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Interesting Links for 03-08-2022

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 11-05-2022

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4049684.html

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Interesting Links for 15-06-2021

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!): (tags:cake video )
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: (tags:disability )
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 )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4047701.html

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Interesting Links for 08-06-2021

Should we hold people's awful opinions from a decade ago against them?: (tags:opinion sexism history twitter )
David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies aged 98: (tags:Auschwitz Jews genocide history death )
French set to replace English as EU's working language: (tags:language France Europe )
This reverse city-builder is all about making the world green again: (tags:games nature )
I have a new favourite maths joke: (tags:maths jokes pi pirates funny )
Are you most helped by science, magic, or chicken soup?: (tags:psychology therapy counselling )
Spontaneous Period Drama (I assume this will be on Netflix next year): (tags:drama history funny satire janeausten )
non-Amazon shops don't make it nearly easy enough to buy from them: (tags:Amazon shopping internet OhForFucksSake )
Rates Of Postnatal Depression Among New Mothers Rose Sharply During Lockdown: (tags:depression babies pandemic loneliness )
How Neil Gaiman kept control of the Sandman characters: (tags:sandman dc comics intellectual_property )
Is it possible to overturn a US election?: (tags:usa elections )
What's the state of phone calls in 2021: (tags:phone Technology communication )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4021740.html

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Interesting Links for 10-04-2021

'Justice League' Screenwriter Chris Terrio Is Super Pissed Off (They really don't seem to understand what they're making): (tags:movies dc )
Elon Musk's 'Public Transit' in Las Vegas Still Just Humans Driving Cars Slowly in a Tunnel: (tags:ElonMusk transport epicfail )
People are more likely to consider solutions that add features than solutions that remove them, even when removing features is more efficient: (tags:psychology problems )
YouTube's policies block advertising for Black Lives Matter, but not White Lives Matter: (tags:racism Google advertising YouTube )
Death of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - here's how to complain about too much coverage on BBC TV: I mean, seriously, they had exactly the same show on multiple channels earlier. What is the point?
(tags:BBC monarchy UK complaints viaPatrickHadfield )
Please Take A Moment To Sign This Important Pledge Promising You're Not Mad At Me: (tags:mentalhealth rejection )
Taylor Swift, intellectual property law, and due dilligence disasters: (tags:music intellectual_property law )
The Eye Of Sauron is upon Boris Johnson: (tags:BorisJohnson video lotr funny fake )
Twitter are calling for public input on their approach to world leaders: (tags:politics Twitter )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4018966.html

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Interesting Links for 04-04-2021

Appeals for calm after fourth night of loyalist riots in Derry: (tags:NorthernIreland riots viaPatrickHadfield )
A video with a side-by-side of the two cuts of Justice League. I'm not likely to ever watch either, but I liked Snyder's cut more for everything except the colour grading and picture size: (tags:movies video comics DC superman batman WonderWoman flash viaSwampers )
Stolen Data of 533 Million Facebook Users Leaked Online: (tags:Facebook data OhForFucksSake )
We don't use chemical weapons because they're really ineffective: (tags:weaponry war history viaDanielDWilliam chemistry )
The New Standard That Killed the Loudness War: (tags:music sound streaming GoodNews )
How Much Polish Is There in Yiddish (and How Much Yiddish Is There in Polish)?: (tags:Poland Jews language history )
Why do we incorrectly think that pagans celebrated the solstices and equinoxes, and how was Ostara named?: (tags:paganism history )
Novel HIV vaccine produces antibodies in 97% of people: (tags:hiv vaccine GoodNews )
Voters want international climate agreements to be made legally binding: (tags:globalwarming law )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4015902.html

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Interesting Links for 27-03-2021

