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Birmingham anti-LGBT school protests: judge makes ban permanent
(tags:protest LGBT homophobia uk law )
New favourite political advert
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Board games can protect thinking skills in older age
(tags:age thinking boardgames psychology viaJane )
No, Britain's Chief Rabbi is not the head of all Jews.
(tags:Jews uk )
Jeremy Corbyn's record on anti-Semitism
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Psilocybin for Major Depression Granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA
(tags:depression psilocybin psychedelics )
air pollution causes changes in brain structure that resemble those of Alzheimer's disease.
(tags:pollution brain alzheimers )
Jeremy Corbyn refuses to apologise to Jewish community over Labour anti-semitism
(tags:Labour Jews OhForFucksSake )
Disney+'s The Mandalorian joins a long list of fake HDR content
(tags:TV fraud hdr )
Organising a union at Google? You're fired
(tags:Google unions OhForFucksSake )
Mental Mountains - a fascinating review of Unlocking The Emotional Brain
(tags:psychology thought thinking emotion rationality )
UK networks to join £1b mast sharing initiative to eliminate dead zones
(tags:UK mobile_phones )
Failure Is an Essential Prerequisite for Success
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Corbyn reveals secret documents that confirm Tory plot to sell off NHS in US trade talks with Trump
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Boris Johnson said that Islamophobia is a natural reaction to Islam
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World Cup: Almost half world's population watched Russia 2018
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The shampoo bottle saving babies from pneumonia (deaths dropped by 75% for a trivial cost)
(tags: healthcare babies disease india )
The academics and the drone, a tale of hubris.
(tags: academia drone funny )
Analysing 122 Hours of Christmas Radio - from Martin Luther to Michael Bublé
(tags: music christmas radio viaSwampers )
'Wonderful Christmastime' is the worst Christmas song–and quite possibly the worst song–ever
(tags: music christmas awful )
President Trump has made 7,546 false or misleading claims over 700 days
(tags: usa republicans lies )
Terrible news for fans of thinking.
(tags: psychology thought funny )
Origins: Puff the Magic Dragon
(tags: music myths )
Mars Express beams back images of ice-filled Korolev crater
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Workers get new rights in the UK
(tags: rights work uk )
How "The Tinkerbell Theory of History" is carrying us down the road to ruin.
(tags: history uk myths )
The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got
(tags: programming advice viaFanf )
How Peter Jackson Made WWI Footage Seem Astonishingly New
(tags: wwi movies history peterjackson )
This is why techy 'solutions' for ageing and emergency care scare me. This one went out of business and this poor woman probably died thinking someone had been called.
(tags: death technology OhForFucksSake )
Gently stroking babies reduces pain felt during medical procedures
(tags: pain babies touch )
People with extreme political views cannot tell when they are wrong
(tags: thinking politics thought )
NAACP returns Facebook donation, calls for boycott on Tuesday, December 18
(tags: facebook racism usa )
Hull hotel cancels Christmas bookings for homeless people
(tags: OhForFucksSake homelessness )
America uses corn for nearly everything
(tags: usa food weird )
A Texas Elementary School Speech Pathologist Refused to Sign a Pro-Israel Oath, Now Mandatory in Many States — so She Lost Her Job
(tags: israel wtf law usa )
Deer poacher sentenced to watch Bambi in prison - BBC News
(tags: deer Disney crime prison usa )
Banks to be banned from charging higher fees for unarranged overdrafts
(tags: banking UK )
'Overactive Immune System' May Be The Cause Of ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
(tags: immune_system )
Labour will wait until Brexit deal defeated for government no-confidence vote
(tags: labour UK europe doom )
Packaging producers to pay full recycling costs under waste scheme
(tags: UK environment )
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David Davis lined up as interim prime minister
(tags: Conservatives doom )
Victim slams not proven criminal rape case as a disgrace
(tags: rape scotland law )
Reminder that when Brexiteers talk about "a border in the Irish Sea" they are not telling the truth
(tags: uk europe NorthernIreland ireland trade borders )
Rockstar chews up employees, spits them out.
