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2025-05-03 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 03-05-2025

1. 1.5m Britons a month pay for weight-loss jabs
(tags:UK weight medication )
2. Why our waistlines expand in middle age—aging stem cells shift into overdrive (in rats)
(tags:weight age rats )
3. Germany's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech Just Got Even More Ridiculous
(tags:Germany genocide Palestine Israel freespeech law viaKenny )
4. RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To Do Their Own Research About Dragons
(tags:politics USA dragons satire funny )
5. UN says 9,000 Gaza children acutely malnourished as aid blockade passes two months
(tags:children food gaza Israel Palestine OhForFucksSake )
6. Genomic evidence for behavioral adaptation of herding dogs
(tags:dogs genetics behaviour )
7. I missed that the horror version of Steamboat Willie had already been released
(tags:horror Disney mice )
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2025-01-11 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 16-10-2024

1. Research released into the effects of the UK's trans puberty blocker ban
(tags:UK bigotry LGBT transgender healthcare mentalhealth children OhForFucksSake )
2. The move to USB C for charging is a done deal. I'm not sure what the UK has to "consider" about it.
(tags:UK usb Europe electricity )
3. Doctor Who and the Sign Language Question
(tags:drwho sign language video funny viaSwampers )
4. Turns out that once Uber had to make money they started charging more and paying less to their drivers
(tags:driving jobs taxi pay glasgow scotland )
5. "Homeostatic Complacency" is something I've encountered plenty of times. Is there a more traditional name for it?
(tags:psychology behaviour )
6. Seriously ill patients on mental health wards will be helped with their CV
(tags:mentalhealth jobs uk wtf )
7. Too many "local" news sites aren't. I'm so glad that we have at least one in Edinburgh that really is.
(tags:news edinburgh )
8. Confronting the truth about Alex Salmond
(tags:AlexSalmond rape abuse death scotland politics )
9. What's Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures?
(tags:globalwarming doom )
10. Labour Together: From new MPs to cabinet ministers, how the influential think tank's donations are bankrolling the party, and who they are linked to.
(tags:labour money corruption )
11. Seven New Frogs Named After Iconic Star Trek Captains
(tags:frog StarTrek names sound viaSwampers )
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2024-08-16 12:00 pm
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2024-07-09 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 08-07-2024

1. Election 2024: This could be the birth of a powerful new electoral reform movement
(tags:voting reform uk viaPatrickHadfield )
2. Minister rejects Blair's call for ID cards to control migration
(tags:IDCards tonyblair Labour )
3. The children have been singing "Elephants Have Wrinkles" for the last twenty minutes. No one knows why.
(tags:elephants singing video children )
4. Were some Reform candidates virtual?
(tags:UK politics wtf )
5. The Insidious World of Fake Mobile Game Ads
(tags:advertising games gambling fraud )
6. Best toddler drummer
(tags:drums children video )
7. Germany set to overhaul subsidy regime for renewable energy
(tags:germany renewables subsidies economics )
8. Gamification needs to be specific to its subject and absolutely minimal, in order to be effective
(tags:games activity behaviour running )
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2024-05-30 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 30-05-2024

1. Corsica, Sardinia, and accidents of history (and why a Europe of The Regions is a good thing)
(tags:Europe history Italy France viaPatrickHadfield )
2. Decoding the EU AI Act
(tags:europe regulation ai Technology )
3. How North Korea infiltrates large tech companies
(tags:NorthKorea espionage fraud technology USA )
4. Police Scotland apology to the LGBTQI+ communities of Scotland
(tags:Scotland LGBT police )
5. Road planners embrace an unconventional intersection
(tags:roads design USA )
6. infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii makes wolves 46 times more likely to become a pack leader
(tags:wolves ToxoplasmaGondii behaviour viaPatrickHadfield )
7. Tory, Labour, Lib Dem and Green environment pledges, ranked by experts
(tags:environment uk politics )
8. Risky business: Linking Toxoplasma gondii infection and entrepreneurship behaviours across individuals and countries
(tags:business behaviour ToxoplasmaGondii fear )
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2024-04-15 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 21-02-2024

1. Probably the best social media advice you can get
(tags:socialmedia advice )
2. England has lost 28% of local bus provision per person since 2011
(tags:England buses transport )
3. Why Oscar-nominated family friendly queer animation 'Nimona' is available for free for the next week
(tags:Oscars animation LGBT movies children )
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
(tags:adhd evolution behaviour )
10. BT Tower: 'Iconic' landmark to be turned into a hotel
(tags:london architecture bt hotel history postoffices )
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2024-01-26 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 26-01-2024

