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Interesting Links for 08-07-2025
Jul. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 7 Engineers Suspended After $2.3 Million Bridge Includes Bizarre 90-Degree Turn
- (tags:architecture design epicfail India )
- 2. Edinburgh Airport liquid limit increased from 100ml to two litres
- (tags:airport security Technology )
- 3. The Time Someone Plagiarized Calvin & Hobbes and Nobody Noticed or Cared
- (tags:comics plagiarism history art ai )
- 4. Turns out a great way to get children to want to learn their times tables is to set them to pop songs
- (tags:numbers video music )
- 5. Employers to be banned from silencing harassed or abused staff
- (tags:regulation abuse work UK law )
- 6. Some English children are living in 'Dickensian' poverty, says commissioner
- (tags:england poverty children OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Electricity from large solar arrays with batteries now cheaper than from fossil plants in Germany
- (tags:electricity solarpower batteries germany GoodNews )
- 8. O Fortuna Misheard Lyrics
- (tags:music hearing words illusion funny video )
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Interesting Links for 05-07-2025
Jul. 5th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Kent council bans transgender books in children's library section
- (tags:bigotry lgbt transgender uk library )
- 2. The story behind George Lucas rewriting/reshooting Anakin's turn to the dark side after principal photography had concluded on Revenge of the Sith
- (tags:StarWars )
- 3. Capybara! On! Ice!
- (tags:ice cute animals video )
- 4. Scotland pupils show rising reading comprehension
- (tags:Scotland reading GoodNews children )
- 5. Hundreds of robots move Shanghai city block
- (tags:robots china cities architecture video )
- 6. You will own nothing and be happy (Stop Killing Games)
- (tags:games technology history )
Interesting Links for 15-05-2025
May. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour doesn't believe British people should be allowed to live here with their families
- (tags:family migration UK OhForFucksSake Labour )
- 2. Crossness Pumping Station: seduced by symmetry
- (tags:art design architecture history London UK )
- 3. Dammit. I'm going to have to get a babysitter so I can go see Superman
- (tags:superman movies trailer comics video )
- 4. Would you like to see someone have their dream come true live on stage?
- (tags:musicals video singing impressive )
- 5. Scottish Water warning after driest period in 60 years
- (tags:Scotland water )
- 6. What it's like being a nanny for the super-rich
- (tags:wealth children childcare )
- 7. EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis
- (tags:europe advertising privacy law )
- 8. How to Sniff Out 'Copaganda': When the Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
- (tags:police propaganda media journalism )
- 9. Audible to use AI narrators and translators
- (tags:books audio ai translation )
- 10. South Korea's robot chefs worry human workers, disappoint customers
- (tags:food cooking robots )
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Interesting Links for 08-02-2025
Feb. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The world's most breathtaking abandoned sites: From Pakistan's Bibi Jawindi to Italy's Palazzo Athena
- (tags:beautiful architecture )
- 2. Magic: The Gathering Cinematic Universe On Its Way From Legendary And Hasbro
- (tags:magic games movies )
- 3. How Do Music Listening Habits Change With Age?
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- 4. 'Being a furry is like wearing a superhero cape' - inside Scotland's largest furry convention
- (tags:Scotland costumes autism )
- 5. "What I learnt about feminism from raising a son"
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Interesting Links for 02-12-2024
Dec. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What enters the public domain in 2025
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- 2. The forgotten Edinburgh street found behind a hidden library door
- (tags:edinburgh history library architecture viaLSAnderson )
- 3. The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics explains why some societies are staggeringly richer than others
- (tags:democracy economics society infrastructure video )
- 4. I just noticed that a majority of brits want to separate chuch and state *and* keep the king as head of the church. So, republicanism it is!
- (tags:uk ChurchOfEngland politics religion )
Interesting Links for 08-11-2024
Nov. 8th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Is it time to limit fireworks to licensed displays only?
