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Interesting Links for 31-05-2023

Wed, 31 May 2023 11:00:07 GMT

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Interesting Links for 19-07-2022

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 11:00:07 GMT

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 01-06-2022

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 11:00:09 GMT

1. Switching to plant-based cheese can reduce carbon emissions by 50 per cent compared to the dairy version: (tags:dairy cheese co2 )
2. After millennia of agricultural expansion, the world has passed 'peak agricultural land': (tags:agriculture farming viaDanielDWilliam )
3. How a Glaswegian responds to a killer whale: (tags:Scotland water animals )
4. Biden's top Middle East adviser has a history of cosying up to autocrats: (tags:middle_east USA diplomacy OhForFucksSake )
5. The Telegraph doesn't pay its contributors: (tags:telegraph newspapers money UK OhForFucksSake )
6. Artist who made Nazi art turns out to be a Nazi: (tags:nazis art )
7. Don't Wordle - can you avoid winning?: (tags:language games )
8. Prince Rupert's Drop Exploding in Epoxy Resin at 456,522 fps: (tags:slowmotion video glass explosions )
9. The Tories gave Boris Johnson the power to call an election whenever he likes. Now they're worried he'll use it.: (tags:elections BorisJohnson conservatives )
10. After Xinjiang Revelations, Germany's Ties to China Are Under the Microscope: (tags:germany trade rights )
11. New rules ban many single-use plastics in Scotland: (tags:plastic environment scotland )

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Interesting Links for 21-11-2020

Sat, 21 Nov 2020 12:00:10 GMT

Switching to Proportional Representation makes politicians less combative: (tags:politics proportional_representation newzealand )
UK sourced PPE from factories secretly using North Korean slave labour: (tags:NorthKorea China UK slavery pandemic )
College undergrads find hidden text on medieval manuscript via UV imaging: (tags:light history technology )
The Valley of the Cheese of the Dead: (tags:cheese death )

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Interesting Links for 11-12-2018

Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:00:26 GMT

Google Translate takes a stand against singular "they": (tags: language translation gender google )
SNP offers to support vote of no confidence if Labour makes one.: (tags: snp labour politics )
Chess, a Drosophila of reasoning: (tags: chess games intelligence ai )
UK House of Commons expert answers questions on the Meaningful Vote procedure.: (tags: politics UK europe )
Nihilist Dad Jokes: (tags: jokes funny humour )
The irish potato famine: (tags: ireland food history inequality )
This is the ridiculous depths the government has sunk to: (tags: UK government OhForFucksSake Europe )
A metaphor that explains Brexit very neatly: (tags: cheese metaphor uk europe politics )
The Technology That Changed Air Travel: (tags: airplanes travel history technology computers xml viaFanf )
The autistic view of the world is not the neurotypical cliché: (tags: autism stereotypes fiction viaFanf )
Increasing numbers of pubs and cafes no longer take cash: (tags: money Technology )
An amazing story of gay love and loss in World War 1: Dammit! Now confessed to be fiction! https://twitter.com/TenshiAngelina/status/1072172791812812800?s=09
(tags: history love wwi )
Kenshi is a game I suspect would appeal to a bunch of my friends. Incredibly open world: (tags: games review )
"Godzilla: King of the Monsters" looks like ridiculous fun: (tags: movies Godzilla trailer )
Psychology research is still fixated on a tiny fraction of humans: (tags: race gender society psychology )
New study finds bias against women and girls when intellectual ability is sought: (tags: intelligence psychology sexism )
In the “Trust Game”, men with more autistic traits were less influenced by their partner’s facial appearance: (tags: autism trust psychology faces )

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Interesting Links for 01-09-2018

Sat, 01 Sep 2018 11:00:13 GMT

Mystery of the cargo ships that sink when their cargo suddenly liquefies: (tags: ocean shipping physics materials viaFanf )
The Howard Rule: A Modest Proposal for Libdem policy: (tags: libdem politics uk )
Well this is one of the least Jewish things I’ve ever read...: (tags: Jews OhForFucksSake middle_east )
American border police are defending them against...Dungeons & Dragons Artists: (tags: dungeonsanddragons immigration usa OhForFucksSake )
EAT CHEESE LIVE FOREVER EAT CHEESE NEVER DIE: (tags: cheese journalism funny satire research health )
The Irreverent Joys of a Japanese Sherlock Holmes: (tags: tv SherlockHolmes Japan viaSwampers )
How well does population density predict U.S. voting outcomes?: (tags: voting demographics statistics usa )
Maersk installed 100-foot-tall rotating sails on one of its tankers to cut fuel costs: (tags: ocean shipping wind )
The Dark Core of Personality - I scored 2: (tags: evil psychology testing )
You are mostly not stardust.: Nor, as autocorrect would insist, are you mostly starfish.
(tags: physics space )

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Interesting Links for 30-08-2017

Wed, 30 Aug 2017 11:00:15 GMT

China's web users will have their identity verified from 1st October: (tags: identity china web )
"100% grated parmesan cheese" doesn't mean that something contains 100% cheese. Apparently.: (tags: cheese law food usa )
FDA Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation for MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD: (tags: drugs ecstacy psychology )
Google’s ARCore brings augmented reality to millions of Android devices: (tags: android augmentedreality )
Moderate consumption of fats, carbohydrates best for health, international study shows: (tags: fat carbohydrate diet food health )
Sky stops broadcasting Fox News in UK: (tags: FoxNews uk )
Drawing Autism: A Visual Tour of the Autistic Mind from Kids and Celebrated Artists on the Spectrum: (tags: autism art )
Terry Pratchett's unpublished works crushed by steamroller: (tags: death writing terrypratchett )
Fans watch Taylor Swift. Economists watch the fans.: (tags: music economics attention )
Women Entrepreneurs Create A Fake Male Cofounder To Dodge Startup Sexism: (tags: sexism business OhForFucksSake )
Why Speedos are mandatory in France: (tags: clothing france swimming )

