andrewducker | Entries tagged with spiders

1. Scientists have finally worked out how cats produce purring sounds: (tags:cats )
2. Bears, birds and kangaroos: Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2023: (tags:funny photos nature wildlife viacmcmck )
3. When does spider season end? Why there are so many spiders in your house right now and how to stop them: (tags:spiders )
4. X stops showing headlines because Elon Musk thinks it will make posts look better: (tags:twitter ux awful )
5. Can you melt eggs? Quora's AI says "yes," and Google is sharing the result: (tags:ai epicfail fraud google )
6. Private equity managers could face £420m annual bill after legal challenge (this kind of thing is one of the reasons I donate to the Good Law Project): (tags:law uk tax money )
7. Study into trans women in hospitals didn't find one single complaint: (tags:LGBT transgender NHS bigotry conservatives )
8. Finally, a trans debate worth having!: (tags:satire transgender video LGBT )
9. The extreme robot arm that can chop up a ship: (tags:automation ship waste )

1. Scottish Labour MSPs told to oppose employment law devolution motion - despite running on a platform to devolve it: (tags:scotland labour employment law OhForFucksSake )
2. Luxembourg legalises cultivation and consumption of cannabis at home: (tags:europe marijuana legalisation )
3. Amazingly, 5% of NFTs are still worth something: (tags:blockchain money epicfail )
4. How far back into pre-history can we push the earliest societies?: (tags:prehistory Intelligence society )
5. I hope that some day Samuel L Jackson will be hired to play me. And that it's at least as awesome as this ad for bread.: (tags:SamuelLJackson bread advertising video )
6. EU politicians say there is a 'whole pile' of post-Brexit problems to fix before a UK return: (tags:uk europe )
7. Spider silk is spun by silkworms for the first time, offering a green alternative to synthetic fibers: (tags:spiders silk worm materials )
8. Happy September 21st everyone!: (tags:video weird music )

1. Can you beat...The Password Game: (tags:passwords funny game )
2. 10cm African huntsman spider found in Edinburgh suitcase: (tags:spiders aieeee! edinburgh )
3. Edinburgh tram report 'still with publishers' nine weeks on: (tags:Edinburgh trams publishing wtf )
4. The Connection Between Autism And The Gut Microbiome Is Clearer Than Ever: (tags:autism microbiome )
5. Catching Covid? Try not to have blood type A: (tags:blood Pandemic )
6. Canadian Smoke Reaches Europe (the pictures are terrifying): (tags:Canada fire Europe Portugal )
7. do gender differences (sometimes) seem bigger in more gender equal countries? (If people think real sex differences exist, segregation will result regardless of real skill differences): (tags:gender psychology society ViaDrCross )
8. Forcing council meetings to be in person causes those with jobs, children, and disabilities to quit: (tags:disability politics UK parenting work )
9. A Russian soldier on what it's like on their front lines in Ukraine: (tags:Ukraine Russia war epicfail incompetence )
10. US public wants climate change dealt with, but doesn't like the options: (tags:usa globalwarming doom )
11. Sharpie scanning goof reveals major PlayStation budgets and revenues - and that millions of gamers buy a PS just to play Call of Duty: (tags:games playstation sony )

1. The effect of renewable electricity generation on the value of cross-border interconnection: (tags:electricity trade renewables viaDanielDWilliam )
2. Spiders Seem to Have REM-like Sleep and May Even Dream: (tags:spiders dreams )
3. The productivity tax you pay for context switching: (tags:productivity psychology )
4. If you're wondering why the South of England has a water shortage, the government has been blocking new reservoirs for over a decade: (tags:water UK Doom OhForFucksSake )
5. 'Gingerism': the last socially acceptable form of bullying?: (tags:colour hair bullying uk )
6. It's now fair to ask: what the hell is Keir Starmer thinking?: (tags:labour politics UK Doom )
7. France experiencing worst drought on record: (tags:France water Doom )
8. Why your friends get sick before you: (tags:disease connection friends graphs )
9. What if life first evolved in hydrothermal vents *before* there even were genes?: (tags:genetics life prehistory biology chemistry )
10. The crisis at the heart of the Conservative party: (tags:politics UK conservatives )

1. It's Not Just Loot Boxes: Predatory Monetization Is Everywhere in Gaming: (tags:games money gambling )
2. AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe: (tags:biology protein ai )
3. Drought and disease exposure led to Europeans adapting to milk consumption: (tags:milk evolution humans europe )
4. The Fallout From Apple's Bizarre, Dogged Union-Busting Campaign: (tags:apple unions OhForFucksSake )
5. Why Google Sued the Descendants of a Railroad Tycoon and a Civil War General (tiny plots of land in inconvenient places): (tags:google property law )
6. Typical UK families are £8,800 poorer than their counterparts in comparable countries: (tags:inequality uk OhForFucksSake )
7. Keir Starmer has shown his true colours as a pound-shop Blair, reheating Tory dogma about unions: (tags:unions labour politics uk OhForFucksSake )
8. Putin's occupation of Ukraine falters as bankers, doctors and metal workers boycott key jobs: (tags:russia ukraine )
9. The French Data Protection Commission bans Google Analytics: (tags:france dataprotection europe )
10. UK's only gender identity clinic for children is being replaced by eight of them: (tags:LGBT transgender youth children healthcare )
11. Scientists reanimate dead spiders as robot gripping claws: (tags:spiders death technology cyborg )
12. Edinburgh Council wants to know what you think about the licensing of short term rental accommodation: (tags:Edinburgh housing rental viaDanielDWilliam )
13. A poem about science fiction authors by CS Lewis: (tags:CSLewis poetry scifi )
14. Upscaling and an Important Note About Photo "AI": (tags:photos photoshop ai )