- (tags:fireworks regulation scotland edinburgh )
- 2. Grand Designs - Condensed
- (tags:funny homes architecture building )
- 3. How to cope with living through the next few years
- (tags:mentalhealth news internet socialmedia )
- 4. Bat safety shed will cost £100m, says HS2 chairman
- (tags:infrastructure UK bats OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 24-09-2024
Sep. 24th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What It's Like Being a Billionaire's Personal Assistant
- (tags:wealth society )
- 2. How much energy does desalinisation use? Is it "absurdly cheap"?
- (tags:water electricity desalination )
- 3. Persepolis Now - looking at the future of Iran
- (tags:iran politics islam )
- 4. How Upside-Down Models Revolutionized Architecture
- (tags:architecture design video )
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Interesting Links for 23-09-2024
Sep. 23rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Drones that deliver to parcel lockers seem like they could fill a gap. (Love to see how the economics of this work)
- (tags:drone delivery video )
- 2. Left wing voters have gotten significantly more liberal over the last decade
- (tags:polls politics UK )
- 3. Leading Edinburgh architect reveals plans for Summerhall venue including new hotel and student housing
- (tags:Edinburgh architecture )
Interesting Links for 28-08-2024
Aug. 28th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor anticipating their demolition of false columns
- (tags:sainsbury's museum architecture history )
- 2. Jane really hates direct lights, but these lampshades come with diffusers so that you never get direct light from the bulb. They definitely make the room lighting feel more relaxed
- (tags:lighting autism )
- 3. The Efficacy of Duct Tape vs Cryotherapy in the Treatment of Verrucas
- (tags:disease )
- 4. Keir Starmer in Berlin to 'turn corner on Brexit'
- (tags:UK Germany Europe GoodNews trade )
- 5. Lego to replace oil in its bricks with pricier renewable plastic
- (tags:plastic recycling Lego )
- 6. Oasis reunion tour sees hotels cancel rooms and hike prices up to £900/night across the UK
- (tags:music hotel oasis business )
Interesting Links for 17-06-2024
Jun. 17th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Welsh Labour councillor quits party after learning it hid evidence that cleared him of complaint
- (tags:Labour corruption OhForFucksSake )
- 2. On Wikipedia and how it works
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- 3. Why some cities (including Edinburgh) are banning fossil fuel advertisements
- (tags:Edinburgh Scotland advertising oil )
- 4. Frankly, Labour are going to stomp this election, so vote for whoever you like. But if you want tactical voting advice for your constituency here it is
- (tags:voting advice conservatives )
- 5. Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccines
- (tags:USA military propaganda vaccine OhForFucksSake )
- 6. What is Box Breathing? (This helped me sleep when I was stressed)
- (tags:sleep stress )
- 7. Australia and New Zealand explicitly reject Cass review (joining USA and Canada)
- (tags:healthcare transgender Canada USA Australia newzealand LGBT )
- 8. Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths
- (tags:greece migration murder )
- 9. Small modular nuclear reactors are over-budget, taking years longer to build, and are never getting built.
- (tags:nuclearpower epicfail viaDanielDWilliam )
- 10. £130m Dundee Eden Project set for approval
- (tags:scotland nature architecture tourism )
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Interesting Links for 01-04-2024
Apr. 1st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The AI industry has spent $50Bn on chips to generate $3Bn in revenue
- (tags:ai business doom )
- 2. I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (a short story)
- (tags:simulation computers quantum )
- 3. How do giant turbines travel on rural Scottish roads?
