Entries tagged with adhd

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Interesting Links for 04-12-2024

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Interesting Links for 14-08-2024

1. The Strange Logic of Germany's Antisemitism Bureaucrats: (tags:Germany Jews bigotry Islam Palestine )
2. The remarkably unlikely story of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane: (tags:history war Spain UK navy politics )
3. Brits would vote to rejoin EU in new referendum, 59:41: (tags:UK Europe polls )
4. J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk Named in Imane Khelif's Cyberbullying Lawsuit: (tags:jkrowling ElonMusk bullying Olympics bigotry transgender LGBT )
5. 6% of people suffering during the ADHD medication shortage report losing their jobs: (tags:adhd jobs OhForFucksSake medication )
6. Edinburgh Trams staff back strike action over lack of toilet breaks: (tags:Edinburgh trams strike toilets )
7. Some companies aren't happy about their adverts appearing under far-right hate posts on X.: (tags:twitter bigotry advertising )
8. Dealing with Time in the Roman Calendar Is A Nightmare: (tags:Rome time date history wtf viaFanf )
9. Israeli Army Uses Palestinian Civilians to Inspect Potentially Booby-trapped Tunnels in Gaza: (tags:Israel Palestine WarCrimes OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 21-03-2024

1. Diane Abbott is a political pawn in Labour's farcical disciplinary process: (tags:politics labour racism OhForFucksSake )
2. Paris Preserves Its Mixed Society by Pouring Billions Into Public Housing: (tags:Paris housing )
3. Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden: (tags:sweden rape prostitution sexwork )
4. Elon Musk's X Is Suspending Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist's Identity: (tags:nazis twitter ElonMusk OhForFucksSake )
5. The cutest baby thing I've seen in a long time: (tags:cute babies video )
6. Vernor Vinge (1944-2024) - Author and creator of the concept of The Singularity: (tags:scifi singularity obituary writers )
7. Neuralink video shows patient playing chess using brain implant: (tags:brain video cyborg )
8. NIH Researchers Identify Brain Connections Associated With ADHD in Youth: (tags:adhd brain )
9. An Anthropocene Worth Having: (tags:ecology environment humans )

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Interesting Links for 28-02-2024

1. Beautiful Edinburgh garden many locals don't know about named most peaceful spot in UK (I'd lived here twenty years before I knew it was there): (tags:Edinburgh gardens nature )
2. If you're wondering why there's a worldwide shortage of ADHD drugs, blame the USA: (tags:USA adhd OhForFucksSake regulation manufacturing )
3. Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users' Data to Train AI Tools: (tags:ai Tumblr wordpress OhForFucksSake )
4. Texas will add more grid batteries than any other state this year, more than doubling its capacity: (tags:Texas batteries GoodNews )
5. The reason why Tory MPs won't use the word 'Islamophobia': (tags:islam UK politics )
6. Small steps forward in understanding the links between DNA damage and aging: (tags:genetics aging )
7. How the gender pay gap in the UK compares to other nations: (tags:gender wages pay UK )
8. Atmospheric rivers mapped by scientists in California: (tags:rain weather )
9. Botanical gardens can cool city air by an average of 5 °C (and other green spaces are also effective, if less so): (tags:gardens cities temperature )

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Interesting Links for 21-02-2024

1. Probably the best social media advice you can get: (tags:socialmedia advice )
2. England has lost 28% of local bus provision per person since 2011: (tags:England buses transport )
3. Why Oscar-nominated family friendly queer animation 'Nimona' is available for free for the next week: (tags:Oscars animation LGBT movies children )
4. Why did Keir Starmer lavish praise on an Islamophobic radical-right bigot?: (tags:Russia bigotry )
5. Yes Prime Minister, questionnaire design matters (leading questions in this case): (tags:polls TV UK )
6. Why are Scottish transgender healthcare waiting times so long?: (tags:scotland transgender lgbt healthcare OhForFucksSake )
7. The government prevented compensation payments to postmasters, and then lied about it: (tags:uk government Conservatives postoffices money OhForFucksSake )
8. More than 500 games on Steam earned over $3 million in 2023: (tags:games steam valve )
9. ADHD may have emerged in humans as an evolutionary advantage: (tags:adhd evolution behaviour )
10. BT Tower: 'Iconic' landmark to be turned into a hotel: (tags:london architecture bt hotel history postoffices )

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Interesting Links for 28-08-2023

