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Interesting Links for 06-02-2025
Feb. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. In-patient services at Edinburgh's Astley Ainslie hospital to be transferred to East Lothian
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- 2. The Curta Mechanical Calculator (I'd love to have one if they didn't cost so much)
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- 3. AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU
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- 4. Scotland! Will! Not! Ban! Cats!
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- 5. Time limit for child sex abuse claims to be removed in England and Wales
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- 6. The greatest families behind the greatest showmen - what it's like living life on the road, and how that affects the children
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- 7. Probably the most sensible thing I've read about Neil Gaiman
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- 8. Nurse who objected to transgender woman in changing room admits harassment
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- 9. Assaulted woman's divorce case was turned down by 116 Scottish legal aid lawyers
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- 10. Scientists explore how to make quantum bits with spinel gemstones
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- 11. CIA sent unclassified email with names of recent hires - at Whitehouse insistence.
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- 12. "I looked for dating advice online - and got sucked into the toxic manosphere"
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Interesting Links for 14-01-2025
Jan. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The woman who gave herself a caesarean - and survived!
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- 2. The Dark Secrets Behind the Neil Gaiman Abuse Accusations
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- 3. Joss Whedon drives the final nails into the coffin of his own legacy
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- 4. The UK government's push for AI is down to Tony Blair and made up numbers
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- 5. World's hottest year: 2024 first to pass 1.5C of warming
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- 6. "Project Russia," Unknown in the West, Reveals Putin's Playbook
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- 7. Why poor households are worse off in the UK than they are in the EU (housing is 44% more expensive than the average)
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- 8. Dragonflies swim to cool down and then do somersaults to dry off
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- 9. The Sonos App went so badly wrong that their CEO just had to resign - here's the technical reasons why
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Interesting Links for 04-12-2024
Dec. 4th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The (English) NHS advised people to get their ADHD diagnosis privately. Now they're refusing to treat the people who did.
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- 2. Why Does the UK have a Strategic Wine Reserve?
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- 3. Apparently the answer to ChatGPT making up nonsense about people is to forbid it to mention their specific names. This plan has no drawbacks.
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- 4. Head Like a Holy Night (Nine Inch Nails songs performed as Christmas carols. "Hurt" is amazing). You may also like his "Last Christmas Love Tore Us Apart".
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- 5. Tori Amos breaks silence on allegations against longtime friend Neil Gaiman
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- 6. Lib Dem PR Bill wins surprise Commons vote
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Interesting Links for 16-10-2024
Oct. 16th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Research released into the effects of the UK's trans puberty blocker ban
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- 2. The move to USB C for charging is a done deal. I'm not sure what the UK has to "consider" about it.
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- 3. Doctor Who and the Sign Language Question
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- 4. Turns out that once Uber had to make money they started charging more and paying less to their drivers
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- 5. "Homeostatic Complacency" is something I've encountered plenty of times. Is there a more traditional name for it?
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- 6. Seriously ill patients on mental health wards will be helped with their CV
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- 7. Too many "local" news sites aren't. I'm so glad that we have at least one in Edinburgh that really is.
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- 8. Confronting the truth about Alex Salmond
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- 9. What's Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures?
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- 10. Labour Together: From new MPs to cabinet ministers, how the influential think tank's donations are bankrolling the party, and who they are linked to.
