Interesting Links for 08-12-2025

[andrewducker]

1. mRNA Vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality over 4 years

(tags:death health vaccine pandemic )

2. All the ways Russia is waging 'grey war' on the UK - from drones to local agents

(tags:russia war uk )

3. Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'

(tags:Japan snow monsters )

4. Is anyone surprised that US tech billionaires want to fund fascist city states?

(tags:fascism technology USA )

5. Vintage Photographs of People Reading Newspapers Before the Invention of That Grossly Antisocial Device: The Smartphone

(tags:photos newspapers reading society history )

6. Impacts of working from home on mental health tracked in study of 16,000 Australians

(tags:australia work homes mentalhealth )

Comments

[mtbc]

I shall be picking up a free Metro on my way to the train tomorrow morning. (-:

[andrewducker]

Metro?

[bens_dad]

Free London newspaper. Sometimes available in other places such as Cambridge.

[andrewducker]

Available in every city I've been in the UK.

I just don't understand the context.

[mtbc]

Oh, sorry! I was just thinking that maybe I might be better placed in a vintage photograph.

[andrewducker]

Aaaah! Gotcha, that makes sense!