1. The EU's Digital Services Act is now in effect: here's what that means: (tags:internet Europe regulation )
2. Prigozhin, going, gone - what, if anything, will the reaction be in Russia?: (tags:Russia assassination )
3. Women working in Antarctica say they were left to fend for themselves against sexual harassers: (tags:abuse USA antarctic OhForFucksSake women )
4. Ukraine uses Australian drones... made of cardboard! (These were reportedly used in an attack on a Russian airfield in Kursk): (tags:Ukraine Australia drone paper )
5. Using economic theory to find lost cites of the Bronze Age: (tags:viaDanielDWilliam trade prehistory economics cities )
6. Seven-fold increase in adult ADHD prescriptions in Scotland over 10 years, as people finally get the help they need: (tags:scotland adhd )
7. Donald Trump says civil war can't be ruled out as racial and political violence rises in the US: (tags:usa civilwar )
8. Israel to have partial laser defenses by next year: (tags:israel lasers )

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Interesting Links for 26-07-2023

1. A Growing Share Of Americans Think States Shouldn't Be Able To Put Any Limits On Abortion: (tags:usa abortion polls )
2. Labour drops pledge to introduce self-ID for trans people - but will still streamline the process, removing the need for a panel: (tags:lgbt transgender labour politics )
3. "What I've learned about having sex with ADHD (and why you should never go nude trampolining)": (tags:adhd sex )
4. There is no good data on whether attention spans have been declining: (tags:attention psychology research fail )
5. Scottish government approval for £500m hydro scheme: (tags:Scotland electricity hydroelectric GoodNews )
6. To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X you need to understand his history with it: (tags:internet ElonMusk history business finance )
7. On Monotropism, Autism, and ADHD: (tags:autism adhd research )
8. Programming Advice: Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing: (tags:advice programming )
9. Wagner gold smuggling critical to keeping Russia's economy afloat: (tags:Russia gold Sudan )

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Interesting Links for 08-06-2023

1. Labour comes out against Tory 'war on woke' bigotry: (tags:lgbt labour GoodNews )
2. Why ADHD people have so many unfinished projects, and how to reframe that: (tags:adhd )
3. Stack Overflow has made its moderators very very angry: (tags:forum ai communication volunteers doom )
4. Delays to new bus tracker system costs Edinburgh council over £1.5million: (tags:buses edinburgh location )
5. The trailer for John Finnemore's new TV show (Good Omens Season 2) is out!: (tags:TV trailer neilgaiman video davidtennant )
6. The dangerous power of cross examination: (tags:law viaDanielDWilliam psychology )
7. We have hit the great oil plateau: (tags:oil viaDanielDWilliam economics )
8. No, breastfeeding doesn't make kids smarter: (tags:intelligence breastfeeding )
9. The Dutch government wants to automatically gain permission to target victims of hackers: (tags:netherlands hacking law )
10. A detailed explanation of the government's judicial review of the Covid Inquiry - and why this judicial review is so significant: (tags:law pandemic )
11. Australian government set to introduce national ban on Nazi symbols: (tags:australia nazis censorship )
12. Why we shouldn't hold referendums: (tags:referendum )

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Interesting Links for 17-05-2023

1. Today, I crossed the Wilford Brimley Line. And I think I'm doing okay. (Although I've been up since 4:30, so on the inside...): (tags:age movies )
2. If you fancy any of the Dragon Age or Mass Effect games they're currently 90% off on Steam!: (tags:steam games money viaSwampers )
3. What The BBC's Rory Carson Got Wrong About Private ADHD Treatment.: (tags:bbc adhd OhForFucksSake epicfail )
4. The BBC Panorama adult ADHD investigation is awful: (tags:adhd bbc documentary OhForFucksSake )
5. Churches lose voting rights on Highland education policy: (tags:religion scotland GoodNews Education )
6. JP Morgan are spying on their employees to a ridiculous extent: (tags:surveillance work OhForFucksSake )
7. Large Language Models are inherently vulnerable to privacy and keyword manipulation attacks: (tags:ai fraud doom )
8. The Perfect Balance - and how we sometimes enjoy being thrown off it. An interesting look at vertigo.: (tags:psychology Edinburgh literature bodies )
9. What did we learn from Biosphere 2?: (tags:earth nature research viaDanielDWilliam )
10. Vauxhall-maker warns Brexit threatens electric cars in UK: (tags:uk europe cars manufacturing )
11. Where in the world are men most likely to sit down to wee? (Germany. UK in the "least likely" group): (tags:toilets urination polls )
12. Why [x] should be regulated.: (tags:regulation satire politics uk )
13. Labour would build on green belt to boost housing, says Starmer: (tags:housing construction labour GoodNews )
14. Steam Now Offers 90-Minute Game Trials, Starting With Dead Space: (tags:games steam )
15. Russia at 'turning point' as missiles run out and West ups sanctions on Chinese firms sending weapons parts: (tags:russia ukraine weaponry )
16. ADHD diagnosis: Patients waiting for assessment by specialist for up to four years in parts of UK: (tags:adhd healthcare OhForFucksSake uk )
17. Butterfly tree of life reveals an origin in North America: (tags:viaNancyLebov insects paleontology fossils America )