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- 11. Seven New Frogs Named After Iconic Star Trek Captains
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Interesting Links for 01-09-2024
Sep. 1st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A French comedian performs their poem "Wine in a can" - I don't think they're in favour
- (tags:wine poetry society funny viaSwampers )
- 2. General World Models (one of the new approaches of AI)
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- 3. Thoughts about separating the art from the artist (specifically Alice Munro)
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- 4. Renowned Surgeon and Lead Author of New Lancet Study Tortured by Israeli Military
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- 5. Autistic man stranded on desert island asks rescue team for a couple more weeks
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Interesting Links for 02-08-2024
Aug. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Nasal COVID-19 vaccine halts transmission (in hamsters)
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- 2. There's a massive Covid spike in Scotland right now - highest it's been in two years
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- 3. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter to star in Waiting for Godot on Broadway
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- 4. Two more women accuse Neil Gaiman of sexual assault and abuse
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- 5. Edinburgh's Gorgie farm could reopen but without animals for at least five years
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- 6. A protein called Reelin keeps popping up in brains that resist aging and Alzheimer's
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- 7. British tech tycoon: I only got justice because I'm rich
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Interesting Links for 25-07-2024
Jul. 25th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Judge in E. Jean Carroll Case: Yes, Donald Trump Is a Rapist
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- 2. World of Warcraft's Entire Development Team Has Officially Unionized
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- 3. Number of long-term empty homes brought back into use in Scotland approaches 11,000
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- 4. Roblox Predator Problem Potentially Exposes Kids to Pedophiles
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- 5. There's been a fire at Gorgie Farm
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- 6. A 3-D London Tube Visualisation With Moving Trains
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Interesting Links for 21-06-2024
Jun. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A brief summary of what Starmer has achieved
- (tags:Labour OhForFucksSake politics UK )
- 2. New injection is 100% successful at preventing HIV
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- 3. The "Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes" Soundtrack is full of the best puns
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- 4. Ways in which people will try to abuse "parental authority" on the internet
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Interesting Links for 13-06-2024
Jun. 13th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Exclusive Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined
- (tags:submarine epicfail safety OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Israel and Hamas added to UN list for violating children's rights
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- 3. MSPs approve buffer zones at abortion clinics in Scotland
- (tags:Scotland abuse abortion GoodNews )
- 4. Plans for 8,500-capacity Edinburgh Park arena approved by council
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- 5. Real-Time Settlers Of Catan
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- 6. NASA accidentally broadcasts simulation of distressed astronauts on space station (I don't see how this could happen, and it sounds like the start of a bad movie)
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- 7. Where does SNP claim of £18bn cuts under Labour come from?
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- 8. Wild horses have returned to the Golden Steppe of Kazakhstan for the first time in at least 200 years
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- 9. Greatest Comics of All Time as Chosen by 45 Writers and Artists
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Interesting Links for 20-03-2024
Mar. 20th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. 10% of people think they're allergic to penicillin. Testing found that 97% of them were wrong.
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- 2. The degree to which the Acropolis Museum is designed to shame the British Museum is spectacular
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- 3. Can you stab things with an arrow? And should you?
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- 4. The first 'cyberflasher' is convicted under England's new law and gets more than 5 years in prison
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- 5. Long-term leisure computer use linked to increased erectile dysfunction risk
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- 6. Is this the worst economic inheritance since WW2?
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- 7. Root cause of Alzheimer's may be fat buildup in brain cells
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- 8. Cars are secretly spying on drivers and upping their insurance rates
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Interesting Links for 14-03-2024
Mar. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Did you know there was an old rifle range under Edinburgh's Waverley Station? (6 minutes in to this video)
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- 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.
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- 4. Giant redwoods: The world's largest trees are thriving in the UK. (Except for not reproducing)
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- 5. The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets
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- 6. The Existential Relief of Having Children
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- 7. The Abyss 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray UK release | The BBFC comments on its cancellation
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- 8. Do your pets help you make food? You ain't seen nothing yet!
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- 9. LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6% (and dramatically higher in Gen Z)
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- 10. AI reveals prostate cancer has two distinct subtypes
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- 11. The full version of Tenacious D's - ...Baby One More Time cover is out. And even more awesome than you'd expect
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- 12. Yes, the Tories are outrageously racist and sexist - but Labour is guilty too (writes Diane Abbott)
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- 13. Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town
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- 14. The only other mammals to go through the menopause live longer because of it
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- 15. New ONS figures show how Edinburgh's share of short term lets is massive by comparison to practically everywhere else in the UK
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- 16. New extremism definition unveiled by British government. Is very vague.
