Interesting Links for 02-02-2015
Feb. 2nd, 2015 11:00 am- The BBC are only allowing men into the "World's Toughest Army" TV show
- Unsurprisingly the most popular Kickstarter of all time includes both kittens and explosions
- How do codes of conduct and safe spaces work, when there's supposed to be touching and songs about sex?
- The Love Triangle in The Hobbit - not nearly as bad as most
- The eight types of marriages in the Bible
- The BBC appears to think that men aged 25-44 were the group most in need of their own TV channel
- Hot dog + Cookie dough = ......
- My favourite explanation of the demographics of religion
- The most impressive stripping I have ever seen
- J.K. Rowling is hardcore
- New device allows brain to bypass spinal cord, move paralyzed limbs
Neurobridge
- How Network Science Is Changing Our Understanding of Law
- Open letter from the prime minsiter of Greece to German readers: That which you were never told about Greece
- Low-income students more likely than ever to apply to university
- Open Food Facts - a database of food products from around the world
- For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark implications
- Obama plans tax on US firms overseas to fix roads at home
- A&E crisis caused by NHS 111 phoneline, senior medic suggests
- The victory against the prison "book ban" is, in fact, a massive failure.
- The £8.8m typo: how one mistake killed a family business
- IETF attendees re-engineer their hotel's Wi-Fi network
- American Pastor Who Helped Uganda Create ‘Kill The Gays’ Law Will Be Tried For Crimes Against Humanity
- Borderlands Books to close (increased minimum wage, can't put prices up)
- Cutting university tuition fees to £6000 would help only the better off.
- Moore's law visualized through the evolution of Lara Croft
- Armed Gamergate-r Crashes Mother's Prius en route to Brianna Wu's House
- The 2015 General Election faces...The Sorting Hat