You say you want a 'written constitution' for the UK? Here are four online places where it is already written down.: (tags:Constitution UK )
Learning to code 'will seriously change your life': (tags:computers propaganda UK programming )
Alex Salmond becomes leader of new pro-independence Alba Party ahead of Scottish elections: (tags:politics Scotland independence viaDanielDWilliam )
Easter and paganism. Part 1: (tags:Easter religion history paganism )
Easter and paganism. Part 2: (tags:religion history paganism easter )
Ooh, DC got someone competent to direct The Suicide Squad reboot, and it shows!: (tags:movies DC trailer )
Solar Is Cheapest Electricity In History, U.S. DOE Aims To Cut Costs 60% By 2030: (tags:electricity solarpower GoodNews thefuture USA )
In Stockholm there's an IT battle underway for people's schools: (tags:it schools Sweden OhForFucksSake )
The parental consent case against the Tavistock has succeeded (puberty blockers no longer blocked): (tags:LGBT law GoodNews transgender children puberty )
How The Hobbit became the best selling text adventure of all time: (tags:text adventure games TheHobbit history programming )
How a coronavirus variant tore through an English island and onto the world stage: (tags:UK Kent virus pandemic )
Police lied about officers with broken bones during the Bristol protests: (tags:protests police lies violence )

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Interesting Links for 16-03-2021

What You Need to Know About 'Roblox'—and Why Kids Are Obsessed: (tags:games children )
EU launches legal action against UK over serious Northern Ireland protocol breach: (tags:europe uk trade doom NorthernIreland )
Do Liberals And Conservatives Really Have Different Moral Foundations?: (tags:voting politics psychology )
Have some very impressive balance/acrobatics: (tags:impressive video )
Justice League's Snyder cut review: No longer Whedonesque—and all the better: (tags:movies DC superheroes review )
An impressive feat of engineering: (tags:engineering transport Netherlands video roads viaDanielDWilliam )
Scotland aims to build 100,000 more affordable homes: (tags:Scotland housing )
Beatings will continue until women know their place, confirm Met Police: (tags:satire police women UK violence )
Who wants to see a baby emu hatch?: (tags:birds eggs )
Yakko's World but Barack Obama Singing: (tags:barackobama world music mashup video viaSwampers )
Covid: UK vaccination surge expected in coming days as 10 million doses arrive from India: (tags:vaccination uk india )
Seasonal energy storage in aluminium for 100 percent solar heat and electricity supply: (tags:materials electricity storage metal )
Performance vs Trust (and why you don't always want the most effective person): (tags:trust performance video )

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Interesting Links for 06-07-2020

Turns out the new Harley Quinn animated series is antisemitic.: (tags:Jews TV bigotry OhForFucksSake DC comics )
Management Myth #1: The Myth of 100% Utilization: (tags:efficiency business )
Dispelling myths around detransition: (tags:LGBT transgender )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3891830.html

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Interesting Links for 27-05-2020

People with dementia-linked genetic mutation twice as likely to develop severe Covid-19 infection: (tags:genetics virus )
The 'Justice League' Movie You Should Actually Watch (Anyone want to let me know if these are actually good?): (tags:DC comics movies animation )
Coronavirus spread on Edinburgh ward after patient's transfer: (tags:Edinburgh pandemic healthcare viaJane )
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival - Writing Awards 2020: (tags:mentalhealth writing Scotland )
If a Pelican overheats it can pull its spine through its mouth to cool down.: Or just how they yawn?
https://twitter.com/corvidresearch/status/1265379051780182016?s=19
(tags:birds WTF )
How to make an omelette sandwich: (tags:food video )
Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs struck Earth at 'deadliest possible angle': (tags:prehistory archeology extinction dinosaurs asteroids )
If the asteroid had arrived ten minutes sooner or later the dinosaurs would have survived: (tags:dinosaurs asteroids viaSwampers extinction )
Twitter's first fact-check on President Trump calls out false claims: (tags:twitter politics usa )
If you have a hard time taking compliments...: (tags:comic advice )
Likely LiveJournal password compromise: (tags:livejournal security fail )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3834154.html

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Interesting Links for 24-10-2019

