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Interesting Links for 03-11-2021
Is this how a Pictish fort looked 1,000 years ago?(tags:scotland archeology )A reminder that wearing clothes from other cultures is just fine, so long as you're not being a dick about it(tags:clothing culture cultural_appropriation ) One of the people the BBC platformed in its recent transphobic piece turns out to be a serial rapist and is now ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 30-07-2020
Scotland won't need to repay the UK's national debt if it's independent unless the UK does as well - and there's almost no chance of that (happy to see any well written responses to this)(tags:Scotland UK debt independence viaDanielDWilliam )Soap dodger: meet the doctor who says we have been showering wrong(tags:microbiome soap cleanliness ) Das ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 28-05-2018
Reminder that Labour blocked extending abortion rights to Northern Ireland so that the DUP would back longer detention without trial (tags: Labour abortion NorthernIreland DUP ) DUP demands same post-Brexit laws as rest of UK, apart from all the abortion and gay rights stuff (tags: satire NorthernIreland DUP abortion lgbt ) Interest rates have ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 06-05-2018
An American woman wearing a Chinese dress is not cultural appropriation "When cultures meet and mingle, they inform and enrich each other."
(tags: china cultural_appropriation ) Some things to consider about whether using cultural dress is inappropriate (tags: cultural_appropriation ) Christopher Nolan returns '2001: A Space Odyssey' to its ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 27-07-2017
Jersey companies incorporated to implement tax scheme were UK resident, says tax tribunal (tags: tax UK law ) Employment tribunal fees unlawful, Supreme Court rules (tags: law work UK GoodNews ) A third of female employees were deemed 'a distraction' to male colleagues at work (tags: clothing gender work uk ) Streaming music and video vastly ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 04-06-2017
A hands-on introduction to video encoding (tags: video Technology ) With the right combination of intrigue and strangeness you can really pull in a niche audience (tags: celebrity mysteries fandom ) Seven Decades of Historical Data Find No Correlation Between Minimum Wage Increases and Employment Levels (tags: minimumwage jobs research usa ) 3D ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 18-11-2016
Autistic people’s social difficulties linked to abnormal processing of touch (tags: autism brains ) Genetic breakthrough: Crops use more sunlight to grow (tags: genetics food ) Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy” (tags: democracy surveillance uk OhForFucksSake ) Cultural Appropriation: Whose culture is ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 24-08-2016
Britain’s Hardest Workers: the most gobsmacking reality TV show to date (tags: work tv poverty ) What kind of game is No Man's Sky, and what kind of game is it not? Framing is everything.
(tags: games space ) The Rio Games Were An Unjustifiable Human Disaster, And So Are The Olympics (tags: olympics sport corruption inequality OhForFucksSake ) ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 06-07-2016
Well, How Many Copies Does The Average Book Sell? (tags: books publishing ) Andrea Leadsom Tried To Abolish All Worker's Rights For Small Companies In 2012 (tags: work rights lgbt uk Conservatives ) How people look when they walk (tags: animation people ) GetBullish - Aggressive Lady-Advice (Business-related and otherwise) (tags: women advice ( Read more... )