- (tags:Scotland transport windpower )
- 4. How the amazing Sagrada Família came to be
- (tags:architecture Spain history )
- 5. Tory mismanagement of the NHS kills 250 people each week in 2023 - and that's just in A&E
- (tags:conservatives austerity NHS OhForFucksSake murder )
- 6. Stuff that is backwards in Australia
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Interesting Links for 21-02-2024
Feb. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Probably the best social media advice you can get
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- 2. England has lost 28% of local bus provision per person since 2011
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- 3. Why Oscar-nominated family friendly queer animation 'Nimona' is available for free for the next week
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- 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
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- 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 11-01-2024
Jan. 11th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. "I am from Norway. Here's why the UK pension system baffles me"
- (tags:pensions )
- 2. Plans released for the new arena intended for Edinburgh Park
- (tags:edinburgh music architecture concerts )
- 3. 17 dramatic projects set to transform Edinburgh in the next five years
- (tags:edinburgh city architecture )
- 4. Side by side maps of Scotland (in this case Edinburgh in 1804 vs a photo)
- (tags:maps scotland edinburgh history )
- 5. A huge battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant
- (tags:batteries Hawaii GoodNews )
- 6. How one mislabeled raccoon skull led to a whole load of imposter-wolf tattoos
- (tags:tattoos raccoon wolves funny bone )
- 7. Children are more likely to be hospitalised by air pollution
- (tags:pollution children health )
- 8. I'm generally in favour of Labour's plans for schoolkids
- (tags:children labour politics uk )
- 9. Bitcoin: exchange-traded funds get the green light - but what are they?
- (tags:bitcoin blockchain investment )
Interesting Links Catch-up
Sep. 1st, 2023 09:01 am- 1. Examples of architectural styles from across Africa
- (tags:Africa architecture )
- 2. Do not buy AI-generated mushroom foraging books
- (tags:ai poison food fungus )
- 3. Dogs actually do respond better when their owners use cute ‘baby talk’
- (tags:dogs communication babies )
- 4. Scotland's audiology services are suffering from multiple, systemic failure
- (tags:scotland nhs hearing )
Interesting Links for 08-08-2023
Aug. 8th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Football is tackling racism, but remains strangely silent on homophobia
- (tags:football bigotry lgbt homophobia )
- 2. I've never seen pictures of the inside of the Sagrada Familia before. It's rather striking!
- (tags:architecture spain religion )
- 3. The $1 million shot that changed sports contests (and a few lives) forever
- (tags:sports history )
- 4. Foreign Office to act imminently over sanctions-busting by Russian allies
- (tags:Russia Europe UK )
- 5. Welcome to Generic Temple!
- (tags:religion funny comic )
Interesting Links for 29-04-2023
Apr. 29th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Unrecord - First Perdon Shooter games have now reached the point where they're uncomfortably realistic.
- (tags:games graphics fps reality )
- 2. On women's rage
- (tags:anger women patriarchy )
- 3. Vertical farming is dying
- (tags:farming Technology )
- 4. Anyone know anything about non-European musical notation?
- (tags:culture music language )
- 5. Puppy! Meets! Kittens!
- (tags:puppy dogs cats kittens cute video )
- 6. How Edinburgh University got its awe inspiring graduation hall
- (tags:university Edinburgh architecture history Scotland viaDanielDWilliam )
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Interesting Links for 11-03-2023
Mar. 11th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Scientists complete first map of an insect brain
- (tags:insects brain )
- 2. HP have updated their printers to outright ban 'non-HP' ink
- (tags:printing OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Toy preferences between boys and girls is a classic example of societal debates relying on tiny scraps of data
- (tags:research statistics gender toys psychology )
- 4. Jamie Lee Curtis launches campaign urging U2 and Bruce Springsteen to do matinee shows
- (tags:music time )
- 5. Magnificent mosques of India
- (tags:religion architecture Islam India viaDanielDWilliam )
- 6. Elephants have learned highway robbery
- (tags:elephants crime video )
- 7. Long-Term Cannabis Use, Cognitive Decline, and the Hippocampus
- (tags:Intelligence marijuana brain )
- 8. Full list of pundits boycotting BBC football shows over the Gary Lineker censorship
- (tags:asylum censorship bbc football )
- 9. Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech
- (tags:speech language brain ai )
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Interesting Links for 28-01-2023
Jan. 28th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. I want to know how you construct a lighthouse like this without it being washed away halfway through construction
- (tags:architecture Ocean video impressive )
- 2. Wizards Of The Coast backs down massively, puts the D&D standard reference document under Creative Commons license. I am surprised and delighted
- (tags:creativecommons dungeonsanddragons GoodNews intellectual_property roleplaying )
- 3. I see the transphobes are just making up numbers about sex offenders now
- (tags:fraud bigotry LGBT prison transgender OhForFucksSake )
