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Interesting Links for 06-10-2025
Oct. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Scientists Reveal Biological Basis of Long Covid Brain Fog
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- 2. Fire destroys Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
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- 3. Disastrous South Korean data centre fire is connected to North Korean hacking
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Interesting Links for 17-07-2025
Jul. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The UK is stuck in a fiscal corner (The only way I see out of it is the trade bump we'd get from rejoining the EU)
- (tags:uk economics doom viaKenny )
- 2. Babies from three people's DNA prevents heriditary disease
- (tags:disease genetics babies )
- 3. Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements
- (tags:morality brain psychology )
- 4. Which of us has not been woken at night by a religious leader dressed as a yeti, so that we can swear a blood oath?
- (tags:catholicism wtf )
- 5. Police participation in pride ruled unlawful
- (tags:police LGBT OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 19-06-2025
Jun. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Doctor uses robot to remotely perform surgery on patient thousands of miles away
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- 2. General-purpose robots are very nearly here
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- 3. How roundabouts transformed Carmel, Indiana
- (tags:transport planning roads design usa )
- 4. Beware the gaze of raccoons!
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- 5. Banning smartphones in schools has little or no impact on the wellbeing of students or their education or on the prevalence of online bullying
- (tags:phones school )
- 6. A Provocative Argument About What Creates Serial Killers (possibly Heavy Metals)
- (tags:murder brain pollution )
- 7. Scottish Government advice on school uniforms now says that you shouldn't need branded items.
- (tags:school clothing GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 11-06-2025
Jun. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. UK sanctions Israeli ministers over Gaza comments
- (tags:uk israel gaza )
- 2. Rough sleeping to be decriminalised in England and Wales
- (tags:homelessness England law )
- 3. The pictures that show why the UK has run up a £49bn repair bill
- (tags:UK infrastructure OhForFucksSake austerity )
- 4. Krakencoder predicts brain function 20x better than past methods
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Interesting Links for 20-03-2025
Mar. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Ben & Jerry's claims Unilever ousted its boss over political activism
- (tags:IceCream society business )
- 2. Why Aren't We Losing Our Minds over the Plastic in Our Brains?
- (tags:plastic brain doom )
- 3. To Scale: TIME
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- 4. Tour de France to start in Edinburgh in 2027
- (tags:bicycles Edinburgh France sports thefuture )
- 5. Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing
- (tags:Tesla business fraud )
Interesting Links for 03-03-2025
Mar. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. You need governmental approval to run psychological tests on job applicants in Canada
- (tags:Canada psychology jobs viaDewline )
- 2. Edinburgh are having a consultation on dogs on beaches and in green spaces, as well as buskers and green-space management.
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- 3. New study says TikToks are bad for you! Thankfully it's complete nonsense!
- (tags:science brain videos )
- 4. The Cuddled Little Vice - a fascinating, in-depth, dissection of Neil Gaiman's career.
- (tags:neilgaiman rape history writing sandman comics )
- 5. German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility
- (tags:USA tourism prison OhForFucksSake )
- 6. The US Defense Department removes thousands of serving transgender people
- (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry USA republicans )
- 7. Church of England: just 25% now have a favourable view - 49% unfavourable.
- (tags:religion uk polls )
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Interesting Links for 29-01-2025
Jan. 29th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh cross-city cycle scheme CCWEL proving successful
- (tags:edinburgh cycling GoodNews )
- 2. Congressional Republicans' coming war on poor people
- (tags:politics usa republicans tax poverty viaDanielDWilliam )
- 3. Microplastics block blood flow in the brain (in mice)
- (tags:plastic blood brain mice )
- 4. US civil servants are being asked who they voted for in 2024 election
- (tags:usa CivilService fascism )
- 5. Both men and women are slightly attracted to younger partners
- (tags:relationships gender age )
- 6. A proposal for reopening Edinburgh's South Suburban Railway line as a tram-train. Looks great - not sure how many stations will be viable to reopen.
