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Interesting Links for 15-05-2025
May. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour doesn't believe British people should be allowed to live here with their families
- (tags:family migration UK OhForFucksSake Labour )
- 2. Crossness Pumping Station: seduced by symmetry
- (tags:art design architecture history London UK )
- 3. Dammit. I'm going to have to get a babysitter so I can go see Superman
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- 4. Would you like to see someone have their dream come true live on stage?
- (tags:musicals video singing impressive )
- 5. Scottish Water warning after driest period in 60 years
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- 6. What it's like being a nanny for the super-rich
- (tags:wealth children childcare )
- 7. EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis
- (tags:europe advertising privacy law )
- 8. How to Sniff Out 'Copaganda': When the Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
- (tags:police propaganda media journalism )
- 9. Audible to use AI narrators and translators
- (tags:books audio ai translation )
- 10. South Korea's robot chefs worry human workers, disappoint customers
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Interesting Links for 06-12-2024
Dec. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. People will share misinformation that sparks "moral outrage"
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- 2. The artist who uses mountains as his canvas
- (tags:art mountains france )
- 3. Israel bans Islamic call to prayer
- (tags:Israel Islam )
- 4. LA Times Owner To Personally Review Opinion Headlines To Avoid Offending Elon Musk
- (tags:ElonMusk journalism USA OhForFucksSake censorship viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. Democrats must combat Trump's culture wars, new progressive chair says
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- 6. Amnesty report concludes Israel's actions against Palestinians in Gaza constitute genocide
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- 7. Labour's childcare plan won't work due to funding crisis, nurseries say
- (tags:uk childcare money )
- 8. Bitter Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'
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- 9. See how lab-grown diamonds are made, step by step
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- 10. Happy 20th anniversary to Numa Numa!
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Interesting Links for 14-11-2023
Nov. 14th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Scientists perplexed to find each nostril works separately to sense world
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- 2. If the UK government wants parents to work then wraparound care needs to be fixed
- (tags:parents work childcare uk )
- 3. Nearly Everyone With Mild Cognitive Impairment Goes Undiagnosed
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- 4. 'Coyote vs. Acme' Shelved by Warner Bros, Taking $30M Tax Writeoff
- (tags:movies business OhForFucksSake )
- 5. US election results show rights still bewilderingly popular
- (tags:rights women USA politics funny )
- 6. Dutch elections: is a new version of PR on the way?
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- 7. When Israel-Palestine Peace Was Within Reach
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- 8. What words were added to the dictionary the year you were born? (Gaia, Bipolar Disorder, and Woke for me)
- (tags:words history dictionary )
- 9. What's Biden's record on trans rights?
- (tags:transgender politics USA democrats )
- 10. "I've Been To Over 20 Homeschool Conferences. The Things I've Witnessed At Them Shocked Me."
- (tags:school Education children politics usa )
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Interesting Links for 30-09-2023
Sep. 30th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. By breaking Net Zero pledges the Conservatives are alienating everyone but a small section of their own voters.
- (tags:Conservatives globalwarming uk viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. Search for phone signal caused oil spill, triggering the biggest environmental disaster in Mauritian history
- (tags:oil shipping disaster phones OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Rishi Sunak's free childcare offer could close thousands of nurseries
- (tags:childcare Doom UK conservatives )
- 4. Revealed: Proof PM knows cutting HS2 would lead to chaos
- (tags:trains conservatives Doom UK )
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Interesting Links for 10-03-2023
Mar. 10th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Evolution of tree roots may have driven mass extinctions
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- 2. Childcare: Full-time nursery for under-twos nearly £15k a year
- (tags:childcare money uk )
- 3. Mice born with two fathers
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- 4. Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country
- (tags:LGBT USA bigotry transgender law )
- 5. Rotating Sandwiches - that's it
- (tags:food video wtf )
- 6. Why It's So Hard To Build a Crochet Machine
- (tags:craft automation video viaNancyLebov )
- 7. Visceral Femininity: A Bloodborne Video Essay
- (tags:games menstruation blood horror )
- 8. Inside the chaos of Elon Musk's Twitter
- (tags:ElonMusk EpicStupidity business Twitter doom )
- 9. ONS Covid infection survey paused after 3 years, leaving no official method for tracking virus
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- 10. The Fed's Inflation Goal Is Completely Arbitrary
- (tags:inflation economics history viaDanielDWilliam )
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Interesting Links for 18-01-2023
Jan. 18th, 2023 12:00 pm- 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
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- 5. Artists file class-action lawsuit against AI image generator companies
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- 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 15-06-2022
Jun. 15th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The UK is, frankly, badly run. Should Scotland stay stuck to it?