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Interesting Links for 01-10-2016

Sat, 01 Oct 2016 11:00:18 GMT

Wealth of people in their 30s has halved in a decade: (tags: money age society )
Hacker fakes German minister's fingerprints using photos of her hands: (tags: security Technology photography )
Goldman's Libya Salesman Was a Little Too Good: (tags: finance money sales libya )
What We Do In The Shadows TV spin-off on the way: (tags: tv comedy vampires newzealand )
Lost Diamonds: How we fail underprivileged talent: (tags: Education poverty inequality society )
9 Nodding Strategies for Your Next Meeting: (tags: business satire communication )
The Labour plotters are right: it‘s definitely Jeremy Corbyn who needs to ‘learn lessons’ from the last few months | The Independent: (tags: labour politics satire )
Vegans Are Calling Their Cheese Gary Following This Woman's Facebook Rant: (tags: cheese vegan )
DWP scraps retesting for chronically ill sickness benefits claimants: (tags: welfare Conservatives uk GoodNews )
UK heading for hard Brexit, say European diplomats: (tags: europe uk mess )

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Interesting Links for 26-06-2015

Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:00:03 GMT

Eyes go red and stingy after swimming because of urine, not chlorine
- (tags: urination swimming )
The secret codes that stop you photocopying money
- (tags: money counterfeit technology photoshop )
Weight loss, combined with vitamin D, reduces inflammation linked to cancer, chronic disease
- (tags: vitaminD weight inflammation )
NHS to test blood made in a laboratory
- (tags: blood technology nhs )
Christ, Not Even Jurassic World's Dinosaur Toys Are Allowed to Be Female
- (tags: dinosaurs gender toys OhForFucksSake viaMorag )
The Labour Party would provide a bettter Scottish Opposition if they put some actual effort into it
- (tags: Scotland Labour snp politics )
If Lord of the Rings was a Series of LARP Events
- (tags: larp lotr viaDraxar )
Bayes’ Theorem - What is it and what is it good for?
- (tags: probability science evidence )
Edinburgh's Fort Kinnaird retail park ‘exempt from devolution’
- (tags: Scotland WTF )
The Sikhs who saved Parmesan
- (tags: India Italy immigration food cheese )
New play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child to open in 2016
- (tags: harrypotter theatre )

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Interesting Links for 21-05-2015

Thu, 21 May 2015 11:00:07 GMT

Chiver's Law "If you can legally go online and call your government a fascist regime, then you are not living under a fascist regime": (tags: politics freespeech society rights internet discussion )
Pre-thoughtcrime: Russian think tank app catches protestors before they protest: (tags: viaCharlesStross police surveillance Russia )
How the Indian Ocean ended up stealing the atmosphere’s heat: (tags: globalwarming India pacific ocean )
Statistical study of first-year college rape (18% during the year, 37% from the time they were 14): (tags: rape )
The Extraordinary Story Of "The Crystal Maze", The Most Epic Game Show Ever Made: (tags: games TV UK )
The curious incident of the rioters in the bookshop: (tags: riots books )
Is the Tesla PowerWall battery system a worthwhile investment?: (tags: batteries power Tesla )
Acetaminophen/paracetomol/tylenol in pregnancy may lower testosterone in unborn boys: (tags: testosterone children health )
Apparently I've been pronouncing Parmesan completely wrong.: (tags: cheese funny language viaTheFerrett )
Card and automated payments overtake cash transactions for the first time (cheques down to 2%): (tags: money )

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Interesting Links for 07-04-2015

Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:00:02 GMT

Labour supporters in Scotland are currently trying to persuade people to vote Conservative!
(tags: conservatives Labour Scotland SNP )
A suggestion for the Hugo award nomination
(tags: voting hugo )
Repeat after me: Easter is not pagan
(tags: easter paganism history )
Death, Freedom, and Cold Winters - comparing opinions across the USA
(tags: usa demographics polls guns LGBT abortion )
Cheese changed the course of Western civilization
(tags: cheese civilisation food evolution )
The teenager who saved a man with an SS tattoo
(tags: race racism niceness )
New South Wales Attacks Researchers Who Found Internet Voting Vulnerabilities
(tags: internet voting hacking Australia )
Artificial Sweeteners May Change Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways
(tags: microbiome diet food health )
A possible cause for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
(tags: children babies death hearing )
The biggest drive of inequality is...the cost of housing
(tags: housing inequality )
Cranberry juice drinks have more sugar than Coca Cola
(tags: sugar food )
More scientists doubt salt is as bad for you as the government says
(tags: salt diet advice )

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Interesting Links for 06-02-2013

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:00:08 GMT

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Interesting Links for 29-12-2011

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:00:01 GMT

An Armorer On Fantasy Armor and Lady Bits
(tags: armour art fantasy women )
Astrophysics With Cheese
(tags: cheese physics funny )
I was feeling a little tempted by War Horse. Until I read this.
(tags: movies funny Steven_Spielberg )
Why Batman Can’t Be Like Batman
(tags: batman funny sad )

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