(tags: games work OhForFucksSake )
Boris Johnson negotiates like a toddler
(tags: babies psychology politics )
This is what happens when you take Ayn Rand seriously (bankruptcy and destruction)
(tags: doom AynRand )
The shocking abuse allegations uncovered by the Commons bullying inquiry
(tags: bullying abuse politics uk )
MI5 believed black people posed security risk
(tags: UK history racism )
New Brexit negotiation strategy revealed.Stage 1 - find minotaur (o.n.o.)…
(tags: UK europe funny )
I never, ever, want to be on a plane that does this
(tags: video terrifying airplanes )
Shetland set to lose 20 churches
(tags: religion scotland )
Scottish Power to use 100% wind power after Drax sale
(tags: electricity renewables Scotland windpower )
Doctor Who series 11: partition of India to be key part of episode 6 Demon of the Punjab
(tags: drwho history India pakistan )
The perils of polls about new parties
(tags: polls politics uk )
China cracks down on religion, crosses burned at Christian churches
(tags: OhForFucksSake China religion )
Bans on smacking children linked to lower violence among teens
(tags: violence children )
Explaining intrusive thoughts
(tags: psychology thought )
Myanmar's military turned Facebook into a tool for genocide
(tags: genocide Myanmar facebook OhForFucksSake )
Hyperalarming study shows massive insect loss
(tags: insects doom )
Facebook says millions of users had phone numbers, search history and location data stolen
(tags: facebook security fail )
Least gifted children of wealthy parents graduate from college at higher rates than most-gifted from low-income families
(tags: genetics Intelligence inequality )
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Incredible Dragon Bench Carved Using A Chainsaw. (The pug one is awesome too)
(tags: dragons )
The Three Waves of Discworld novels
(tags: terrypratchett )
Ronald Reagan: Monster and Mass Murderer
(tags: history aids usa politics republicans economics )
The unique thing about people is that we can make whole new kinds of errors
(tags: fail brain psychology thought )
Why Jack Kirby is the most important figure in comics history
(tags: comics history )
Only 10% of Brits believe in psychics
I'd have assumed at least double that, so I'm pretty happy
(tags: fraud death GoodNews belief )
62% of marriages in Scotland last year were non religious
(tags: religion Scotland wedding GoodNews )
The 'slave block' in a town in Virginia: should it stay or should it go?
I'd say it should stay. It's not glorification, it's history, and a necessary reminder of the horrors inflicted on the slaves.
(tags: racism slavery history usa )
Explaining what was wrong with the Seventh Season of Game of Thrones. (Still enjoyed it myself, mind you)
(tags: gameofthrones )
Rogue private landlords given £2.5bn a year of public money
(tags: housing uk OhForFucksSake )
New earliest known gamebook/choose your own adventure—it was written by two women in 1930
(tags: games books history )
Yugoslavia had the oddest "sexy" computer magazine covers
(tags: sex computers Yugoslavia weird ViaDrCross )
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2017-08-27 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 27-08-2017

This is the relationship I have with my to-read list
(tags: internet life )
A good piece on Joss Whedon
(tags: JossWhedon marriage buffy tv writing women viaJennieRigg )
Here Is What Happens When You Run Away From All Of Your Problems
(tags: life advice )
You can only use the Wi-Fi at St Pancras station if you give them control of your Twitter account
(tags: Twitter wifi OhForFucksSake )
Hope Lies In Rebellion — Some Analysis Of “The Music of Rogue One”
(tags: music StarWars viaFanf )
Can we know what animals are thinking?
(tags: animals thought mind )
A short history of tool use
(tags: tools technology )
NASA sent one identical twin brother to space for a year and studied how it changed him
(tags: NASA space genetics twins )
Maybe We All Need a Little Less Balance
(tags: life advice )
Explaining just how evil Joe Arpaio is
(tags: evil usa police )
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Interesting Links for 22-07-2017

Unaccompanied child taken off overbooked easyJet flight at Gatwick
(tags: OhForFucksSake children airplanes )
Everyone Hates Neoliberals, So We Talked to Some
(tags: liberal )
Critical thinking is 38% correlated with IQ
(tags: Intelligence thought )
Why we need to build more homes
(tags: housing uk )
The BBC responds to complaints about the Doctor Who casting announcement
(tags: drwho bbc )
Mario Kart director philosophical about need for the blue shell
(tags: Mario games design )
Britons travelling to Europe offered just 88 euro cents for £1
(tags: Europe uk money )
In Australia, non payment of a sex worker will get you convicted of rape
(tags: rape sexwork australia )
Hillary Clinton is more unpopular than Donald Trump.
