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Interesting Links for 04-04-2017
Apr. 4th, 2017 07:22 pm- Life in Life
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- The 'Daddy-Proof' onesie is not good for anyone - and it's not alone
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- Returning a desk drawer haiku to its owner
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- People Are Paying to Work From Bars and Restaurants
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- Will ?polluting? web history actually work?
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- Is It Snappy? (App to measure latency using an iPhone camera)
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- Play as a mortician in this death-positive indie game
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- Ordnance Survey maps - now in 3D
- Ooh - shiney!
(tags: maps 3D via:andrewducker ) - Climate Opinion Maps (USA)
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- Nivea removes 'white is purity' deodorant advert branded 'racist'
- Oops
(tags: racism advertising marketing ) - Uber is using psychological tricks on its drivers
- Fun little visualisation on this!
(tags: psychology uber technology visualisation ) - Homes daubed with latin graffiti
- At least it's not "Romanes eunt domus"...
(tags: latin graffiti UK ) - The Making of the Medieval-inspired 3D printed women?s Sovereign Armor
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- Piers Anthony's Xanth novels in development for film and TV
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Interesting Links for 31-03-2017
Mar. 31st, 2017 06:00 pm- Leave Voters Want A Brexit Britain With Capital Punishment, School Beatings And Inefficient Lighting
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- The Trauma of Facing Deportation
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- 124-Year-Old Never-Worn Levi's Found
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- Rage Rooms Are Not A Good Idea
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- Valerian's biggest problem is that it did everything first
- I'm still looking forward to it though!
(tags: movies scifi comics ) - Build-A-Bear Have Some Great Keyboards
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- The information war is real, and we’re losing it
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- Crayola is ditching dandelion yellow from its range and replacing it with a new one
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- Meanwhile, at the end of infinity
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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
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- 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
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- Every Joke Falls in One of 11 Categories
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- What 770,000 Tubes of Saliva Reveal About America
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- Pi and the Golden Ratio
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- 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
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- A linguist on Arrival's alien language.
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- How to Extract Data from Wikipedia and Wikidata
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- The 'Jumanji' Sequel Will Not Include A Magical Board Game
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- Daylight Savings Time hurts my head
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- Bookshop turns classics into clickbait to get people reading
- The idea has, naturally, been called "litbait".
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Interesting Links for 24-03-2017
Mar. 24th, 2017 05:00 pm- TV show contestants spend year in wilderness – with no one watching
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- Things Women Do In Adverts That Honestly Make No Fucking Sense
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- Telecommuting Employee Names Dog 'Employee of the Quarter'
- She's a good dog, Brent
(tags: dogs business awards funny ) - Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg
- (tags: games arcade technology history via:andrewducker )
- Trump Got To Sit In A Big Boy Truck Because Today Was A Special Day!
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- Why Apple's red iPhones are not 'Red' in China
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- Call to give fathers allocated leave to improve uptake
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- Mom, Daughter Die In Separate Accidents 30 Minutes Apart
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- The one thing to do when visiting each country
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- Shaming Men Attracted to Trans Women & Its Harmful Effects
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- Thunderbolting Your Video Card
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- The rise of addictive technology
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- If you want to avoid kids believing in stereotypes avoid generalizing
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Interesting Links for 10-03-2017
Mar. 10th, 2017 05:00 pm- 'Twin Peaks' missing posters are some damn fine viral marketing
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- 'Game of Thrones' season 7 premiere date revealed via fan torture
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- You know nothing about snow...
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- Password-less login
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- AI figured out a surprising word people text when their risk of suicide is high
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- PEP 308 and why I still hate Python
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- Landlord accepted £40,000 stolen whisky as rent payment
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- BBC interviewee interrupted by his children live on air
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- Alexandra Petri Is The Only Op-Ed Columnist America Needs Right Now
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- It's a good name, Bront
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- How an online fight about dogs became one of 2016’s greatest memes
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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
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- Donald Trump's Call For Millions To Rally Fizzles
- Um. Oops?
