Interesting Links for 01-08-2017

[andrewducker]

No, Corbyn did not pledge to abolish student debt (tags: politics labour students debt ) UK military chiefs praise transgender troops (tags: lgbt military uk viaSwampers ) Muted stress response linked to long-term cannabis use (tags: stress marijuana ) People are terrible at judging how good their intuitions are (tags: psychology ) FT journalists threaten to strike over gender pay gap (tags: money journalism pay gender ) FCA keeps payday loan cap (tags: loans UK ) Interoperable systems and data at the heart of plans to modernise UK payments infrastructure (tags: banking money technology uk ) Book Review: Raise A Genius! (tags: Intelligence genius review advice ) One in eight young people in the UK have never seen a real cow - 18% have never left the city I once talked to an Outward Bound instructor who worked with deprived kids, and they'd arrive in the Lake District with no real idea that there were places that *big*. It's sad that there are children who haven't left the city they were born in, but it doesn't surprise me.
(tags: cities children viaSwampers ) Climate change will almost certainly heat the world so much it can never recover, major study finds (tags: globalwarming ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
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