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Interesting Links for 04-04-2017
Apr. 4th, 2017 07:22 pm- Life in Life
- (tags: mathematics wow programming )
- The 'Daddy-Proof' onesie is not good for anyone - and it's not alone
- (tags: fatherhood children parenting wtf )
- Returning a desk drawer haiku to its owner
- (tags: art poetry music wow )
- People Are Paying to Work From Bars and Restaurants
- (tags: work business restaurants )
- Will ?polluting? web history actually work?
- (tags: privacy internet USA )
- Is It Snappy? (App to measure latency using an iPhone camera)
- (tags: photography iPhone apps )
- Play as a mortician in this death-positive indie game
- (tags: death games gaming WANT )
- Ordnance Survey maps - now in 3D
- Ooh - shiney!
(tags: maps 3D via:andrewducker ) - Climate Opinion Maps (USA)
- (tags: climate-change maps USA )
- 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
- (tags: history armour technology cosplay )
- Piers Anthony's Xanth novels in development for film and TV
- (tags: tv fantasy via:andrewducker )
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Interesting Links for 30-03-2017
Mar. 30th, 2017 06:00 pm- Wanna Protect Your Online Privacy? Open a Tab and Make Some Noise
- (tags: internet privacy security )
- Origami intersections that are visible from space
- (tags: origami space art )
- Conservative Club fined for being (small-c) conservative?
- (tags: women gender-inequality Conservatives )
- Guy Who Got a C on Constitutional-Amendment Paper GETS CONSTITUTION AMENDED
- (tags: history law USA )
- LEGO UK Hiring Product Designers To Build Models Professionally
- (tags: lego WANT work play jobs UK )
- How I Let Disney Track My Every Move
- "...the most magical surveillance state on Earth..."
(tags: Disney privacy technology ) - Best High School Reunion Ever: The Buffy Cast 20 Years Later
- (tags: tv nostalgia awesome )
- You can’t buy Congress’ web history - it doesn't work like that
- (tags: internet politics privacy security )
- The Four Types Of Scarlett Johansson Movies
- (tags: movies statistics visualisation via:andrewducker )
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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
- (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 )
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Interesting Links for 06-03-2017
Mar. 6th, 2017 05:00 pm- The difference between being part of the UK and part of the EU
- (tags: europe uk scotland independence via:andrewducker )
- Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight, explained with 60+ studies
- (tags: exercise weight via:andrewducker )
- Why you should get an Economics PhD (and save lives)
- (tags: Education life government regulation via:andrewducker )
- Arithmetic vs Reality: The Sawdust Principle
- (tags: mathematics reality idiocy via:andrewducker )
- Relevant XKCD
- There is *always* an xkcd for that.
(tags: xkcd comic recursion via:andrewducker ) - Copenhagen restaurant turns diners into donors
- (tags: restaurants organ-donation wow food )
- Zuckerberg World President
- (tags: facebook globalization data )
- 1.37bn records from somewhere to leak on Monday
- (tags: data security internet )
- Mathematics for Computer Science
- Want to come back to read this properly. Might help me put my mathematical background into CS use better
(tags: computers mathematics science ) - Decline of the Dad Job
- (tags: work gender via:andrewducker )
- Data Visualization Gifs
- (tags: animation data visualisation )
- Why the most successful students have no passion for school
- (tags: education motivation )
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Interesting Links for 20-02-2017
Feb. 20th, 2017 05:00 pm- This is about one-third of a semester's worth of university-level fractal mathematics
- (tags: mathematics video )
- The world’s first colour-change hair
- (tags: chemistry hair colour )
- Decision Paralysis
- xkcd is occasionally almost painfully familiar
(tags: xkcd decisions funny webcomic ) - Her Story (season one)
- (tags: lgbt gender feminism video trans )
- "I ♥ NY" - eating animal hearts
- For the record, I grew up eating braised lamb hearts as a Sunday treat.
(tags: food diet ) - Millions of people fall below the UK's minimum income standard
- (tags: data money poverty UK )
- The Programming Interview from Hell
- (tags: interview jobs work via:andrewducker )
Interesting Links for 06-02-2017
Feb. 6th, 2017 05:00 pm- Carrie Fisher's last Harrison Ford story isn't romantic, it's tragic
- (tags: relationships Star-Wars sadmaking via:andrewducker )
- Millennials aren’t coddled—they just reject abuse as a management tactic
- (tags: abuse management work via:andrewducker )
- The Alluring Statuette Dividing Dublin
- (tags: Ireland art meme )
- Local voting figures shed new light on EU referendum
- (tags: EU UK politics statistics )
- Humans have a mating season?
- (tags: reproduction stats )
- Why Our Super Bowl Ad Failed
- (tags: genius wow advertising sport )
- Figuring out the best place to live in Helsinki
- (tags: Finland travel commuting data maps )
- The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials Into the New Serfs
- (tags: millenials housing work business )
- The reasons why, once we start worrying, some of us just can’t stop
- Ah, crap. This is quite recognisable.
