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Interesting Links for 24-03-2022
Mar. 24th, 2022 12:05 pm- 1. On why Apple-haters are every bit as misguided as any fanboy
- (tags:apple bias )
- 2. Framed - The daily movie guessing game (I got today's in 3)
- (tags:movies games )
- 3. Government ignored warnings about Putin's 'march to war' for 10 years, says ex-UK defence official
- (tags:uk russia corruption war )
- 4. 'Worm-on-a-chip' device could someday help diagnose lung cancer
- (tags:worm cancer )
- 5. The Real History of 'Perfect Blue' and 'Requiem for a Dream'
- (tags:anime DarrenAronofsky movies )
- 6. SEC will require companies to list greenhouse emissions, climate risks
- (tags:globalwarming business )
- 7. Economics 101 is conservative propaganda
- (tags:economics inequality wages minimumwage )
- 8. Decisions made by human experts can be as inscrutable as those made by algorithms — but we don't realise it
- (tags:decisions ai people psychology trust )
- 9. That's How It Works When You're a Woman on the Internet
- (tags:harrassment abuse internet 4chan twitter misogyny )
- 10. Boris Johnson condemned for pulling funny faces as MPs told of Ukrainians huddled in basements
- (tags:BorisJohnson OhForFucksSake )
- 11. Utah governor vetoes anti transgender bill. (I thoroughly appreciate his reasoning -read from "I am not an expert" onwards)
- (tags:LGBT transgender republicans good sports USA )
- 12. Fertilizer is getting more expensive. Here's what that means to farmers. And you.
- (tags:food gas Doom viaDanielDWilliam farming wheat )
- 13. Different word orders for different languages, illustrated
- (tags:language visualisation )
- 14. The UK's proposed space-based solar power station would cost £16Bn for 2GW (About the same cost per GW as the Hinkley C nuclear power plant)
- (tags:space solarpower UK )
- 15. Here's the Church of England with patronising propaganda about mothers for 5 year olds
- (tags:religion mother women patriarchy OhForFucksSake children )
- 16. Russia has been pushing a narrative of the decadence of The West for about 10 years now, and many Brits have lapped it up
- (tags:fascism russia propaganda bigotry gender lgbt transgender )
- 17. More than a million to be pushed into poverty in the UK, as the Conservatives cut taxes
- (tags:inequality poverty uk )
- 18. Here's how our ability to empathise changes as we get older
- (tags:empathy psychology age )
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Interesting Links for 03-05-2021
May. 3rd, 2021 12:00 pm- UK sends 1,000 ventilators to Covid-stricken India but pressure grows to let it keep vaccines
- (tags:India pandemic vaccination UK )
- Some advice on children
- (tags:children advice )
- The minimalistic way that Timpson uses data is fascinating
- (tags:data business )
- Some examples of male privilege
- (tags:gender privilege )
- Director's cut of Prince blowing minds on 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' now has more Prince
- (tags:music video )
- GPs have now been told that they would not receive further first dose supply in the weeks commencing 26 April and 3 May
- (tags:vaccine UK )
- Amazon Q1 2021 - some thoughts
- (tags:Amazon business money )
- What would a Scottish National Care Service look like?
- (tags:care age Scotland budget politics )
- Millions on universal credit offered half price broadband from BT
- (tags:broadband UK welfare )
- When the key to success is trusting your employees
- (tags:trust business viaDrDoug )
- What conspiracy theorists don't believe is more important than what they do
- (tags:conspiracy psychology belief media )
- The most important question about Dune
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Interesting Links for 16-03-2021
Mar. 16th, 2021 12:00 pm- What You Need to Know About 'Roblox'—and Why Kids Are Obsessed
- (tags:games children )
- EU launches legal action against UK over serious Northern Ireland protocol breach
- (tags:europe uk trade doom NorthernIreland )
- Do Liberals And Conservatives Really Have Different Moral Foundations?
- (tags:voting politics psychology )
- Have some very impressive balance/acrobatics
- (tags:impressive video )
- Justice League's Snyder cut review: No longer Whedonesque—and all the better
- (tags:movies DC superheroes review )
- An impressive feat of engineering
- (tags:engineering transport Netherlands video roads viaDanielDWilliam )
- Scotland aims to build 100,000 more affordable homes
- (tags:Scotland housing )
- Beatings will continue until women know their place, confirm Met Police
- (tags:satire police women UK violence )
- Who wants to see a baby emu hatch?
