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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 25-10-2016

Oct 25, 2016 12:00

EU set for ‘dirty Brexit’ (tags: europe uk ) EZTV Shuts Down After Hostile Takeover (tags: bittorrent piracy hacking ) Why 538 still give Trump a 14% chance of victory (tags: politics models statistics usa ) How German nuclear scientists reacted to the news of Hiroshima (tags: nuclearweapons wwii history ) Unlocking the secrets of bacterial ( Read more... )

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A Book by Its Cover: The strange history of books bound cartesiandaemon October 25 2016, 13:36:11 UTC

That is fascinating and a bit disturbing.

I remember trying to look up the real case of Saddam Hussein's supposed blood Koran, and being disappointed nothing seemed to say either way.

brixtonbrood October 25 2016, 15:05:16 UTC

I did a huge double take at that adoptive parenting headline before I realised their comma use was misleading me. I read "gay or lesbian or adoptive parents have the same outcomes as heterosexual biological parents" which seemed highly implausible. They meant "gay or lesbian adoptive parents have the same outcomes as heterosexual adoptive parents" which is not surprising at all. Two nations divided by a common language.