(tags: anxiety stress psychology via:andrewducker ) - People are quitting gig jobs in the sharing economy
- (tags: economics jobs work uber )
- Russians Engineer a Brilliant Slot Machine Cheat—And Casinos Have No Fix
- (tags: maths computers gambling via:andrewducker )
- New ammonia production process generates electricity instead of consuming it
- (tags: chemistry agriculture wow )
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Interesting Links for 03-02-2017
Feb. 3rd, 2017 05:00 pm- The war on sugar is becoming a new way to shame and control pregnant women
- (tags: pregnancy sugar feminism )
- A Portland Teen's Pet Snake Got Stuck in Her Earlobe
- (tags: snake ears animals )
- I Work from Home
- (tags: humour work funny )
- Holy crap, this almost makes me wish I played D&D
- Also, to be rich
(tags: D&D roleplaying wow ) - Press Secretary Sean Spicer Falsely Accuses Iran of Attacking U.S. Navy Vessel, an Act of War
- (tags: OhForFucksSake USA politics war )
- Why the London of British Literature Barely Changed for 200 Years
- (tags: London literature emotions maps data )
- The Vice & Virtue Index: How Our Spending Changes in January
- (tags: economics money spending )
- Scientists Find First Observed Evidence That Our Universe May Be a Hologram
- (tags: science physics universe wow )
- Curiosity isn't gendered
- I want Amazon UK to do the STEM subscription in time for my son to enjoy it!
(tags: toys parenting gender play science ) - At last, White Paper sets out 12 key Brexit goals. Now for the 12 key unanswered questions
- (tags: uk europe questions via:andrewducker )
- On Influenza A (H1N1)
- all your base pairs are belong to H5N1
(tags: biology genetics science computing )
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Interesting Links for 20-01-2017
Jan. 20th, 2017 05:00 pm- Popular photo app Meitu is sending your identifying data to their servers
- (tags: privacy apps data via:andrewducker )
- Larsen ice crack continues to open up
- (tags: global-warming Antarctica )
- Bacteria Apparently Send eVites to Each Other Throughout the Body
- (tags: bacteria wow communication )
- Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author?
- (tags: crime security DDOS internet Minecraft gaming hacking )
- Getting the best out of A/B testing
- (tags: statistics web testing )
- I Had One Night to Invent Interstellar Travel
- (tags: science space movies scifi )
- How Do I Declare A Function Pointer in C?
- (tags: programming funny coding )
- We Can’t Let People Work From Home Because ...
- (tags: business work )
- Windows 10 Now Has Built-In Adds Targeting FireFox
- (tags: computing wtf )
- IAmA trans woman who has medically transitioned, ask me your invasive questions!
- (BBC News picked this up, but didn't link to the original AMA)
(tags: Reddit trans interview AMA ) - Clinical network established in Scotland for perinatal mental health
- (tags: Scotland mental-health )
- New £5 Notes Are Riddled With Bacteria - But It's The Good Kind
- "Despite the word "SPECIMEN" across the photo ... there's no poo on our polymer pounds."
(tags: money funny science bacteria )
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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
- (tags: accents children immigration TV )
- First Class Racism
- (tags: racism UK trains )
- Video Games Aren't Allowed To Use The "Red Cross" Symbol For Health
- (tags: copyright gaming laws )
- Trump's cabinet pick invested in company, then introduced a bill to help it
- (tags: law markets USA politics )
- Performance Reviews - Waste of time and tears?
- (tags: work review millenials emotions )
- Apple increases App Store prices by 25%
- (tags: apple uk money via:andrewducker )
Interesting Links for 11-01-2017
Jan. 11th, 2017 05:00 pm- Schistosomiasis being combatted by recruiting prawns
- (tags: disease Africa )
- GRRM makes tiny announcement about the next book
- (tags: GRRM game-of-thrones via:andrewducker )
- Should we be taking masturbation breaks at work?
- (tags: sex work productivity )
- Each year, half a million horseshoe crabs are captured and bled alive to create an unparalleled biomedical technology.
- (tags: crabs medicine ocean via:andrewducker )
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Interesting Links for 09-01-2017
Jan. 9th, 2017 05:00 pm- Online cognitive behavioural therapy is no more effective than usual GP care for people with depression
- (tags: depression cbt via:andrewducker )
- Crash Cows
- (tags: science computers Russia )
- How did the greatest juggler in the world end up working in concrete?
- (tags: juggling work achievement via:andrewducker )
- Intermental - New disorders for a connected age
- (tags: mental-health emotions internet visualisation )
- MIT design one of the strongest, lightest materials known
- (tags: research chemistry science engineering )
- The not-really-abandoned Land Of Oz
- (tags: park Oz USA )
- I wore men’s clothes for a month – and it changed my life
- (tags: feminism gender society clothing via:andrewducker )
- Mapumental - mapping travel times
- (tags: data maps time travel )
- The iPhone Decade
- (tags: iPhone technology )
- Embrace the remix
- (tags: creativity music technology law )
- Be Worried About Boys, Especially Baby Boys
- (tags: psychiatry babies gender stress mental-health )
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Interesting Links for 12-12-2016
Dec. 12th, 2016 05:00 pm- Scone or scone?