- (tags:birds eggs )
- Yakko's World but Barack Obama Singing
- (tags:barackobama world music mashup video viaSwampers )
- Covid: UK vaccination surge expected in coming days as 10 million doses arrive from India
- (tags:vaccination uk india )
- Seasonal energy storage in aluminium for 100 percent solar heat and electricity supply
- (tags:materials electricity storage metal )
- Performance vs Trust (and why you don't always want the most effective person)
- (tags:trust performance video )
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Interesting Links for 18-01-2021
Jan. 18th, 2021 12:00 pm- Ireland's mother and baby homes: 9,000 babies and children died in 18 mother and baby homes, report says - CNN
- (tags:ireland history babies children death OhForFucksSake )
- I did not realise how automated some production lines now are.
- (tags:valve steam hardware automation factory )
- Thousands of human teeth hidden inside a wall of dentist's office
- (tags:teeth wtf )
- A British wine importer on how much harder Brexit is making it to run a business
- (tags:business trade UK Europe Doom wine )
- German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employee surveillance
- (tags:surveillance privacy Europe rights )
- Why this government may never regain the trust of the people
- (tags:trust UK government viaDanielDWilliam )
- 'I was surprised by how clear it was' - Stunning photo of snowy Wales taken from Dublin
- (tags:Ireland Wales photo )
- If you have problems with masks and glasses fogging up then I recommend adhesive metal strip inserts which allow you to make the mask exactly fit your nose
- (tags:pandemic glasses advice )
- Mahatma Gandhi's killer venerated as Hindu nationalism resurges in India
- (tags:India nationalism murder )
- It's lit! How film finally learned to light black skin
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- UK would be lucky to strike trade deal in Biden's first term, says former ambassador
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- The dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck Earth was unbelievably huge and fast (the best description I've ever read of it)
- (tags:viaMyBrotherMike dinosaurs asteroids extinction )
- Every dinosaur may have been wiped out in a matter of hours
- (tags:dinosaurs extinction apocalypse )
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Interesting Links for 07-08-2020
Aug. 7th, 2020 12:00 pm- Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin
- (tags:racism technology medicine )
- Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates
- (tags:genetics date OhForFucksSake )
- Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects
- (tags:Germany insects light )
- The Cummings effect: How England's trust in the government plummeted
- (tags:pandemic trust uk government )
- The Dark Triad traits predict authoritarian political correctness and alt-right attitudes
- (tags:psychology politics )
- Taking apart the three major planks of the transphobic movement
- (tags:LGBT transgender )
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Interesting Links for 21-01-2020
Jan. 21st, 2020 12:00 pm- Technical Debt Is Like a Tetris Game
- (tags:Tetris programming design )
- The messages in recent Doctor Who are *terrible"
- (tags:drwho writing OhForFucksSake )
- Gibraltar considers joining EU's Schengen open borders area to ease damage from Brexit
- (tags:Gibraltar borders europe )
- "And he asked specifically for eggs" - linguistic diversity in 15th century England
- (tags:language history )
- When there was no electricity in India, how did British officers live in the scorching heat of India?
- (tags:india temperature history uk military )
- Upgrading existing railways instead of building HS2 would mean no functioning railways at the weekends for 15 years
- (tags:transport railways uk )
- Just amazing acrobatics
- (tags:amazing video )
- Clearview app lets strangers find your name, info with snap of a photo
- (tags:faces recognition surveillance )
- The wisdom of Martin Luther King
- (tags:history racism USA quotes )
- People no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life
- (tags:work trust society success polls )
- Jess Phillips on trans women
- (tags:transgender LGBT women Labour )
- One reason why trans women can sometimes look more "feminine" than most women
- (tags:LGBT transgender OhForFucksSake women )
- Brexit: UK to decide on Gibraltar-EU travel deal
- (tags:UK Europe Gibraltar )
- The Y2038 problem is already causing problems
- (tags:date bug doom )
- Robot tanks: On patrol but not allowed to shoot
- (tags:robots military )
- The amount that Poland's borders have moved around (and on occasion ceased to exist) is fascinating
- (tags:Poland maps animation video )
- Deaf man sues Pornhub over lack of closed captions
- (tags:deafness disability porn )
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Interesting Links for 09-12-2019
Dec. 10th, 2019 12:23 pm- Try this flowchart to see if you should trust a tech company with your data!
