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Interesting Links for 07-05-2026
May. 7th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Why airlines are always going bankrupt (The airline industry can be competitive or profitable, not both)
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- 2. What should be done about pathological levels of inequality
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- 3. Surface temperature tops 60°C in parts of north India, satellite images show
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Interesting Links for 17-04-2026
Apr. 17th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The World Bank thinks better of its old free-market absolutism.
- 2. Autonomous robo-taxis now driving themselves on British streets
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- 3. Europe could run out of jet fuel in 6 weeks
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- 4. Europe's Anonymous Online Age Verification App Is Here
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Interesting Links for 31-03-2026
Mar. 31st, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. New UK visa rules -> foreign students down 10% -> universities cutting staff & not enough graduates in vital fields
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- 2. Spain closes airspace to aircraft involved in Iran war
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- 3. Even Trump Unsure How Rambling Speech On Iran Veered Off Into Ranking The 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' Films
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- 4. 85% of S&P 500 Decline this year is from 8 tech stocks based around AI
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- 5. Huge surge in AI misconduct cases recorded at Edinburgh University
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Interesting Links for 20-10-2025
Oct. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Leading OpenAI researcher announced a GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened
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- 2. Something from "space" may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah
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- 3. Eastern Australian humpback whale population now well above pre-whaling levels (from 150 to 50,000)
- (tags:whales Australia GoodNews )
- 4. 10% more people support the UK railways being "publicly owned" than support them being "run by the government"
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- 5. Take an elevator to space and see what you can see
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Interesting Links for 10-07-2025
Jul. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Let Kids Be Loud
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- 2. Fascinating essay on photography lighting techniques that predate AI and why they are confused for it (amongst other things)
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- 3. What if you Threw a Paper Airplane from the Space Station?
- (tags:space paper airplanes viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. Cellos totally belong in rock bands
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- 5. Time keeps on slipping - literally. Why today might have been the shortest day you'll ever experience
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Interesting Links for 13-04-2025
Apr. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Key principles on in-game virtual currencies in the EU
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- 2. Is Airplane Mode on Flights Necessary or Outdated?
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- 3. After Paris curbed cars, air pollution maps reveal a dramatic improvement
- (tags:air pollution cars Paris GoodNews )
- 4. The Solid-State Shift: Reinventing the Transformer for Modern Grids
- (tags:electricity infrastructure Technology )
- 5. The largest flood in Earth's history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily and refilled the entire Mediterranean in just a few years
- (tags:geology sea Europe flooding )
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Interesting Links for 22-02-2025
Feb. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. HP decided to make every phone customer wait 15 minutes before talking to them. And was then forced to backtrack.
- (tags:hp wtf customerservice OhForFucksSake phones )
- 2. A Delta pilot tried to raise safety issues. They accused her of being bipolar. It took years in the courts to prove her right.
- (tags:mentalhealth safety airplanes OhForFucksSake usa )
- 3. Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours
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- 4. The Imperial March but it's coming from Vader's chest control panel
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- 5. What counselling training is like for an autistic person
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- 6. Five Oddly, Unexpectedly Upbeat Works of SFF
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Interesting Links for 27-01-2025
Jan. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Austin rents have fallen for nearly two years. Because they build lots of new homes
- (tags:housing economics Texas USA )
- 2. Storm Éowyn brings down 15 trees in Edinburgh's Botanic Gardens, including one from 1859.