- (tags:uk scotland independence )
- 2. Hate crime against transgender people at highest since Scottish records began in 2010
- (tags:scotland transgender lgbt abuse )
- 3. When rich white authors say stupid things on TV why don't people call them on it?
- (tags:writing racism )
- 4. Why refugees travel through other countries to get to the UK
- (tags:refugee migration uk )
- 5. My Favorite Controlled Substance Is Daycare
- (tags:children childcare funny money drugs viaSwampers )
- 6. The politics of 'Top Gun: Maverick' are... not good
- (tags:war Iran USA TomCruise movies review airplanes )
- 7. EU Launches Legal Action Against UK Over Northern Ireland Protocol Bill
- (tags:europe uk law trade doom NorthernIreland )
- 8. Edinburgh scores less than two out of ten for the state of its roads in new analysis (and badly elsewhere too)
- (tags:edinburgh scotland roads )
Interesting Links for 15-06-2021
Jun. 15th, 2021 12:00 pm- The way Louisiana isn't racist. At all.
- (tags:racism history USA Education school OhForFucksSake )
- Scotland's new blood donation rules come into force. (more LGBT friendly than they used to be)
- (tags:LGBT blood donations Scotland )
- We have another highly effective COVID vaccine, based on different tech
- (tags:vaccine pandemic GoodNews )
- Scientists discover particle that transforms between matter and antimatter for the first time
- (tags:physics quantum )
- Cake mass production (I found this video strangely relaxing - as did Sophia!)
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- DC won't let Batman go down on Catwoman
- (tags:sex DC TV comics )
- How it actually feels to use a cane, wheelchair, and crutches
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- Ministers invested less than two-thirds of required 'cost of properly funding childcare in England - pushing prices up, forcing many women to stay at home
- (tags:childcare UK conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- Finally, a song for all the hungover people in the world
- (tags:funny music video breakfast viaMyBrotherMike )
- MDMA-assisted therapy is highly efficacious in individuals with severe PTSD
- (tags:ecstasy psychology ptsd GoodNews )
- Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom (a short story about parallel worlds, parallel lives, and doing the right thing)
- (tags:scifi short_story viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 30-04-2021
Apr. 30th, 2021 12:00 pm- The train wreck that was the New Atheism
- (tags:atheism society religion OhForFucksSake )
- Au pair firm on the rocks as result of 'Brexit immigration block' - Key workers 'crying out for child care'
- (tags:childcare uk immigration europe doom )
- Antarctic Study Shows How Much Space Dust Hits Earth Every Year (5,200 tons)
- (tags:space meteor antarctic )
- Flu Has Disappeared Worldwide During the Covid Pandemic
- (tags:flu disease GoodNews pandemic )
- UK and Norway fail to reach fishing deal
- (tags:UK Norway fish Doom )
- 'Frenssh' as it was 'spak' in medieval England
- (tags:French France UK history language )
- What's going on here, with this human? (a guide to humans, hiring, and personality)
- (tags:people jobs relationships hiring )
Interesting Links for 07-12-2020
Dec. 7th, 2020 12:00 pm- The 1,700 year old skyscraper city that's being destroyed by the weather
- (tags:weather history yemen architecture viaDanielDWilliam )
- How the Brothers Grimm went hunting for fairytales, accidentally changed the course of historical linguistics, and kickstarted a new field of scholarship in folklore.
- (tags:history Germany language stories fairytale )
- Excel formulas become Turing complete
- (tags:programming spreadsheet Microsoft )
- If you are giving the Guardian money then you are supporting bigoted lies that kill children
- (tags:guardian bigotry LGBT transgender OhForFucksSake )
- Forget London, Brexit fight is about Paris and Berlin
- (tags:Germany France Europe UK trade )
- Why a "soft Brexit" was never on the table - by an MP who tried to prevent a hard one
- (tags:UK politics Europe history )
- Charlie Stross on how the next month or so are likely to look (Bad. Very bad)
- (tags:UK Europe Doom charlesstross )
- Zalando boss to quit so his wife can focus on her career while he looks after the kids
- (tags:work women family )
- The 'virtual nannies' looking after kids via Zoom
- (tags:childcare children remote )
- Kids can eat free in Asda cafes throughout December
- (tags:children food supermarkets UK )
- What might travel, holidays, and commuting look like over the next ten years?