1. Apple to allow rival app stores and browsers on iPhones in EU
(tags:Europe regulation iPhone Apple browsers apps )
2. A collection of stories of queer and trans Floridians who have fled the state
(tags:Florida LGBT transgender republicans bigotry )
3. Looking at how much male and female characters speak in the Disney Princess movies
(tags:viaElfy Disney language gender )
4. More states propose bills to exclude trans, nonbinary people from public life
(tags:LGBT USA law bigotry transgender viaBenWerdmuller )
5. A new global gender divide is emerging as young women shift in a more liberal direction and young men shift to the right
(tags:politics gender )
6. What if consciousness is a coping mechanism?
(tags:funny comic consciousness )
7. The "Code of Conduct" for Improbably Island is fantastic. Anyone running an online community should read it.
(tags:internet discussion behaviour regulation )
8. QWERTLE - like Worldle, but based on keyboard location. I got today's in 4.
(tags:words games keyboard )
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2023-11-21 10:08 am
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Buncha links went missing. I think this covers everything!

1. How are the British like the Japanese?
(tags:UK Japan society )
2. Edinburgh council rules out pneumatic underground bins
(tags:Edinburgh waste technology )
3. 'All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order': The riddle of the 'Pulborough Area' torc from Sussex. (And how much effort it takes to find a fraud)
(tags:history archeology fraud )
4. Meta is now allowing lies about the 2020 election in political ads
(tags:facebook advertising fraud politics usa OhForFucksSake )
5. Transforming the future of music creation with AI
(tags:music ai )
6. Elephants might give each other names
(tags:elephants names )
7. for babies born before 34 weeks, delaying the clamping of the cord for a minimum of 60 seconds after birth reduces death by nearly a third
(tags:babies death )
8. Young Animator of the Year UK - an impressive piece for anyone, but for a 16 year old...
(tags:animation children impressive video )
9. Are you a victim of Executive Function Theft
(tags:behaviour work )
10. 'Nimona' breaks LGBT barriers and survives to tell the tale
(tags:LGBT movies animation Disney )
11. Apple announces RCS support for iMessage
(tags:Apple sms communication )
12. Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024
(tags:adblock Google Chrome web OhForFucksSake )
13. IBM suspends ads on X after they appeared next to Nazi posts
(tags:Twitter Nazis ibm advertising )
14. Nihilist Penguin (Werner Herzog)
(tags:penguin video )
15. Incredible video of Starling murmuration
(tags:video birds )
16. World-first gene therapy that aims to cure sickle-cell disease
(tags:genetics disease GoodNews )
17. Royal Mail owner says 'reform is urgent' after group slumps to a £319m loss
(tags:royalmail uk )
18. People living in Europe are about to get a much better Windows 11
(tags:europe windows regulation )
19. Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language (3,000 years old, transliterated into Hittite)
(tags:language archeology )
20. From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us
(tags:Technology ai art )
21. 'I was deported for wearing tinted moisturiser': Qatar's new LGBT crackdown
(tags:qatar lgbt OhForFucksSake )
22. Why are some jobs so "greedy"?
(tags:jobs )
23. South Korea announces plans to ban consumption of dog meat
(tags:dogs korea food )
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2023-11-09 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 27-04-2023

1. Transgender woman and gay man targeted in Whitechapel arson attack hate crime
(tags:lgbt transgender bigotry london uk )
2. UK secretly deported 100 Nepali guards who protected staff in Kabul
(tags:uk immigration nepal OhForFucksSake )
3. Not proven verdict to be scrapped in Scottish courts
(tags:scotland law )
4. EU names 19 large tech platforms that must follow Europe's new Internet rules
(tags:europe internet regulation )
5. 45% of people with concussion show brain injury symptoms six months later
(tags:brain injury )
6. The world's most dangerous golf courses
(tags:golf sports dangerous safety )
7. Every hobby is actually 4 hobbies.
(tags:fun activity behaviour )
8. Dragon scale: Why it's impossible to size up Tolkien's Middle-earth
(tags:lotr mythology storytelling )
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2023-02-04 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 18-01-2023

