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The most cringeworthy interview of the year and it's only May: (tags: interview OhForFucksSake )
Malaphors: Daily doses of malaprop in metaphor form
(tags: language funny )
Lady Mondegreen says her peace about egg corns: (tags: english language funny )
The British and their exceptionalism: "...few have ever allowed the belief in their exceptionalism to damage their economic and political interests in quite the way Britain is currently doing."
(tags: UK EU Brexit politics economics )

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 )

35-Year-Old Downloads The Sims to Play Out Home Ownership Fantasy: (tags: housing games fantasy via:andrewducker )
The best anagrams in the English language: (tags: coding analysis language via:andrewducker )
A lovely Calvin and Hobbes sketch - in 3D: (tags: comics wow art Calvin-and-Hobbes via:andrewducker )
The Example of Easter Island Shows Why Humanity Will Be Extinct Within 100 Years: Probably. Maybe.
(tags: extinction global-warming economics ecology )
The Slow Confiscation of Everything: “The end is nigh. Coffee helps.”
(tags: apocalypse climate )
The Myers diff algorithm: (tags: algorithms programming )
Single women hide their ambtion if others can see them.: (tags: feminism women jobs society via:andrewducker )
Amazon Argues Alexa Speech Protected By First Amendment In Murder Trial Fight: (tags: Amazon laws free-speech murder )
Lexical Distance Among the Languages of Europe: (tags: europe language visualisation via:andrewducker )
The Man Who Wants to Rescue Infinity: (tags: mathematics )
Perspective - Now anyone can deploy Google's anti-troll API: (tags: coding AI trolling Google )

The writing system only women could write: (tags: women writing language China )
The Ghost In The Shell Movie Has Some Very Expensive Statues: If you ever wanted a 1/4th sized robo-Geisha, here's your chance
(tags: movies merchandising wow anime )
Cheater Ends Up In Match With Pro Overwatch Players, Gets Wrecked: (tags: Overwatch cheating karma )
Donald Trump Told Chris Christie To Eat Meatloaf: To be fair, Frankenfurter made everyone eat Meat Loaf
(tags: wtf politics )
Scarier Than 'Psycho': Twitter Erupts Over Trump's 'Bats**t' Press Conference: Unsure if this is an interesting read or just worth remembering as the 'good times' when the shells are dropping all around
(tags: wtf politics USA )
The Amazon Fire Stick Juggernaut: (tags: Amazon data sales )
Scientists appeal for more people to donate their brains: (tags: brains neurology science )
Hans Rosling – the World’s Greatest Data-Storyteller: (tags: data visualisation )
British queuing and 'the power of six': (tags: queueing UK society anthropology )
How to Tame Quantum Weirdness: (tags: puzzles quantum-mechanics physics )
Researchers Tap a Sleep Switch in the Brain | Quanta Magazine: Includes the best fragment I'll see all day: "...a colony of narcoleptic dogs at Stanford..."
(tags: sleep science neurology )
Examining relationships between further education and financial responsibility: (tags: education finance data stats )
What are the Celtic Languages?: (tags: languages Wales Scotland Ireland )
The rise of the £300 smartphone—you want how much for a flagship?: (tags: phones technology sales economics )

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 )

MOCAS, the oldest computer program to still be in use turned 58 in 2016: (tags: software history via:andrewducker )
900,000 Brits Sign Petition to Block Trump's State Visit Due To 'Misogyny and Vulgarity': (tags: UK USA politics )
Text to speech for International Phonetic Alphabet: (tags: speech language programming )
Notable Quotables: (tags: literature quotes )
Using rational numbers to key nested sets: (tags: database mathematics )
Statistical Breakup: I'm now choosing to believe all my previous relationships were part of control groups
(tags: science relationships funny webcomic )
The dirtiest things in your home: (tags: data cleanliness wow )
Designing a financial product with mental health issues in mind: (tags: design finance mental-health )
New parents and sleep: (tags: data stats sleep parenting babies )
Internet Discussion Error Codes: (tags: facebook twitter discussion )
Prime of Life: The Story of My 20s, as Told in Amazon Purchases: (tags: Amazon funny )
UN denounces Trump's travel ban as 'mean-spirited' and illegal under human rights law: (tags: politics USA UN )

Understanding 'Puppy talk': (tags: dogs science speech language )
Playful people are at an advantage: "Playfulness isn't humor..." Sounds like someone needs a tickle!
(tags: psychology play via:andrewducker )
Conservatives prefer nouns, liberals prefer adjectives: ...unless it's "great"?
(tags: language politics psychology via:andrewducker )
How it felt to leave China for Britain: (tags: culture China UK )