(tags: politics usa )
Your state pension in Dorset: £124,000. In Glasgow? £38,000
(tags: pensions UK LifeExpectancy inequality )
Norway, where no salaries are secret
(tags: norway money transparentsociety )
Redditors discuss "What's the most pointless argument you've been passionately involved in?"
(tags: argument fail )
UK to bring in drone registration
(tags: UK drone law )
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Photobucket Just Broke Billions of Photos Across the Web
I have no issue with them charging money for external hosting. But £300, on no notice, feels a tad mafia-like. Amazon charges less than 10cents per GB for bandwidth. Photobucket will make a killing (if they can persuade anyone to sign up).
(tags: photos web fail money business )
Space Isn’t What You Think It Is
(tags: space physics )
How the ancient Romans made world’s ‘most durable’ concrete.
(tags: materials rome history )
Menstruation doesn't change working memory, cognitive bias or ability to pay attention to two things at once.
(tags: menstruation thought memory Intelligence bias women )
Minister: Immigration detainees 'benefit from £1-an-hour work'
(tags: money immigration OhForFucksSake uk )
Scotland's NHS is to offer free abortions to women from Northern Ireland
(tags: scotland nhs NorthernIreland )
Volvo becomes the first major car manufacturer to go all electric
(tags: cars electricity )
Saudi Arabia is chief foreign promoter of Islamist extremism in the UK, warns report
Meanwhile, the government aren't publishing their own report, which presumably says much the same thing...
(tags: saudiarabia terrorism uk )
The $100 Billion per year back pain industry is mostly a hoax
(tags: bodies health medicine fraud )
A Short History of the O'Reilly Animals
(tags: animals programming books viaSwampers design )
#HeterosexualPrideDay backfires as LGBT users subvert it on Twitter
(tags: lgbt OhForFucksSake )
Learning from Scotland’s NHS
(tags: scotland nhs )
No libraries or streetlights left in Britain by 2020 if austerity doesn't stop, warns Tory local government chief
(tags: uk austerity )
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Interesting Links for 15-04-2016

Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more
(tags: innovation capitalism viaFanf )
The researcher who claimed that you either "get" computers or don't has now retracted their claim.
(tags: computers learning )
If traditional relationships were treated like alternative relationships
(tags: relationships funny society )
Man accidentally deletes his entire company with one line.
(tags: OhForFucksSake web computers epicfail )
Chrome 50 ends support for Windows XP, OS X 10.6, other old versions
(tags: browser google Technology )
Millions of women left unabused after Twitter outage
(tags: twitter abuse funny satire )
Star Trek: TOS - more female friendly (and downright feminist) than a lot of modern TV
(tags: tv StarTrek feminism women history )
I like this an awful lot. I have no idea why. Anyone care to explain me to me?
(tags: meaning anime )
Person finds their grandfather's notebook. Discovers things about them they never expected.
(tags: history family sexuality lgbt )
The Flynn Effect and abstract reasoning
(tags: Intelligence iq thinking thought abstraction )
When Trigger Warnings Attack!: What happens when they're taken too far?
(tags: language society discussion )
China moves Dr Strange's origin from Tibet to Nepal. In other news, China is a big movie market.
(tags: china marvel movies )
A GUIDE FOR YOUNG LADIES ENTERING THE SERVICE OF THE FAIRIES
(tags: shortstory love )
Good Omens: Neil Gaiman to adapt Terry Pratchett collaboration for TV
(tags: neilgaiman terrypratchett tv )
How the U.N. caused Haiti’s cholera epidemic
(tags: disease UnitedNations visualisation )
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