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Interesting Links for 21-05-2024

May. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. £5bn Brexit border checks system still has no timetable for launch
(tags:UK Europe trade borders )
2. Flying sharks save fuel (at least, applying shark-like skin to your plane does)
(tags:sharks skin airplanes fuel )
3. The UK's Infected blood report's key findings at a glance
(tags:UK blood history OhForFucksSake )
4. The results of the UK's infected blood inquiry should surprise us, but they won't.
(tags:UK OhForFucksSake blood lies government )
5. Trans-inclusive roller derby team helps strike down New York's trans sports ban
(tags:newyork LGBT transgender GoodNews law sports )
6. What's the name for the emotion you feel when you see something cute?
(tags:cute language )
7. What will it be like when AI can create great art?
(tags:art ai comic funny )
8. 2022 Census: Majority of Scots have no religion
(tags:scotland religion )
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Interesting Links for 13-05-2024

May. 13th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. Terry Pratchett On Trans Folk
(tags:transgender terrypratchett )
2. What's the difference between the British and Finnish welfare systems?
(tags:welfare UK Finland )
3. Wes Streeting explains why Labour are fine with starving children
(tags:Labour children welfare poverty OhForFucksSake )
4. What happened to the Great Library of Alexandria?
(tags:library history )
5. 30,000 rare oysters being reintroduced to Firth of Forth
(tags:Scotland seafood nature )
6. Small nuclear reactors don't add up as a viable energy source
(tags:nuclearpower economics )
7. Internet use is linked to higher wellbeing
(tags:happiness internet )
8. Economic performance is stronger when Democrats hold the White House
(tags:economics usa republicans democrats politics )
9. The Aurora Borealis from Calton Hill, Edinburgh.
(tags:edinburgh auroraborealis photos )
10. Scientists document remarkable sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet'
(tags:whales speech language )
11. Have no doubt: we are at war with Russia
(tags:russia war )
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Interesting Links for 14-03-2024

Mar. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm
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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 )
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Interesting Links for 19-02-2024

Feb. 19th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. Can ChatGPT edit fiction? 4 professional editors asked AI to do their job - and it ruined their short story
(tags:ai editing fail viaMarrog )
2. Mercury: Council and Parliament strike a deal to completely phase out mercury in the EU
(tags:Europe dental mercury lighting )
3. There's a fascinating discussion in this article about who "the Celts" were
(tags:prehistory Europe language society )
4. 2023 Hugo winner announces that they no longer consider themselves to have won
(tags:Hugo awards china fraud )
5. All new NHS building projects in Scotland put on hold
(tags:Scotland NHS money building )
6. Rabbit Test - the short story that won* a Hugo
(tags:hugo abortion rights women scifi )
7. Fertility doctor uses own sperm to impregnate lots of women, leading to incest
(tags:usa fertility incest OhForFucksSake healthcare fraud )
8. The Fifteenth Doctor audition piece
(tags:tv drwho acting RusselTDavies )
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Interesting Links for 26-01-2024

Jan. 26th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. Apple to allow rival app stores and browsers on iPhones in EU
(tags:Europe regulation iPhone Apple browsers apps )
2. A collection of stories of queer and trans Floridians who have fled the state
(tags:Florida LGBT transgender republicans bigotry )
3. Looking at how much male and female characters speak in the Disney Princess movies
(tags:viaElfy Disney language gender )
4. More states propose bills to exclude trans, nonbinary people from public life
(tags:LGBT USA law bigotry transgender viaBenWerdmuller )
5. A new global gender divide is emerging as young women shift in a more liberal direction and young men shift to the right
(tags:politics gender )
6. What if consciousness is a coping mechanism?
(tags:funny comic consciousness )
7. The "Code of Conduct" for Improbably Island is fantastic. Anyone running an online community should read it.
(tags:internet discussion behaviour regulation )
8. QWERTLE - like Worldle, but based on keyboard location. I got today's in 4.
(tags:words games keyboard )
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Interesting Links for 25-01-2024

Jan. 25th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. Inside the Mating Psychology of Incels
(tags:celibacy sex psychology )
2. Nicola Sturgeon shares my opinion of Boris Johnson
(tags:BorisJohnson politics incompetence pandemic )
3. How people laugh online in different languages and cultures
(tags:laughter language )
4. Which Shows Got Their Finale Right, and Which Didn't? A Statistical Analysis
(tags:TV statistics )
5. Pizza Hut releases a ramen pizza in Japan, and it took half a year to perfect
(tags:pizza food japan viaSwampers )
6. UK companies won't be allowed to add mandatory fees at checkout in the future.
(tags:uk business shopping regulation )
7. What's going on with Gorgie City Farm?
(tags:edinburgh farm animals )
8. Military interests are pushing new nuclear power – and the UK government has finally admitted it
(tags:nuclearpower military uk )
9. Netflix password crackdown fuels sign-up surge
(tags:netflix passwords business )
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Nov. 21st, 2023 10:08 am
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Buncha links went missing. I think this covers everything!