A nicely even handed Joker review: (tags:review dc batman movies )
Checks will be on goods going both ways between mainland and Northern Ireland: (tags:UK NorthernIreland Europe trade )
Finally, a critique of Marvel movies we can all get behind!: (tags:marvel sex movies )
BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror to avoid foreign censorship: (tags:BBC tor )
Edinburgh's bus stop tracking boards set to be replaced after 14 years - "no longer maintainable": (tags:transport buses edinburgh )
So what's going on with the French position on Brexit?: (tags:UK Europe France Doom )
New "LGB Alliance" facing backlash... from lesbians, gays and bisexuals: (tags:LGBT Transgender )
Anti-vaccine doctor charged with gross negligence over bogus exemptions: (tags:vaccination )
Rumor: Marvel to Replace Jeremy Renner in Hawkeye Following Allegations: (tags:marvel movies )
Canadian Gothic: (tags:Canada horror weird )
Scientists cure all kinds of flu! (in ferrets): After all, there's no reason why mice should have *all* the fun!
(tags:flu )
Formation of elements detected when two stars crash into each other: (tags:space physics chemistry stars )
Female scientists up to 40% less likely to be asked for comment than male colleagues: (tags:research inequality women )
UK Children's Commissioner recommends loot boxes be regulated as gambling: (tags:gambling children games )
How trauma affects people, even when it's not acute. (Several of my friends could do with reading this): (tags:trauma ptsd psychology happiness )
Maybe It's Not YouTube's Algorithm That Radicalizes People - It's The Communities It Creates: (tags:fascism racism youtube community )
Remain should push for an election: (tags:UK Europe elections )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3824234.html

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Interesting Links for 17-09-2019

Hunger leads people to make short-term decisions rather than long-term ones: (tags:hunger psychology )
We can't recreate medieval paint without medieval urine: (tags:history urine painting )
RNLI donations surge after Tories criticise them for saving children's lives: (tags:children Ocean life charity GoodNews )
Pennywise the Clown: D&D bad guy: (tags:dungeonsanddragons roleplaying stephen_king movies )
Boris Johnson cancels press conference in Luxembourg due to booing crowds: (tags:UK Europe BorisJohnson OhForFucksSake )
The Suicide Squad cast looks good!: (tags:movies dc )
Hungarian minister grilled by EU about threats to rule of law: (tags:hungary Europe rights law )
Summarising the prorogation case at the Supreme Court and the arguments on both sides: (tags:law politics uk )
How To Cope Under Pressure, According To Psychology: (tags:psychology pressure stress advice )
How do all those shops selling crappy ðŸ‡¬ðŸ‡§ souvenirs in London manage to stay profitable?(they probably don't, they're money-launderers): (tags:money fraud crime uk afghanistan )
Justice Secretary Robert Buckland declining opportunity to rule out Government proroguing Parliament again in October: (tags:conservatives OhForFucksSake politics uk )
New Zealand: Man brings clown to redundancy meeting: (tags:newzealand funny redundancy jobs )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3819682.html

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Interesting Links for 01-09-2019

On Morris Dancing and blackface (and traditions and the societies they inhabit): (tags:racism history dancing performance uk )
Joker Review: Joaquin Phoenix Changes Superhero Movies Forever: (tags:movies DC comics batman )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3774332.html

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Interesting Links for 17-03-2019

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3723143.html

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Interesting Links for 13-09-2018

Comicsgate is the latest front in the ongoing culture wars: (tags: comics fascism OhForFucksSake )
Middle Earth Map Style: (tags: maps lotr )
Labour's Tom Watson 'reversed' type-2 diabetes through diet and exercise: (tags: diabetes diet health )
Microsoft intercepting Firefox and Chrome installation on Windows 10: (tags: microsoft windows browsers OhForFucksSake )
EU Parliament triggers Article 7 against Hungary: (tags: Hungary Europe rights )
Harrassing the children of people you don't like is counterproductive to your cause. And a terrible thing to do.: (tags: children politics OhForFucksSake )
Language fluency in speech and print: (tags: language speech accents writing )
Your reminder that Apple will delete movies you "bought" from your library. And keep your money.: (tags: Apple movies copyright OhForFucksSake )
Oregon novelist who wrote 'How to Murder Your Husband' charged with murdering her husband: (tags: murder writing novel headline )
This is the kind of behaviour from the Tories that pushes people towards independence: (tags: Scotland Conservatives OhForFucksSake )
MEPs vote to ban killer robots on battlefield: (tags: robots war europe )
Did the DC movie universe creators set out to make a mess? Because that's what they've produced: (tags: dc comics movies )
Ipswich town centre haunted by eerie nursery rhyme (creepiest story I've heard in some time): (tags: uk WTF scary )
A Christmas Carol, a vanishing Italian, and a single lunch. A real life mystery.: (tags: writing CharlesDickens italy weird )
"No joke: TV editors cut me out of a panel show – and didn’t even notice": (tags: women tv comedy )
Scientist Publishes A List Of Known Harassers in Academia: (tags: academia abuse )
Men Wish Women Would Stop Expecting These Things From Romcoms In Real Life: (tags: movies men women behaviour relationships )
EU Trials Tracker — Who's not sharing clinical trial results?: (tags: Europe research fail )
Horrible Science Stories #1a.k.a. How To Kill Several Thousand Women: (tags: cancer research women breasts OhForFucksSake fraud )
Juvenile or adult? Leap-year suspect poses conundrum for Australian court: (tags: time age australia law )
UK mass surveillance programme violates human rights, European court rules: (tags: privacy rights uk europe )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3639481.html

