. 20th, 2017 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 16-03-2017

Mar. 16th, 2017 12:00 pm
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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 )
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Interesting Links for 31-12-2016

Dec. 31st, 2016 12:00 pm
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Africa's naming traditions
(tags: africa names )
Insurance firm to replace human workers with AI system
(tags: japan ai insurance jobs )
Nobody should ever do business with this company
(tags: xkcd business data funny names )
Russia vows to delete all White House videogame saves
(tags: games funny satire russia usa hacking )
Inside the Lab that Grows Human Skin to Test Cosmetics
(tags: testing cosmetics makeup humans bodies )
25 Masterpieces That Prove 2016 Was an Incredible Year for Architecture
(tags: architecture design )
Once mocked, Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram was a stroke of genius
(tags: facebook photos business )
Foxconn aims to totally automate its factories
(tags: automation manufacturing )
China announces ban on ivory trade by end of 2017
(tags: china elephants GoodNews )
How Watership Down was written
(tags: writing creativity rabbits stories uk history )
The History of Keeping the Damned Women Out (of university)
(tags: history Education uk women viaFanf )
The Guardian’s Summary of Julian Assange’s Interview Was Completely False
(tags: guardian OhForFucksSake JulianAssange news )
White House fails to make case that Russian hackers tampered with election
(tags: russia usa hacking fail )
5 Rules for Hosting a Crappy Dinner Party (and Seeing Your Friends More Often)
(tags: food social )
Saudi Arabia jails man for a year after he publically called for end of male control over women
(tags: women saudiarabia rights OhForFucksSake )
There's nothing less electable than "electability"
(tags: politics )
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Interesting Links for 29-12-2016

Dec. 29th, 2016 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 21-06-2016

Jun. 21st, 2016 12:00 pm
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"My dad thought HIS dad was dead until I was a year old. Then he found him in the Toronto phone book."
(tags: family parenting history viaLProven )
The cultural case for remaining in Europe
(tags: europe art referendum uk )
25 Old Comics Without Context That Are Beyond Disturbing
(tags: comics funny viaPhilmoPhlegm )
Where Geek Girls Come From
(tags: geeks women )
Silencing of gene affects people's social lives
(tags: genetics social psychology )
Researchers link childhood hunger, violence later in life
See all those kids whose parents can't afford to feed them well right now...
(tags: hunger food violence self-control )
Adolescents respond well to rewards, basically ignore punishment
(tags: reward learning punishment adolescence teenagers psychology )
Some real-life inspirations for the last GoT episode's battle
(tags: war history gameofthrones )
Poll reveals third of Leave voters believe MI5 conspiring with Government to stop Brexit
(tags: conspiracy uk politics voting referendum europe )
#NoWomanEver is full of snarky goodness
(tags: abuse twitter women )
A Third of Valve is Now Working on VR
(tags: valve VirtualReality )
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Interesting Links for 23-03-2016

Mar. 23rd, 2016 12:00 pm
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The USA legalises the use of propaganda against its own citizens
(tags: propaganda usa law OhForFucksSake )
Are we past peak zombie?
(tags: zombies )
Do not put your baby in this
(tags: design babies )
Talking Publicly About Harassment Generates More Harassment
(tags: harrassment abuse feminism )
5 How-To Comics for Socially Awkward People
(tags: advice social comics funny true )
Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice is the most incoherent blockbuster in years
(tags: superman batman movies review comics )
A fascinating chart of the middle class share of wealth
(tags: wealth class visualisation )
The difference between men and women preparing for a first date. (I had no idea)
(tags: safety dating gender )
Legendary Glasgow castle is unearthed by archaeologists
(tags: glasgow scotland history archeology )
Google to expand Android Pay digital wallet to UK
(tags: uk payment google android )
Survey: support for Scottish independence is at a 15 year high
(tags: scotland independence poll )
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