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- 7. Petition · Reopen Edinburgh's South Sub using Tram-Trains
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Interesting Links for 11-01-2025
Jan. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. This is a great example of research that says "Men and women are different!" - but shows that they overlap massively.
- (tags:gender brain visualisation )
- 2. How a Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias
- (tags:usa politics civilwar )
- 3. What can a computer tell about you by looking at a photo?
- (tags:ai surveillance photos viaLProven )
- 4. Cuttle - a MTG-like game played with a standard 52 card deck
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- 5. friendica seems to be the decentralised equivalent of Facebook
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- 6. A guide to interacting with children of different ages
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Interesting Links for 16-12-2024
Dec. 16th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood
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- 2. CNN: Israel closes embassy in Ireland, blaming 'extreme anti-Israel policies'
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- 3. UK online safety regulation comes into force
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- 4. Why you won't see a Tory and Reform alliance
- (tags:conservatives politics UK )
- 5. People who are good at reading have different brains
- (tags:reading brain psychology neuroscience )
- 6. Starmer's Brexit reset risks failure without major concessions, because most EU countries are happy with how things are
- (tags:uk europe doom )
- 7. Ten years and 10,000 weddings: How same-sex marriage changed Scotland
- (tags:lgbt marriage scotland gay )
Interesting Links for 05-11-2024
Nov. 5th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Silicon Valley and Wall Street invent collateralized GPU obligations. Surely this will work out fine?
- (tags:economics technology ai doom )
- 2. Is it not enough to simply have a hundred anuses? Must you also use them?
- (tags:animals food bodies weird viaSwampers )
- 3. Brain atrophy in later life linked to bad quality sleep. (Sleeping less isn't the issue, sleeping badly is)
- (tags:sleep brain health )
- 4. Blood Sugar Control is a Key Factor in Slowing Brain Aging
- (tags:sugar brain aging )
- 5. UK's Green energy plan needs 600 miles of power lines
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- 6. Center Parcs plans first Scottish holiday village near Hawick
- (tags:scotland holidays )
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Interesting Links for 15-10-2024
Oct. 15th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Psilocybin Bests SSRI for Major Depression in First Long-Term Comparison
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- 2. Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat
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- 3. The US just lost a war and nobody noticed
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- 4. Post-COVID psychosis occurs in people with no prior history. The risk is low but episodes are frightening
- (tags:mentalhealth pandemic brain )
- 5. UK Brexit reset plans are too vague, EU diplomatic sources say
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- 6. There's a lot of confusion over how to pronounce "Ghibli"
- (tags:ghibli language japan )
- 7. Tesla showed off AI robots. Turns out they were remote controlled by people
- (tags:robots fraud Tesla )
Interesting Links for 09-09-2024
Sep. 9th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Scientists invent nanorobots that can repair brain aneurysms (in rabbits)
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- 2. Edinburgh transport: 14 challenges facing new transport convener Stephen Jenkinson from trams to parking
- (tags:transport Edinburgh )
- 3. If anyone would like to buy me a marmot for my birthday that would be awesome
- (tags:animals cute video )
- 4. Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots
- (tags:fraud ai music automation streaming )
- 5. English Green Party backs rejoining EU
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- 6. Winter fuel payment cut could kill 4,000 people, Labour research suggests
- (tags:heating uk winter labour death )
Interesting Links for 15-07-2024
Jul. 15th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Questions for Wes Streeting on his banning of puberty blockers
- (tags:LGBT transgender Labour OhForFucksSake children puberty )
- 2. Objective tests for aphantasia
- (tags:vision brain psychology )
- 3. What would the general election have looked like with PR
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(tags:elections UK proportional_representation ) - 4. Could HS2 be revived? Government still owns £500m land from Birmingham to Manchester
- (tags:hs2 GoodNews )
- 5. How Nextdoor reduced racial bias by 75% with improved design
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Interesting Links for 22-05-2024
May. 22nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Brain implants allow us to explore bilingualism
- (tags:language brain cyborg )
- 2. The poverty children in the UK are subjected to is deliberate - never forget that
- (tags:poverty uk OhForFucksSake )
- 3. UK risks debt crisis as Tories and Labour ignore IMF over tax cuts
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- 4. Climate change is making turbulence worse
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Interesting Links for 14-05-2024
May. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Why is Richard Dawkins talking about Cultural Christianity?
