Interesting Links for 06-11-2018

[andrewducker]

Discovered a lovely word today: “apricity.” (tags: language sun temperature ) Irish government says Dominic Raab’s Brexit backstop plan not worth the paper it's written on (tags: uk europe ireland NorthernIreland doom ) Iceland recognises Palestinian state (tags: iceland palestine israel ) The Conservative Party will break Theresa May at the worst possible moment (tags: Conservatives doom ) I can't tell if Stacksort is the worst programming thing ever, or the funniest. (tags: stackexchange funny programming ) Why women receive less CPR from bystanders (tags: health women society OhForFucksSake ) Labour will vote against a customs union - unless it's permanent I've completely lost track of whether there's enough votes for _anything_ right now. Frankly, I'm not sure there is.
(tags: labour politics europe uk ) Google’s AI creates its own inhuman encryption (tags: encryption google ai ) Prejudice against women in power is greater than we think (tags: sexism society ) Voters' preexisting opinions shift to align with political party positions (tags: politics OhForFucksSake ) Llama “nanobodies” might grant universal flu protection (tags: llama flu disease medicine ) Air pollution linked to autism (tags: autism pollution china ) Categorising male authors (tags: men authors funny satire ) Right-Wing Social-Networking site Gab comes back after a week offline. Users blame the Jews. (tags: socialnetworking politics freespeech racism ) Sci-Fi Writer Greg Egan and Anonymous Math Whiz Advance Permutation Problem (tags: mathematics ) This is how psychotherapy for depression changes the brain (tags: brain counselling neuroscience ) Ten changes to help save the planet (tags: globalwarming advice ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
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