- (tags:data trust flowchart funny )
- Why 536 was the worst year to be alive
- (tags:history apocalypse )
- Liverpool loses chance to host England game due to ban of The Sun journalists
- (tags:sun newspapers football Yay )
- Tanni Grey-Thompson on attitudes towards pregnant disabled athletes
- (tags:disability pregnancy sport society )
- Russia Banned From Global Sports for 4 Years Over Doping
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Interesting Links for 11-12-2018
Dec. 11th, 2018 11:00 am- Google Translate takes a stand against singular "they"
- (tags: language translation gender google )
- SNP offers to support vote of no confidence if Labour makes one.
- (tags: snp labour politics )
- Chess, a Drosophila of reasoning
- (tags: chess games intelligence ai )
- UK House of Commons expert answers questions on the Meaningful Vote procedure.
- (tags: politics UK europe )
- Nihilist Dad Jokes
- (tags: jokes funny humour )
- The irish potato famine
- (tags: ireland food history inequality )
- This is the ridiculous depths the government has sunk to
- (tags: UK government OhForFucksSake Europe )
- A metaphor that explains Brexit very neatly
- (tags: cheese metaphor uk europe politics )
- The Technology That Changed Air Travel
- (tags: airplanes travel history technology computers xml viaFanf )
- The autistic view of the world is not the neurotypical cliché
- (tags: autism stereotypes fiction viaFanf )
- Increasing numbers of pubs and cafes no longer take cash
- (tags: money Technology )
- An amazing story of gay love and loss in World War 1
- Dammit! Now confessed to be fiction!
https://twitter.com/TenshiAngelina/status/1072172791812812800?s=09
(tags: history love wwi ) - Kenshi is a game I suspect would appeal to a bunch of my friends. Incredibly open world
- (tags: games review )
- "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" looks like ridiculous fun
- (tags: movies Godzilla trailer )
- Psychology research is still fixated on a tiny fraction of humans
- (tags: race gender society psychology )
- New study finds bias against women and girls when intellectual ability is sought
- (tags: intelligence psychology sexism )
- In the “Trust Game”, men with more autistic traits were less influenced by their partner’s facial appearance
- (tags: autism trust psychology faces )
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Interesting Links for 10-12-2016
Dec. 10th, 2016 12:00 pm- The lakes of the world are disappearing – in pictures
- (tags: globalwarming industrial water geography )
- The Reality Behind Magic Leap
- (tags: augmentedreality )
- Arnold Schwarzenegger: I am not a self-made man
- (tags: advice society Arnold_Schwarzenegger inspiration )
- 'Everyone I owe favours to died 700 years ago,' says one peer as the House of Lords rejects reforming itself
- (tags: houseoflords politics reform fail )
- New and improved: Syphilis makes comeback with unexpected drug resistance
- (tags: sex disease )
- UW engineers achieve Wi-Fi at 10,000 times lower power
- (tags: wifi power Technology viaFanf )
- The Lost Art of Painting on Cobweb Canvases
- (tags: spiders art history )
- California man spent $1 million playing Game of War
- (tags: games money crime )
- There’s such a thing as collective narcissism (and it might explain a lot that’s going on at the moment)
- (tags: psychology narcissism nationalism )
- The best review on Amazon (NSFW)
- (tags: sex dogs funny nsfw )
- Let your kids lose: Success inhibits preschoolers’ ability to establish selective trust
- (tags: children psychology trust parenting )
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Interesting Links for 17-08-2016
Aug. 17th, 2016 12:00 pm- Women Athletes Gave Up Gonads And More To Continue Olympic Competition
- (tags: women testosterone mutilation OhForFucksSake olympics sports )
- Nice breakdown of costs and profits on a Kickstarter novel
- (tags: kickstarter business publishing CrowdFunding viaTheFerrett )
- My favourite commentary on No Man's Sky
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- How to lie with statistics
- (tags: statistics fraud maths comic )
- Tax avoidance: Accountants face tougher penalties
- (tags: tax law uk )
- The meaning of trust in the age of Airbnb
- (tags: trust poverty economics )
- What Great Listeners Actually Do
- (tags: conversation psychology )
- Prenatal BPA exposure linked to anxiety and depression in boys
- (tags: babies hormones depression anxiety pregnancy men plastic )
- One view on psych meds and genetic testing
- (tags: genetics psychology )
- What do we actually know about how drug tolerance works?
