Entries tagged with stress

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Interesting Links for 17-06-2024

1. Welsh Labour councillor quits party after learning it hid evidence that cleared him of complaint: (tags:Labour corruption OhForFucksSake )
2. On Wikipedia and how it works: (tags:Wikipedia )
3. Why some cities (including Edinburgh) are banning fossil fuel advertisements: (tags:Edinburgh Scotland advertising oil )
4. Frankly, Labour are going to stomp this election, so vote for whoever you like. But if you want tactical voting advice for your constituency here it is: (tags:voting advice conservatives )
5. Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccines: (tags:USA military propaganda vaccine OhForFucksSake )
6. What is Box Breathing? (This helped me sleep when I was stressed): (tags:sleep stress )
7. Australia and New Zealand explicitly reject Cass review (joining USA and Canada): (tags:healthcare transgender Canada USA Australia newzealand LGBT )
8. Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths: (tags:greece migration murder )
9. Small modular nuclear reactors are over-budget, taking years longer to build, and are never getting built.: (tags:nuclearpower epicfail viaDanielDWilliam )
10. £130m Dundee Eden Project set for approval: (tags:scotland nature architecture tourism )

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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 )

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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 17-12-2022

1. Twitter blocks users from sharing Mastodon links: (tags:Twitter Mastodon censorship OhForFucksSake )
2. Would you like the perfect Christmas present for your cat?: (tags:cats christmas video viaKirsty )
3. Chaosium announce that they will not use AI Art in their products (first company I've seen make such a pledge): (tags:ai art games roleplaying viaJamesNicoll )
4. The Indian doctor who saved 50,000,000 lives with a simple invention: (tags:healthcare sugar salt water india )
5. The German office for data protection and freedom of information suggests that German ministries move to Mastodon: (tags:germany mastodon twitter )
6. China's War Against Taiwan Has Already Started: (tags:China Taiwan disinformation war )
7. Queen's death events cost Edinburgh council £500,000: (tags:Edinburgh Queen death money )
8. EU adopts global minimum 15% tax on big business: (tags:Europe tax globalization )
9. Games kind of suck at designing female heroes: (tags:design games bodies women )
10. How the campaign to stop the United Kingdom government from making it more difficult to prosecute war crimes was won: (tags:torture law WarCrimes UK politics )
11. Schizophrenia: Parasite x Genotype x Stress: (tags:stress genes Parasites schizophrenia )
12. Congress passes legislation to end US participation in global shark fin trade: (tags:sharks USA )

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4135615.html

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Interesting Links for 11-01-2022

What are the biggest non-diet causes of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, etc?: (tags:society sleep stress disease weight diabetes )
Leaked email shows 100 No 10 staff were invited to a party during lockdown restrictions: (tags:UK conservatives Pandemic law OhForFucksSake )
Repeat after me: Covid doesn't spread on surfaces: (tags:Pandemic cleanliness )
Adversarial Wordle: (tags:games language )
Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior through effects on harm aversion: (tags:morality serotonin psychology )
Male elite chess players are quicker to quit when dominated by a female player: (tags:men behaviour psychology games sexism )
"Why I went from being an actor to a clowndoctor": (tags:acting children comedy )
In 1st, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient: (tags:pigs organs surgery )
UK health officials misinterpreted US guidance on Covid self-isolation period: (tags:pandemic )
Dolphin females have working clitoris: (tags:sex dolphins clitoris )
Beautiful trees: (tags:trees beautiful )
Impressive shepherding: (tags:dogs birds impressive training )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4132683.html

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Interesting Links for 26-06-2021

Men: Why can't they shut up?: (tags:women men talking communication psychology )
Warren Ellis issues apology over how he treated women. Waiting to see how this goes.: (tags:WarrenEllis women apology )
Why has the sea off part of Scotland turned turquoise?: (tags:scotland sea colour )
New blood test can find 50 types of cancer (accuracy levels are problematic, but it's an interesting start): (tags:cancer blood )
It's True: Stress Does Turn Hair Gray (And It's Reversible): (tags:stress hair colour )
The military's top officer schools congressmen on critical race theory, 'white rage' and communism: (tags:USA military racism politics )
"I Was Taught From a Young Age to Protect My Dynastic Wealth": (tags:wealth tax society epicfail )
Brighton Palace Pier: Hundreds overcharged £2,100 for rides (system mixed up date and amount): (tags:epicfail money computers )
Russia's Gigantic Submarine, Belgorod, Sails For The First Time: (tags:Submarine Russia )
New solar is cheaper to build than to run existing coal plants in China, India and most of Europe: (tags:viaDanielDWilliam renewables )
NFC flaws let researchers hack an ATM by waving a phone: (tags:hacking banks technology )
Explaining Derek Chauvin's sentencing: (tags:law USA prison )
Smart screens on fridge doors in shops is a terrible idea: (tags:technology awful shopping advertising )
Even mild COVID in young people often leads to long-term symptoms: (tags:Pandemic Doom )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4035461.html

