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1. RTD Reveals Series 14 of Doctor Who Was Planned to Air Much Sooner, But Hit By FX Delays: (tags:drwho TV cgi )
2. The Apple Vision Pro's Killer App Is … Kitchen Timers: (tags:time cooking augmentedreality apple )
3. Autistic brains create 42% more information at rest: (tags:autism brain )
4. Alan Moore's "Big Numbers" planning spreadsheet: (tags:comics alanmoore planning spreadsheet )
5. Playing dance mat games can help prevent falls in older people: (tags:dancing games age )
6. Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake 'chief financial officer': (tags:ai fraud video )
7. Nearly 1 in 4 American Adults Who Get COVID-19 Suffer From Long COVID: (tags:Pandemic disability doom )
8. It's now 128 years since we discovered The Greenhouse Effect: (tags:globalwarming co2 history )
9. A newly discovered letter from Tolkien sheds light on Balrogs and Legolas: (tags:Tolkien funny lotr )

1. London hospital becomes first in the UK to perform 10,000 operations using a robot: (tags:robots surgery uk london )
2. Human memories are unreliable because of our tendency for complete storylines: (tags:stories psychology memory )
3. Theresa May is telling a fairytale about her Brexit deal. This is the truth: (tags:uk europe lies Conservatives )
4. UK government will not block Scots drug room pilot: (tags:Scotland drugs GoodNews UK )
5. Unfortunate Starlink 2 Hour Outage Last Night Just As Ukraine Attacked Sevastapol: (tags:Ukraine Russia space ElonMusk OhForFucksSake )
6. ScotRail peak fares to be scrapped as ministers try to push return to trains: (tags:Scotland trains money )
7. There are a *lot* of underwater cables: (tags:Ocean internet maps viaDanielDWilliam )
8. Alan Moore's 1986 opinions on superhero (and hero) discourse, and how ahead of the time they were.: (tags:superheroes alanmoore society history batman )
9. Scotland's population grew to record high (driven by migration): (tags:scotland population )
10. Edinburgh Filmhouse: Lease deal agreed to save cinema: (tags:scotland edinburgh movies cinema )

The "Brain in a jar" approach to transgender theory: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1357147969049423872.html
(tags:lgbt transgender gender psychology )
Ministers refusing to open talks to solve Brexit exports crisis to make EU feel 'pain', industry leader says: (tags:UK Europe trade OhForFucksSake )
The neo-Troubles and media manipulation (what's going on with Northern Ireland right now): (tags:UK Europe trade NorthernIreland Ireland borders )
Joanna Cherry and other Alex Salmond supporters are waging civil war within SNP at precisely the wrong time: (tags:snp bigotry LGBT politics Scotland )
Why the UK is still arguing about Brexit, and is likely to continue doing so indefinitely: (tags:UK Europe NorthernIreland borders trade video )
Google doesn't want to tell Apple users how it's violating their privacy: (tags:Apple Google privacy )
Egg consumption lowers risk of coronary artery disease.: (tags:eggs heart health )
Things British people do that baffle people: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1357329669981413376.html
(tags:UK weird )
Animation shows week in life of blue whale as it tries to avoid fishing ship congestion: (tags:wales ocean visualisation video ship )
How will the global computer chip shortage affect you?: (tags:cpu manufacturing fail )
Brian Bolland on Alan Moore and the Killing Joke: (tags:art comics alanmoore history batman )
Oumuamua: Avi Loeb says it's aliens. Every other astronomer disagrees. Here's why.: (tags:space astronomy aliens )
Who fancies some Victorian superhero women (a trailer for "The Nevers"): (tags:tv women trailer superheroes victorian )
Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments: (tags:USA business government )
"Not enough dead people" say Conservatives: (tags:UK pandemic conservatives OhForFucksSake )
There's been an alarming number of infections among care home residents who have received only one dose of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine.: (tags:vaccination UK Doom pandemic )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3995443.html

"Providence Was Really Exhausting. Finishing It Felt Like Finishing College": An Interview With Jacen Burrows: (tags:comics alanmoore GarthEnnis WarrenEllis art interview )
Bayesian epistemology cannot be done by humans. Do not trust any human who talks like it can.: (tags:statistics fail )
Government reduces minimum salary for migrants to settle in UK (by 30%): (tags:immigration UK GoodNews )
Boots to offer 12-minute Covid nasal swab test (only if you don't have symptoms, costs £120): (tags:pandemic virus testing )
'Culture wars' are fought by tiny minority (in the UK): (tags:society UK politics )
Religions create highly differentiated belief clusters and mentalities that have little to do with their theologies, 2) Heresies are separatist movements, often ethnic, and have little to do with religious doctrine: (tags:religion society )
Logic gate pumpkins: (tags:Halloween logic funny visualisation )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3948363.html