- (tags:thefuture travel work holidays )
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Interesting Links for 03-10-2018
Oct. 3rd, 2018 12:00 pm- DUP 's Arlene Foster says Good Friday Agreement not 'sacrosanct'
- (tags: uk NorthernIreland Ireland doom )
- U.S. to partners of U.N. LGBTQ staff: Get married, or get out
- (tags: marriage lgbt OhForFucksSake usa )
- Brexit: DUP threatens to pull plug on Theresa May's government
- (tags: uk Europe NorthernIreland DUP )
- Immune system's balancing act keeps bowel disease in check
- (tags: IBS inflammation genetics )
- Nurseries may trump informal or childminder care for kids' psychological development
- (tags: mentalhealth children childcare psychology )
- Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before she got a wikipedia page
- (tags: Wikipedia physics women OhForFucksSake )
- As a proportion of the population, the UK has less millionaire households than many other European countries
- (tags: wealth europe )
- An Italian mayor rejuvenated his town's economy by accepting thousands of migrants – now he's been arrested for it
- (tags: immigration Italy OhForFucksSake )
- How do I embarrass 18 year olds in 2018? - NoStupidQuestions
- (tags: teenagers funny culture )
- The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy
- (tags: copyright piracy streaming Choice tv movies )
- Is the UK heading for disastrous Brexit just because it’s easiest?
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- Unite to hold ballot on Edinburgh Trams industrial action
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Interesting Links for 14-02-2018
Feb. 14th, 2018 12:00 pm- Childcare: Do UK parents pay the most in the world?
- (tags: children childcare uk money )
- To improve your memory take a break after learning something
- (tags: memory )
- Banned Georgian sex manual reveals strange beliefs
- (tags: history sex )
- Possibly the stupidest bit of system design I have ever encountered. (And I've written some stupid stuff in my time)
- (tags: design OhForFucksSake programming )
- Schizophrenia patients have been helped by a video game that helps them control their speech centers
- (tags: neuroscience psychology schizophrenia games )
- Julian Assange: Warrant for his arrest upheld by court
- (tags: law uk JulianAssange )
- Yes, sea level rise really is accelerating
- (tags: globalwarming ocean )
- What Atari Was Really Like, According to Women Who Were There
- (tags: atari games history )
- Predictors for infidelity and divorce
- Happy Valentine's Day everyone!
(tags: divorce relationships psychology ) - Money only buys happiness for a certain amount
- (tags: happiness money )
- South African lions eat poacher, leaving just his head
- (tags: lions Africa GoodNews )
- Justice Minister: Israel must safeguard Jewish majority, even at expense of civil rights
- (tags: israel OhForFucksSake )
- Where Have All The Loyal Employees Gone?
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- Meet The Dominatrix Who Requires The Men Who Hire Her To Read Black Feminist Theory
- (tags: bdsm race viaElfy )
- Can't buy me love: Materialism in marriage linked to devaluation of marriage
- (tags: marriage money )
- Achtung Baby: An American mum on the German art of raising self reliant children
- (tags: Germany usa parenting advice )
- Google’s nemesis: meet the British couple who took on a giant, won... and cost it £2.1 billion
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- The Case for Realistic Expectations
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- Many animals can count, some better than you
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Interesting Links for 27-02-2017
Feb. 27th, 2017 12:00 pm- Smartphones are boring now, and that's just fine
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- In southeastern Colorado, robots carefully disarm WWII-era chemical weapons (a fascinating process)
- (tags: weaponry history automation usa chemistry )
- Logan: Patrick Stewart says he's 'done' playing Xavier in the X-Men movies
- (tags: xmen PatrickStewart movies )
- Popularity of Sony’s PlayStation VR Surprises Even the Company (Very happy with mine)
- (tags: sony games VirtualReality )
- "But as it turns out, happiness isn't a size."
- (tags: happiness weight mentalhealth )
- A Grandmother Has Been Deported With Just £12 In Her Pocket Despite Living In Britain For The Past 30 Years
- (tags: immigration uk OhForFucksSake )
- Elevated stress levels among Norway's youngest children in childcare
- (tags: cortisol stress children childcare )
- How accurate was Hidden Figures?
- We saw it yesterday, and really enjoyed it.
(tags: movies space NASA history facts ) - Storm Chasers Unite to Give Bill Paxton an Epic Tribute
- (tags: storm weather death movies )
- Using drones with flamethrowers to clear debris off of high-voltage lines in Hubei, China
- (tags: drone fire china )
- It’s all the cuddling – psychologists explore why people who have more sex are happier
- (tags: sex relationships happiness psychology )
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Interesting Links for 28-10-2013
Oct. 28th, 2013 11:00 am- Amazon and the "profitless business model" fallacy
- Various artists do Wolverine as Disney Princess
- This short story perfectly captures modern computing
- Can Agile development work for government, anyway?
- This is a great description of how they fucked up the US Healthcare website.
- What Happens When You Just Give Money To Poor People?
- Do you need to worry about your tastes changing as you get older?