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Interesting Links for 13-05-2021

Pet a dog and you'll do better for weeks!: (tags:mentalhealth stress psychology dogs viaMyBrotherHugh )
Photoshopping Paddington into movies: Star Wars edition: (tags:bears photoshop StarWars )
Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B in revenue: (tags:tax OhForFucksSake Netherlands )
Covid vaccine: UK decision to delay second dose vindicated by new research: (tags:UK pandemic vaccination )
National Trust archaeologists surprised by likely age of Cerne Abbas Giant (late Saxon): (tags:history UK art )
"Help! A Male Colleague Thinks I'm Scary": (tags:gender work scary society )
Solar and wind's competitiveness over coal is accelerating (80% of US coal plants either non-competitive or actively shutting down): (tags:electricity GoodNews solarpower windpower coal viaDanielDWilliam )
France blocks post-Brexit EU financial services deal with UK over fishing row: (tags:uk europe trade finance fish )
Richard Garfield: Getting Lucky (a fascinating analysis of the role of luck in games, and why it's so important): (tags:games luck viaDanielDWilliam )
The different ways of calculating the end of Ramadan: (tags:islam moon calendars time viaLilysea )
xkcd's "Map Projections", animated: (tags:maps xkcd visualisation video funny )
Member of the Scottish Parliament takes oath of allegiance in Welsh (also, BSL, Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Doric, Scots, Gaelic, Canadian French, German, Welsh, Orcadian and Zimbabwean Shona): (tags:scotland wales language )
British government is lying when refusing to rescue visa-free music tours of EU, lawyers confirm: (tags:uk government lying BorisJohnson Conservatives music europe )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3996081.html

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Interesting Links for 06-02-2021

Jeremy Hunt says Covid restrictions should stay until cases fall to 1,000 a day: (tags:pandemic UK )
"How King's College Hospital Cured My Depression" (psilocybin works!): (tags:psilocybin mentalhealth depression research )
The graph of unintelligible languages is acyclic: (tags:visualisation language )
Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders: (tags:cancer faeces immune_system )
Denmark to build world's first wind energy island in the North Sea to power millions of homes: (tags:Denmark windpower )
American Mothers, On the Brink (I assume British mothers are much the same): (tags:work pandemic stress women mother children parenting )
Indyref2 case dismissed as 'hypothetical' by court: (tags:Scotland independence law )
iPhone's Adult Content Filter Blocks Anything 'Asian': (tags:OhForFucksSake porn iPhone censorship epicfail )
On sport, endogenous testosterone, and transgender participation in sport: (tags:sports olympics testosterone transgender LGBT )
The sound that connects Stravinsky to Bruno Mars (and dominated the 80s): (tags:video music history viaSwampers )
An eloquent takedown of people who try to hide their bullying behind "Only joking": (tags:sexism video jokes humour bullying )
Cambridge Analytica psychologist advising Covid19 disinformation network: (tags:pandemic lies OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3952685.html

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Interesting Links for 05-11-2020

Students give female teaching assistants vastly worse reviews than men - even when they're the same person: (tags:psychology bias misogyny teaching )
Why the Post Office's Last-Minute Ballot Crisis Isn't as Dire as It Seems: (tags:voting USA mail )
Denmark to cull entire mink population after coronavirus mutation spreads to humans: (tags:animals Denmark pandemic aieeee! )
Boris Johnson: Lord of Misrule (a fascinating insight from an ex colleague): (tags:BorisJohnson lies politics UK conservatives OhForFucksSake )
Scientists hail earwax test for checking stress hormone levels (and possibly other things): (tags:stress hormones ears )
Why Latinx people vote for Trump: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1324083909404090374.html
(tags:SouthAmerica USA voting )
750M genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida: (tags:Florida USA mosquito genetics )
The alignment chart of kitchen corner cabinets: (tags:design alignment funny cooking storage )
New study finds psilocybin greatly and quickly relieves depression: (tags:depression psilocybin hallucinogenics )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3947718.html

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Interesting Links for 20-05-2020

Who had Michael Bay in the "making a movie about the pandemic far too soon" sweepstakes?: (tags:movies michaelbay pandemic )
Recovered COVID-19 patients test positive but not infectious: (tags:virus pandemic )
The public do not??understand logarithmic graphs used to portray COVID-19: (tags:visualisation communication pandemic )
Why some Animal Crossing players are restarting Islands they've put hundreds of hours into: (tags:games stress pandemic viaSwampers )
Life in lockdown - from a seven-year-old's perspective!: (tags:poetry children Scotland pandemic video )
In the history of Disney animated movies there have been exactly 18 types of songs: (tags:music Disney ontology )
Neil Gaiman: An apology: (tags:neilgaiman apology pandemic )
Blind people 'read' letters that are traced on their brains with electricity: (tags:cyborg sight technology blindness )
UK government hasn't banned gay conversion therapy two years after pledge to end practice: (tags:LGBT UK OhForFucksSake )
South Korean football team apologises for using sex dolls to fill stands: (tags:headline football sex korea )