Interesting Links for 31-10-2017

[andrewducker]

Google 'drop everything' to fix burger emoji (tags: google food funny ) Extract from Plato’s Republic: On That Which is Correct Politically (tags: philosophy funny satire viaSwampers ) These books are how I work (tags: programming funny viaSwampers ) That's nine dead Russia officials/diplomats since elections... (tags: Russia death ) We Are Breeding a World Full of Creatures That Cannot Survive (tags: evolution fail ) What people really don't like about the New Atheists I think they're actually doing remarkably well. The number of people who identify themselves as religious has dropped significantly, and a lot of people who would say "Christian" when they never actually went to church (outside of funerals and weddings) have stopped doing so. Providing a public identity and face for "Not believing any religion is true" and giving a rallying point for people who are fed up with being told that they live in a "Christian country" is going staggeringly well for them.
(tags: atheism religion ) How a Facebook experimented affected news in Cambodia (tags: Cambodia news facebook ) Math’s Beautiful Monsters (tags: mathematics ) A Lady Logician (a tale of triumph over horrific prejudice) (tags: mathematics logic history women academia ) "Rehab" in the USA is apparently "Forced labour camps" (tags: slavery usa crime ) To achieve your goals, don't exercise willpower, avoid temptation (tags: behaviour psychology productivity self-control ) Average UK debt at £8,000 per person (not including the mortgage) You wait until interest rates go up...
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