Interesting Links for 20-07-2017

[andrewducker]

Which Anonymous Sources Are Worth Paying Attention To? (tags: politics reporting media advice ) A neat video showing how Google Glass helps people with manual/technical work (tags: work glass google Technology ) Another cool video, talking to people who use Google Glass for their jobs (wire assemblies for planes) (tags: google glass Technology work airplanes ) Producing animated "art" faces based on real video and example art (tags: art video faces ) Arguing against xkcd on free speech (tags: freespeech xkcd comics ) Reducing lead levels in children reduces violent crime by a staggering amount (tags: lead crime behaviour ) Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters (tags: gender comics analysis visualisation ) What Happens To Pornhub During Game Of Thrones (tags: gameofthrones porn statistics visualisation ) State pension age increase brought forward (I'll be working an extra year) (tags: pensions uk viaSwampers ) Lost Time - on Proust and Science Fiction (tags: time scifi writing ) A common underlying genetic basis for social behavior in dogs and humans (tags: dogs humans genetics socialisation personality ) Cop’s body cam films him planting drugs-he obviously didn’t know it was recording (tags: transparentsociety police cameras ) Sea cave preserves 5,000-year snapshot of tsunamis (tags: sea cave tsunami earthquake history ) How Devastating was the Black Death? (tags: history death disease ) Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape of Water" looks beautiful (tags: movies GuillermoDelToro trailer video ) "Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra Special Talking Mongoose" I can only conclude that many people are _so_ desperate to believe things that they will do so no matter what. This is not, of course, a new observation.
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