Disney's The Shadow King - Henry Selick's Lost Masterpiece: (tags:Disney stopmotion animation video history )
Ten EU countries join France in condemning UK post-Brexit fishing regime: (tags:uk europe fish doom )
How much did Tim Burton have to do with The Nightmare Before Christmas?: (tags:TimBurton neilgaiman animation video history movies )
Issues to consider about Northern Ireland: (tags:NorthernIreland Ireland UK Europe trade usa )
Damnit, now I want a Robin Williams biopic!: (tags:video biography movies )
The real reason Britain failed on coronavirus: (tags:Pandemic epicfail uk )
China's solar power has reached price parity with coal: (tags:china solarpower coal GoodNews )
Scared Of Spiders? There's An App For That. (I've downloaded it myself to give it a go): (tags:phobia spiders apps psychology )
The role of class in the "Bad Art Friend" story: (tags:writing class behaviour )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4098548.html

Tesla autopilot will randomly swerve towards pedestrians: (tags:Tesla automation driving murder epicfail video )
The Fellowship of the Walk: (tags:lotr video funny music )
When Republicans control state legislatures, infant mortality is higher: (tags:politics usa healthcare children death )
Scottish taxes don't subsidise English spending: (tags:Scotland UK England tax )
I look forward to the forthcoming definition of "British TV" that some poor bureaucrat is going to have to try and come up with: (tags:UK TV WTF regulation conservatives )
Are *you* ready for Autumn Spider Festival?: (tags:spiders comic aieeee! )
Giant fossilised penguin found by New Zealand school children is previously unknown species: (tags:penguins paleontology newzealand )
Study confirms superior sound of a Stradivari is due to the varnish: (tags:music violin history materials )
Massive age-related division opens up in British society on a new front: (tags:time language age UK )
Why Is Inflation Rising Right Now? A Stuffed Toy Shows Why: (tags:trade China USA doom )
Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin: (tags:google apple russia OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4086976.html

Third dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine generates strong immune boost: (tags:vaccine GoodNews pandemic )
The Race to Put Silk in Nearly Everything: (tags:materials silk spiders Goats history manufacturing )
Funding for Additional Support Need pupils falls by £1,000 per child (but doubles overall, as 30% of children now have ASN): (tags:children scotland money )
UK is the poorest nation in northwest Europe, per person: (tags:UK epicfail Europe gdp economy )
AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines can be safely mixed to generate high Covid protection: (tags:Pandemic vaccine GoodNews )
The Cambridge autonomous bus is... not impressive: (tags:automation driving transport bus )
Amazon is using (rubbish) algorithms with little human intervention to fire Flex workers: (tags:Amazon automation business HumanResources OhForFucksSake )
Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines Likely to Produce Lasting Immunity: (tags:vaccine GoodNews )
China's CoronaVac jab safe and effective in children as young as three: (tags:children vaccine GoodNews pandemic China )
Mexico's Supreme Court has decriminalised the private use of cannabis by adults: (tags:marijuana Mexico law GoodNews )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4055164.html

Report outlines 80 ways Scotland could tackle climate change: (tags:scotland globalwarming )
Food shortages down to chronic lack of HGV drivers, business leaders warn: (tags:food UK transport Doom )
Scottish Green members criticise party's talks with SNP over transphobia: (tags:lgbt transgender bigotry GreenParty snp )
Vegan spider silk provides sustainable alternative to single-use plastics: (tags:plastic silk spiders vegan )
Brexit: Another mobile company to bring back roaming charges: (tags:UK mobile_phones Europe OhForFucksSake )
Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11 with Amazon's Appstore: (tags:Windows Android Amazon apps )
Windows 11 is much more than a new theme slapped onto Windows 10: (tags:windows thefuture )
Why isn't there more pumped hydro in the UK?: (tags:UK water power )
World's first cultured meat-production plant opens in Israel (5,000 burgers a day): (tags:food manufacturing Israel )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4053576.html

Wireless Charging Is Really Inefficient: (tags:electricity efficiency wireless viaSwampers )
Rate of dementia in Europe and N. America declined 13%/decade over past 25 years: (tags:dementia GoodNews )
Report ranks UK's legal gender recognition among the worst in Europe: (tags:Europe UK transgender LGBT )
Coronavirus: Tighter rules on visors, masks and contacts in Scotland: (tags:Scotland pandemic )
Crickets and Spiders. Dutch people and Nazis. The epigenetics of fear.: (tags:genetics epigenetics spiders fear Nazis history Holland )
Design Docs at Google: (tags:Google design )
CNO neutrinos from the Sun are finally detected: (tags:physics sun )
Canada's Last Fully Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Collapses: (tags:Canada Arctic globalwarming Doom )
German nudist chases wild boar that stole laptop (headline and photo of the week): (tags:headline photos nudity Germany pigs )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3910547.html

The world's oldest known spider.: I'm glad I read this, even if I do now itch all over
(tags: spiders )
The cards while not be stacked this badly against anyone: (tags: society inequality )
Calls for complete overhaul of 'unfit' inheritance tax system: I always liked the idea of treating or as income, and so subject to income tax
(tags: tax death uk )
'Dirty money': U-turn as Tories back plans to make tax havens transparent: (tags: tax uk )
Even those participants who claimed pop culture is unimportant suffered psychological ill effects from feeling out of the loop: (tags: culture psychology happiness )
Writer Picks Up Poker For Book Stunt, Wins So Much Money That The Book Is On Hold: (tags: poker journalism games viaCipherGoth )
Cheerleaders are taking their teams to court for, basically, pimping them out: (tags: sports usa sex )
Switch for turning off fear found in brains of mice: (tags: fear emotion mice )
Japan: robot dogs get solemn Buddhist send-off at funerals: (tags: robots dogs religion death )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3683463.html

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