- (tags: medicine psychology genetics drugs )
- This comment on my post about dick pics illustrates things nicely
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- Why didn't Larrabee fail?
- (tags: computers graphics processor )
- Black incarceration hasn’t been this low in a generation - The Washington Post
- (tags: race prison usa )
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Interesting Links for 21-11-2015
Nov. 21st, 2015 12:00 pm- Gamers trust computers too much - unless you prime them not to.
- We earn £190K a year. Should we sell a child so we can buy another flat?
- Biggest Diamond in More Than a Century Unearthed in Botswana
- Don't be embarrassed about your advantages, use them to help others.
- Intestinal worms may help women get pregnant more often
- You should have seen the look on Julie's face when I showed her this...
- Kotaku, blacklisting, and the independence of the gaming press
- Genetically Engineered Salmon Approved for Consumption
- NASA Orders SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space Station
- Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It
- Things movies get wrong #734: Suspension Bridges
- A list of Edinburgh roadworks
- Five things the media does to manufacture outrage
- How do we know that things are really made of atoms?
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Interesting Links for 23-10-2013
Oct. 23rd, 2013 12:00 pm- CurrencyFair: A P2P platform for currency exchange
- Fulfilled by Amazon: How to get rid of old stuff immediately, sell it for more, and use Amazon as a cheap storage facility
- Why we keep doing bizarre things in order to finance public works
- An excellent collection of free programming books
- Who wants to see Benedict Cumberbatch make dragon faces?
- New Dutch political party wants €1,000 basic income for all.
- Trapped Under Ice, Indeed: Metallica's "December Surprise" is a Show in Antarctica
- In favour of union (and the BART Strike)
- How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes
- Fibromyalgia solved; A pathology, not in the mind
- Eating food rich in tryptophan makes you trust people more
- Give people decently formatted information about their diseases and they make better decisions
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- SpongeBob headstone removed by Ohio cemetery
- Flagship £1bn youth unemployment scheme branded a failure
- Edinburgh is the second-best place to live in the UK
- This is _almost_ enough to make me vote Labour.
- 58% of Americans Favor Legalizing Marijuana
- Aluminium studs can make all solar panels 22% more efficient
- Holy Crap, This Titanfall Trailer
- True tales from school
- When cats stop for directions
- Eat butter and avoid alternatives loaded with sugar
- Eat Lard
- Google Glass is making a life changing difference for the disabled
- Both China and the US have income inequality at levels where there is high risk of potential social unrest
- Computer-related productivity is up by 480% since the 1970s.
- Police ask for condom ban in Edinburgh saunas (This makes me so angry)
- Don’t trust VPNs? Create your own with a friend and a browser extension
- Theatre offers promise for youth with autism (Fairly sure that roleplaying did the same for me)
- Question by the police...for knitting!
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Interesting Links for 20-10-2013
Oct. 20th, 2013 12:00 pm- Volvo makes new carbon fiber batteries into body panels for lighter, roomier and more efficient electric cars and hybrid cars
- Shockingly, people trust sympathetic people more.
- Science: A New Map of the Human Brain (Anyone care to comment?)
- What's inside a proton?
- » UN Women: Showing what women have to deal with through common Google search suggestions.
- Genetic identification of neural circuit that suppresses appetite
- What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for? (and now I feel old)
- How to Not Ruin Polyamory for Everybody in 6 Easy Steps
- Social group memberships protect against future depression, alleviate depression symptoms and prevent depression relapse
- I just backed Andrew Rilstone's book on Dr Who.
- Yet again, I am staggeringly glad that I don't have periods.
- Turning harassment into art
- A haul of fossils found in Georgia suggests that half a dozen species of early human ancestor were actually all Homo erectus
- In Defense of Fantasy Heroes
- Amazing Secret Dungeon discovered under my new apartment.
- Disney Princesses dressed as pop-culture heroines for Halloween
- Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?
- How plucky amateur dared to question a celebrated psychological finding and blew the whole theory wide open.
- Amazing Tattoos on the Live Pigs
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