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Interesting Links for 20-02-2026
Feb. 20th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Looksmaxxing: Myth Vs. Fact
- (tags:funny trends beauty society bodyimage )
- 2. An excellent break down of the EHRC trangender toilet case, and the High Court findings. It is, as you might expect, a mess.
- (tags:law transgender uk lgbt )
- 3. Sizing chaos - an incredibly visualised look at how and why women's clothes sizing is a mess that lets down half of all women
- (tags:women clothing visualisation OhForFucksSake history society )
- 4. Psychology of Gen X Parents (I feel called out. Or described. Or something)
- (tags:psychology demographics history video )
- 5. What is Going on with Colorectal Cancer in young people?
- (tags:cancer age statistics )
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Interesting Links for 29-01-2026
Jan. 29th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The last 6 years has seen a very large drop in church-going in the UK (from 12% of the population to 9%)
- (tags:uk religion demographics )
- 2. Starmer faces fury as promise to clamp down on damp and mouldy homes pushed back to 2035
- (tags:politics housing labour )
- 3. Trump administration secretly loosens nuclear safety rules
- (tags:nuclearpower safety regulation republicans OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Vitamin D & Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
- (tags:depression antidepressants vitaminD vitaminC )
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Interesting Links for 22-12-2025
Dec. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Trail hunting to be banned under new animal welfare push
- (tags:foxes uk law )
- 2. Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere
- (tags:batteries electricty co2 )
- 3. Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most
- (tags:relationships friends parents psychology )
- 4. Why British Jews are experiencing their biggest change in 60 years
- (tags:Jews UK Israel bigotry demographics )
- 5. Exceptional adults reach peak performance gradually with broader, multidisciplinary practice.
- (tags:learning development education )
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Interesting Links for 03-01-2025
Jan. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 2025 Is Unlikely To Be A Year Of Harmony In Northern Irish Politics
- (tags:NorthernIreland politics )
- 2. The perfect New Year's Eve comedy turns 30
- (tags:movies comedy review CohenBrothers )
- 3. Fascinating stats about how the Church of England is doing
- (tags:ChurchOfEngland UK demographics )
- 4. Study reveals how cannabis can trigger psychosis
- (tags:marijuana mentalhealth )
- 5. Tintin, Now in Public Domain (in the US), Gets a Modern Day Reboot in The Big Lie
- (tags:tintin copyright USA comics )
- 6. Inside Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts
- (tags:history music materials business Turkey )
- 7. The Class Politics of Fine Dining
- (tags:restaurant sociology inequality food viaPatrickHadfield )
- 8. UK investigation opens into a National Care Service - won't report back until 2028, just in time for the next election
- (tags:care UK labour )
- 9. Camp for kids with HIV closes as there are so few kids who are born with HIV
- (tags:hiv GoodNews children )
- 10. Spotify is paying artists to create music for it to use in its playlists so that they don't have to pay royalties on it
- (tags:spotify music OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 29-04-2024
Apr. 29th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. American Airlines keeps mistaking 101-year-old passenger for baby
- (tags:computers age )
- 2. Police use of forensics slashed as budgets cut
- (tags:forensics police UK austerity )
- 3. The telemetry data from the Apollo missions may be very nearly beyond retrieval
- (tags:archive moon space NASA history doom )
- 4. Law to ban politicians from lying backed by two-thirds of public - Wales is looking at this right now
- (tags:lying politics law wales )
- 5. Transgender Athletes Could Be At A Physical Disadvantage, New Research Funded by the International Olympic Committee Finds
- (tags:transgender sports olympics lgbt )
- 6. The Millennial CAPTCHA
- (tags:age demographics funny history )
Interesting Links for 04-04-2024
Apr. 4th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Looks like nearly 60% of Scots no longer identify with any religion
- (tags:religion scotland demographics )
- 2. Did you know that Edinburgh has a Board Game Library?