1. The Parliamentary Inquiry into English Childcare is looking for feedback. If you're in England then have your say on the state of childcare
(tags:children UK childcare )
2. Brexit has created shortage of 330,000 workers in UK
(tags:UK work migration Doom Europe )
3. What was life like for a poor family in London in 1900?
(tags:life history family poverty uk )
4. Edinburgh council starts taking work back from private contractors to improve quality of service and conditions for staff
(tags:edinburgh work outsourcing )
5. Artists file class-action lawsuit against AI image generator companies
(tags:ai images copyright )
6. What measurement system does the UK use? (ALL OF THEM!)
(tags:measurement UK funny video )
7. How MPs voted on blocking Scotland's gender reform bill (Labour whipped to abstain)
(tags:UK voting )
8. A look at the arguments the UK government has put forward for blocking Scotland's gender reform act
(tags:Scotland UK law LGBT transgender viaDanielDWilliam )
9. What if you could be nudged to do the right thing? (Read on beyond the fake research writeup to the short story)
(tags:scifi behaviour psychology happiness augmentedreality )
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Interesting Links for 12-12-2022

1. The Five-Year Engineering Feat Germany Pulled Off in Months
(tags:Germany engineering gas energy Russia impressive )
2. Countries that have banned spanking have lower rates of violence amongst children
(tags:children violence spanking )
3. Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer
(tags:Cancer genes GoodNews )
4. Where Do US Teaching Skeletons Come From?
(tags:USA education bodies India )
5. Aspartame makes mice anxious. And their children. and their grandchildren
(tags:food anxiety mice psychology )
6. If you're in London you should go see The Wolves in the Walls
(tags:wolves theatre puppets video London neilgaiman )
7. On White Girls Wearing Braids as Cultural Appropriation
(tags:cultural_appropriation hair race )
8. I object to headlines about Edinburgh Zoo penguins playing adorably in the snow when the video clearly shows them just standing about acting entirely normal!
(tags:headline OhForFucksSake journalism video penguins )
9. This lizard is behaving exactly the same as our cat, Jim
(tags:animals behaviour video )
10. What happens to your smartphone when it gets stolen?
(tags:iphone crime viaPatrickHadfield )
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Interesting Links for 08-12-2022

1. Support for Independence hits 56%, 51% of people to vote SNP (53% if it's a defacto referendum)
(tags:scotland independence polls )
2. Transphobes are now attacking...The Samaritans.
(tags:lgbt transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake suicide )
3. BBC plans to switch off broadcast TV and move to internet-only programmes
(tags:bbc thefuture streaming broadcasting )
4. Discovery of world's oldest DNA breaks record by one million years
(tags:genetics dna prehistory )
5. The Art Game and the Money Game and how the ending of Minecraft was set free
(tags:games art money copyright Microsoft contracts )
6. Sats: MPs and peers fail tests for 11-year-olds as campaign groups call for overhaul of 'high-stakes' exams
(tags:exams children politics )
7. First UK coal mine in decades approved
(tags:UK coal environment globalwarming )
8. Europe First: Brussels gets ready to dump its free trade ideals (because the USA and China both already have)
(tags:Europe China USA trade )
9. Two inhaled covid vaccines have been approved. Here's what you need to know.
(tags:vaccines pandemic )
10. AI learns to precisely manipulate individual atoms
(tags:ai atom physics research )
11. How Many Fundamental Constants Does It Take To Explain The Universe? (26, at the moment)
(tags:physics )
12. People expect identical twins to be *really* identical
(tags:twins genetics statistics )
13. Humans are surprisingly poor at picking up cues of aggression in dogs
(tags:dogs behaviour psychology )
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Interesting Links for 26-11-2022

1. The real reason eggs are being rationed - it's not all down to avian flu, say farmers
(tags:farming eggs uk )
2. Wolves with Toxoplasmosis were 11 times more likely to leave their birth family to start a new pack, and 46 times more likely to become pack leaders
(tags:wolves ToxoplasmaGondii behaviour )
3. Kanye West has a disturbing history of admiring Hitler
(tags:hitler wtf music )
4. The black cat cigarette factory, an interesting piece of London's historical architecture
(tags:architecture cigarettes London Egypt )
5. Russian secret service mistakes LARPers for terrorists and kills them
(tags:Russia spying larp murder OhForFucksSake games )
6. Dead granny's number was up, but texts still came from beyond grave
(tags:death phones Ireland )
7. London Fire Brigade is institutionally misogynist and racist, independent review concludes
(tags:racism misogyny fire London UK OhForFucksSake )
8. List of things named after Norbert Wiener
(tags:names mathematics viaSwampers )
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