Inside tiny tubes, water turns solid when it should be boiling: (tags: research science wow )
Monopoly - The movie: Oh gods...
(tags: movies games OhForFucksSake )
Mental Health Education At School: (tags: school mental-health UK )
GitHub for Bucket - the channel bot for #xkcd: (tags: xkcd coding funny )
Nuclear batteries - using diamonds: (tags: batteries research science wow )
We Asked 8,500 Internet Commenters Why They Do What They Do: (tags: comments internet discussion via:andrewducker )
Where are the Voyagers: (tags: science space )
Who is the Genius Behind Merriam-Webster’s Social Media?: (tags: language social-media funny )
When an individual has a conversation with Theresa May about Brexit: (tags: europe uk politics )
What are the most popular PINs? (And are you using one?): (tags: security passwords numbers via:andrewducker )

Phono-semantic matching is corporate America's best option when trying to rebrand for new countries: (tags: culture language business )
Forget Trump and Clinton. ‘Black Jeopardy’ is SNL’s best political sketch this year: (tags: politics USA funny comedy TV )
'The Bachelor' contestants find love on the show...: (tags: Australia love awesome lgbt )
If you want to influence people don't try to persuade them. Use ‘pre-suasion’ instead.: (tags: psychology communication via:andrewducker )
Revisiting the “Moral” Panic Around D&D: (tags: dungeonsanddragons religion history usa via:andrewducker )
How German nuclear scientists reacted to the news of Hiroshima: (tags: nuclearweapons wwii history via:andrewducker )
Here Are Some Adorable photos of Kittens Pouncing: (tags: cats photography awesome )
Study suggests approach to waking patients after surgery: (tags: research medicine neurology )
If you've never heard of "Mrs Columbo", here is your chance to catch up: "Neither Peter Falk nor the character of Lieutenant Columbo ever appeared on or endorsed the show."
(tags: funny TV )

A Republican intellectual explains why the Republican Party is going to die: (tags: republicans usa politics history via:andrewducker )
Ironic World Standards Day: (tags: world standards usa funny via:andrewducker )
The History Of Europe - Every Year: (tags: history Europe maps video )
Ranking the Most (and Least) Vegetarian-Friendly US Cities: (tags: vegetarianism veganism USA stats data )
Baby boomers have already taken all the houses, now they're coming for our brunch: (tags: funny brunch housing baby-boomers millenials )
You can blame austerity for Brexit: (tags: austerity uk economics europe via:andrewducker )
How to deal with braggarts: (tags: psychology bragging )
Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal: (tags: physics science time )
Gap in Research Funding Holds Back Potential Cure for All Viruses: (tags: medicine science research crowdfunding viruses )
The maths (and linguistics) of the Sleeping Beauty puzzle: (tags: puzzles mathematics philosophy language )

Why are there fewer Pokemon locations in black neighborhoods?: (tags: race inequality Technology maps usa games pokemon via:andrewducker )
Things that are Obama's fault, in graphs: (tags: barackobama visualisation via:andrewducker )
Dozens of new emoji will finally show women being awesome: (tags: emoji women equal-rights technology )
‘Ghostbusters’ Is A Perfect Example Of How Internet Movie Ratings Are Broken: (tags: culture film data internet movies )
Uplifting - comic summarises the goal we all strive for: (tags: comic webcomic funny )
The New Ghostbusters Didn't Ruin My Childhood Because That's Not How the Progression of Time Works: (tags: movies nostalgia funny )
Words about love from all over the world: (tags: love language )
Three Puzzles Inspired By Ramanujan: (tags: history mathematics puzzles )
Scientists measure emotional arcs in English language literature: (tags: data visualisation literature emotions )
The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality: It’s conscious agents all the way down
(tags: science mathematics philosophy physics consciousness )
Overwatch As Fine Art: (tags: Overwatch art wow )
Andrea Leadsom Says It Is Sensible Not To Let Men Look After Children As They May Be Paedophiles: (tags: Conservatives ffs paedophilia sexism via:andrewducker )

TV journalist expertly trolls betting agency by constantly changing his tie: (tags: funny gambling politics Australia )
Company plans to 'grow' drones: I for one welcome our new chemputer overlords
(tags: scifi science technology )
Vulcans looking for a new mortgage: Bizarre advertising campaign springboarding off the new Star Trek film
(tags: star-trek advertising finance )
Peter Scholze And The Future Of Arithmetic Geometry: (tags: mathematics )
Brexit: Set out positives of leaving, Boris Johnson urges: Wasn't this his job to do *before* the referendum?
(tags: politics UK ffs )
Anna Kendrick is aware of Squirrel Girl and willing to play her: This needs to happen
(tags: superheroes movies comics )
Even a four-year-old can tell when you're contradicting yourself (and now they won't trust you): (tags: children language logic via:andrewducker )

Inside The Surprisingly Big Overwatch Porn Scene: (tags: porn Overwatch wow )
If Windows 10 wants to update, it updates dammit: (tags: windows gaming )
The Supreme Court agrees with Harvard scientists about the dangers of cognitive bias: (tags: law psychology )
There's no such thing as Free Will: But do we want people to know that?
(tags: psychology philosophy society )
'Southern' accents replacing dialects, language app finds: I do love research into accents
(tags: accents data language )

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