Look at all the majestic flap-flaps!: (tags:video Ocean nature )
Security flaw left 'smart' chastity sex toy users at risk of permanent lock-in: (tags:technology sextoys security fail )
Want to live longer? Make more female friends (and be a baboon): (tags:monkeys friendship LifeExpectancy )
Why Degrowth Is a Terrible Idea: (tags:growth environment technology economics )
UK media continues its sustained attack on services supporting trans people: (tags:LGBT transgender media UK )
FactCheck Q&A: Boris Johnson's offshore wind plans: (tags:windpower UK )
The tropes are hungry and the hero is in the wrong story: (tags:Shakespeare writing tragedy )
Businessman to hand over £10m following 'unexplained wealth order': (tags:money crime uk )
Projecting "peak water" and "peak grain" for the US High Plains: (tags:USA water wheat food thefuture )
Their Other Last Hurrah - Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's Cinema Purgatorio: (tags:comics alanmoore )
Star! Wars! Dance! Offs!: (tags:StarWars dancing )
Greece's Golden Dawn: Neo-Nazi leaders guilty of running crime gang: (tags:nazis Greece GoodNews crime )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3939414.html

Nationalisation for the public good: Labour's radical new programme emerges: (tags:Labour economics UK politics )
How to Have Sex in the 600s: (tags:sex nsfw history religion UK )
40% of multinational profits are shifted to tax havens each year: (tags:tax OhForFucksSake )
Homosexuality and bisexuality commonplace in thousands of animal species and may play key role in evolution: (tags:LGBT sexuality homosexuality bisexual )
Shockingly, it turns out the British press are Pro Tory.: (tags:UK politics newspapers )
Gorgeous outdoor skating on a frozen lake: (tags:Ice video nature )
Ayahuasca alters brain waves to produce waking dream-like state: (tags:neuroscience psychedelics )
Canterbury: Fighting to hold the anti-Tory vote together as election approaches: (tags:politics UK )
Alan Moore on Jerusalem, Superheros, Eternalism, Anarchy and Herbie!: (tags:alanmoore comics superheroes writing interview )
When 331 trans people were murdered this year, it's hard not to feel helpless: (tags:lgbt transgender murder )
If you want a model of what a television debate could look like, here's Roy Jenkins and Tony Benn debating EEC membership in 1975. No studio audience, little intervention from the chair, just 50 minutes of serious and substantial debate.: (tags:Europe referendum history video )
BT joins list of companies that will not work with company linked to Prince Andrew: (tags:royalty business scandal )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3842391.html

The boy was dying. Zebrafish helped save his life (introducing the same mutation into them and then trying various drugs to see which one worked): (tags:fish genetics disease )
How the airplane Black Box was invented: In his mid-twenties, David Warren had a remarkably good idea. That was when his battle began
(tags:airplanes history Technology )
44 Of The Most Interesting Comparison Images (Barcelona and Berlin are my favourites): (tags:comparison viajoexnz )
"I Am Against Identity Politics, By Which I Mean I Am In Favor of White Identity Politics": (tags:politics minorities viaJennieRigg )
How Transphobes Try To Control And Undermine Trans Men: (tags:LGBT men transgender bigotry )
British Airways Flights to Cairo Cancelled For The Next Week: (tags:airplanes terrorism Egypt )
EU officials don't relish the idea of no deal - but they are prepared to play hardball: (tags:UK europe Doom )
Half of Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Will Be Streaming on Disney+: (tags:marvel TV movies thefuture )
In British PM race, a former Russian arms tycoon wields influence: (tags:Russia UK politics europe )
Bill Sienkiewicz speaks about Big Numbers #3: (tags:comics alanmoore art history )
Tesco raises prices on 1,000 products: (tags:UK Europe currency supermarkets money )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3808904.html

