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Interesting Links for 02-09-2023
Sep. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. MPs call for magic mushrooms and psychedelic drugs to be downgraded (and consumption rooms to be trialled)
- (tags:psychopath drugs law UK )
- 2. Astoundingly, giving money to homeless people helps them.
- (tags:GuaranteedIncome homelessness )
- 3. Musk's changes at Twitter helped spread Russian propaganda
- (tags:Russia propaganda Twitter )
- 4. The algorithm that blew up Italy's school system
- (tags:computers teaching Italy OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Higher Intakes of Potassium and Magnesium, but Not Lower Sodium, Reduce Cardiovascular Risk
- (tags:heart health )
- 6. US, UK: Please take a moment to contact your elected officials!
- (tags:uk usa censorship web )
- 7. Our Human Ancestors Very Nearly Went Extinct 900,000 Years Ago, Genetics Suggest, With A Population of less than 1,300
- (tags:prehistory genetics humans )
- 8. The 'bank of family' is deeply unfair - and not the answer to the housing crisis
- (tags:uk housing inequality )
- 9. Will post-Brexit food checks ever happen?
- (tags:food uk europe )
- 10. Happy 20th birthday to Badger Badger Badger!
- (tags:meme badgers history viaEatSoylentGreen )
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Interesting Links for 01-05-2021
May. 1st, 2021 12:00 pm- Thoughts about making AI "explainable"
- (tags:ai explanations models )
- Covid in Scotland: Most councils on track for level 2 restrictions
- (tags:pandemic Scotland GoodNews )
- Women Who Refuse - cataloguing abuse and violence against women who say No
- (tags:women violence )
- London School of Dramatic Arts on Noel Clarke
- (tags:abuse education acting )
- UK government making 50% funding cut to music, dance, drama and performing arts; art and design; media studies; and archaeology
- (tags:funding academia UK art music archeology )
- Former BiFab yard in Burntisland secures first tenant
- (tags:Scotland )
- Why this coyote and badger 'friendship' has excited scientists
- (tags:friendship animals coyote badgers video )
- The difference between Kafkaesque, Kafkacore, Kafkastuck, and Kafkapunk
- (tags:culture tropes genre )
- Disney's writer wage-theft is far worse than reported
- (tags:Disney copyright writing money OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 19-04-2018
Apr. 19th, 2018 12:00 pm- How the government started the current war on immigrants
- (tags: immigration UK Conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- What *should* (legally) have happened to the Windrush records
- (tags: history OhForFucksSake Caribbean uk )
- Angry badger leaves tunnel at 500-year-old castle
- (tags: badgers headline funny castle scotland )
- "This story starts with my dog taking a shit on the bathroom floor, and ends with me cleaning out a meth house."
- (tags: drugs crime dogs story )
- Sexual Harassment Levels By Field
- (tags: harassment research )
- Cannabis harm to teenagers' brains overstated
- (tags: marijuana teenagers brain )
- Would Labour’s War Powers Act work?
- (tags: war government law uk )
- Labour's late general election surge driven by middle-aged centrists, not young Corbynites
- (tags: labour voting demographics )
- Let's Use Star Wars to Explain the Concept of Angular Size
- (tags: mathematics StarWars )
- Since 2016, Half of All Coral in the Great Barrier Reef Has Died
- (tags: Australia globalwarming ocean OhForFucksSake )
- Why Can't We Fix Puerto Rico's Power Grid?
- (tags: usa power epicfail )
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Interesting Links for 10-07-2014
Jul. 10th, 2014 12:00 pm- Mentally ill people need to be helped, not bullied
- Number of young people on JSA has not risen as Shadow Business Secretary claims
- Retraction of 60 articles implicated in a peer review and citation ring
- Same genes drive mathematics and reading ability
- Trigger Warning: Breakfast
- Emergency phone and internet data retention law set to be passed
- The Snoopers’ Charter: Where we are, how we got here and what we should look for
- 28 Images That Prove Beyond All Doubt That Britain Is Broken
- The Era of Notability - a graph of when Wikipedia's "notable people" were born
- Children on dairy farms run one-tenth the risk of developing allergies
- An alternate ending for Aliens
- This is what happened when I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps
- Don't be fooled into thinking sexual abuse was just a part of 1970s hedonism
- Pubic hair erotic art row: What's so dangerous about a woman and a few pubes?
- Tuberculosis threat requires mass cull of cattle, not badgers, study reveals
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Interesting Links for 28-07-2013
Jul. 28th, 2013 12:00 pm- Brighton man faces jail for calling Hove MP Mike Weatherley 'coward'
- Therapy Helps Troubled Teens Rethink Crime (but the effects don't last forever)
- UKIP MEPs: lazy & unprincipled
- Making Virtual Reality work better: Judder, and Blur.
- Don’t Be Alarmed by the Drone Blimps Hovering Over D.C. They’re Here to Stop Cruise Missiles
- Footage of flying over an electrical storm.
- ‘Comic book universe’ takes about two hours to create
- When I hear my friends talking about Candy Crush this poem is what I think of.
- Who knew that playing a game as a badger could be so traumatic?
- I just watched all 3099 frames of the xkcd comic "Time".
- Cameron's proposed filters extend to information on smoking, alcohol, and "esoteric material"
- A report button will not solve twitter's misogyny problem.
- A proposal to help with trolling on Twitter
- How can Twitter deal with trolls?
- The truth about pornography: It's time for a rude awakening
- Burqa-clad cartoon superhero to battle for girls' education in Pakistan
- On the Daily Mail's Porn! Panic!
- How Superman Defeated the Ku Klux Klan
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Interesting Links for 02-06-2013
Jun. 3rd, 2013 09:00 pm- Cheerios ad with interracial couple sparks racist anger.
- The Economist explains: How does copyright work in space?
- Caligula and Joffrey look alarmingly similar.
- Far-Right Extremists Chased Through London by Women Dressed as Badgers
- Life Expectancy by Age, 1850–2004
- My opinion is very important, and deserves its own thread
- Investment in green energy falls to seven-year low
- London calling (the shots) is not good for Scotland
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