- (tags:libraries boardgames edinburgh )
- 3. Traditional Chinese printing process
- (tags:video china printing history )
- 4. Behind the lurid headlines: What the Scottish hate crime legislation actually says
- (tags:scotland bigotry law )
- 5. 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spree in Gaza (with a 10% error rate)
- (tags:ai palestine israel war )
- 6. One third of Thames Water sewage sensors are faulty
- (tags:water uk pollution OhForFucksSake )
- 7. 60% of time spent playing computer games in 2023 went to games at least 6 years old. Only 8% went on new, non-annual titles (like Baldurs Gate III)
- (tags:games business )
Interesting Links for 14-03-2024
Mar. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Did you know there was an old rifle range under Edinburgh's Waverley Station? (6 minutes in to this video)
- (tags:guns edinburgh history trains )
- 2. What's been going on with Boeing? (they seem to have forgotten that making planes requires attention to detail)
- (tags:airplanes safety epicfail OhForFucksSake engineering manufacturing )
- 3. A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major internet platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.
- (tags:internet abuse crime )
- 4. Giant redwoods: The world's largest trees are thriving in the UK. (Except for not reproducing)
- (tags:trees UK )
- 5. The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets
- (tags:food business economics )
- 6. The Existential Relief of Having Children
- (tags:philosophy anxiety stress parenting children life )
- 7. The Abyss 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray UK release | The BBFC comments on its cancellation
- (tags:rats abuse animals movies jamescameron BluRay )
- 8. Do your pets help you make food? You ain't seen nothing yet!
- (tags:food cows video funny )
- 9. LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6% (and dramatically higher in Gen Z)
- (tags:demographics LGBT USA )
- 10. AI reveals prostate cancer has two distinct subtypes
- (tags:ai cancer prostate )
- 11. The full version of Tenacious D's - ...Baby One More Time cover is out. And even more awesome than you'd expect
- (tags:music video BritneySpears awesome panda )
- 12. Yes, the Tories are outrageously racist and sexist - but Labour is guilty too (writes Diane Abbott)
- (tags:politics racism UK Labour conservatives )
- 13. Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town
- (tags:sand heat battery finland )
- 14. The only other mammals to go through the menopause live longer because of it
- (tags:menstruation whales longevity )
- 15. New ONS figures show how Edinburgh's share of short term lets is massive by comparison to practically everywhere else in the UK
- (tags:edinburgh rental holidays housing tourism )
- 16. New extremism definition unveiled by British government. Is very vague.
- (tags:uk government language )
- 17. I see that J.K. Rowling is now engaging in anti-trans Holocaust denial
- (tags:transgender Holocaust jkrowling OhForFucksSake bigotry lgbt )
- 18. Assisted dying in Canada is accepted - but the UK should tread carefully
- (tags:euthanasia canada )
- 19. I was getting bored of running - then I found joggling
- (tags:juggling running jogging exercise edinburgh )
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Interesting Links for 10-02-2024
Feb. 10th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The virtual object that's only visible while it's moving.
- (tags:optical_illusion viaSwampers )
- 2. Why is Keir Starmer spreading economic illiteracy?
- (tags:economics labour OhForFucksSake politics UK )
- 3. The UK and other ageing populations will have to increase their state pension age to 71 by 2050 to maintain the number of workers per retiree (or bring in immigrant workers)
- (tags:UK pensions age doom )
- 4. Study reveals unique molecular machinery of woman who can't feel pain (or anxiety)
- (tags:pain genetics anxiety )
- 5. Lego-inspired figures made from concrete hidden around Aberdeen
- (tags:Aberdeen Scotland Lego concrete viaDanielDWilliam )
- 6. How Millennials became the hardest working generation
- (tags:work demographics viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 05-01-2024
Jan. 5th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Why Don't Grocery Stores Stock the Most American Fruit? (The Pawpaw)
- (tags:fruit USA )
- 2. Why full-fat food could be the healthiest option
- (tags:fat food )
- 3. How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now
- (tags:ocean shipping fishing maps ai )
- 4. Looks like Room Temperature Superconductors are back on the menu!