1. How are the British like the Japanese?
(tags:UK Japan society )
2. Edinburgh council rules out pneumatic underground bins
(tags:Edinburgh waste technology )
3. 'All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order': The riddle of the 'Pulborough Area' torc from Sussex. (And how much effort it takes to find a fraud)
(tags:history archeology fraud )
4. Meta is now allowing lies about the 2020 election in political ads
(tags:facebook advertising fraud politics usa OhForFucksSake )
5. Transforming the future of music creation with AI
(tags:music ai )
6. Elephants might give each other names
(tags:elephants names )
7. for babies born before 34 weeks, delaying the clamping of the cord for a minimum of 60 seconds after birth reduces death by nearly a third
(tags:babies death )
8. Young Animator of the Year UK - an impressive piece for anyone, but for a 16 year old...
(tags:animation children impressive video )
9. Are you a victim of Executive Function Theft
(tags:behaviour work )
10. 'Nimona' breaks LGBT barriers and survives to tell the tale
(tags:LGBT movies animation Disney )
11. Apple announces RCS support for iMessage
(tags:Apple sms communication )
12. Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024
(tags:adblock Google Chrome web OhForFucksSake )
13. IBM suspends ads on X after they appeared next to Nazi posts
(tags:Twitter Nazis ibm advertising )
14. Nihilist Penguin (Werner Herzog)
(tags:penguin video )
15. Incredible video of Starling murmuration
(tags:video birds )
16. World-first gene therapy that aims to cure sickle-cell disease
(tags:genetics disease GoodNews )
17. Royal Mail owner says 'reform is urgent' after group slumps to a £319m loss
(tags:royalmail uk )
18. People living in Europe are about to get a much better Windows 11
(tags:europe windows regulation )
19. Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language (3,000 years old, transliterated into Hittite)
(tags:language archeology )
20. From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us
(tags:Technology ai art )
21. 'I was deported for wearing tinted moisturiser': Qatar's new LGBT crackdown
(tags:qatar lgbt OhForFucksSake )
22. Why are some jobs so "greedy"?
(tags:jobs )
23. South Korea announces plans to ban consumption of dog meat
(tags:dogs korea food )
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Interesting Links for 15-11-2023

Nov. 15th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. A Single Infusion of a Gene-Editing Treatment Lowered High Cholesterol (in a small percentage of people)
(tags:genetics health )
2. The UK is finally looking into giving the chickenpox vaccine to children
(tags:chicken disease vaccination uk )
3. Fascinating discussion of how "The bigger they are the harder they fall" came by its meaning. Totally worth reading the comments
(tags:language history English viaNancyLebov )
4. What can *you* find on Floor 796?
(tags:fun meme viaSwampers )
5. Eating all your food for the day in a 10-hour window can significantly improve your mood, boost energy levels and reduce hunger
(tags:food health )
6. I highly recommend the Edinburgh Minute newsletter (I get it via RSS, but you can also get it via email)
(tags:news edinburgh )
7. Edinburgh's new bus tracker system is showing timetables not real time updates (until the start of next year, apparently)
(tags:edinburgh buses OhForFucksSake )
8. 'Who do we vote for now?': The Muslim Labour supporters losing faith in Starmer over Gaza
(tags:labour islam palestine )
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Interesting Links for 07-10-2023

Oct. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. 4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images
(tags:ai racism 4chan )
2. The man who tried to kill the queen was egged on by an overly-supportive AI chatbot
(tags:ai murder queen )
3. A prehistoric cosmic airburst preceded the advent of agriculture in the Levant
(tags:middle_east agriculture prehistory )
4. What does "Metabolically Healthy Obesity" mean, and how healthy is it?
(tags:health obesity )
5. 'Long colds' just as common as long COVID and can leave prolonged symptoms (We clearly need a diagnostic test for "Your body is still processing an attack")
(tags:disease pandemic colds )
6. It's time for the SNP to smell the coffee
(tags:Scotland politics snp labour )
7. This is the best write-up I've seen of how current AIs work.
(tags:technology AI words language viaLProven )
8. A brief list of things in the universe surprisingly younger than sharks
(tags:sharks age viaPatrickHadfield )
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