Entries tagged with independence

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Interesting Links for 20-09-2024

1. We are never getting herd immunity with Covid: (tags:pandemic doom )
2. A Decade on from the IndyRef, Challenges Abound for Everyone: (tags:independence Scotland politics UK )

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Interesting Links for 18-02-2023

1. First post-Sturgeon IndyRef poll sees no change: (tags:Scotland independence polls )

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Interesting Links for 17-02-2023

1. The Tetris trailer is the second-best video with falling blocks and Lenin in it that I've ever seen: (tags:tetris video trailer viaSwampers )
2. A Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris: (tags:Russia history video tetris song music )
3. 'Siberia will be free': Russian regions vote in unauthorised independence referendums. (I had a feeling this would happen if Ukraine sucked up enough of Russia's military that it couldn't maintain its grip elsewhere): (tags:Russia independence )
4. One of the biggest landlords in Los Angeles just defaulted on $755 million in loans for two sky scrapers as remote work keeps offices vacant: (tags:work business rental fail )
5. Bodmin Moor photographer caught inside starling murmuration: (tags:video birds viaSwampers )
6. Hidden hydrogen: Earth may hold vast stores - but can we get it out?: (tags:hydrogen )
7. Spain gives final approval to law making it easier to legally change gender (from 14 with parental approval, from 16 without): (tags:lgbt transgender Spain GoodNews )

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Interesting Links for 30-12-2022

1. On Columbo and ADHD: (tags:adhd tv )
2. Why Chuck Tingle writes like that: (tags:writing autism stress )
3. Support for Scottish independence has risen, but why?: (tags:Scotland independence polls )
4. The Royal Mint are releasing a coin celebrating JRR Tolkien: (tags:Tolkien money uk viaSwampers )
5. Immune cells in brain and spinal fluid connected to cognitive impairment/Alzheimers: (tags:immune_system brain )
6. Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics: (tags:Intelligence genetics society school )
7. Nitrites in meat cause massive increase in bowel cancer in mice: (tags:meat cancer mice )
8. A massively long and detailed look at the research into sleep training for babies: (tags:babies sleep psychology )
9. No more airplane mode? EU to allow calls on flights: (tags:airplanes phones Europe )
10. Privacy Is Good: (tags:privacy communication cryptography )
11. Top scientists recreate the exact moment that The Titanic crashed into an iceberg: (tags:titanic funny video )
12. ISO 3103 - the international standard for tea brewing: (tags:tea standards )

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Interesting Links for 14-12-2022

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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 )

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Interesting Links for 24-11-2022

1. All You Need To Know About Scotland's Legal Bid For An Independence Referendum: (tags:scotland law independence )
2. COVID-19 vaccination associated with 15% reduction in stillbirths: (tags:pandemic vaccination death pregnancy )
3. The influence of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies on cinematic portrayals of ancient Greece and Rome: (tags:rome greece lotr movies )
4. Turns out that dreaded pit beasts are a lot like cats: (tags:funny fantasy comic cats )
5. How much does it cost Facebook to look after your cat pictures?: (tags:cats facebook storage )
6. Lugo, the only town with fully intact Roman walls: (tags:history rome Spain architecture viaDanielDWilliam )
7. Where are all the heat pumps?: (tags:electricity heating UK viaDanielDWilliam )
8. If you're wondering how SpaceX coped with Musk, this will fill you in: (tags:ElonMusk Spacex management )
9. Fossil fuel power plants kill 35x as many birds as wind turbines do per GWh (and nuclear power is twice as deadly as wind power): (tags:birds death nuclearpower coal gas environment windpower )
10. European Parliament declares Russia a terrorism sponsor, then its site goes down: (tags:web russia europe terrorism )
11. How much trouble are GPs in Scotland in?: (tags:healthcare scotland )
12. Sponsian: Ancient Roman gold coins thought to be 'fakes' reveal long-lost local emperor: (tags:rome Romania archeology )

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Interesting Links for 23-11-2022

