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Interesting Links for 21-05-2023

1. China calls in loans to Pakistan, Kenya, dozens more (many of such loans were made secretly, on unfair terms, and used for corruption): (tags:corruption China loans economics Doom )
2. How many of these dating deal-breakers apply to you?: (tags:relationships polls )
3. Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. But why?: (tags:whales boats violence )
4. People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting.: (tags:addiction medicine )
5. The Aristotelian Monroe-Warhol Bean Conspiracy: (tags:jokes art beans )
6. Canon! Vs! Fanfic!: (tags:fanfic canon funny fiction writing )
7. How involved were the Osage with Killers of the Flower Moon?: (tags:movies history USA )
8. Pfeilstorch - how an African spear told us what happens to birds in the winter: (tags:birds migration history Africa Germany )
9. Sex Ed Books Don't "Groom" Kids and Teens. They Protect Them.: (tags:children education books sex )

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Interesting Links for 05-04-2023

1. There's no evidence that any ethnic group is responsible for child sexual exploitation, but that won't stop the Tories from blaming Pakistanis: (tags:racism Conservatives children abuse )
2. Raising an autistic child for 12 years has shown me all the ways neurotypical people are flawed: (tags:autism children society )
3. Conservatives continue to agree that housing in the UK is broken. And then not do anything about it.: (tags:Conservatives housing uk epicfail )
4. Frequently shouting at, isolating, and physically punishing young children made it 1.5 times more likely that a child would be at high risk of developing poor mental health by age nine: (tags:children mentalhealth parenting abuse )
5. People Are More Prone to Believe in God than Identify as Religious. Western Europe is the least-religious part of the world: (tags:religion belief polls )
6. Grooming gangs and ethnicity: What does the evidence say?: (tags:ethnicity children rape abuse uk )
7. Driverless bus service goes live in Scotland in world first (will still have a safety driver aboard, and someone to assist people).: (tags:scotland buses driving automation )
8. Catan creator, board game pioneer Klaus Teuber dead at 70: (tags:games SettlersOfCatan obituary )
9. People who live beyond 100 have a better immune system than average: (tags:immune_system age )
10. A Toxic Time Bomb Is Ticking in the Arctic: (tags:environment pollution arctic doom )
11. Conflict in Israel and Gaza: What do Jews in the UK think?: (tags:israel Jews uk )
12. Very! Bad! Volume! Controls!: (tags:design ux music funny )
13. Key lessons from the quest design of The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077: (tags:design games )
14. Why people sometimes feel a 'presence' in an empty room: (tags:psychology hallucinations )
15. The Rule of Three - how organisations change as they grow: (tags:business organisation psychology )
16. Apparently the EHRC doesn't understand how book clubs work: (tags:books bigotry gender UK wtf )
17. Using AI to describe logos and then recreate them from that yields some lovely results (I think Twitter is my favourite): (tags:logo ai design )
18. More games should use "Overkill": (tags:games death design )

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Interesting Links for 26-02-2023

1. A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most: (tags:Apple speakers technology sound )
2. Supermarkets all out of turnips after shoppers told to eat them amid veg shortage (another lovely week here on normal Island): (tags:UK food Doom )
3. The NYT is apparently fine fabricating sources: (tags:nytimes fraud OhForFucksSake jkrowling transgender bigotry )
4. Britain's failure to act on Russian dirty money will see us forever labelled hypocrites: (tags:Russia money OhForFucksSake uk )
5. There is basically no research on how often to sterilise baby bottles, and advice varies *dramatically*: (tags:babies food cleaning )
6. Hilariously appalling questions that tech employees have asked at public sessions: (tags:technology work questions OhForFucksSake )
7. Food shortages in the UK - what's missing from shelves and why?: (tags:trade food uk Doom )
8. James Bond books rewrite will remove 'offensive' references: (tags:books JamesBond offensive writing publishing )

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Interesting Links for 12-01-2023

