Interesting Links for 26-08-2018
- Drive-in 'sex boxes' for prostitution are a wild success in Switzerland
- (tags: Switzerland prostitution )
- The risks of alcohol (again) (with actual details of how dangerous, and a useful graph)
- (tags: ViaDrCross alcohol health )
- No-deal Brexit will be blocked by at least 40 Tory MPs, former Conservative minister says
- (tags: UK Europe Conservatives )
- The case for abolishing private schools
- (tags: school Education inequality )
- It is actually fine to feed bread to swans (and presumably ducks, etc)
- (tags: myths birds health food bread )
- What happens to British manufacturers using the CE mark after "Brexit day"?
- (tags: UK Europe manufacturing electronics safety trade )
- The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming
- (tags: opera programming systems teams history )
- Jacob Rees-Mogg suggests that after Brexit, people crossing the Irish border should be subject to 'inspections, just like during The Troubles'
- (tags: OhForFucksSake conservatives Ireland NorthernIreland )
- The Guardian view on science fiction: The Broken Earth deserves its Hugo (totally. Read them)
- (tags: books Hugo scifi race awards )
- Skim reading is the new normal (waffles on a lot, I found it hard not to skim read, and I'd like to see some detail on the studies and the effect sizes)
- (tags: reading technology )
- Muslim Journalist Forced To Show TSA Her Bloody Pad During Search
- (tags: Islam security_theatre usa OhForFucksSake )
- The State of the Bestiary is Stable: 25 years of Magic the Gathering. (Fascinating, mathematical, personal, and analytical)
- (tags: games magic history )
- Friends, gather round for the tale of the worst bride in the world.
- (tags: wedding money OhForFucksSake )
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