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Interesting Links for 25-07-2020
Jul. 25th, 2020 12:00 pm- Sainsbury's, Co-op and Asda among stores saying they won't enforce English face mask laws
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- Professor Sir Geoff Palmer compares Scottish independence with independence of former British colonies
- (tags:UK history Scotland independence empire )
- Your regular reminder that trans people have been competing in sport and using their preferred bathroom for *decades* and the world has not ended
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1286644150520209409.html
(tags:transgender history lgbt ) - The true story of the Edinburgh voluntary penguin parade and Brigadier Sir Nils Olaf III, Colonel-in-chief of the Norwegian King's Guard
- (tags:penguins Edinburgh Norway military )
- How far right extremists are terrorising people in the UK
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1286710702292508672.html
(tags:harassment politics UK OhForFucksSake violence ) - The power of not being a leader
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- The Great Climate Migration Has Begun
- (tags:globalwarming climate immigration )
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Interesting Links for 15-01-2020
Jan. 15th, 2020 12:00 pm- What it's like to freeze to death
- (tags:temperature weather death cold viaElfy )
- Who wants to know the rules to knife karaoke?
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- Star Wars 9's Original Story From Colin Trevorrow Reportedly Revealed
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- A Massive Global Reforestation Project Is How We Fix Climate Change
- (tags:climate geoengineering forests viaCipherGoth )
- Cumbria's Eden Valley to see reintroduction of beavers
- (tags:wildlife uk )
- A new approach to making airplane parts, minus the massive infrastructure
- (tags:airplanes design manufacturing nanotech carbon )
- Cryptominers are now hiding their code in WAV files
- (tags:cryptography virus malware )
Interesting Links for 12-12-2019
Dec. 12th, 2019 12:13 pm- China, where the library burns books if they are "improper"
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- Lib Dem election candidate endorses Labour rival in his own seat out of 'concern for our country'
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- Denmark plans to build artificial islands for windfarms
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- YouTube bans malicious insults and veiled threats
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- Just how racist are Labour and Conservative voters?
- (tags:Jews Islam racism Labour conservatives OhForFucksSake UK )
- UK's post-Brexit trade at risk as WTO's top court shuts down (because of Trump)
- (tags:trade usa uk europe OhForFucksSake )
- Huge mobile crane will arrive at Edinburgh St James Centre site overnight to take down Europe's largest tower crane
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- The NHS robots performing major surgery
- (tags:NHS healthcare surgery robots )
- A self-driving truck delivered butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days
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- Heatwaves on multiple continents linked by jet stream tendency
- (tags:temperature climate weather )
- Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea
- (tags:voting technology video )
- Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back
- (tags:religion usa )
- Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates
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Interesting Links for 21-12-2017
Dec. 21st, 2017 12:00 pm- Islamic instant divorce not legal under EU law
- (tags: law Europe divorce islam )
- BBC to air more religious programming
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- Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15
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- Who's work is entering the public domain in 2018?
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- EU takes first step towards sanctions against Poland to stop drift towards authoritarianism
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- Lightwear: Introducing Magic Leap's Mixed Reality Goggles
- (tags: augmentedreality Technology thefuture )
- The Russian Embassy asked Channel 4 to FactCheck William Hague. Here’s what we found
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- Game of Thrones: Scientists use model to explain Westeros’s strange climate and extended seasons
- (tags: gameofthrones climate simulation )
- Britain is, and was, deluded about its negotiating power with the EU
- (tags: UK europe )
- BBC criticised for labelling England games as ‘Scottish productions’
- (tags: Scotland BBC OhForFucksSake )
- Scientists finally establish why there is no life on Mars
- (tags: mars space )
- Higher class is directly associated with a lower propensity to reason wisely in interpersonal situations.
- (tags: class conflict society )
- Struggling to get your kids to eat healthy? 'Don't give up!' researchers say
- (tags: children food )
- Scotland investigates how to modernise elections (online voting is still a terrible idea)
- (tags: voting Scotland )
- Donald Trump threatens to cut aid to countries over UN Jerusalem vote
- (tags: usa aid Israel OhForFucksSake )
- Berlin's Plan to Become a City for Cyclists
- (tags: germany cities cycling )
- Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Fionavar Tapestry Set for TV Treatment
- (tags: tv books fantasy )
- Police made appalling errors in using internet data to target suspects
- (tags: police uk OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 04-11-2015
Nov. 4th, 2015 12:00 pm- Entire editorial staff of Elsevier journal Lingua resigns over high price, lack of open access
- How reducing inequality boosts economic growth
- BBC Greenlights Series Based on Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’
- Universal Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st Century
- Ireland to decriminalise small amounts of drugs, including heroin, cocaine and cannabis, for personal use
- What would covering the desert in solar panels do to the climate?
- Google announces AI that can write email responses for you.