1. What are the numbers on trans use of NHS maternity services?: (tags:lgbt transgender childbirth )
2. Why Harry and Meghan might be the best people to move the conversation about the monarchy on, even if they aren't the best people: (tags:monarchy society )
3. Happy 10th anniversary Spiders Georg!: (tags:statistics funny meme )
4. What if the Open Gaming License didn't actually give you anything?: (tags:law intellectual_property copyright games dungeonsanddragons )
5. Hey, New Mom, Have You Considered Relaxing?: (tags:mother parenting children funny )
6. Tracing the "Tree Swing" design/delivery cartoons back to their origin (in the 70s!): (tags:design history technology )
7. Removing a prominent, polarizing individual can reduce the toxicity of online discourse: Evidence from President Trump's Account Deletion: (tags:politics discussion socialnetworking abuse )
8. Tolkien as a gateway author: (tags:Tolkien reading books )

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Interesting Links for 30-11-2022

1. Lion statues Edinburgh: Pride of 24 lions arrive in The Meadows: (tags:lions statue edinburgh )
2. Less than half of England and Wales population Christian, Census 2021 shows (46% to be precise, down 13% in a decade): (tags:religion Christianity UK )
3. Inside the Proton, the 'Most Complicated Thing' Imaginable: (tags:physics viaNancyLebov )
4. You've almost certainly seen photos of Nazis burning books. But do you know which books they were?: (tags:Nazis books LGBT transgender history censorship )
5. Labour refuses to follow recommendations for an independent disciplinary process: (tags:labour OhForFucksSake )
6. Movetodon: Find your Twitter Friends on Mastodon: (tags:mastodon twitter viaSwampers )
7. Every object in Conway's Game of Life that can be constructed at all, now has a fixed cost of 15 gliders. Here's how.: (tags:life computers impressive )

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Interesting Links for 05-08-2022

1. The many levels of racism: (tags:racism ontology )
2. Behind a nice conceit and good packaging, the Mr Men and Little Miss books are very, very bad: (tags:books children )
3. Turning off the UK's analogue phone system is proving harder than they thought: (tags:uk phones )
4. Putin is recruiting prisoners from Russian jails to fight on frontline in Ukraine: (tags:russia ukraine war prison )
5. Edinburgh North Bridge to remain closed until 2025 after discovery of 'previously concealed' issues: (tags:Edinburgh bridge )
6. How to really change someone's mind: (tags:belief communication viaDanielDWilliam )
7. The monkeypox situation keeps getting worse - here's why: (tags:monkey pandemic vaccination doom viaDanielDWilliam )
8. Playing action video games boosts brain activity and decision-making skills: (tags:videogames games psychology )
9. Apple retaliated against women who complained about rape, assault, and harrassment: (tags:apple rape harrassment assault OhForFucksSake )
10. Who knew that watching fences being knitted would be so soothing: (tags:video )
11. Summers are getting so hot in Florida that turtles there are mostly born female: (tags:florida usa globalwarming turtle gender )
12. Scottish prosecutors angered by US criticism of record on child slavery: (tags:scotland children slavery )
13. It's lovely to see sheer joy in playing with technology: (tags:Technology weather viaSwampers touchscreen happiness )
14. What happens to Russian soldiers who refuse to continue fighting in Ukraine?: (tags:ukraine russia military war viaDanielDWilliam )

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Interesting Links for 25-07-2022

1. Anyone I know want to be a Data Scientist for Full Fact: (tags:FactCheck data job viaDanielDWilliam )
2. Hungarian PM is a racist: (tags:Hungary racism OhForFucksSake )
3. Whenever I see the web3 people get involved in a medium it makes me feel like they've never actually enjoyed it for itself: (tags:books Blockchain OhForFucksSake )
4. When did children's songs start sounding like the kind of thing I danced to in the 00s?: (tags:music children video wtf )
5. Neil Gaiman Breaks Down 'The Sandman' Official Trailer: (tags:trailer neilgaiman sandman TV )
6. The "nice" option for the Conservative Leadership election is referencing Nigel Farage on immigration: (tags:immigration conservatives OhForFucksSake asylum )
7. British teachers give lower marks to children perceived to be working class, British doctors deny them pain relief.: (tags:uk Education class psychology OhForFucksSake healthcare )

