Interesting Links for 08-12-2022

1. Support for Independence hits 56%, 51% of people to vote SNP (53% if it's a defacto referendum)

(tags:scotland independence polls )

2. Transphobes are now attacking...The Samaritans.

(tags:lgbt transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake suicide )

3. BBC plans to switch off broadcast TV and move to internet-only programmes

(tags:bbc thefuture streaming broadcasting )

4. Discovery of world's oldest DNA breaks record by one million years

(tags:genetics dna prehistory )

5. The Art Game and the Money Game and how the ending of Minecraft was set free

(tags:games art money copyright Microsoft contracts )

6. Sats: MPs and peers fail tests for 11-year-olds as campaign groups call for overhaul of 'high-stakes' exams

(tags:exams children politics )

7. First UK coal mine in decades approved

(tags:UK coal environment globalwarming )

8. Europe First: Brussels gets ready to dump its free trade ideals (because the USA and China both already have)

(tags:Europe China USA trade )

9. Two inhaled covid vaccines have been approved. Here's what you need to know.

(tags:vaccines pandemic )

10. AI learns to precisely manipulate individual atoms

(tags:ai atom physics research )

11. How Many Fundamental Constants Does It Take To Explain The Universe? (26, at the moment)

(tags:physics )

12. People expect identical twins to be *really* identical

(tags:twins genetics statistics )

13. Humans are surprisingly poor at picking up cues of aggression in dogs

(tags:dogs behaviour psychology )