- People with mental illness need help to get back to work – but coercion is wrong
- The truth about Grammar.
I can tell this is going to come in _very_ useful.
- No Freeze on Winter Energy Prices, Despite Natural Gas Boom
- Folklore as Childcare Policy
- What happens if you freeze energy prices?
- Desalination capacity climbs 50% in the last year
- If you want to know why some movies are made and some are not then you need to read this.
- Seen the Russel Brand video? Despairing of politicians? Here's how you can_really_ make a difference
- 20th century headlines, rewritten to get more clicks.
- Build HS2 or Britain will suffer 14 years of rail misery
- What is the most famous book set in every state?
- British Medical Journal: Saturated fat is not the major issue
- Scotland is converting long leases to outright ownership
- Nebraska tries to disprove climate change, fails to find scientists to work on it.
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Interesting Links for 06-06-2013
Jun. 6th, 2013 12:00 pm- The inadvertent child pornographer
- Personality is the result of nurture, not nature (in birds)
- Why Does the American Media Get Big Stories Wrong?
- Google Reader alternatives
- 10 things you might not know about India
- An interview with Kim Jong-il's Sushi Chef
- “Warning” signs at historical sites tell visitors to relax and enjoy themselves
- Game Of Thrones Facebook Recap Season 3 Episode 9
- What's happening to net migration in the UK?
- Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans (every Verizon call, for a start)
- What the UK can learn from The Netherlands about childcare
- Interview: Steve Jackson, the grand mage of role-playing games (the UK one)
- Nobody has ever played 1st edition AD&D the way it's meant to be played
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Interesting Links for 14-05-2013
May. 14th, 2013 12:00 pm- Engineering the $325,000 In-Vitro Burger
- Childcare in the UK: the tightest and most expensive?
- There are no alpha-wolves in the wild.
- Wine tasting is bullshit. Here's why.
- Tom Baker vs Ray Harryhausen: Drink!
- Why is the writing in the current run of Dr Who so bad?
- Space Marine cosplay FTW
- Geo Guessr is rather good geographical fun. I got 9522 points.
- So you're tired of hearing about "rape culture"?
- A brilliant satire of Dan Brown
- The body clocks of severely depressed people are altered at a cellular level
- D-Wave’s quantum optimizer pitted against traditional computers
- Learn physics from scratch
- Sheerwind funnel system claims to produce 6 times more energy than conventional wind and costs competitive with natural gas and hydro power
- Angelina Jolie speaks out on her double mastectomy
- Isle of Man gay couple refused rental agreement (legally)
- Church of England attendance continues to fall, but only slightly.
- Obamacare Is Already Forcing Private Insurers to Lower Their Premiums
- Family racially abused by police learn law to win their case - police then raid their home.
- Political extremists understand complex policies less well than they think they do.
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Interesting Links for 13-12-2012
Dec. 13th, 2012 11:00 am- What did the people who said "Other" for religion in the 2011 census actually say? (6,242 believers in Heavy Metal!)
- Scottish Government publishes equal marriage law. Looks like we'll get there first.
- If you have Internet Explorer open _at all_ then it can leak all of your mouse movements.
- Comparing Russian and American culture.
- The Mad Men Miracle: How changing business practices brought us a rush of great TV
- Student submits his homework to online forum, nice takedown from his teacher.
- The Shakespeare Programming Language
- Own up, you've always wanted a computer that looks like a TARDIS.
- The complexity of marriage law (what is and isn't allowed under the new laws)
- Couple sing a song a day #1435 times, and then break up. In song.
- What did angry mobs ever do for us?
- Dave Sim does Judge Dredd
- Black Metal Babysitting Tips - I shall remember this next time I'm looking after the nephew...
- GravityLight: lighting for developing countries. A genius idea!
- GoodGym - Do good, get fit
- A Photo History of Male Affection
- Facebook is scanning private messages for brand page mentions, and then "Like"ing them for you.
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Interesting Links for 17-07-2012
Jul. 17th, 2012 12:00 pm- How Emma Sky went from anti-war academic to governor of one of Iraq's most volatile regions
- Screen Display Calculator - how far away should your TV be? And what size?
- Eight radical solutions to the childcare issue
- What did the Persians think of Alexander the Great?
- Free access to British scientific research within two years
- 7 reasons why I’m against DevoPlus / DevoMax
- Merely visiting a newspaper website can be a breach of copyright.
- How many infinities are there?
- The three options the Church Of England faces over same-sex marriage (well worth reading)
- Fifty Shades of Babe: Duke Nukem Reads E. L. James
- Facebook Engineer Responds to Imgur Block with Epic Reddit Apology
- US Security Agents At Heathrow For Olympics
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