1. Nigel Farage Has Praised Keir Starmer's Speech On Immigration: (tags:immigration labour UKIP OhForFucksSake )
2. The Return of James Cameron, Box Office King (and his movie, that will almost certainly not make a profit): (tags:movies jamescameron space )
3. Red panda eating grapes is terribly cute: (tags:cute panda video )
4. Tesla builds Europe's largest battery near Dogger Bank offshore wind power landfall: (tags:batteries UK windpower Tesla )
5. God of War: Ragnarok contains a tribute to the real life love, and death, of one of their developers: (tags:death love games )
6. The Scottish government cannot hold an independence referendum without UK government's consent, the Supreme Court has ruled: (tags:scotland independence uk law )
7. More relaxed immigration policies could win over UK swing voters: (tags:immigration uk polls GoodNews )
8. Meta researchers create AI that masters Diplomacy, tricking human players: (tags:games diplomacy ai )
9. Brain structure changes during pregnancy, returning to its original state a year after birth: (tags:brain pregnancy )
10. Studies on "good" cholesterol only included white participants, the results don't seem to hold more generally: (tags:race research health heart )

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Interesting Links for 08-09-2022

1. What next for art in a post-AI world?: (tags:art ai comics comic )
2. Supreme Court allows SNP to intervene in indyref2 court case: (tags:snp law uk independence scotland )
3. New technique shows old temperatures were much hotter than thought: (tags:co2 prehistory globalwarming ocean )
4. Turns out that going woke does not inevitably lead to going broke: (tags:money niceness )
5. Liz Truss plunged into constitutional crisis on day one as UK blocks Bermuda from legalising cannabis: (tags:marijuana legalisation UK law constitution )
6. Scottish government to make £500m in spending cuts: (tags:Scotland money )
7. Poland's Demand for German Damages Includes Crimes Committed Against Jews by Poles: (tags:Poland Germany Holocaust Jews money wtf )
8. Liz Truss Is Trying to Block Scotland's Trans Reforms: (tags:conservatives bigotry UK Scotland law LGBT transgender )
9. Leaked list of US anti government extremist Oath Keepers includes hundreds of cops, dozens of elected officials: (tags:USA terrorism corruption terrifying police government )
10. Scientists Have Made a Human Microbiome From Scratch: (tags:microbiome )
11. Edinburgh's South Sub railway: Here's why forgotten railway closed 60 years ago today: (tags:edinburgh trains transport history )
12. Four Sisters. Forty Years. Forty Portraits.: (tags:photos history )

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Interesting Links for 04-07-2022

1. A chipmunk having its mind blown by a flavour explosion: (tags:cute video food )
2. A "Chinese Borges" wrote millions of words of fake Russian history on Wikipedia for a decade.: (tags:wikipedia Russia China fake )
3. Fun! With! Science! (be better if there were explanations of each of these though): (tags:video science )
4. Innovative lung-imaging technique shows cause of long COVID symptoms: (tags:mri Pandemic Doom viaPatrickHadfield )
5. Daily Mail to turn against Boris Johnson: (tags:DailyMail BorisJohnson conservatives )
6. Neil Gaiman speaks honestly about the quality of the Sandman TV show: (tags:neilgaiman TV sandman )
7. How do politicians respond when asked whether Scotland is allowed to leave and what the democratic route to them doing so.: (tags:politics independence Scotland video )
8. When truth is another casualty: Why Ukraine is losing ground in the war by not telling the whole story: (tags:Russia Ukraine censorship war )
9. If I was 20 years younger and still had the time/energy to watch terrible movies then I'd love to see Assassin 33A.D. (Time traveling Muslim assassins go after Jesus!): (tags:religion timetravel awful Jesus Christianity movies review )
10. Transphobic LGB Alliance condemned by Trades Union Congress in near unanimous vote: (tags:LGBT transgender unions GoodNews )
11. The British class system is a delight: (tags:class UK politics )
12. England's population is ageing. Our deeply substandard politicians ignore what this is going to cost us: (tags:UK aging politics )

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Interesting Links for 03-07-2022

1. What would Scottish independence mean? Key issues ahead of the vote, from keeping the pound to rejoining EU: (tags:Scotland independence UK Europe )
2. 'No Aliens, No Spaceships, No Invasion of Earth' An oral history of Contact, the sci-fi movie that defied Hollywood norms and made it big anyway.: (tags:scifi movies history CarlSagan )
3. Slow-motion pole-vaulting makes it clear how amazing it is!: (tags:sports slowmotion video )
4. How many bananas would you have to eat to give yourself radiation sickness?: (tags:radiation banana food funny )
5. Daily skin-to-skin contact in weeks after birth linked to less crying and better sleep: (tags:babies psychology )
6. Inside the world of baby banks: 'Parents feel guilt at being unable to afford nappies': (tags:poverty UK babies children OhForFucksSake )
7. The (Fall and) Rise of the Internet's Creative Middle Class: (tags:CrowdFunding internet media )

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