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Interesting Links for 17-03-2026

Mar. 17th, 2026 12:00 pm
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1. "Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite an Iran missile story"
(tags:iran israel journalism gambling ohforfuckssake )
2. Subnautica 2 Publisher Followed ChatGPT's Advice On How To Break The Law
(tags:law ai games OhForFucksSake )
3. Nvidia's Next-Gen Photo-Realistic Lighting looks, frankly, amazing
(tags:games lighting nvidia video )
4. Regression, Not Progress: A Response to World Athletics' Return to Sex Testing
(tags:gender testing OhForFucksSake women LGBT transgender biology )
5. Have some simple but inspiring images about growth through making mistakes
(tags:inspiration visualisation )
6. Almost 25 years ago, a war game exercise had an Iran-stand in use asymmetric warfare to obliterate a US military force. So they re-ran it to force a US victory.
(tags:usa military ohforfuckssake iran games )
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Interesting Links for 10-11-2025

Nov. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm
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1. How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
(tags:politics fascism ElonMusk twitter bias )
2. James Watson: From DNA pioneer to untouchable pariah
(tags:biography DNA history viaPatrickHadfield )
3. Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani
(tags:politics usa satire funny )
4. Reminder that the New York Times regularly prints hateful nonsense (an article about someone they tried to interview about Zohran Mamdani)
(tags:politics newyork journalism OhForFucksSake USA viaKenny )
5. A bunch of engineers built a drifting wheelchair for an injured coworker. It looks awesome.
(tags:disability engineering video )
6. The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system
(tags:biology genetics earth )
7. Meet the teen behind the Louvre 'Fedora Man' mystery photo
(tags:france police photos crime Paris style )
8. New flu virus mutation could see 'worst season in a decade' (get your vaccinations!)
(tags:flu doom )
9. Long-term Melatonin use associated with much higher risk of heart problems and death
(tags:medicine heart )
10. Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
(tags:usa politics )
11. Scotland's first commercial windfarm will be able to deliver five times more clean power than before after being upgraded
(tags:scotland windpower GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 27-08-2022

Aug. 27th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. When the Pope is clearly an end of level boss
(tags:games Pope funny )
2. Synthetic embryo with brain and beating heart grown from mouse cells for first time ever
(tags:mice biology organs )
3. Satellites have identified 21 Russian facilities that are forcibly detaining thousands of Ukrainians, as well as possible mass grave sites
(tags:russia ukraine murder war WarCrimes )
4. Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy dropped heavy drinking days amongst people with Alcohol Use Disorder from 23% to 9% (compared with placebo-assisted psychotherapy)
(tags:psilocybin hallucinogenics alcohol )
5. Music based on Scotrail announcements goes viral
(tags:music trains scotland )
6. Sweeteners can significantly impair glycemic responses
(tags:blood sugar insulin food taste )
7. A Florida Judge Who Denied A Teen Girl An Abortion Because Of Her Grades Was Voted Out Of Office
Do many countries appoint judges through voting?
(tags:USA law abortion )
8. Socialite, Widow, Jeweller, Spy: How a Russian Agent Charmed Her Way Into NATO Circles in Italy
(tags:Russia Italy spying NATO )
9. Sunak is trying to rewrite history on the Pandemic
(tags:Pandemic conservatives lies )
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Interesting Links for 10-08-2022

Aug. 10th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. The effect of renewable electricity generation on the value of cross-border interconnection
(tags:electricity trade renewables viaDanielDWilliam )
2. Spiders Seem to Have REM-like Sleep and May Even Dream
(tags:spiders dreams )
3. The productivity tax you pay for context switching
(tags:productivity psychology )
4. If you're wondering why the South of England has a water shortage, the government has been blocking new reservoirs for over a decade
(tags:water UK Doom OhForFucksSake )
5. 'Gingerism': the last socially acceptable form of bullying?
(tags:colour hair bullying uk )
6. It's now fair to ask: what the hell is Keir Starmer thinking?
(tags:labour politics UK Doom )
7. France experiencing worst drought on record
(tags:France water Doom )
8. Why your friends get sick before you
(tags:disease connection friends graphs )
9. What if life first evolved in hydrothermal vents *before* there even were genes?
(tags:genetics life prehistory biology chemistry )
10. The crisis at the heart of the Conservative party
(tags:politics UK conservatives )
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Interesting Links for 03-08-2022

Aug. 3rd, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. From next summer all UK visitors to Europe must be fingerprinted and provide a facial biometric
(tags:biometrics UK Europe travel )
2. The Age of Brain-Computer Interfaces Is on the Horizon
(tags:cybernetics )
3. First person charged under Britain's Treason Act for 77 years
(tags:UK crime royalty )
4. Pumped storage under the Alps could be a game-changer for renewable energy in Europe
(tags:electricity storage Europe Switzerland water )
5. I sometimes find the scale of things like YouTube boggling
(tags:YouTube scale )
6. 'Irredeemable' 'Batgirl' movie gets 'shelved' by Warner Bros. despite $70M price tag
(tags:movies batman dc epicfail )
7. If your body replaces its cells every seven years then how do tattoos work?
(tags:tattoos biology )
8. There shouldn't be private schools
(tags:schools inequality )
9. You are allowed to be attracted to people.
(tags:attraction sex )
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Interesting Links for 29-07-2022