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3774332.html

'He's like Al Capone': turkey on the loose ruffles feathers in Rhode Island town: "The turkey can also fly, which animal control officers are unable to do"
(tags: ViaDrCross turkey usa )
Salvation Army warns staff to keep their homophobia quiet: (tags: lgbt religion charity homophobia bigotry )
Buses and taxis to lead UK self-driving public transport push in Edinburgh and London: (tags: driving automation Edinburgh London UK )
Nuisance calls: new UK law provides for director liability: (tags: UK phones law )
The act of drawing something has a “massive” benefit for memory compared with writing it down: (tags: art memory )
Downing Street says there will be no new Brexit referendum while Theresa May is prime minister. So if the will of parliament is for a referendum, she resigns or is ousted: (tags: europe uk referendum )
6 Strange Facts about the Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua: (tags: space weird )
More conferences should do this: (tags: conference )
Automated Couture: Using Robots to Make Clothing: (tags: clothing automation )
The coal industry is in a lot of trouble: (tags: coal economics )
When the servers go down people can't control their central heating. And it's getting cold outside...: (tags: heating Internet OhForFucksSake )
The Watchmen movie proves you can be faithful to a comic and still miss its whole damn point: (tags: Watchmen movies ZackSnyder alanmoore comics superheroes )
We’re heading for a second referendum – and maybe a third: (tags: UK europe referendum )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3743823.html

Google DeepMind Neural Net Plays A Mean Quake CTF: (tags: games ai )
BPA risk factor for inflammatory bowel disease: (tags: IBS )
A very brief intro to the Single Market and perhaps how best to understand what it means: (tags: Europe regulation )
This is why May's third-way Brexit compromise doesn't work: (tags: services Europe UK OhForFucksSake regulation )
Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union: (tags: usa capitalism technology society russia )
Alan Moore's "Providence" and loads of other Avatar comics (including Warren Ellis and Garth Ennis) on sale on Comixology right now: (tags: alanmoore hplovecraft comics )
Prostate cancer ultrasound treatment as effective as surgery or radiotherapy (but with vastly lesser side effects): (tags: prostate ultrasound )
Energy shifts could mean China’s carbon emissions are done growing: (tags: co2 China GoodNews environment globalwarming )
Researchers have identified a group of patients who are especially prone to out-of-body experiences: (tags: psychology mentalhealth hallucinations )
MPs approve 'Seni's law' to restrict use of force against mental health patients: (tags: mentalhealth uk law )
Single-dose testosterone administration increases preference for status goods: (tags: testosterone psychology behaviour society )
The U.S. Air Force learned to code and saved the Pentagon millions (by going agile): (tags: money software development agile military )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3701322.html

University union leader pleads for unity amid resignation calls: (tags: unions academia )
Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US: (tags: web facebook Google youtube )
George Osborne’s London Evening Standard sells its editorial independence to Uber, Google and others – for £3 million: (tags: fraud newspapers OhForFucksSake )
Canon has sold its last film camera: (tags: cameras technology history )
Unaffordable Edinburgh risks repeat of London's housing crisis: Maybe we could...Build More Housing???
(tags: Edinburgh housing OhForFucksSake )
Trans activists slam deeply transphobic school resources Crowdfunder: (tags: lgbt OhForFucksSake )
Hope vs horror: HP Lovecraft and Dr Strange: Embracing the Unknown: (tags: marvel hplovecraft horror science )
Industrialists warn May they will not invest if Brexit uncertainty persists: (tags: UK Europe business )
Structural variants in genes associated with human Williams-Beuren syndrome underlie stereotypical hypersociability in domestic dogs: (tags: dogs personality genetics )
UK Brexit paper proposes ‘magic’ Irish border staffed by fairies: (tags: UK Europe Ireland satire )
Belfast's forgotten underground river: (tags: Belfast NorthernIreland rivers history )
Why universal basic income is worth a serious look (by Nicola Sturgeon): (tags: GuaranteedIncome scotland )
Northern Irish women protesting against anti-abortion laws 'take illegal termination pills in front of police: (tags: robots abortion NorthernIreland )
As Uber and Tesla struggle with driverless cars, Waymo moves forward: (tags: cars automation )
Irish Government gives Theresa May two weeks to solve Border issue: “There’s a new idea or solution being mooted every week,” said a senior Government source, adding that Dublin was only “interested in proposals that are written down”. “On paper like. Or on a screen. We are at legal text stage. We need legal texts to draft and debate.”
(tags: Ireland NorthernIreland OhForFucksSake )
Tales from the far-flung Faroes (way too remote for me, but very scenic): (tags: denmark ocean life )
New Hybrid Robot Uses Living Muscle Tissue to Move: (tags: organic bodies robots cyborg )
The processed food debate is MSG-sprinkled class war: (tags: food society class uk )
The best explanation I've read about why Northern Rail is completely fucked right now: (tags: trains transport epicfail )
From Hell: Eddie Campbell explains why he’s coloring graphic novel: (tags: comics alanmoore colour murder )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3692019.html

