Interesting Links for 03-04-2017
Apr. 3rd, 2017 06:00 pm- Is Ghost in the Shell the Nail in the Coffin of Hollywood Whitewashing?
- (tags: race movies Hollywood )
- Yellow car!
- (tags: colour cars via:andrewducker )
- Anger as tampon tax is used to help fund anti-abortion group
- (tags: menstruation abortion charity OhForFucksSake via:andrewducker )
- Mega-Tunnels Dug by South American Megafauna
- (tags: animals prehistory tunnels wtf via:andrewducker )
- The milk that lasts for months
- (tags: age food cheese science )
- For 18 years, I thought she was stealing my identity. Until I found her.
- (tags: race identity names USA crime )
- Performance Artist Stood Still For 6 Hours to Let People Do What They Wanted to Her Body
- (tags: art society behaviour sadmaking )
- A step-by-step guide to building a simple chess AI
- (tags: algorithms chess games coding AI )
- At BlackRock, Machines Are Rising Over Managers to Pick Stocks
- (tags: USA AI markets data )
- Refugees Welcome (long-form articles about Syrians in Canada)
- (tags: Syria war refugees Canada )
Interesting Links for 28-03-2017
Mar. 28th, 2017 06:00 pm- The Hass Avocado Mother Tree
- Another genetically-identical crop, you say...?
(tags: food biology agriculture business ) - Massive Gold Coin Worth Millions Stolen From German Museum
- (tags: coins crime gold )
- New York's Fearless Girl statue to stay on till March 2018
- It should stay permanently, I say
(tags: USA business art gender-inequality feminism ) - US parents sue to call baby girl Allah
- (tags: names USA children law )
- McDonald's worker, 94, says she will never leave
- (tags: age work )
- Every Joke Falls in One of 11 Categories
- (tags: humour writing )
- What 770,000 Tubes of Saliva Reveal About America
- (tags: DNA data visualisation genetics )
- Pi and the Golden Ratio
- (tags: mathematics wow )
- The New Justice League Trailer Packs In Everything Wrong with DC’s Dark Movie Universe
- Visual consistency is important in movies, but there’s a chance if you watch the Justice League trailer wearing sunglasses you might not actually see anything
(tags: movies DC comics OhForFucksSake ) - A (FREE!) sci-fi anthology collects stories from up-and-coming authors
- (tags: scifi writing stories short-story )
- A linguist on Arrival's alien language.
- (tags: language movies )
- How to Extract Data from Wikipedia and Wikidata
- (tags: data wikipedia )
- The 'Jumanji' Sequel Will Not Include A Magical Board Game
- (tags: wtf movies gaming boardgaming videogames )
- Daylight Savings Time hurts my head
- (tags: riddles time childbirth )
- Bookshop turns classics into clickbait to get people reading
- The idea has, naturally, been called "litbait".
(tags: reading literature OhForFucksSake clickbait )
Interesting Links for 28-02-2017
Feb. 28th, 2017 05:00 pm- Whatever happened to the Greek Gods?
- (tags: myths Greece story short-story via:andrewducker )
- Two WWII-Era Grenades Were Found in a 91-Year-Old's Refrigerator
- (tags: war food wtf )
- Where did Steve Bannon get his worldview?
- (tags: books culture politics )
- A $10 wireless Raspberry Pi is now available
- (tags: technology wow )
- Donald Trump's Call For Millions To Rally Fizzles
- Um. Oops?
(tags: politics USA ) - The Business of Being a Feminist Bookstore
- (tags: feminism books business )
- 81-year-old woman makes iPhone app after only starting to use computers at 60
- (tags: age coding Japan TED-Talks )
- How technology gets us hooked
- (tags: technology addiction )
- Japanese Phone Booth Connects The Living And The Dead
- (tags: Japan death grief earthquake )
- One doctor’s experience telling patients Trump is president
- (tags: memory medicine politics )
- The benefits of philosophy for children
- (tags: philosophy children education learning UK )
Interesting Links for 02-02-2017
Feb. 2nd, 2017 05:00 pm- My Color Story
- (tags: renting housing mental-health )
- The beauty of mixed-radix bases
- (tags: mathematics computing numbers )
- Fake News Challenge
- (tags: news AI social-media coding )
- Sean Spicer's "Ban" Ban Didn't Last Long
- (tags: politics political-correctness language law )
- Trolls and reproduction
- (tags: Twitter trolling reproduction pregnancy )
- Truly, Madly, Guiltily - Loving your husband more than your children
- (tags: love children parenting relationships )
- 'Can I Still Eat Cheetos?' And Other Questions I Have Before I Reach Middle Age
- (tags: age fatherhood funny )
- Totalitarianism in the age of Trump: lessons from Hannah Arendt
- (tags: philosophy politics literature protests )
- "Wait Calmly" How the world reacted to Hitler's appointment as chancellor
- (tags: history nazis )
- Lychee identified as cause for mystery deadly childhood illness in India
- (tags: food India death )
- How Many People Are In Space Right Now?
- (tags: science space )
- What was your big stuff up?
- (tags: schadenfreude )
Interesting Links for 19-01-2017
Jan. 19th, 2017 05:00 pm- Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse but the rest of the world isn’t listening
- (tags: drugs mental-health iceland teenagers via:andrewducker )
- Studying at the Bahai secret university
- (tags: learning university religion )
- Why Does Time Seem to Move Faster as We Grow Older?
- (tags: time age neurology psychology memory )
- Overpopulation: material problem and psychological threat
- (tags: population psychology apocalypse science )
- Patrick Stewart will voice an animate poop emoji
- (tags: wtf movies )
- How a robot got Super Mario 64 and Portal “running” on an SNES
- (tags: hardware Nintendo speedrunning technology wow )
- It's Not Your Imagination. Every Trailer Really Does Have That Bass Drop.
- (tags: trailers movies sounds )
Interesting Links for 12-08-2016
Aug. 12th, 2016 04:00 pm- Cloud Atlas 'astonishingly different' in US and UK editions
- (tags: writing usa uk via:andrewducker )
- Donald Trump quotes said by Zapp Brannigan (now with audio)
- (tags: politics scifi funny usa via:andrewducker )
- Loneliness is not just about single people looking for love
- (tags: loneliness society psychology love )
- Happy 10th Anniversary to 'Step Up,' you beautiful piece of trash
- (tags: movies dance )
- The Greenland shark can reach nearly 400 years of age
- (tags: science sharks wow age )
- Batman’s gotta be a lousy lay, right?
- (tags: Batman comics funny )
- Singapore just became home to the first Michelin-starred street vendor in the world.
- (tags: food awards Singapore wow )
Interesting Links for 24-05-2016
May. 24th, 2016 04:00 pm- Kristian Nairn thinks Hodor is the better man (Spoilers for GoT S6E5)
- (tags: Game-Of-Thrones TV )
- Wine! Science! Science wine!
- (tags: drink science wow )
- How an Ad Campaign Made Lesbians Fall in Love with Subaru
- (tags: cars lgbt advertising marketing via:andrewducker )
- "Brienne and Tormund, sitting in a tree..."
- (tags: relationships funny game-of-thrones via:andrewducker )
- The age at which you start losing friends
- (tags: age friendship relationships via:andrewducker )
- Here's What You Learn When You've Lived In Edinburgh For Five Years
- I've been here for 10, and it's all true I tells ye.
(tags: Edinburgh funny ) - Supernormal Stimuli - how your reptile brain controls more than you'd like to think
- (tags: comic psychology )
- Recidivism risk models are racist
- (tags: stats data racism crime )
- Poverty causes physical pain
- (tags: science money psychology )