Interesting Links for 29-03-2016

‘How I stopped being intolerant of food intolerance’

(tags: food society conversation )

Oculus Rift review: Nice first generation attempt, but not quite ready for the mass market

(tags: VirtualReality review )

The Distress of the Privileged

(tags: privilege viaSwampers society )

Turns out you can pay people not to commit murder

(tags: crime GuaranteedIncome )

The difficulty of getting people to read about Lahore

(tags: news media society )

3 or more antibiotics before age 2 may spur obesity

(tags: obesity antibiotics microbiome )

A graphene patch that monitors and possibly treats diabetes

(tags: graphene diabetes )

The “Pacific Extreme Pattern” predicts heat waves up to 50 days in advance

(tags: weather predictions )

Poor white kids are less likely to go to prison than rich black kids

(tags: racism usa prison )

The Doctor doesn’t understand love. (A sonnet)

(tags: poetry drwho love )

The difference between the aesthetics of the USA and France

(tags: usa france funny art )

Recipe Of The Day: Low Carb and Gluten Free Salad

(tags: food salad gluten )

Lynx may be reintroduced to UK after 1,000 years following success of Spain programme

(tags: cats uk wildlife )

‘War on Drugs’ has made no difference to number of users and actively harms public health, major study concludes

(tags: drugs law epicfail health society )

Why is “Friends” still so popular with twenty-somethings?

(tags: friendship tv )

Real-time 3D holographic chat

(tags: 3d video conversation Technology microsoft )

Meta 2 has pretty impressive augmented reality

(tags: augmentedreality Technology )

An Open Letter to Trump Voters from His Top Strategist-Turned-Defector

(tags: politics usa )

The Woman Who Had No Idea Her Husband Was a Rapist

(tags: rape relationships )

Why we think terrorism is scarier than it really is (and we probably always will)

(tags: terrorism fear )

X-Men spinoff Deadpool is now the most successful ‘R-rated’ movie ever

(tags: movies superheroes money )

Teachers sent packing in midst of recruitment crisis – because they earn too little

(tags: teachers money immigration Conservatives OhForFucksSake )

Living wage could put care services at breaking point

(tags: healthcare uk wages minimumwage )

Men must prove a woman said ‘Yes’ under tough new rape rules

(tags: rape law consent uk )