In case you weren't aware how awesome Christopher Lee is: (tags: ChristopherLee awesome )
How To Get Out of a Speeding Ticket: (tags: funny video speed police viaSwampers )
Glitch tapestries: (tags: materials Technology art )
What will it take for the Lib Dems to get bolder?: (tags: politics libdem )
‘I was a teacher for 17 years, but I couldn’t read or write’: (tags: reading Education teaching usa )
Ten Things A Diehard Alan Moore Fan Learned From the New Annotated Watchmen: (tags: watchmen alanmoore comics )
H&R Block and Intuit Lobbying Against Simpler Tax Filing: (tags: usa tax OhForFucksSake )
Ask me first: What self-assessments can tell us about autism: (tags: autism research )
The way they the government has been treating the 1940s-1970s Caribbean immigrants and their children is frankly shameful: (tags: immigration UK OhForFucksSake )
Why more authors are going audio-only: (tags: writing audio )
Glorious Portraits from the 2017 World Beard And Mustache Championship: (tags: beards photos )
When Do Kids Understand Death?: (tags: death children )
Hackers stole a casino's database through a thermometer in the lobby fish tank: (tags: casino Internet security OhForFucksSake )
Found Footage Offers a New Glimpse at 1906 San Francisco Earthquake: (tags: earthquake sanfrancisco usa history film )
‘Moderate’ drinking guidelines are too loose: (tags: alcohol health )
Talking to a young child about death: (tags: death children prehistory )
Over 65,000 home routers are being used to create proxy networks for various types of secret or illegal activities.: (tags: hacking security internet )
It is frankly amazing what people can fit into 64KB: (tags: video demo impressive )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3678762.html

Brexit: EU relocates Galileo satellite system installation from UK to Spain: (tags: uk Europe spain )
Workers dismantling old North Sea oil and gas rigs will be paid less than the minimum wage: (tags: uk pay oil )
Airbnb plans for 90-day restriction in Edinburgh: (tags: edinburgh housing )
HIV positive man can become a commercial pilot: (tags: flight hiv )
Drugs sounds be legalised, not decriminalised: (tags: Drugs legalisation )
North Korea’s fabric made of stone: (tags: NorthKorea materials clothing )
The 29 Stages Of A Twitterstorm In 2018 (Astoundingly accurate. How did we get here?): (tags: Twitter life OhForFucksSake society )
42 percent of Republicans believe accurate — but negative — stories qualify as 'fake news': (tags: fraud news media OhForFucksSake )
3,265 women travelled from the Republic of Ireland to the UK for abortions in 2016: (tags: abortion Ireland uk )
Venezuelan Hyperinflation Explodes, Soaring Over 440,000 Percent: (tags: Venezuela inflation economy OhForFucksSake )
Finally, someone brings the sciences and humanities together: (tags: scifi humanities science comic )
Life is hard when you're a wolf who just wants to eat their apple: (tags: apple wolves video )
Why Walkable Streets Are More Economically Productive: (tags: cities economics )
Moses Farrow Speaks Out (on Mia Farrow and Woody Allen): (tags: abuse family )
Paleo diet healthier for overweight women: (tags: women food )
Why you don't want artificial intelligence designing your life: (tags: ai life )
I suspect we're going to get a lot more of these stories of entitled men behaving awfully on dates: (tags: relationships men OhForFucksSake )
The cost of computer games (fascinating, and covering their whole history): (tags: games money )
From PFI to privatisation, our national accounting rules encourage daft decisions.: (tags: accounting uk economics government )
Top tip: Murderers, don't tag yourself in photos with the victim and the murder weapon!: (tags: murder facebook fail )
Two doses of psilocybin and some meditation brings about lasting, positive changes to altruism, gratitude, forgiveness and closeness: (tags: psilocybin magic_mushrooms psychology happiness )
Blood test found for 8 common forms of cancer.: (tags: cancer blood )
Reality has a surprising amount of detail (some vital advice if you want to be good at something): (tags: experience life advice )
The difficult life of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette - the first female French novelist to have a state funeral: (tags: women history writing france )
TV, retail, advertising and cascading collapses: (tags: business internet )
Moore and Williams III's Promethea Comes to Justice League of America: I can hear Alan Moore exploding from here...
(tags: comics alanmoore )
How does "Mrs Brown’s Boys" divide Britain?: (tags: polls tv demographics comedy uk )
‘Superheroes don’t work 90-hour weeks’: (tags: working_hours )
Call to curb disruption caused by holiday lets like Airbnb: (tags: housing rental holidays regulation )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3652921.html

