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UK supermarket TV advert on palm oil banned for being too political(theguardian.com)
42 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|48 comments
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Why Roman Abramovich Wants to Sell Chelsea Football Club(youtube.com)
1 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|0 comments
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by cirrus-clouds 8y ago
This is still one of my favourite IgNobel winners for Physics from 1999: The optimal way to dunk a biscuit in a cup of tea * http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/462987.stm * biscuit = cookie in the UK
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David Attenborough: the BBC is not making enough arts and culture programmes(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|0 comments
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Drug giants Novartis and Bayer fail to stop NHS offering cheaper eye treatment(bbc.co.uk)
80 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|10 comments
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Is cancer fundraising fuelling quackery?(bmj.com)
1 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|0 comments
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YouTube stars heading for burnout(theguardian.com)
140 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|169 comments
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I made a horrid little newspaper: miniature Daily Mail(spellingmistakescostlives.com)
3 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|0 comments
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Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says(variety.com)
2 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|0 comments
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The Peter Principle is a joke taken seriously. Is it true?(timharford.com)
110 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|108 comments
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A third of fruit and veg crop grown across Europe too ugly to sell(ed.ac.uk)
2 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|0 comments
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Traveling the World on a Third World Passport(bucketlistly.blog)
342 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|308 comments
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What do Russians think of Banksy? [video](bbc.co.uk)
2 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|0 comments
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by cirrus-clouds 8y ago
Here is a PDF link to the research paper (hosted on the website of one of the authors of the study): https://nancyjsirianni.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/jmr_otter...
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Men Beware: The Abercrombie and Fitch Effect(newneuromarketing.com)
80 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|49 comments
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Disney's movie dominance has a dark side, independent theatre warns(cbc.ca)
118 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|99 comments
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European Networks Attempt to Take on Netflix and Amazon(hollywoodreporter.com)
7 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|2 comments
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by cirrus-clouds 8y ago
I hope this won't be controversial, but last year I made a single page website to try and dissuade people from voting for the Conservative Party in the UK (we had a General Election in the UK in June 2017). The site is no longer online
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Thai cave rescue: The physical effects of being trapped [video with subtitles](bbc.co.uk)
2 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|0 comments
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The humanist factor(civilservice.blog.gov.uk)
1 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|0 comments
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Margrethe Vestager: The Woman Silicon Valley Fears Most? [video](youtube.com)
1 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|0 comments
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France's Macron brings back national service(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|0 comments
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by cirrus-clouds 8y ago
Voters in the UK had for years been telling politicians... This is a very misleading account of the situation leading up to the EU referendum in the UK. When David Cameron (former leader of the Conservative party) called the EU referendum
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by cirrus-clouds 8y ago
> You aren't reading much press in the UK then. Neither are you. Researchers at Loughborough University analysed Brexit coverage on TV and in the press in the lead up to the referendum. They found that coverage, when weighted by ci
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by cirrus-clouds 8y ago
For those of you in the UK, I wrote the following post a year ago (June 2017) about the UK's antiquated, undemocratic method of voting: https://medium.com/@dontvoteconservativeuk/uk-general-electi...
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European Court Rules Netflix Must Contribute to German Film Subsidies(hollywoodreporter.com)
2 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|1 comments
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UK asylum decision-maker: 'It's a lottery'(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|0 comments
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Mary Beard 'cut' from US version of Civilisations(telegraph.co.uk)
18 points by cirrus-clouds 8y ago|7 comments
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by cirrus-clouds 9y ago
Of course you need to read the news. Select your news sources carefully and limit or eliminate your exposure to social media discussions of the news. I understand the sentiment that news can make you depressed, but reading the news can also
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by cirrus-clouds 9y ago
Charlie Brooker did an excellent spoof video of the way news is reported. The video is 8 years old (made in 2010) but it still rings true today: How to report the news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHun58mz3vI Every TV n

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