Interesting Links for 05-09-2017

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Men better at Scrabble because women play to have fun (tags: gender competition psychology ) Android 8.0 Oreo, thoroughly reviewed (tags: android ) The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by showing what the future of farming could look like. (tags: thefuture netherlands food agriculture farming ) Documenting three good things could improve your mental well-being in work (tags: work psychology viaSwampers mentalhealth ) To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider the Janitors at Two Top Companies, Then and Now tl;dr - outsourcing puts a cap on people's movement, as you have to go from one organisation to another, rather than being able to rise through the ranks. It's a "divide and conquer" move, which makes it possible to crush the people at the bottom, because they aren't part of the same "us" as the people further up the economic chain.
(tags: economics jobs work inequality ) Outlawing War? It Actually Worked (tags: war ) This is the dog I want (tags: dogs awesome wolves ) 71% of young adults are non-religious, just 3% are Church of England (tags: religion demographics UK GoodNews ) Northern lights linked to North sea whale strandings (tags: auroraborealis whales magnets ) 'We are an example to the Arab world': Tunisia's radical marriage proposals (tags: Islam marriage tunisia ) Wind turbines kill around 300,000 birds annually, house cats around 3,000,000,000 (tags: windpower cats birds ) 'Ultimate sea view' is one of the amazing photos of the British coast (tags: photos ocean ) The truth about our robotic future (tags: robots comic thefuture ) Peppa Pig 'spiders can't hurt you' episode pulled off air in Australia - again (tags: spiders tv children australia ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
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