- (tags:superconductors )
- 5. Crypto hedge fund CEO may not exist; probe finds no record of identity
- (tags:fraud identity business Blockchain )
- 6. FactCheck: do you have to pay tax for selling secondhand on Vinted or eBay?
- (tags:tax uk )
- 7. A Gel Injected Into the Scrotum Could Be the Next Male Contraceptive
- (tags:contraception men )
- 8. Study reveals genetic link between anorexia and being an early riser
- (tags:sleep anorexia genetics )
- 9. More of Mickey Mouse is public domain than you might think
- (tags:Disney copyright )
- 10. Here's a Labour MP denying Nazi war crimes. But apparently it's fine, because they're against transgender people.
- (tags:nazis labour OhForFucksSake transgender bigotry lgbt )
- 11. They Had PTSD. A Psychedelic Called Ibogaine Helped Them Get Better
- (tags:ptsd psychedelics psychology )
- 12. Has The 'Sexlessness Epidemic' Been Overstated?
- (tags:sex demographics society )
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Interesting Links for 08-09-2023
Sep. 8th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Elon Musk reveals that he took over Twitter because he believes it incubated the woke mind virus that turned his daughter trans.
- (tags:ElonMusk bigotry Twitter LGBT OhForFucksSake transgender )
- 2. I wonder if any other places share Arkansas's geographical feat
- (tags:Arkansas geography USA )
- 3. The Radical Design of PizzaExpress - How one chain changed the way we eat.
- (tags:food uk history )
- 4. The average age of UK Christians went up by 6 years in the last 10 years.
- (tags:religion age uk demographics )
- 5. This is pretty much how I feel about relationships and friendships
- (tags:relationships attraction friendship )
- 6. The Princess Bride, recreated by celebrities, in their own homes, during lockdown
- (tags:PrincessBride movies Pandemic )
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Interesting Links for 20-04-2023
Apr. 20th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. What did the ancient Greeks call their dogs?
- (tags:dogs Greece names history )
- 2. GPT as a tool for people who "can't write"
- (tags:writing ai )
- 3. But why do women stop having sex with their husbands?
- (tags:sex relationships )
- 4. How to Tell a Loved One They're Coiling Cables Wrong
- (tags:cables funny viaJWZ )
- 5. Saturn Return isn't a thing - but here's why people continue to believe in astrology anyway
- (tags:psychology conspiracy astrology belie meaning )
- 6. Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years
- (tags:rice food china )
- 7. How Different Generations Arrive At People's Houses
- (tags:demographics funny viaSwampers )
- 8. An infallible way to tell if your students are using AI to write their essays
- (tags:education ai funny essays writing )
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Interesting Links for 09-04-2023
Apr. 9th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. There is no British "Will of The People" - the UK is diverse in its views.
- (tags:UK society polls demographics politics viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. Iran installs cameras in public places to identify, penalise unveiled women
- (tags:religion Iran surveillance women OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Just how awful are Autism Speaks?
- (tags:autism OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 07-03-2023
Mar. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Did you know there were two types of boomers?
- (tags:generation demographics usa history )
- 2. Reconstructing visual experiences from human brain activity
- (tags:vision mri brain neuroscience ai )
- 3. Slow motion adverts make people think the produce is more luxurious
- (tags:luxury advertising slowmotion video psychology )
- 4. How you phrase questions really really strongly affects the answers you get
- (tags:polls language bias )
- 5. Edinburgh's Lothian Buses announce revised fares from Sunday 2 April
- (tags:edinburgh buses transport money )
- 6. Neil Gaiman on whether CGI is replacing physical movie making
- (tags:movies cgi neilgaiman )
- 7. SimCity 2013 launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series
- (tags:simcity games epicfail )
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Interesting Links for 26-01-2023
Jan. 26th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Justin Roiland: Rick and Morty creator and star dropped by Adult Swim (over assault charges)
- (tags:USA assault tv )
- 2. Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots (what happens when you train an AI on all the text a person leaves behind)
- (tags:ai writing communication death memory viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. A lovely remembrance of a dying friend, and the last things he wanted to do.
