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Interesting Links for 24-08-2017
Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers Have Had Enough (tags: Amazon work ) Rescued piglets served up as sausages to firefighters (tags: fire food pigs viaSwampers ) Whether you snack or not is more about the presence of temptation than your willpower (tags: willpower food self-control ) AccuWeather Caught Sending User Location Data, Even When Location ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 19-01-2015
- Women (and black people) less likely to go into professions perceived to require innate talent
(tags: women race jobs ) - Steven Soderbergh, copyright hypocrite
(tags: copyright movies ) - Scottish law on assisted suicide is intolerably unclear
(tags: suicide Scotland law ) - Does anyone know of a barber in Edinburgh who will give a gent's haircut to a ( Read more... )
- Women (and black people) less likely to go into professions perceived to require innate talent
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Interesting Links for 05-09-2013
- Does pressing the pedestrian crossing button actually do anything?
(tags: technology roads ) - The top code comment here is a classic
(tags: programming funny ) - Fascinating discussion of accents, how people change them, and the effect they have.
(tags: speech accents language ) - Using harsh verbal discipline with teens is counterproductive and ( Read more... )
- Does pressing the pedestrian crossing button actually do anything?
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Interesting Links for 25-03-2012
- Frustro: The Impossible Typeface
(tags: illusion typography design font ) - A plausible explanation for why we just started paying VAT on hot food
(tags: food europe uk tax vat ) - When copyright holders go insane.
(tags: wtf twighlight law copyright ) - The injustice of minimum alcohol pricing
(tags: uk pricing alcohol ) - An efficient journal - running ( Read more... )
- Frustro: The Impossible Typeface
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Interesting Links for 23-02-2012
- Science Finds a Better Way to Teach Science. (Lectures are pointless. I wish I was even slightly surprised)
(tags: academia teaching research science ) - The British idea that ordinary people don't need to understand mathematics causes appalling problems
(tags: mathematics economics uk ) - How the European Internet Rose Up Against ACTA. (Gives ( Read more... )
- Science Finds a Better Way to Teach Science. (Lectures are pointless. I wish I was even slightly surprised)