- (tags:trees edinburgh storm )
- 3. Outgoing Muslim Council of Britain leader Zara Mohammed criticises lack of government contact
- (tags:Islam UK government )
- 4. This is the Only Photo of the Concorde Flying at Supersonic Speed
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Interesting Links for 20-08-2024
Aug. 20th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour
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- 2. Why we should always be alert to the possibilities of miscarriages of justice
- (tags:law uk history )
- 3. Labour incapable of tackling racism and Islamophobia amid far-right violence, member of party committee says
- (tags:labour uk racism islam )
- 4. 53% of British school librarians asked to remove LGBTQ+ books
- (tags:censorship LGBT UK school OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Investors Are Suddenly Getting Very Concerned That AI Isn't Making Any Serious Money
- (tags:ai business )
- 6. Google's AI Search Gives Sites Dire Choice: Share Data or Die
- (tags:Google ai doom OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Thirty six flights were cancelled and 201 delayed at a Japanese airport on the weekend after a pair of scissors went missing in a store near the boarding gates.
- (tags:airplanes safety Japan )
Interesting Links for 28-05-2024
May. 28th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong (but sound believable)
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- 2. Theresa May admits mistakes over migrant policies
- (tags:migration conservatives politics UK )
- 3. Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet
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Interesting Links for 22-05-2024
May. 22nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Brain implants allow us to explore bilingualism
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- 2. The poverty children in the UK are subjected to is deliberate - never forget that
- (tags:poverty uk OhForFucksSake )
- 3. UK risks debt crisis as Tories and Labour ignore IMF over tax cuts
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- 4. Climate change is making turbulence worse
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Interesting Links for 21-05-2024
May. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. £5bn Brexit border checks system still has no timetable for launch
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- 2. Flying sharks save fuel (at least, applying shark-like skin to your plane does)
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- 3. The UK's Infected blood report's key findings at a glance
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- 4. The results of the UK's infected blood inquiry should surprise us, but they won't.
- (tags:UK OhForFucksSake blood lies government )
- 5. Trans-inclusive roller derby team helps strike down New York's trans sports ban
- (tags:newyork LGBT transgender GoodNews law sports )
- 6. What's the name for the emotion you feel when you see something cute?
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- 7. What will it be like when AI can create great art?
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- 8. 2022 Census: Majority of Scots have no religion
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Interesting Links for 14-05-2024
May. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Why is Richard Dawkins talking about Cultural Christianity?
- (tags:society islam bigotry OhForFucksSake religion atheism ChurchOfEngland uk RichardDawkins )
- 2. Brain abnormalities in survivors of COVID-19 after 2-year recovery: a functional MRI study
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- 3. PFI means that school meals are too expensive and too small
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- 4. What Your Favorite '90s Band Says About the Kind of Bored Suburban Mom You Are Today
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- 5. Autonomous F-16 Fighters Are Roughly Even With Human Pilots
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- 6. Overdue Edinburgh library fines to be scrapped as £50k in charges to be wiped
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Interesting Links for 31-03-2024
Mar. 31st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. How to Talk to Little Girls
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- 2. Church of Whale Fall
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- 3. Headless, dog-sized robot to patrol Alaska airport to prevent bird strikes
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- 4. Disillusioned Businesses Discovering That AI Kind of Sucks
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- 5. Personal 'invisibility shield' goes on sale, starting under $70
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Interesting Links for 17-03-2024
Mar. 17th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction before death
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- 2. Deep-sea hiatus record reveals orbital pacing by 2.4 Myr eccentricity grand cycles
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- 3. Lexus, Not Tesla, Makes The Best Driver Assistance System (and most of them are bad)
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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)
- (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.
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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
- (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)
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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)
- (tags:politics racism UK Labour conservatives )
- 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 18-02-2024
Feb. 18th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A short comic about a mysterious creature living among the monks of a secluded abbey.
- (tags:comic fantasy religion bigotry )
- 2. Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up
- (tags:ai airplanes law travel Canada )
- 3. A Killer Disease Is Rampant In Hospitals Around The World
- (tags:pandemic disease epicfail )
- 4. How the Starship Troopers movie brilliantly depicts an empire in fascist decline
- (tags:StarshipTroopers movies fascism scifi robertheinlein )
- 5. The intersection of AI, racism, and academia
- (tags:ai writing academia viaPatrickHadfield racism )