- (tags:archaeology death viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. Edinburgh's iconic Granton gas holder to be transformed into new city park
- (tags:Edinburgh gas park )
- 5. Clearly the best console gaming setup ever
- (tags:gaming consoles video impressive )
- 6. Facebook follows Twitter in un-banning Donald Trump ahead of 2024 presidential bid, Nick Clegg confirms
- (tags:Facebook politics USA )
- 7. What time is it on the moon?
- (tags:time moon physics )
- 8. Christian decline UK: How it's measured and what it means
- (tags:religion uk census demographics )
- 9. The UK's Biggest Cooking Myths
- (tags:uk cooking myths )
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Interesting Links for 16-09-2022
Sep. 16th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. SNP reprimands MSP John Mason over anti-abortion protest
- (tags:abortion snp scotland politics )
- 2. Some WFH Employees Have a Secret: They Now Live in Another Country
- (tags:work location homes )
- 3. The Follower - Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken.
- (tags:photos ai cameras surveillance )
- 4. Some ways the UK has changed during the Queen's 70-year reign
- (tags:UK visualisation demographics )
- 5. How did Tolkien feel about fanfic?
- (tags:Tolkien fanfic )
- 6. The True Story of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond—and Why the British Won't Give It Back
- (tags:diamonds india history uk )
Interesting Links for 06-04-2022
Apr. 6th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Photographer Reunites People He First Spotted On The Streets 40 Years Ago
- (tags:history photos UK viaPatrickHadfield )
- 2. Why does the UK insist on everything going through middlemen?
- (tags:UK organisation business money )
- 3. Government's LGBT+ business adviser quits over U-turn on trans conversion therapy
- (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry UK conservatives )
- 4. Hollow knight x Dark souls 3 bosses
- (tags:art games )
- 5. What makes Generation X different?
- (tags:viaJennieRigg demographics )
- 6. UK government's 'Safe To Be Me' LGBT conference cancelled after boycott
- (tags:LGBT transgender UK conservatives bigotry )
- 7. End the Streaming Struggle - search across multiple services at once with Plex
- (tags:streaming )
- 8. A tour of Place - Reddit's latest work of art
- (tags:art Reddit viaSwampers )
- 9. Here are the personality traits of the self-made millionaire
- (tags:money psychology personality )
Interesting Links for 17-03-2022
Mar. 17th, 2022 12:22 pm- Why comments are usually terrible, and how to make them better
- (tags:comments web )
- I can see 29 distinct colours. How about you?
- (tags:colour eyes genetics )
- The happiness of love turns to sadness when unspent.
- (tags:love dogs death sadness grief )
- Disney employees are staging walkouts over company's response to the 'Don't Say Gay' bill
- (tags:Disney LGBT )
- Ukraine-Russia peace talks make significant progress as 15-point plan to end war drawn up by officials
- (tags:Ukraine Russia war )
- Americans overestimate how big minorities are (I'd be very surprised if Brits didn't think the same)
- (tags:USA minorities polls demographics viaJennieRigg )
- His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent.
- (tags:Jews singing religion computers death lgbt )
- UK sets out action plan to tackle inequality based on recommendations from a commission that concluded there was no systemic racism in Britain.
- (tags:UK racism )
- Why Russians Support Putin's War Against Ukrainians
- (tags:Russia Ukraine war polls )
- France ends gas heaters subsidies, boosts heat pumps in bid to cut Russia reliance
- (tags:France heating electricity Russia )
- Russian war in Ukraine 'largely stalled on all fronts', UK claims
- (tags:russia ukraine )
- In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware
- (tags:surgery airplanes )
