Interesting Links for 08-05-2018

[andrewducker]

The vetting files: How the BBC kept out ‘subversives’ (tags: bbc uk surveillance ) Trans Lib Dem candidate called ‘disgusting’ in barrage of Twitter abuse (tags: twitter abuse lgbt transgender libdem ) Who doesn't want an iron skull with a magnetic demonic beard? (tags: magnets video awesome ) Behold: The future of my child! (tags: thefuture babies funny comic ) This is my favourite ever Rube Goldberg machine (tags: video awesome ) Does growing up poor harm brain development? (A multi million dollar experiment investigates) (tags: GuaranteedIncome poverty intelligence children ) Trump Isn’t Playing 3D Chess - He’s Playing Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe (tags: games politics ) The battle of the gas-sucking mega giants is set to begin (tags: gas australia ) Wet wipes could face wipe-out in plastic clean-up (tags: plastic cleanliness waste ) Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (tags: programming mathematics children ) Obamacare Calorie Count Rules Ushered In (I hadn't realised the USA didn't already have these) (tags: usa food ) Britain's first private police force to go nationwide after success in London's wealthiest neighbourhoods Of course they aren't actually police - they're a private security firm based on the streets.
(tags: police uk ) The Cyborg Drummer - help an amputee drummer with an experimental robot arm (tags: cyborg drums music kickstarter viaAlexTFish ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
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