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Interesting Links for 19-07-2022

1. Forests Now Cover 2% of Iceland (up 6x since 1990): (tags:iceland forests )
2. A new milestone in augmented reality: Functional contact lenses: (tags:augmentedreality contact_lenses Technology impressive )
3. Want to be an artist? Having millionaire parents *really* helps!: (tags:wealth inequality art )
4. Keir Starmer rules out 'any agreement' with the Lib Dems after next election: (tags:labour libdem OhForFucksSake )
5. Mint is not a necessary part of toothpaste. If you don't like it then feel free to use other flavours: (tags:teeth health )
6. The future of sports: Revealed!: (tags:sports technology funny video )
7. Ballet imposes gender roles on dancers: (tags:gender dance ballet )
8. Audiobooks or Reading? To Our Brains, It Doesn't Matter: (tags:reading audio brains psychology books )
9. Stray, a game where you play as a cat in a world populated by robots is clearly not going to make any money at all: (tags:games cats review video )
10. Scientists design contraceptives to limit grey squirrels: (tags:squirrel UK contraceptive fertility )
11. Cheese reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart failure, coronary heart disease, hypertension, and ischemic stroke: (tags:cheese health heart diabetes )
12. Heat wave kills more than 1,100 people in Spain and Portugal: (tags:heat globalwarming death spain portugal )
13. UK set to have world's biggest automated drone superhighway: (tags:drone uk )

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Interesting Links for 05-07-2022

1. What might trigger a second US civil war: (tags:civilwar usa )
2. I was not expecting to encounter The Battle Of Verdun recreated in Lego: (tags:history wwi lego video )
3. The UK is being trolled on Twitter by China. It deserves it.: (tags:uk china NorthernIreland europe trade )
4. How autism is being missed in women and girls: 'I wasn't male enough for a diagnosis': (tags:autism women girls gender )
5. Denver's Program to Dispatch Mental Health Teams Instead of Police is So Successful it is Expanding 5-Fold: (tags:mentalhealth police USA GoodNews viaEatSoylentGreen )
6. Home Office says terminally ill mother should not join children in the UK because 'sacrifices have to be made': (tags:UK immigration OhForFucksSake )
7. New York is... odd: (tags:newyork )
8. The physics of the Greenhouse Effect is different to what I thought: (tags:globalwarming physics heat )
9. Tory attorney general threatens to block Scotland's reform of gender laws: (tags:LGBT transgender conservatives OhForFucksSake Scotland )
10. Edinburgh's 95% public satisfaction rate tells its own story: (tags:edinburgh GoodNews )
11. Shelved! The books abandoned by their authors: (tags:books writing )
12. 12ft Ladder - a paywall bypass: (tags:paywall )
13. Archive.today - a paywall bypass and archive site: (tags:archive paywall )
14. How normal am I? (A fascinating look at how faces are analysed, using your own face as an example, if you let it): (tags:faces analysis surveillance )

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Interesting Links for 11-06-2022

1. Watch from Inside the Nest as a Pair of Kestrels Raise a Family: (tags:birds video )
2. The COVID Event Horizon (or: How many Covid infections can a person have?): (tags:pandemic disease doom )
3. There are early signs of Covid infections trending back up the way: (tags:pandemic doom )
4. Jacob Rees-Mogg refuses to debate why he blocked bill that would have spared elephants from torture: (tags:elephants torture conservatives OhForFucksSake )
5. 40% of the UK is heading for fuel poverty: (tags:heating poverty electricity gas )
6. Green light for £21m Scottish plastic-to-hydrogen plant: (tags:plastic hydrogen energy )
7. The best book ever about computers is getting a second edition. I may need to update: (tags:books computers )
8. The Sriracha Shortage Is The Next Harbinger of Climate Change: (tags:globalwarming food )
9. Sex with your distant ancestors: bestiality or not?: (tags:bestiality sex prehistory evolution )
10. The perception of rhythm in language (read it out loud): (tags:poetry language research awesome )
11. How Tesla tries to avoid its autopilot being on for crashes: (tags:Tesla automation OhForFucksSake cars driving )