(tags: politics USA ) - The Business of Being a Feminist Bookstore
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- 81-year-old woman makes iPhone app after only starting to use computers at 60
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- How technology gets us hooked
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- 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 16-02-2017
Feb. 16th, 2017 05:00 pm- The Genderbread Person
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- Depression symptoms among men when their partners are pregnant
- (tags: depression men children via:andrewducker )
- Ronald D. Moore's Philip K. Dick anthology series picked up at Amazon
- (tags: scifi Amazon wow via:andrewducker )
- Explaining the basics of Git in simple words
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- Arrival: Author Ted Chiang reveals how his story went from page to screen
- (tags: scifi writing short-story movies via:andrewducker )
- Nokia 3310, 'the world's most reliable phone', to be re-launched
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- Meet Facebook, Your New Financial Regulator
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- This Machine Turns Trump Tweets into Planned Parenthood Donations
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- Burger King Israel includes (v tame) sex toys in its very happy meal
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- BrewDog offering paid 'puppy leave' for new dog owners
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- A 17th-Century French Couple Traded Hearts Before Being Buried
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- R for Excel Users
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- Would Harold Pick Maude on Tinder?
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- Psychologists Think They Found the Purpose of Depression
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Interesting Links for 07-02-2017
Feb. 7th, 2017 05:00 pm- Top-Ranked Chess Grandmaster Throws Game In Protest After Just Five Moves
- (tags: chess sexism )
- Why we'll never see Deep Space Nine Or Voyager on Blu-ray
- (tags: Star-Trek TV OhForFucksSake via:andrewducker )
- British people answer: "What are some legit "Very British problems"?
- (tags: uk culture via:andrewducker )
- Kylie vs Kylie
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- Use talk not tech to tame your children's online habits
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- How Parents Can Teach Kids Empathy And Kindness | Fatherly
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- Donald Trump Believes Barack Obama Likes Him
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- Wolfenstein Parody Thoughtfully Examines The Ethics Of Violence Against Nazis
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- How to raise kinder, less entitled kids (according to science)
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- Sweet short film about a couple is actually a hearing test in disguise
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- One Woman’s Brilliant “Fuck You” to Wikipedia Trolls
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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
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- Fake News Challenge
- (tags: news AI social-media coding )
- Sean Spicer's "Ban" Ban Didn't Last Long
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- Trolls and reproduction
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- Truly, Madly, Guiltily - Loving your husband more than your children
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- 'Can I Still Eat Cheetos?' And Other Questions I Have Before I Reach Middle Age
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- 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
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- Lychee identified as cause for mystery deadly childhood illness in India
- (tags: food India death )
- How Many People Are In Space Right Now?
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- What was your big stuff up?
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Interesting Links for 31-01-2017
Jan. 31st, 2017 05:00 pm- Pirates Of The Caribbean Cosplay
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- George Orwell Reviews Mein Kampf
- (tags: history politics literature war )
- Japan Now Has Kit Kat...Sushi
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- Lego Life Is a Social Network That's Safe for Kids
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- The Chinese man trapped in India for half a century
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- A New Kind of Clairvoyance
- (tags: data stats economics suicide )
- "Science curious" people are more likely to explore data contradicting their world view
- (tags: science psychology via:andrewducker )
- Conscience is a collective phenomenon - what resistance to The Holocaust can teach us.
- (tags: Holocaust history politics psychology fascism via:andrewducker )
- The Viking Squad - Iceland's Elite Counter-Terrorism Unit
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Interesting Links for 27-01-2017
Jan. 27th, 2017 05:00 pm- Scientists create metallic hydrogen
- (tags: wow science physics )
- Time-resolved 2-million-year-old supernova activity discovered in Earth’s microfossil record
- (tags: palaeontology wow supernovae geology )
- Tiny Train World
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- A promising study suggests teachers can train 8-year-olds in Theory of Mind
- (tags: psychology mind children via:andrewducker )
- Amazing Things Architects Make When They Aren’t Architecting
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Interesting Links for 24-01-2017
Jan. 24th, 2017 05:00 pm- O'Brien Must Suffer!
- (tags: star-trek TV )
- Trekkies can now wake up their Amazon Echo by saying 'computer'
- OK - I may buy one, now.
(tags: star-trek geekery WANT Amazon ) - The world's happiest children
- (tags: Netherlands parenting children happiness )
- Official summary of the Supreme Court judgement on whether the government can invoke Article 50 without parliament
- (tags: law europe uk Brexit )
- Model Hanne Gaby Odiele reveals she is intersex to 'break taboo'
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- How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains
- (tags: intelligence insects bees wow )
Interesting Links for 17-01-2017
Jan. 17th, 2017 05:00 pm- Link Between Profanity and Honesty
- (tags: language psychology )
- Count von Count and the lack of foreign voices on children's TV
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- First Class Racism
- (tags: racism UK trains )
- Video Games Aren't Allowed To Use The "Red Cross" Symbol For Health
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- Trump's cabinet pick invested in company, then introduced a bill to help it
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- Performance Reviews - Waste of time and tears?
