Interesting Links for 06-03-2017

Relevant XKCD

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Arithmetic vs Reality: The Sawdust Principle

(tags: mathematics reality idiocy )

What just happened to kink social network FetLife is a bad sign for web freedom

(tags: kink freespeech money OhForFucksSake )

Northern Ireland elections and the political centre

(tags: NorthernIreland voting elections politics )

The Weeping Time – the largest slave auction ever on American soil

(tags: usa history slavery )

Alcoholics Anonymous has a terrible success rate, and there are better treatments. And yet it dominates…

(tags: alcohol science addiction )

Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management confirm merger talks

(tags: finance scotland )

Sexual harassment at epidemic levels in UK universities

(tags: abuse sex assault university uk OhForFucksSake epicfail )

Why you should get an Economics PhD (and save lives)

(tags: Education life government regulation )

The difference between being part of the UK and part of the EU

(tags: europe uk scotland independence )

I did not know orangutans could tie knots, let alone make a hammock

(tags: video orangutan )

Can genetic tests tell us about antidepressant reactions? (Not yet, and possibly not ever)

(tags: genetics antidepressants mentalhealth )

Why you shouldn’t exercise to lose weight, explained with 60+ studies

(tags: exercise weight )

3D printing a house for $10,000

(tags: 3dprinting housing russia architecture design )

Academics work two days a week unpaid

(tags: academia work life )

Theresa May handed lesson in basic human decency by backstabbing Tory shitbag

(tags: politics satire true uk immigration viaTaheerah )

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