Interesting Links for 21-08-2018

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Corbynistas are doxing and *checking the ancestry* of BBC journalists.… (tags: OhForFucksSake Jews politics uk ) In horrifying detail, women accuse U.S. customs officers of invasive body searches (tags: usa OhForFucksSake ) Measles cases hit record high in Europe (three times what it was, because people aren't vaccinating their kids) (tags: vaccination OhForFucksSake ) Video: Change in Queen Elizabeth's appearance on currency (tags: money royalty video history ) Kerala needs your help (huge floods, hundreds dead, hundreds of thousands living in camps) (tags: india charity ) Everyone expects women to do the shitty work - Women volunteer more, are asked to volunteer more, and accept requests to volunteer more (tags: patriarchy women men society ) Announcing the 2018 Hugo Award Winners (tags: hugo scifi awards ) The Real Reason that There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in America (tags: Thailand food usa ) Number of Third-Party Cookies on EU News Sites Dropped by 22% Post-GDPR (tags: privacy cookies europe web ) Doctor Who - New Series Writers and Directors announced (tags: drwho writing tv ) Consuming milk at breakfast lowers blood glucose throughout the day (tags: milk glucose health food ) Scientists discover the reason people believe in conspiracy theories and creationism (tags: conspiracy psychology religion ) How Do We Measure the Distance to a Star? (tags: physics light space astronomy ) The cosmic distance ladder (tags: astronomy space ) Armageddon vs. Deep Impact: 20 Years Later (tags: movies space review asteroids history ) Minigame integrated into EVE Online helps scientists understand cells (tags: EveOnline games research biology ) First upgraded ScotRail InterCity train arrives in Scotland, rollout completed by late 2019 (tags: trains transport scotland ) Is it the end of the 9 to 5 working day? (tags: time work ) Five-minute steam treatment that shrinks enlarged prostate offers hope for millions of men (tags: prostate ) A Visual Git Reference (tags: git versioncontrol ) High school students learning programming do better with block-based languages, and the impact is greatest for female and minority students (tags: programming ux school ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
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