- (tags:society islam bigotry OhForFucksSake religion atheism ChurchOfEngland uk RichardDawkins )
- 2. Brain abnormalities in survivors of COVID-19 after 2-year recovery: a functional MRI study
- (tags:pandemic brain doom )
- 3. PFI means that school meals are too expensive and too small
- (tags:money school food children business OhForFucksSake )
- 4. What Your Favorite '90s Band Says About the Kind of Bored Suburban Mom You Are Today
- (tags:women age music funny )
- 5. Autonomous F-16 Fighters Are Roughly Even With Human Pilots
- (tags:ai airplanes military automation flying )
- 6. Overdue Edinburgh library fines to be scrapped as £50k in charges to be wiped
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Interesting Links for 11-05-2024
May. 11th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. ITV are exploiting a loophole to show political adverts. Here's a petition to ask them to stop.
- (tags:politics advertising uk petition )
- 2. Scottish government remains committed to gender reform bill
- (tags:scotland transgender lgbt snp )
- 3. If you've been eagerly awaiting an 18 part dissection of Cerebus then you are in luck! (It's very good, and will appeal to a very specific niche)
- (tags:cerebus comics criticism )
- 4. Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus-Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- (tags:pandemic saudiarabia doom )
- 5. BSE: 'Mad cow disease' case found on farm in Scotland
- (tags:Scotland cows brain doom disease )
- 6. Space-Based Solar Power: A Skeptic's Take
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Interesting Links for 19-04-2024
Apr. 19th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. This is how crime reporting feels to me nowadays
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- 2. The "Gender Game Test" and the distribution of money
- (tags:psychology gender equality money children )
- 3. Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text—with a twist
- (tags:copyright ai )
- 4. EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy
- (tags:privacy facebook europe regulation )
- 5. Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of bitcoin than the building of the pyramids of Giza
- (tags:Egypt history )
- 6. Netflix Accused of Using AI Photos in True Crime Documentary
- (tags:fraud documentary netflix crime AI )
- 7. U.S. blocks Palestinian request for full UN membership
- (tags:USA Palestine nationality UnitedNations )
- 8. Sleeping flushes junk out of the brain
- (tags:sleep brain )
- 9. The Scale of the Universe (zoom in from the largest objects to the smallest)
- (tags:universe size visualisation )
- 10. Sweden passes law lowering age to change legal gender from 18 to 16 and greatly simplifying the process
- (tags:LGBT transgender Sweden GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 21-03-2024
Mar. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Diane Abbott is a political pawn in Labour's farcical disciplinary process
- (tags:politics labour racism OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Paris Preserves Its Mixed Society by Pouring Billions Into Public Housing
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- 3. Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden
- (tags:sweden rape prostitution sexwork )
- 4. Elon Musk's X Is Suspending Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist's Identity
- (tags:nazis twitter ElonMusk OhForFucksSake )
- 5. The cutest baby thing I've seen in a long time
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- 6. Vernor Vinge (1944-2024) - Author and creator of the concept of The Singularity
- (tags:scifi singularity obituary writers )
- 7. Neuralink video shows patient playing chess using brain implant
- (tags:brain video cyborg )
- 8. NIH Researchers Identify Brain Connections Associated With ADHD in Youth
- (tags:adhd brain )
- 9. An Anthropocene Worth Having
- (tags:ecology environment humans )