Jul. 29th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. It's Not Just Loot Boxes: Predatory Monetization Is Everywhere in Gaming
(tags:games money gambling )
2. AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe
(tags:biology protein ai )
3. Drought and disease exposure led to Europeans adapting to milk consumption
(tags:milk evolution humans europe )
4. The Fallout From Apple's Bizarre, Dogged Union-Busting Campaign
(tags:apple unions OhForFucksSake )
5. Why Google Sued the Descendants of a Railroad Tycoon and a Civil War General (tiny plots of land in inconvenient places)
(tags:google property law )
6. Typical UK families are £8,800 poorer than their counterparts in comparable countries
(tags:inequality uk OhForFucksSake )
7. Keir Starmer has shown his true colours as a pound-shop Blair, reheating Tory dogma about unions
(tags:unions labour politics uk OhForFucksSake )
8. Putin's occupation of Ukraine falters as bankers, doctors and metal workers boycott key jobs
(tags:russia ukraine )
9. The French Data Protection Commission bans Google Analytics
(tags:france dataprotection europe )
10. UK's only gender identity clinic for children is being replaced by eight of them
(tags:LGBT transgender youth children healthcare )
11. Scientists reanimate dead spiders as robot gripping claws
(tags:spiders death technology cyborg )
12. Edinburgh Council wants to know what you think about the licensing of short term rental accommodation
(tags:Edinburgh housing rental viaDanielDWilliam )
13. A poem about science fiction authors by CS Lewis
(tags:CSLewis poetry scifi )
14. Upscaling and an Important Note About Photo "AI"
(tags:photos photoshop ai )
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Interesting Links for 09-03-2022

Mar. 9th, 2022 12:00 pm
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Replace saturated fats with unsaturated ones, not with carbs and sugars
(tags:fat heart health diet carbohydrates sugar )
The most complete family tree of all of humanity has been created
(tags:humans family genetics )
Gender pay gap bot lets you know how hypocritical employers are on International Women's Day
(tags:women pay inequality viaSwampers bots )
Some polling on whether Russians support the Ukraine invasion
(tags:Ukraine Russia polls war )
Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic
(tags:antarctic history ship )
'Genius' Twitter 'bot' reveals gender pay gaps of brands celebrating International Women's Day
(tags:gender pay inequality funny )
To understand Russia, you need to understand that it's a Mafia-run economy
(tags:russia crime mafia economy viaDanielDWilliam )
EU Buried Its Own $400,000 Study Showing Unauthorized Downloads Have Almost No Effect On Sales (2017)
(tags:europe piracy copyright business )
Scientists reverse ageing in elderly mice by rejuvenating their tissues
(tags:age mice )
Mouse born from unfertilised egg - without sperm - survives to adulthood, gives birth to healthy pups
(tags:childbirth biology mice )
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Interesting Links for 24-12-2021

Dec. 24th, 2021 12:00 pm
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Ancient mass migration transformed Britons' DNA
(tags:genetics UK prehistory language )
Omicron needs to be 90% less severe to avoid large wave in hospital admissions
(tags:NHS Doom Pandemic virus )
People With Omicron Are 50-70% Less Likely To Be Hospitalised Than Other Covid Cases
(tags:NHS Pandemic Doom UK )
The consolidation of the games industry continues apace
(tags:games business )
New muscle layer in human jaw discovered
(tags:biology humans teeth )
Did dinosaurs have a similar pre-hatching posture to modern birds?
(tags:dinosaurs eggs birds fossils )
Drone shows are really impressive nowadays!
(tags:drone pretty viaSwampers )
From apanthropy to zwodder, an A-Z of Christmas
(tags:Christmas language viaDanielDWilliam )
Precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelength lasers
(tags:food 3dprinting lasers )
Watching A Lecture Twice At Double Speed Can Benefit Learning Better Than Watching It Once At Normal Speed
(tags:speed teaching videos education psychology )
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Interesting Links for 07-12-2021

Dec. 7th, 2021 01:43 pm
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Can coronavirus cause diabetes, or make it worse?
(tags:diabetes Pandemic Doom )
Rail freight boosted by HGV driver shortage and climate change
(tags:trains transport shipping GoodNews uk )
Uber prices could rise 20% after UK VAT ruling
(tags:tax UK law taxi )
As few as 1 in 10 Covid infections checked for omicron, as 'community transmission' confirmed
(tags:UK Pandemic Doom )
Two hippos at Belgian zoo test positive for Covid
(tags:hippo Pandemic )
Virgin Media O2 completes gigabit upgrade after two years (I'm on the much slower 350Mbit speed)
(tags:broadband internet UK virgin )
What Whale Barnacles Can Tell Us
(tags:whales history biology )
How the Government both won and lost the Priti Patel High Court bullying case
(tags:law bullying government uk )
Robot facial expressions are getting pretty good
(tags:robots faces viaJamesNicoll )
A feel-good, time-travelling Christmas movie starring Michael Sheen, you say?
(tags:movies viaLilysea christmas timetravel )
DARPA Funded Researchers Accidentally Create The World's First Warp Bubble
(tags:physics space )
What's Putin really up to with Ukraine?
(tags:russia ukraine usa )
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