Interesting Links for 20-07-2017

Which Anonymous Sources Are Worth Paying Attention To?

(tags: politics reporting media advice )

A neat video showing how Google Glass helps people with manual/technical work

(tags: work glass google Technology )

Another cool video, talking to people who use Google Glass for their jobs (wire assemblies for planes)

(tags: google glass Technology work airplanes )

Producing animated “art” faces based on real video and example art

(tags: art video faces )

Arguing against xkcd on free speech

(tags: freespeech xkcd comics )

Reducing lead levels in children reduces violent crime by a staggering amount

(tags: lead crime behaviour )

Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters

(tags: gender comics analysis visualisation )

What Happens To Pornhub During Game Of Thrones

(tags: gameofthrones porn statistics visualisation )

State pension age increase brought forward (I’ll be working an extra year)

(tags: pensions uk viaSwampers )

Lost Time – on Proust and Science Fiction

(tags: time scifi writing )

A common underlying genetic basis for social behavior in dogs and humans

(tags: dogs humans genetics socialisation personality )

Cop’s body cam films him planting drugs—he obviously didn’t know it was recording

(tags: transparentsociety police cameras )

Sea cave preserves 5,000-year snapshot of tsunamis

(tags: sea cave tsunami earthquake history )

How Devastating was the Black Death?

(tags: history death disease )

Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” looks beautiful

(tags: movies GuillermoDelToro trailer video )

“Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra Special Talking Mongoose”

I can only conclude that many people are _so_ desperate to believe things that they will do so no matter what.

This is not, of course, a new observation.
(tags: magic belief history weird )

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