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The Cultures Ep 240: Paleo and Ritual Purity, Mother’s Day, Factchecking Data
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No comments on The Cultures Ep 240: Paleo and Ritual Purity, Mother’s Day, Factchecking DataListen to episode 240 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Paleo and Ritual Purity (Australian clean eating blogger who claimed to have been cured of cancer, Holy disorders) Mother’s Day People don’t know how to read data (Guardian childlessness edition)
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The Wind Rises, 2013 – ★★★
There’s a moment when the aircraft designer says, “I just want to make planes. We aren’t arms dealers.” This is, at best, incredibly naive and had the opposite effect on me that I suspect Miyazaki intended. The treatment of women was a waste. But hey, it’s beautifully drawn? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Vía Letterboxd – Adrian Hon
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Lovely personal remembrances of Stephen Hawking including one from me via my dad!
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Health is important, but not if you’re old
Today’s big feature in the UK iPhone App Store is Babylon health. They’ve grown quite a lot in the past few years, raising $60 million in 2017 to expand. One of their major selling points is that you can see a GP (via video consultation) within just two hours. What a wonderful world they’ve created!…
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Ethics are important, but that’s not my job
Via Stack Overflow’s 2018 Developer Survey (sample size ~70,000), most developers feel an obligation to consider the ethical implications of their code 👍: but most do not feel ultimately responsible for code they’ve written that accomplishes something unethical 😕:
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Wolf Warrior 2, 2017 – ★★★
Watched on Sunday March 11, 2018. Vía Letterboxd – Adrian Hon
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How many British women want to have no children?
I was astounded by a particular statistic in a piece about Mother’s Day by Donna Ferguson in today’s Guardian: About one in five (18%) of British women aged 45 are childless, the Office for National Statistics revealed last year, and Britain has one of the world’s highest rates of childlessness among women aged 40-44. For…
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I really need to stop paying attention to The Verge’s book reviews. They loved The Gone World, which struck me as a novel-length SCP written by a fan of Dan Simmons’ Hyperion. Gratuitously gruesome, weirdly incompetent (woman) protagonist, plot that doesn’t hold up under inspection at all. So… let’s make it into a movie!
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Good news, everybody! Apple is celebrating International Women’s Day by… making us walk an extra 30 minutes? Perhaps it’s a commentary on the extra housework women do.
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More Calories Please
Public Health England now recommends that: …adults try to limit the calories of their three main meals to 400 for breakfast and 600 each for lunch and dinner […noting] that the remaining calories of the daily guidelines – 2,000 for women and 2,500 for men – are likely to be made up of snacks and…
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