Interesting Links for 09-08-2012
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andrewducker- Turns out there are good reasons why 22 school playing fields have been sold off. For a start, 14 of those schools have shut.
- Why David Brin Hates Yoda, Loves Radical Transparency.
- How billionaire backers pick America's candidates (This should be conspiracy theory, it's sad that it's blatant fact)
- Prisoners and workfare, a pretty appalling situation all round.
- The latest greenhouse gas source is....dams.
- The Elephant in the Map Room: The Border Between Israel and Palestine
- US policemen wonders why people in Canada can't shoot people who ask them questions. Seriously.
- On the policing of sexual arousal
- Steam to challenge Windows Store by offering non-gaming software
- Drugs used on pregnant women to try and prevent lesbian, bisexual and intersex babies
- After 34 years, UK audiences will finally see The Shining uncut (I had no idea half an hour was missing!)
- Male Contraception Methods You’ve Probably Never Heard Of - and why they can't get research funding
- US School Forces Pregnancy Tests on Girls, Kicks out Students Who Refuse or are Pregnant
- Police arrest man for looking grumpy near The Olympics. Seriously.
- Help prove that ad-supported social networks are not the only way forward - help app.net get off the ground.
- More prehistoric species of humans found. (Not surprising as evolution isn't linear, but made of sprouts and dies off)
- A brief memoir of coding the systems behind the US missile systems in the 1950s. A fascinating slice of history
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