Links (part 1)

Actors:

James Nesbitt: Hair transplants helped me get better roles - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38956876

Business:

Self-employment 'reduces tax take' as firms avoid responsibilities - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38963653

No CEO: The Swedish company where nobody is in charge - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38928528 It sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Disability Works: Breaking down barriers in business - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38962050

Data visualisation:

Introduction to ggraph: Edges - https://www.data-imaginist.com/2017/ggraph-introduction-edges/

Geography:

Zealandia: Is there an eighth continent under New Zealand? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39000936

Literature:
Bram Stoker's Ever-Evolving List of Characters for Dracula -
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/04/23/bram_stoker_s_dracula_how_dracula_van_helsing_and_other_characters_came.html

Media:

How to Find Out If a “Local” Newspaper Site Is Fake (Using a New-ish Google Feature) -
https://hapgood.us/2017/07/03/how-to-find-out-if-a-local-newspaper-site-is-fake-using-a-new-ish-google-feature/

Miscellaneous:

How crafts workers are learning to sell their work - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38928869

Here's What TfL Learned From Tracking Your Phone On the Tube - http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/02/heres-what-tfl-learned-from-tracking-your-phone-on-the-tube/

The angry red panda that is Japan's new working woman - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-38606355

Illuminating facts about the UK's art collection - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38340015

You're never alone at the Museum of Broken Relationships - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38960969

Why I Love (And Question) Independence Day - https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/07/03/535060572/why-i-love-and-question-independence-day?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170703

4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump - https://medium.com/@DaleBeran/4chan-the-skeleton-key-to-the-rise-of-trump-624e7cb798cb I was never a 4chan-er, but friends were. From what they've said, bits of this don’t quite ring true. Then again it’s very right about the 4chan-ers that did escape the basement.

Plastic 'nurdles' found littering UK beaches - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39001011

Politics:

13 things you didn’t know about Brexit - https://www.politico.eu/article/brexit-negotiation-issues-worrying-the-european-parliament/ From last Friday

Science:

Essential metals for crystallographers: copper, gallium and a lot of gold -
https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/icamblog/essential-metals-for-crystallographers-copper-gallium-and-a-lot-of-gold/

Sport:

Formula 1:

Claire Williams: Budget cap would suit us - https://www.eurosport.co.uk/formula-1/claire-williams-budget-cap-would-suit-us_sto6058277/story.shtml#uk-tw-sh

Technology:

Can your smartphone make you a safer driver? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38954975

Links (Part 2)

History:

Forbidden love: The WW2 letters between two men - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38932955

Journalism:

A great opportunist story shows how PRs need to be looking further ahead -
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/great-opportunist-story-shows-how-prs-need-looking-further-kimble/

I Helped Create the Milo Trolling Playbook. You Should Stop Playing Right Into It. -
http://observer.com/2017/02/i-helped-create-the-milo-trolling-playbook-you-should-stop-playing-right-into-it/

Language:

Yes-no questions in mathematics and in Chinese - http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=30943

Miscellaneous:

Norway's seal hunters hang up their clubs - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38894821

Warren Buffett’s Best Investment - https://www.gatesnotes.com/2017-Annual-Letter

'Keep sex abuse dad's name off my wedding certificate' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38096514 There is no reason why a father's name needs to be on a wedding certificate if a mother's is not!

Anna LeBaron: How I escaped my father's murderous polygamous cult - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38526255

Polio Then and Now: The Story of a Crippling Disease on the Verge of Worldwide Eradication -
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/polio-history-story-then-and-now-pictures-iron-lung-vaccine-diseases-medicine-jonas-salk-rotary-a7580456.html

Stranger leaves free treats at Christie cancer hospital - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-38969714

Spotting the illness that can cause sudden blindness - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38983990

Politics:

Gerrymandering the Presidency: Why Trump could lose the popular vote in 2020 by 6 percent and still win a second term. - http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2017/02/08/gerrymandering-the-presidency-why-trump-could-lose-the-popular-vote-in-2020-by-6-percent-and-still-win-a-second-term/

Clinton’s Ground Game Didn’t Cost Her The Election - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/clintons-ground-game-didnt-cost-her-the-election/

Mr. President: ‘Just who the hell do you think you are?’ - http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article132721909.html From last February

Sport:

Belarus sports writer eats own paper after losing bet - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-39004434 Well played, sir.

Football:

Football’s gambling problem: You better, you better, you bet - http://www.football365.com/news/footballs-gambling-problem-you-better-you-better-you-bet

Pep Guardiola's Barcelona has 'damaged' the quality of defenders, says Roberto Ayala -
https://www.eurosport.co.uk/football/pep-s-barcelona-damaged-football-says-former-argentina-captain-roberto-ayala_sto6059542/story.shtml I am a bitter, bitter right back and agree completely and utterly with Roberto Ayala

Super Slav gives Alf ride of his life! - http://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2017/february/15-february/super-slav-gives-alf-ride-his-life

Horse Racing:

Sandown: Amputee jockey Guy Disney takes historic victory in Royal Artillery Gold Cup -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/39008715

Rugby:

This female rugby referee is making history this weekend -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39008812/this-female-rugby-referee-is-making-history-this-weekend

Links (part 3)

Journalism:

Against Normalization: The Lesson of the “Munich Post” - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/normalization-lesson-munich-post/#!

Miscellaneous:

Hans Rosling: A truth-teller in an age of ‘alternative facts’ -
http://www.macleans.ca/politics/worldpolitics/hans-rosling-a-truth-teller-in-an-age-of-alternative-facts/

India Polio-free for 3 Years - Meet the People Fighting to Keep it That Way -
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-polio-free-rotary-international-three-years-2011-people-fight-infectious-disease-vaccination-a7578371.html

Early deaths among care leavers revealed - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38961818

Crossing the border: US migrants seek refugee status in Canada - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38960035

The boy who watched IS beheading videos - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38959615

Ohio postpones eight executions amid row - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38926967

Sport:

Dark, Dark, Dark, Dark, Dark, Dark, Dark, Dark - https://www.theplayerstribune.com/corey-hirsch-dark-dark-dark/ Trigger warning: Suicidal idiation

Football:

Football headers 'linked to brain damage' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38971750

Snooker:

Anthony Hamilton: German Masters champion on first ranking event win -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/38893616