Interesting Links for 14-03-2024

1. Did you know there was an old rifle range under Edinburgh's Waverley Station? (6 minutes in to this video)

(tags:guns edinburgh history trains )

2. What's been going on with Boeing? (they seem to have forgotten that making planes requires attention to detail)

(tags:airplanes safety epicfail OhForFucksSake engineering manufacturing )

3. A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major internet platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.

(tags:internet abuse crime )

4. Giant redwoods: The world's largest trees are thriving in the UK. (Except for not reproducing)

(tags:trees UK )

5. The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets

(tags:food business economics )

6. The Existential Relief of Having Children

(tags:philosophy anxiety stress parenting children life )

7. The Abyss 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray UK release | The BBFC comments on its cancellation

(tags:rats abuse animals movies jamescameron BluRay )

8. Do your pets help you make food? You ain't seen nothing yet!

(tags:food cows video funny )

9. LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6% (and dramatically higher in Gen Z)

(tags:demographics LGBT USA )

10. AI reveals prostate cancer has two distinct subtypes

(tags:ai cancer prostate )

11. The full version of Tenacious D's - ...Baby One More Time cover is out. And even more awesome than you'd expect

(tags:music video BritneySpears awesome panda )

12. Yes, the Tories are outrageously racist and sexist - but Labour is guilty too (writes Diane Abbott)

(tags:politics racism UK Labour conservatives )

13. Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town

(tags:sand heat battery finland )

14. The only other mammals to go through the menopause live longer because of it

(tags:menstruation whales longevity )

15. New ONS figures show how Edinburgh's share of short term lets is massive by comparison to practically everywhere else in the UK

(tags:edinburgh rental holidays housing tourism )

16. New extremism definition unveiled by British government. Is very vague.

(tags:uk government language )

17. I see that J.K. Rowling is now engaging in anti-trans Holocaust denial

(tags:transgender Holocaust jkrowling OhForFucksSake bigotry lgbt )

18. Assisted dying in Canada is accepted - but the UK should tread carefully

(tags:euthanasia canada )

19. I was getting bored of running - then I found joggling

(tags:juggling running jogging exercise edinburgh )