Assorted links #33

1217. Notes on Ghana / Notes on Guinea
1218. What’s Special About This Number?
1219. On the scope of scientific hypotheses
1220. Index of Aesthetics
1221. How to Get Into Film Photography (And Why You Should)
1222. Musings on Chess Openings
1223. London Street Trees
1224. Are any words the same in all languages?
1225. How I Eat
1226. The 49 modern wonders of the world, as named by the experts
1227. How I stay reasonably anonymous online
1228. How Lego bricks went from five colors to nearly 200
1229. Recursive Recipes
1230. Plug & socket types around the world
1231. The Internet Pinball Machine Database
1232. The 40 Greatest Stand-Alone TV Episodes of All Time
1233. 24 hours in an invisible epidemic
1234. What’s in a domain name?
1235. Meta in Myanmar: Part I: The Setup, Part II: The Crisis, Part III: The Inside View, Part IV: Only Connect
1236. Every Type of Railcar Explained in 15 Minutes
1237. The Economics of Programming Languages
1238. How many animals get slaughtered every day?
1239. UK Address Oddities!
1240. Killed by Google
1241. Making Hard Things Easy
1242. Who is CS:GO’s greatest-ever player?
1243. Stain Solutions
1244. Bentham’s Mugging
1245. 47 Anime for 47 Prefectures in Japan
1246. What was ‘replying’?
1247. Would You Kill the Fat Man? The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong
1248. Commercially Available Chairs in Star Trek
1249. Version Museum: A visual history of your favorite technology
1250. Martin Scorsese’s 81 Greatest Movie Characters, Ranked
1251. We’re More Ghosts Than People
1252. Rick Steves’ Europe
1253. It’s crazy how much Transport for London can learn about us from our mobile data
1254. ‘Horse race’ reporting of elections can harm voters, candidates, news outlets: What the research says
1255. Internet Artifacts
1256. Hospitalithings: A quiet observation of objects found in places of accomodation
1257. 43 of the Most Iconic Short Stories in the English Language
1258. Training AI to Play Pokemon with Reinforcement Learning
1259. The History of Microsoft Encarta
1260. Canon of the Netherlands
1261. The Best Way To Do Exercises
1262. The 100 best movies of the 1970s
1263. Coding for coffee: a programmer shares the secrets of writing espresso applications
1264. Analysis of Cheating In Titled Tuesday, Fantastic Cheaters and Where to Find Them
1265. Alfred J. Kwak
1266. The Furthest Object Visible From The Shard
1267. 20 things to see inside: St Paul’s Cathedral, the Tower of London
1268. YouGlish: Improve your English pronunciation using YouTube
1269. Brickception


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