Entries tagged with bbc

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Interesting Links for 06-08-2024

1. How war between Russia and the Olympics is fuelling boxing's gender row: (tags:gender sports olympics russia )
2. Watch Carbon Dioxide Move Through Earth's Atmosphere: (tags:co2 visualisation video )
3. BBC removing Huw Edwards from family and entertainment content (The Dr Who episode his voice was in will be redubbed): (tags:bbc pedophilia drwho )
4. What Happens in a Mind That Can't 'See' Mental Images (a brief history of aphantasia): (tags:psychology vision imagination )
5. The nature of consciousness, and how to enjoy it while you can: (tags:consciousness )
6. A brief explanation of why the Japanese currency markets are causing issues right now: (tags:economics investing Doom video )
7. Dinosaurs Did Not Trudge Through Thick Rainforests: (tags:trees dinosaurs )
8. OpenAI has the tech to watermark ChatGPT text—it just won't release it: (tags:ai )
9. The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media: (tags:socialmedia decentralisation )
10. Chrome is about to make it harder to block ads. I recommend switching to Firefox.: (tags:advertising chrome web OhForFucksSake )
11. Three different approaches to the problem of disposable plastic: (tags:plastic environment waste )

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Interesting Links for 09-12-2023

1. If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing: (tags:piracy intellectual_property drm )
2. Doctor Who | Over 100 people complain about inclusion of human being in The Star Beast: (tags:bigotry UK transgender bbc drwho )

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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 22-03-2023

1. How many movies can you ruin for parents by adding "With The Children" to the end of them?: (tags:movies children )
2. Met Police is racist, sexist, homophobic and may harbour more killers, damning report says: (tags:racism sex homophobia lgbt bigotry police london uk )
3. "I Blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple. It was hell": (tags:Microsoft Google Facebook Apple Amazon technology society )
4. Incel Supernova: From a Single Comic Strip to the End of the Universe with Scott Adams (written before his recent nonsense, but clearly showing how he got there): (tags:dilbert comics politics usa society )
5. Minimum unit pricing for alcohol saves hundreds of lives in Scotland (over 150 per year): (tags:alcohol economics death Scotland GoodNews )
6. It turns out that acting with a puppet without collapsing into giggles is very hard: (tags:funny video comedy laughter puppets TV bbc )
7. Ugandan MPs pass bill that criminalises identifying as LGBT+ and 'promotion' of homosexuality: (tags:lgbt Uganda OhForFucksSake law )

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Interesting Links for 20-03-2023

1. If I had office it would look like Piaget's: (tags:work tidiness )
2. Orson Welles on how ignorance and not wanting to allowed him to make an amazing film: (tags:movies history video ignorance )
3. "Christine McGuinness: Unmasking My Autism" is an emotional and informative look at why so many women are suddenly seeking diagnosis, and the issues they've faced when they weren't believed: (tags:autism women UK TV BBC viaJane )
4. The gorgeous roof murals of Itzapalapa are only visible from the longest cable car ride in Latin America: (tags:transport art SouthAmerica )
5. 'Catch Me If You Can' conman Frank Abagnale lied about his lies: (tags:lies fraud movies )
6. Not a single police department in 20 largest US cities is compliant with international rights laws: (tags:USA police violence OhForFucksSake )
7. Women laughing at salad (AI generated horror movie edition): (tags:horror salad laughter ai art )

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Interesting Links for 14-03-2023

1. Work to begin immediately on £55m music centre vision for Edinburgh landmark (the old Royal High School on Calton Hill): (tags:music school edinburgh )
2. Gary Lineker row: All the people employed or used in BBC programming who are outspoken on social media: (tags:bbc twitter socialnetworking )
3. The care worker recruitment crisis is even bigger than the NHS: (tags:jobs Doom care )
4. Why did 250,000 Britons die sooner than expected? (Austerity): (tags:uk austerity death )
5. Silicon Valley Bank seem to have managed risk unusually badly: (tags:risk banking Technology epicfail )
6. Nabokov was not a fan of many people's interpretation of Lolita: (tags:abuse children rape writing )
7. Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Thing': (tags:scifi funny music musicals )
8. The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man: (tags:Conservatives politics mistakes )
9. Trams! Invade Leith!: (tags:Edinburgh trams video transport )
10. What's Going On With Red Dwarf?: (tags:RedDwarf TV scifi )

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Interesting Links for 11-03-2023

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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