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Interesting Links for 14-09-2021
Hands-on with Facebook's first smart glasses(tags:transparentsociety glasses cameras facebook )UK's Chief Medical Officers Give Green Light To Covid Vaccines For All 12 To 15-Year-Olds(tags:uk pandemic children vaccination )American Psycho Business Card Scene - With Cats(tags:cats funny video AmericanPsycho movies )The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 04-09-2021
Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Language (Good luck to them, but I shall be rather sceptical)(tags:wikipedia language )JCVI Says Covid-19 Vaccines For 12-15 Year Olds Not Recommended, But the Health Secretary Disagrees(tags:pandemic vaccination children UK )Software Piracy Triggers Innovation(tags:software piracy innovation ) ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 20-08-2021
AI has the worst superpower… medical racism.(tags:AI medicine racism ) Never underestimate an old person sending you on a quest(tags:funny video )Canadian Nobel scientist's deletion from Wikipedia points to wider bias(tags:patriarchy Wikipedia )OnlyFans announces it is bored of making moneyThe way that payment providers treat sex work is actually ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 23-06-2021
EU can shut off flow of data and 'slow down' UK exports in a Brexit trade war, Boris Johnson warned(tags:europe uk trade doom )Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, And It's Making Inflation Worse(tags:trade shipping )Scotland lockdown easing delayed by three weeks(tags:scotland pandemic ) Two brief stories about The Muppet Movie(tags:Muppets movies ) ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 07-06-2021
Scientists develop cheap and easy method to extract lithium from seawater(tags:metal sea water GoodNews )Puppies are able to track human social cues at just eight weeks of age(tags:puppies dogs psychology humans viaPatrickHadfield )What is Scandinavian Style Proportional Representation - and what would it look like in Scotland?(tags:voting ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 27-08-2020
The Scots Wikipedia admins are looking for help from people who speak the language(tags:language Scotland Wikipedia )The daydream that never stops - When does living in a fantasy world become a problem?(tags:thinking storytelling stories psychology mentalhealth )New Mutants - reviewers are not going to risk their lives for this(tags:movies reviews ( 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 11-08-2020
Every British swear word has been officially ranked in order of offensiveness(tags:swearing language offensive )'Godzilla' was a metaphor for Hiroshima, and Hollywood whitewashed it (by cutting twenty minutes from the original film)(tags:Godzilla movies nuclearweapons history censorship )Why Wikipedia Decided to Stop Calling Fox a 'Reliable' Source ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 01-07-2020
Listen to Wikipedia(tags:Wikipedia sounds )Humans forced to hide from sex addicted monkeys who set up HQ in disused cinema(tags:headline monkeys sex cinema )Nuclear 'Power Balls' May Make Meltdowns a Thing of the Past(tags:nuclearpower technology thefuture )Boris Johnson's 'build, build, build' speech: What he said and what he really meant(tags: ( Read more... )