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Interesting Links for 08-04-2015
Apr. 8th, 2015 12:00 pm- The myth of Europe’s Little Ice Age
- Greece wants Germany to repay €279bn it was forced to loan the Nazi authorities during WWII
- The traveller who fell down a volcano, missed his boat twice, and crossed a military zone to catch it again.
- I approve of all of these Hugo thoughts. Particularly #5 and #13
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- British residents who do not pay tax on overseas earnings will be stripped of 'non-dom' status
- If you actually like cars, then here's a TV show you may like
- What powers do Scottish people think Scotland should have?
- Mars has belts of glaciers consisting of frozen water
- The Hottest New Board Games (a spoof, and a funny one)
- Watch Ed Balls explain why scrapping non-dom status would cost Britain money
- The email that could only travel 500 miles
Interesting Links for 22-11-2013
Nov. 22nd, 2013 11:00 am- How to optimise your dating experience
- Are E.T. and Star Wars in the same universe?
- Are you indifferent, restless or apathetic? Scientists identify a fifth type of boredom
- Everything you need to know in the PS4 vs. Xbox One battle
- If you want people to accept something different, you have to keep exposing them to it.
- The First-Ever Official Video for 'Like a Rolling Stone' Is an Interactive Masterpiece
- Microsoft is selling an anti-Google mug
- Obesity reshapes our sense of taste
- London Underground To Stay Open All Night At Weekends (And replace Oyster with contactless debit cards)
- TfL contradicts Boris, insists there is no plan to scrap Oyster
- I find this SNP claim about the pound particularly silly (and unnecessary)
- When Women Wanted Sex Much More Than Men
- Federal Election Commission deadlocks in proposal to allow bitcoin donations
- Bill Gates funds creation of thin, light, impenetrable graphene condoms
- After Haiyan: how to act on scientific advice that's politically inconvenient? | Science | theguardian.com
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Interesting Links for 10-06-2013
Jun. 10th, 2013 12:00 pm- Does SF need a Truth and Reconciliation commisson?
- The Good versus The Lawful
- On every woman's dream
- Pollution in Northern Hemisphere helped cause 1980s African drought
- How the US Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists
- Vitamins: Quite possibly bad for you.
- 5 Conspiracy Theories That Are Shockingly Easy to Debunk
- Prince Harry saved gay soldier from homophobic attack
- 5 Myths About the American Revolutionary War Everyone Believes
- Obama Is Checking Your Email
- Why The Doctor is a vital role model for boys.
- The Construction industry workers blacklisted for 20 years
- Finally! A $99 tablet that isn’t the worst thing ever
- As Bradley Manning Trial Begins, Press Predictably Misses the Point
- A lot of links on Iain Banks, who will be sadly missed.
- How your ancestors' experiences are passed down to your genes.
- A Few Notes on the Culture, by Iain M Banks
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Interesting Links for 10-01-2012
Jan. 10th, 2012 11:00 am- Hacked memo leaked: Apple, Nokia, RIM supplying backdoors for government interception?
- Carbon emissions will defer Ice Age
- UK Government Betrayal of Open Standards Confirmed
- National Geographic Photography Contest Winners: 2011 (The Pretty, It Burns!)
- If Twilight had been written by Iain M Banks
- My Little Pony Fleshlights. So cute!
- The 50 Funniest Tweets Of 2011 (And by 50, they mean 17, shuffled in with a bunch of mediocre or offensive ones)
- Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates
- Does Scotland get more out of the union than it puts in (money-wise)?
- Charlie Stross predicts the next 80 years
- What an honest statement from a CEO would look like
- Liberal Democrats blocked David Cameron's attempt to impose an 18-month deadline for a referendum on Scottish independence.
- Miniature Liquid Worlds
- Phase one of UK high-speed rail line gets go-ahead
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Interesting Links for 03-12-2011
Dec. 3rd, 2011 11:00 am- European Commission proposes splitting accountants' auditing and consultancy work to prevent conflicts of interest
- Steven Moffat on the rumoured forthcoming Dr Who movie
- Scotland has warmest November on record
- Snow and ice forecast for parts of Scotland
- Starship Troopers is getting a remake.
- What sci-fi classic made George R. R. Martin who he is today?
- Dead at 13: Napster 1998-2011
- Man Sues Couple He Kidnapped
- The answer to stressed law students? Puppies!
- Swiss Govt: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal
- Thermophotovoltaic devices without mirrors to concentrate sunlight to 1000 degrees celsius and 37% overall system efficiency
- The World's Biggest Insect Is So Freaking Huge It Can Eat a Carrot
- Want to own part of a Russian spy space station?
- Pride And Prejudice - A Saurian View
- A fascinating alternate suggestion for fixing the economy.
- The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes Today-Hallelujah!
- An interview with one of the mathematics geniuses at work in the financial sector
- UK legal move to stop non-EU nationals getting benefits
- How a Collapsing Scientific Hypothesis Ended in an Arrest
- Carrier IQ not used by UK mobile networks (just checked and it's not on my Desire)
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