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Interesting Links for 23-05-2021
May. 23rd, 2021 12:00 pm- How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and "Export" Millions of Barrels of Oil
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- Mobile Operating System Market Share 2000 - 2021 (nice animation. Amazing the difference that 20 years makes)
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- Replicating Blade Runner: why the adventure game classic is so tough to remaster
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- Why the government is not actually renationalising the railways
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- Whatever happened to Peter, Edinburgh's Armenian cook?
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- Covid: Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs effective against Indian variant - after the second dose
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- No 10 tried to block data on spread of new Covid variant in English schools
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Interesting Links for 07-07-2020
Jul. 7th, 2020 08:16 pm- Tech Confronts Its Use of the Labels 'Master' and 'Slave'
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- Santa Is More Real Than Peter Pan: Children Have A "Hierarchy" Of Belief In Fictional Characters
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- Why Boris Johnson's call for driverless Tube trains is a political stunt
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- LOS ANGELES, JULY, 2020 (with the music I imagined when I saw the video)
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- The New Science of Sex and Gender
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Interesting Links for 30-11-2018
Nov. 30th, 2018 11:00 am- Children who start school a year early more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD
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- Stuck in a loop of wrongness: Brain study shows roots of OCD
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- May and Corbyn clash over what kind of economic collapse they would inflict on the country
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- Free ice skating for anyone called Andrew to mark St Andrew's Day in Edinburgh
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- Adult Swim, Crunchyroll announce first-ever co-production: A Blade Runner anime
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- Strange seismic waves that rippled around world leave scientists bewildered
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- Physicists finally calculated where the proton’s mass comes from
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Interesting Links for 07-01-2016
Jan. 7th, 2016 12:00 pm- GP dismissed student’s suicidal thoughts because of clean clothes
- CDs still dominate, but streaming audio is catching up
- TVs - you're bored of more pixels, have more colours instead!
- I had no idea where the song "Mah Nà Mah Nà" (as used in the Muppets) came from!
- As of Tuesday, only the most recent version of Internet Explorer will still be in support
- That's 9, if you're on Vista, or 11 if you're on Windows 7,8, or 10.
- Virtually a reality: Oculus Rift goes on sale for $599
- Waiting for the reviews. And to have a computer beefy enough to support it. And to have some spare money.
- Jedi Anchorites and Early Ireland (spoilers for TFA)
- Ten Choices You Will Regret In 10 Years
- The Force Awakens+Cards Against Humanity = Awesome
- I never realised that the names of the Weasely children followed a mythical convention
- That raccoon figured out the candyfloss on the third attempt
- The Science Fiction Writer’s Hierarchy of Doubt
- A Father, a Dying Son, and the Quest to Make the Most Profound Videogame Ever
- America and its guns: What do the numbers tell us?
- Netflix now everywhere except North Korea, China, Syria, Crimea
- New details linking stress, fat metabolism revealed
- Low sunlight, vitamin D doubles your risk of leukemia
- Your Grandparents Spent More Of Their Money On Food Than You Do
- Philip Pullman: professional writers set to become an endangered species
- The truth about "parent sex"
- 19th century Victorian dating invitation cards - the old fashioned way to pick up women.
- Happy Incept Day Roy Batty!
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Interesting Links for 04-01-2016
Jan. 4th, 2016 12:00 pm- An interesting theory on the refragmentation of American society
- Priest suspended for riding hoverboard up aisles during Christmas Eve mass
- What Science Says About Using Physical Force To Punish A Child
- Why do some sciences move on, and others get stuck in the past?
- The Pennsylvania Ballet point out that ballet is _hard_
- The three kinds of eating, and the different approaches they need
- The Roy Batty (Bladerunner) account on Twitter is pretty awesome
- Labour have forfeited any right to complain about boundary changes
- Kylo Ren: The Vox Day of the Star Wars universe
- Ask Culture and Guess Culture
- IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10 percent deployment
- The Oregon Militia Standoff, Explained
- Twenty-Four Hours of being an “Out” ExMuslim
- ‘Inside Out’: Why Pixar changed scenes for international audiences
- What's really going on with Paramount suing a Star-Trek "fan film"?
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Interesting Links for 16-12-2015
Dec. 16th, 2015 12:00 pm- Lettuce is ‘three times worse than bacon' for global warming emissions
- Voight-Kampff Empathy Test 2015
- Inflammation: Medicine’s Burning Question
- Solar energy farms above the clouds. An interesting idea, but I'll need more to be convinced.