- (tags: UK map language )
- Best Buy Employees Surprise Teen Who Visited Store Every Day To Play Smash Bros.
- (tags: awesome Nintendo USA feelgood )
- OneShot Is A Game Where The Main Character Knows Who You Are
- (tags: gaming funny )
- Everybody Poops
- (tags: poop gaming wtf )
- History of the human population
- (tags: history prehistory map data visualisation )
- This is what happens when Donald Trump attacks a private citizen on Twitter
- (tags: twitter USA politics ffs )
- Guidelines to help couples manage conflict
- (tags: psychology conflict-management )
- The cult of compulsory happiness is ruining our workplaces
- (tags: management happiness work )
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
- (tags: cleanliness office creativity work via:andrewducker )
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Interesting Links for 02-11-2016
Nov. 2nd, 2016 09:00 pm- ‘Drama of Life Before Birth’
- (tags: photography pregnancy science )
- Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown
- (tags: funny review satire writing literature )
- 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
- (tags: social-media psychology stats )
- Neural Networks learn cryptography
- (tags: AI cryptography wow )
- 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
- (tags: film TV awards )
- 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
- (tags: costumes cosplay wow Hallowe'en )
- 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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Interesting Links for 18-10-2016
Oct. 18th, 2016 04:00 pm- UK Government agreed referendum could not be legally binding
- (tags: politics UK Brexit )
- How to really read to kids
- (tags: reading children parenting psychology )
- "Secretaries are women, that's how it's always been"
- (tags: sexism society women work business )
- Why inauthentic apologies infuriate
- (tags: apologies psychology )
- Punny stories
- (tags: stories funny puns awesome via:andrewducker )
- Jennicam: The first woman to stream her life on the internet
- (tags: internet privacy streaming )
- What’s the Most Popular Time of Year to Get Married?
- (tags: data weddings economics )
- Secret Grief: Over 35, Single, and Childless
- (tags: grief psychology children )
Interesting Links for 04-10-2016
Oct. 4th, 2016 04:00 pm- Meet the mathekniticians - and their amazing woolly maths creations
- (tags: mathematics knitting craftwork via:andrewducker )
- How organisations enshrine collective stupidity and employees are rewarded for checking their brains at the office door
- (tags: business society management work stupidity EpicStupidity organisation via:andrewducker )
- Moral Machine
- (tags: cars AI morality philosophy )
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Interesting Links for 30-09-2016
Sep. 30th, 2016 04:00 pm- Amazon is now making videogames
- (tags: Amazon games gaming )
- How do you feel when politicians criticise your employer?
- (tags: work politics via:andrewducker )
- London hasn't been kind to the man behind the Tube Chat badge
- (tags: London transport society UK chat )
- Using Mathematics to Repair a Masterpiece
- (tags: art history mathematics )
Interesting Links for 02-09-2016
Sep. 2nd, 2016 04:00 pm- Why it's so hard to ignore a baby's cry, according to science
- (tags: evolution science children parenting )
- Lamb ad moves away from controversy with cheeky message about diversity
- Mmmm. Lamb...
(tags: lamb advertising Australia funny ) - Why utility poles are so important to the future of the Internet
- (tags: internet business laws )
- The most important management secret you'll ever need
- (tags: management advice via:andrewducker )
- 63 Things That Mildly Annoy All Scots On A Daily Basis
- (tags: scotland viaPatrickHadfield funny via:andrewducker )
- Weddings: Who should pay and what about plus-ones?
- (tags: weddings data )
- Government ‘has stripped Paralympians of their Motability vehicles’
- (tags: disability UK government Olympics )
- University librarian lives simple life; leaves $4 million to school
- (tags: USA university library )
- A psychic's readings vs probability estimates
- (tags: psychology psychic data probability )
- How algorithms rule our working lives
- (tags: algorithms work mathematics )
- 'I know you are struggling right now': Victoria Beckham pens heartfelt letter to her teenage self
- (tags: advice life music via:andrewducker )
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Interesting Links for 30-08-2016
Aug. 30th, 2016 04:00 pm- Lightning strike kills 323 reindeer
- (tags: norway weather electricity video )
- New Yorkers will pay $56 a month to trim a minute off their commute
- I'd like to see this done for other cities around the world
(tags: data commuting visualisation work travel ) - How one man dreamed up Tetris
- (tags: gaming code programming history Russia )
- And it's gone —The true cost of interruptions
- (tags: productivity programming )
- Shattering a mirror with a hammer at 120k fps
- (tags: wow mirror video destruction )
- Uber driver takes sleeping woman on 35-mile detour around London
- (tags: uber safety travel UK )
- Reducing runoff pollution by making spray droplets less bouncy
- (tags: research science environment agriculture )
- Indie Crossword Puzzlers
- (tags: crosswords puzzles )
- Facebook recommended that this psychiatrist’s patients friend each other
- (tags: facebook privacy via:andrewducker )
- Sorry, but your browser password manager probably isn’t enough
- (tags: technology passwords security internet )
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