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Interesting Links for 20-01-2022
If you're poor then the cost of living has gone up by a *lot* more than 5%(tags:economics UK poverty )A NASA Probe Went and Touched the Sun(tags:sun space NASA )Coffee can't fix all the cognitive impairments caused by a bad night's sleep(tags:caffeine psychology sleep )Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing ThemAs a friend put it ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 24-11-2021
Covid stamp duty holiday cost £6.4bn and helped rich house buyers in south(tags:housing uk OhForFucksSake )In simple English, what does it mean for a number to be transcendental?(tags:numbers )Americans are struggling to deal with a rising tide of hatred and extremism(tags:USA hate bigotry school LGBT ) What gets to be a valid word? A linguist's ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 16-10-2021
Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform(tags:Steam cryptography money games )Facebook claims to take down 94% of hate speech. It's actually 3%(tags:Facebook hate ai abuse ) How cricket works(tags:cricket games rules comic funny ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
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Interesting Links for 12-10-2021
We May Have Found Roman Concrete's Secret Strengthening Ingredient(tags:rome concrete history architecture materials )Why won't Sally Rooney allow her latest novel to be translated into Hebrew?Update in comments
(tags:Jews language translation OhForFucksSake ) What support did the UK's only trans councillor get?(tags:LGBT politics transgender UK ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 02-02-2021
With the SNP civil war kicking off I've just joined so I get a vote in whoever gets to run it next(tags:politics Scotland SNP )EU Says A Post-Brexit Shellfish Export Ban Is Indefinite, After Government Claimed It Was Only Temporary (thousands of tons of oysters with nowhere to go)(tags:seafood UK Europe trade )Science! Confirms! The! Obvious!Worth ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 17-08-2020
Workers at the centre of an outbreak faced pay dock if they self-isolated(tags:pandemic food money )Facebook refused to check hate speech by India BJP fearing business fallout(tags:India hate facebook )Who wants a large house, complete with attached jail. Yes, a real one. (See photos 1-30, and then the switchover...)(tags:housing prison weird ) ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 19-12-2019
The anti LGBT organisation 'One Million Moms' is just one.(tags:homophobia lgbt USA OhForFucksSake viaZornhau ) What makes something a Christmas film?(tags:Christmas movies )Hidden 'dark river' could stretch more than 1,000 miles under Greenland(tags:greenland ice rivers )ScotRail contract to end three years early after commuter anger rises(tags: ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 12-10-2019
Government "Get Ready for Brexit" adverts accidentally fund anti-Brexit billboard campaign(tags:UK Europe funny )The effect of pollution on crime (10% reduction in particulate matter and ozone would save $1.4Billion in violent crime costs)(tags:crime pollution violence )Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopian Prime Minister, Awarded Nobel Peace Prize(tags:ethiopia ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 19-03-2018
Scotland's better off without e-voting (tags: Scotland voting Technology ) Many of You Are Homesick-For a Place You’ve Never Been (tags: location emotion ) Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower used to work for Lib Dems and warned them of their 2015 demise (tags: libdem politics personality uk facebook ) Lead kills one in five Americans (tags: ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 08-01-2018
Sexual dimorphism of brain structure in the 1-month infant (tags: gender brain ) "Me and Harry Potter" (by the original book cover artist) (tags: harrypotter art books ) How Smart People Talk About Themselves (tags: Intelligence ) Is Your Child Lying to You? That’s Good (tags: children lying Intelligence ) WH Auden reviews The Fellowship Of ( Read more... )