- Marry/Fuck/Kill Star Wars Edition
- Peter Capaldi on his first kiss. Utterly adorable
- Is a Citizen's Income the right policy?
- British Astronauts - an FAQ
- A fantastic piece on 'Jessica Jones', abuse, and PTSD. For once, read the comments
- Behind the baffling, nearly two-year-long quest to find Frog Fractions 2
- Probably the scariest doughnuts of all time
- Tim Peake's Guide For British Astronauts Revealed
- If Our Universe Is So Old and Vast, Then Where Are All the Aliens?
- Things that a mentally ill person does, and does not, find offensive
- Famous poems re-written as limericks
- By far the best interview I've ever read with Harrison Ford
- UN experts find level of discrimination against women in US "shocking"
- This Private Garfield Facebook Group Is the Last Irony-Free Place on the Internet
- Organising an event that may have disabled people at it? Don't make these blunders
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Interesting Links for 09-07-2015
Jul. 9th, 2015 12:00 pm- Fireworks over Los Angeles look like something out of Blade Runner
- What was the worst PR move in history?
- Hellenism and the History of Homosexuality
- UK Budget - it's becoming harder to tell the Conservatives and Labour apart
- Expat families torn apart by UK visa requirements
- The budget is merciful! If your third child is the result of rape then they won't have to starve!
- Women Are Fighting Boob Censorship By Photoshopping Themselves With Male Nipples
- Budget 2015: Five things you need to know about the 'living' wage
- Labour backs four-year public sector pay cap
- Budget 2015: Rent reforms 'will massively constrain' efforts to build affordable homes
- Nobel Prize Winner Peter Higgs Regrets Fielding Your Physics-Based Dungeons and Dragons Questions.
- The Most Influential Media, According to TvTropes/Google
- The original Akira trailer, remade with Simpsons characters. Behold Bartkira!
- Everything You Know About Boys and Video Games Is Wrong
- As a means of catching ZIM fans up to speed, Jhonen Vasquez introduces...Recap Kid!
- Why Tumblr-speech is linguistically exciting
- How to make fake breasts
- The TWA Terminal has gorgeous architecture
- Gullane and the East Lothian Question
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Interesting Links for 23-09-2014
Sep. 23rd, 2014 12:00 pm- On Upgrading One’s Wristwatch
- 'F*ck it, I quit': TV reporter Charlo Greene quits live on air in spectacular fashion
- English devolution – with maps
- Fantasy Flight's employees are leaving it the _worst_ reviews
- snopes.com: Jasmine Tridevil Has Three Breasts?
- The SNP now have the third most members of any UK political party
- Need a cuddle? New app Cuddlr offers sex-free alternative to Tinder
- The House of Lords is electing a new hereditary peer. See their personal statements. (Reads like satire. Is not.)
- Captain Metaphysics and the Ghost in the Machine
- 5 Simple Office Policies That Make Danish Workers Way More Happy Than Americans
- This is my new favourite theory about Blade Runner
- The Bárðarbunga eruption is even more impressive than I thought it was!
- Scotland to be covered in tinfoil
- Help Open The Edinburgh Cat Café!
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Interesting Links for 25-11-2012
Nov. 25th, 2012 11:00 am- Hermeneutics: The Game
- More evidence that Prometheus was all about Space Jesus.
- Blade Runner's Original Ending: Yes, Deckard's A Replicant
- Most people have no idea if the content they're downloading is legal or not.
- Dave Sim's Marvel Portfolio
- Now Everyone Can be a Sniper (if this works)
- What Male And Female Scientists Say About Women In Science
- A Look at Beast Boxing Turbo,or, That Time A Developer Worried About Women Liking His Game And It All Turned Out Fine
- Gangnam Style Becomes World’s Most Popular Video With 1 Billion Views in Sight
- We are losing huge numbers of films forever as we lose the ability to create new copies of them.
- Twilight and the Iraq war: the most pointed satire since "Team America, World Police"?
- How a computer game helped one girl start questioning everything about her life.
- Miiverse Penis Drawing Detection Took Weeks to Develop
- The Aokigahara Suicide Forest - the world's second most popular place to commit suicide
- A Lexicon of Logopolis
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