New £500m ‘urban quarter’ planned for Edinburgh outskirts: (tags: Edinburgh housing )
Len Wein on Alan Moore: (tags: alanmoore comics )
A Modest Proposal to Make Babies Less Useless: (tags: babies funny Technology video )
Chinese robot dentist is first to fit implants in patient’s mouth without any human involvement: (tags: robots teeth )
CamperFor - Amazon's Nomadic Retiree Army: (tags: amazon age work usa )
He wanted to understand why racists hated me, so he befriended Klansmen: (tags: racism usa argument )
The view from the liberal wing of the Conservative Party: (tags: Conservatives politics uk )
Catalan referendum: Catalonia has 'won right to statehood': (tags: Catalonia independence spain )
How The Negro Traveler’s Green Book Helped Black People Get Around in the 1950s: (tags: racism usa history )
Tesla says world’s largest battery installation is halfway done: (tags: australia batteries electricity power )
Meet the hominin species that probably gave us genital herpes: (tags: disease sex evolution prehistory )
Legal Aid changes means 500% more people representing themselves in court - less than half understand what is said: (tags: law uk OhForFucksSake )
Why Don't We Build A Telescope Without Mirrors Or Lenses?: (tags: space Technology light )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3621863.html

Why people fall for "clean eating" (tl;dr charisma+despair - the usual way cults work): When people lose trust in experts, and want a set of rules, they'll go for charisma and stories which resonate over complication.
(tags: food health fraud )
New divorce form 'invites name and shame' of adulterers: (tags: divorce law england )
Think like a supermodel if you want to win from the gig economy: (tags: work employment economics Technology )
Britain needs an anti-Brexit centrist party, says politician studiously ignoring the Lib Dems: (tags: libdem satire politics UK )
“Bloom”. Edinburgh International Festival, August 2017. (Gorgeous projections onto buildings): (tags: art edinburgh festival light photos )
Reviving the U.K.'s Giant Network of Bike Highways (Built in the 1930s!): (tags: history bicycles uk )
Mark Buckingham Is "Primarily Focused On Getting Miracleman Done": (tags: comics awesome alanmoore neilgaiman )
Hugo awards 2017: NK Jemisin wins best novel for second year in a row: (tags: Hugo awards scifi )
Defending Indiana Jones, Archaeologist: (tags: archeology movies )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3606775.html

The government has scrapped the planned electrification of railway lines in Wales, the Midlands and the North.: (tags: transport trains electricity uk )
Meet Rob Spence, the film-maker with the camera eye: (tags: cyborg video )
Should there be non-selective universities?: (tags: university academia Education uk )
Do I know any Edinburgh software people who want to work with underwater drones?: (tags: drone ocean robots jobs edinburgh )
Oh dear, even people with neuroscience training believe an awful lot of brain myths: (tags: brain myths fail )
Scientists Reverse Brain Damage in Drowned U.S Toddler: (tags: children brain amazing )
"Why my ‘gig economy’ review favours gradual change over quick fixes" (from the leader of the recent review): (tags: jobs employment uk pay )
Why Cutting Carbs Is So Tough: (tags: carbohydrates food insulin diet )
What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness: (tags: happiness age advice )
On the toxicity of Japan: (tags: japan OhForFucksSake )
The Tempest - Alan Moore And Kevin O'Neill's Final League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Announced: (tags: comics alanmoore )
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a fan project, in the best and worst ways: (tags: movies scifi fandom )
What's really behind The Sun's decision to publish Jodie Whittaker nudes: (tags: drwho misogyny nudity women )
The hypnotic illustrations of Visoth Kakvei: (tags: art )
Gene carried by 25% of the population, increases depression odds by 20%: (tags: depression genetics )
Sexually abused children as young as 12 refused compensation on grounds they 'consented': (tags: consent abuse children rape UK OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3600606.html

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