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Interesting Links for 03-12-2017

These are the most popular baby names right now: (tags: names satire babies funny )
The Amazon HQ search is, frankly, an attack on democracy: (tags: amazon usa democracy OhForFucksSake )
Sexual Assault Apology Mad-Libs!: (tags: assault abuse apology comic funny )
Alphabet of the obsolete: (tags: obsolescence funnny )
Marvel's New Editor-in-Chief Just Admitted That He Used a Pseudonym Years Ago to Pretend to Be Japanese: (tags: japan marvel comics )
Star Wars: The Last Jedi | Behind The Scenes Training Featurette (Looks amazing. So excited!): (tags: StarWars video )
Justice League Action - the one where Mark Hammil has slept with the entire cast: (tags: dc animation comics video funny )
Why Kinkshaming Ruins Christmas: (tags: abuse fetish sex kink society )
A Last Airbender writer and Uncharted director are building a new game and show: (tags: airbender tv games )
Why Hollywood's Abandonment Of Terry Crews Is Unacceptable: (tags: tv abuse hollywood OhForFucksSake race gender )
Vader's final scene in Rogue One, but with Gimme More by Britney Spears. (I cannot explain why this made me giggle): (tags: video StarWars BritneySpears )
The rare book library at Yale University is an incredible piece of architecture (with no windows).: (tags: architecture library )
Former police chief condemns retired officers who leaked Damian Green computer pornography allegations: (tags: police privacy politics )
Woman With Transplanted Uterus Gives Birth, the First in the U.S.: (tags: birth organs pregnancy )
Egyptian lawyer jailed for saying women in ripped jeans should be raped: (tags: egypt rape crime )
UK government's entire social mobility team quit citing lack of political leadership: No, I didn't know they had a social mobility team either!
(tags: inequality uk society politics OhForFucksSake )
Batman Ninja looks like the kind of ridiculous fun I want out of Batman: (tags: batman japan anime video trailer ninjas )
40,000 children trapped in ‘zombie’ academy schools: (tags: school UK OhForFucksSake )
Cute! Pictures! Of! Bats!: (tags: bats cute )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3633571.html

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Interesting Links for 11-11-2017

The UK spends more of their money on childcare than any other OECD country: (tags: uk children money OhForFucksSake )
The iPhone X Is A User Experience Nightmare: (tags: apple iphone ux fail )
It is the Time of Trump. Europe needs to step up: (tags: Europe usa politics )
The real lesson of that self-driving shuttle’s first-day accident: (tags: driving accident automation )
How can liberalism be to blame for everything when we can't even agree what it is?: (tags: liberal language politics society )
Reacting to the Louis C.K. Revelations: (tags: abuse comedy )
Mexico baby death trial reveals growing persecution of women who miscarry: (tags: Mexico women pregnancy OhForFucksSake wtf )
Men, get ready to be uncomfortable for a while. While forgiveness may come one day, it won’t be soon.: (tags: abuse women men society thefuture forgiveness viaErindubitably ViaDrCross )
The naked truth about Facebook’s revenge porn tool: (tags: Facebook nudity Technology )
At DC Comics, An Editor Rose Through The Ranks Even After Being Accused Of Sexual Harassment: (tags: harassment abuse comics dc )
CBS Diversity Showcase Is a Racist Mess, Participants Say: (tags: racism comedy )
EU citizens worth £4.42bn to Scotland (not that the money is the point): (tags: Europe immigration money )
Two marine scientists are now playing each other, on Twitter, in an ocean-themed game of chess.Scientifically-accurate kill scenes are required: (tags: chess games ocean twitter )
Senior Saudi figures tortured and beaten in purge: (tags: saudiarabia )