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- Apple increases App Store prices by 25%
- (tags: apple uk money via:andrewducker )
Interesting Links for 05-01-2017
Jan. 5th, 2017 05:00 pm- Death & Video Games: Leaving behind game saves
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- L.P.D.: Libertarian Police Department
- (tags: satire politics economics )
- China’s 'Lucky Knot' Bridge Has No Beginning and No End
- (tags: china bridge design via:andrewducker )
- What the hell is chicken salt?
- Can I have some please?
(tags: WANT food Australia ) - Razer's insane laptop
- Seriously?? THREE screens??!
(tags: wow technology ) - Transitional Objects
- (tags: parenting children psychology )
- Therapy wars: the revenge of Freud
- (tags: psychology )
- Is sugar the world’s most popular drug?
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Interesting Links for 25-11-2016
Nov. 25th, 2016 05:00 pm- The Funniest Steam Award Nominations
- Uh-oh. You can have custom awards
(tags: gaming awards internet funny ) - Infidelity, Open relationships and Polyamory
- (tags: relationships polyamory psychology society marriage )
- Homeless village to be built in Edinburgh
- (tags: homelessness edinburgh scotland uk via:andrewducker )
- Why young children are terrible at hiding
- (tags: children psychology via:andrewducker )
- Why every office should scrap its clean desk policy
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Interesting Links for 22-11-2016
Nov. 22nd, 2016 05:00 pm- Trump Says Any Conflicts Of Interest Were Priced Into Your Vote
- (tags: business politics USA OhForFucksSake )
- REMINDER: Your Local Democratic Party Is Three Overworked Schmucks Desperately Seeking A Fourth.
- (tags: politics usa via:andrewducker )
- Programmers confess unethical, illegal tasks asked of them
- (tags: morality programming computers jobs via:andrewducker )
- The Rubber Duck Method
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- For Christmas, I gave my child an empty box
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- Fireman Sam: the worst children’s programme ever?
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- Tesco store in Edinburgh accused of discriminating against state school pupils
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- The hygge conspiracy
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- Alt-right trolls are getting 23andme genetic tests to ‘prove’ their whiteness
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- Cosplayers, Before And After
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- How Renaissance’s Medallion Fund Became Finance’s Blackest Box
- (tags: finance wow via:andrewducker )
Interesting Links for 11-11-2016
Nov. 11th, 2016 05:00 pm- What’s the singular form of ‘cattle’?
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- When it's more than just feeling a little ugly...
- (tags: psychology mental-health )
- The “Other Side” Is Not Dumb.
- (tags: psychology society politics TV )
- Single sentence novel wins Goldsmiths prize
- (tags: literature Ireland )
- Seattle Felt Very Far Away From the United States Last Night
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- Watch a baby gender reveal party backfire spectacularly
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- Helicopter and Snowplough Parents
- (tags: parenting psychology school learning children wow )
- Simple Truths About Sexual Attraction
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Interesting Links for 02-11-2016
Nov. 2nd, 2016 09:00 pm- ‘Drama of Life Before Birth’
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- Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown
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- Physicists Accidently Discover a Self-Destruct Button for the Entire Universe
- It's OK - if it's activated, we will never know.
(tags: physics universe apocalypse ) - Facebook is Much Less Addictive When You Remove the Numbers
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- Neural Networks learn cryptography
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- The Largest Bioterrorism Attack in US History Was An Attempt to Swing An Election
- (tags: terrorism cults USA politics history )
- Isaac Newton's Alchemy Experiments: Watch Silver Get Turned Into Gold
- (tags: alchemy chemistry science history )
- Inside the Carney Awards, where character actors get their due
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- Facebook stops insurer from setting rates based on profiles
- (tags: social-media insurance finance OhForFucksSake )
- Millennials Are Dead. Long Live Generation C
- We trust, above all, content shared on our personal networks.
(tags: millenials marketing social-media socialnetworking ) - 10-Year-Old Boy Slays Halloween As Marie Antoinette
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- The fetishisation of work is making us miserable. Let’s learn to live again
- (tags: work business society )
- The Culture of Childhood: We’ve Almost Destroyed It
- (tags: education parenting children )
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