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Interesting Links for 14-02-2023

1. 27 Genetic Variants Linked to ADHD: (tags:genes adhd )
2. Japan Adopts Plan to Make Maximum Use of Nuclear Power: (tags:nuclearpower Japan )
3. The first two weeks of an absolutely terrible second century warlord: (tags:history funny )

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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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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4123613.html

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Interesting Links for 11-12-2021

"10 years late, I have fallen in love with Dark Souls, and you can too": (tags:games )
Brutal review of Michelin-starred restaurant Bros' goes viral: (tags:restaurant review funny )
New Zealand unanimously passes gender self-ID law in trans rights win: (tags:LGBT transgender newzealand )
Which early hominid are you? (I got homo sapiens sapiens, which delighted me): (tags:neanderthal prehistory quiz ViaDrCross )
The TikTok Couch Guy on what it's like to be investigated on the internet.: (tags:privacy internet socialmedia OhForFucksSake )
"The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience" makes it clear how impressive modern games can look: (tags:games graphics matrix )
Computers revolutionized chess - Magnus Carlsen wins by being human: (tags:chess games AI humans )
What it's like when your brain starts working properly for the first time: (tags:adhd brain )
How do you do on the digit span memory test? (I top out at 8, and seem to use auditory memory to hold them): (tags:memory numbers )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4109639.html

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Interesting Links for 06-11-2021

Pfizer pill cuts Covid deaths by nearly 90%, study finds: (tags:Pandemic medicine GoodNews )
There Is No Such Thing as Unconscious Thought: (tags:thinking )
There Is No Such Thing as Conscious Thought: (tags:thinking )
IAB Europe cookie consent pop-ups to be found in breach of GDPR: (tags:UK privacy dataprotection cookies )
When you get offered an interview for the job you just got fired from - and decide to accept...: (tags:Jobs interview funny )
How were video games from the 90s so efficient?: (tags:games history programming )
HIV patient denied life-saving medication in UK detention centre: (tags:UK migration OhForFucksSake hiv Jamaica )
High Fructose Corn Syrup-Moderate Fat Diet Potentiates Anxio-Depressive Behavior (in mice): (tags:diet anxiety depression mice )
Adding sad violin music to your ex's terrible apology text: (tags:viaJennieRigg music funny relationships apology )
Do *you* need a distraction log?: (tags:distraction adhd advice )
Lawyer, 41, Who Sued His University Over His Grade Sues His Parents to Pay Him $500 a Week, Loses Appeal: (tags:wtf money law UK )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4101582.html

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4094473.html

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Interesting Links for 04-10-2021

Cambridgeshire police officer allowed to return to work after using a spy pen to take "up-skirt" shots of children in Tesco: (tags:police corruption abuse children OhForFucksSake )
A personal history of writing computer games in the 80s: (tags:games history viaMyBrotherHugh )
If you are giving money to The Guardian then this is what you are supporting: (tags:LGBT transgender Guardian OhForFucksSake bigotry )
My mistake, The Guardian published *two* articles comparing trans women to murdering policemen: (tags:guardian transgender LGBT OhForFucksSake )
UK government says it is not responsible for preventing Christmas shortages: (tags:UK Doom Christmas trade )
Pandora Papers: Secret wealth and dealings of world leaders exposed: (tags:wealth property )
'Some people find it very unusual that I speak Gaelic' - the Gaelic speakers of African and Caribbean descent: (tags:Gaelic scotland race africa )
Paracetamol use does not lead to ADHD (but mothers using it a lot is a sign that something else is up which *does* lead to ADHD): (tags:pain pregnancy drugs adhd )
The value of in-house expertise: (tags:software experience experts business )