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- 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
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- 19. I was getting bored of running - then I found joggling
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Interesting Links for 30-01-2024
Jan. 30th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Dark Souls - Walking through memories (a video I bumped into, and want to be able to find again later)
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- 2. The Illusionist: The Mind-Bending Installations of Artist Felice Varini
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- 3. Functional 16-bit CPU built and runs in Excel, 3Hz processor includes 128KB of RAM, 16-color display, and a custom assembly language | Tom's Hardware
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- 4. The Northern Irish government is fascinating and dysfunctional - the report here on how to reform it is very interesting (pages 33-42)
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- 5. A fascinating and intriguing look behind the scenes of the audio version of Sandman
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- 6. A simple, cheap drug could prevent STIs. So why isn't the NHS providing it?
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- 7. 'Tidal wave' of sex abuse in music industry, MPs told
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- 8. Patients say keto helps with their mental illness. Science is racing to understand why
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Interesting Links for 05-12-2023
Dec. 5th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Scottish Greens vote to ban 'Behaviour Modification' practices for disabled people
- (tags:Scotland disability autism abuse GreenParty )
- 2. Edinburgh council statement on their house emergency
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- 3. Harvard Gutted Initial Team Examining Facebook Files Following $500 Million Donation from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
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- 4. Possibly the worst customer service of all time (cancelled plane edition)
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- 5. Liz Truss to propose law banning biological males from single-sex spaces
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- 6. Did you know that the *Real* version of the Muppet Christmas Carol is on Disney+ (hidden in a submenu)
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- 7. Happy Clair Cameron Patterson day! He did a lot more than most to improve the world (by fighting to remove lead from so many things)
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- 8. Neurons in your eye help keep your view stable
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- 9. UK police are using AI data analysis to spot crimes. And they want to start predicting them.
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- 10. Bye bye to the Edinburgh Zoo pandas
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- 11. "My $500M Mars Rover Mistake: A Failure Story"
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Interesting Links for 30-10-2023
Oct. 30th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. I'm glad I'm reading this article about renovation hell when our extension is almost finished rather than when it's all beginning
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- 2. Why some women get demotivated from sharing their work
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- 3. 'The best thing about me': Matthew Perry wanted to be remembered for his work on addiction
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- 4. How well do colonoscopies work?
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- 5. Anti-Israeli mob' storms airport in Dagestan 'searching for Jews' forcing flight from Tel Aviv to divert
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- 6. I love Japan's Mundane Halloween tradition
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- 7. Michael Crick is shining a spotlight on would-be politicians before they reach Westminster
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Interesting Links for 24-10-2023
Oct. 24th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. A checklist for managers
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- 2. Excel now lets you disable its "helpful" turning of letter/number combinations into dates.
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- 3. Four of the five developers for the original Mario game worked on the most recent one
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- 4. The pandemic's true death toll (around 27m people. So far.)
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- 5. The UK criminal justice system has now failed
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- 6. Edinburgh University failing over sexual misconduct complaints
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- 7. UK Government using AI to decide on benefits and driving licences
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- 8. 'Failure to act' on suicide website linked to 50 UK deaths
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Interesting Links for 19-09-2023
Sep. 19th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Keir Starmer warned he can't renegotiate Brexit deal without rejoining EU single market
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- 2. Edinburgh tourist site uses AI chat. It is, of course, rubbish.
- (tags:tourism ai OhForFucksSake )
- 3. What happened to prices when fishermen started using mobile phones?
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- 4. On the Presumption of Innocence As It Stands Between Private Citizens
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- 5. I took the monotropism questionnaire (and scored 174. More than 21% of autistic people and 89% of allistic people).
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- 6. Trans woman who took own life after three years waiting for NHS appointment was failed by system, mother says (Current waiting list is around 5 years)
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- 7. The Edinburgh Tram Inquiry is finally released!
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Interesting Links for 18-09-2023
Sep. 18th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Using a foreign language has a significant effect on decision-making
- (tags:language thought viaFrancescaElston )
- 2. The Fables comic is now Public Domain
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- 3. Russell Brand in his own words: How the comedian's books and stand-up shows detail mistreatment of women
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