Interesting Links for 07-06-2025
Jun. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. "Free Roam" mode is Mario Kart World's killer app
- (tags:Mario nintendo games driving )
- 2. Low-calorie diets make you depressed
- (tags:diet mentalhealth depression )
- 3. "I serve school dinners at state schools and private schools - here's the difference"
- (tags:food money school england )
- 4. Robots are coming for mail-sorting jobs
- (tags:robots video viaKenny )
- 5. Well, CAN You Prove You're a US Citizen?
- (tags:usa citizenship )
- 6. Women warned weight-loss jabs may affect contraception
- (tags:drugs contraception weight )
Interesting Links for 15-03-2025
Mar. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Tired and depressed people are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories
- (tags:depression sleep conspiracy psychology )
- 2. Origami measuring spoon incites fury after 9 years of Kickstarter delay hell
- (tags:manufacturing kickstarter design )
- 3. Why Do Transit Agencies Keep Falling for the Hydrogen Bus Myth?
- (tags:hydrogen buses transport fraud )
- 4. I love Tumblr's enthusiastic celebration of the Ides of March
- (tags:history funny murder Roml )
- 5. A trans refugee's court case against Hungary just improved Trans+ rights across all of Europe
- (tags:transgender LGBT rights Europe GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 27-02-2025
Feb. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Covid shots protect kids from long Covid —and don't cause sudden death
- (tags:pandemic vaccination )
- 2. Eight Psychiatric Disorders Share the Same Genetic Causes
- (tags:autism anorexia ADHD anxiety genetics schizophrenia bipolar depression )
- 3. Washington Post opinion chief quits as Bezos makes new editorial demands
- (tags:USA journalism doom )
- 4. TypeScript types can run DOOM (ridiculous and nerdy)
- (tags:doom type-systems wtf impressive video )
- 5. Musk tweets about a Mexican telecoms owner cost him billions
- (tags:telecoms ElonMusk business epicfail )
- 6. Consultation on Edinburgh's Seafield regeneration plan.
- (tags:edinburgh housing )
- 7. Edinburgh's Seafield sewage works records 165 spills in a year
- (tags:edinburgh sewage )
Interesting Links for 15-10-2024
Oct. 15th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Psilocybin Bests SSRI for Major Depression in First Long-Term Comparison
- (tags:psilocybin medication depression )
- 2. Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat
- (tags:satire usa law funny demon )
- 3. The US just lost a war and nobody noticed
- (tags:usa yemen war )
- 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
- (tags:uk europe labour )
- 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 20-06-2024
Jun. 20th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Alzheimer's disease continues to elude a breakthrough treatment. What are we missing?
- (tags:alzheimers disease research )
- 2. Labour Party tried to gag Black lawyer who wrote party's own racism report
- (tags:Labour racism OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Boil the Frog - find a path between any two bands
- (tags:music )
- 4. Using MRI to identify clinically distinct biotypes in depression and anxiety
- (tags:depression anxiety psychology neuroscience mri )
- 5. Framework launched to transform water safety in Edinburgh schools
- (tags:swimming scotland children )
- 6. Do you work in Wildfire Control and Prevention? Then you need the Thermonator Flamethrower Robot Dog!
- (tags:robots dogs fire )
- 7. Tory director of campaigning takes 'leave of absence' as election betting scandal grows.
- (tags:Conservatives corruption gambling elections incompetence )
Interesting Links for 16-05-2024
May. 16th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What's it like being one of the vast hidden teams of OnlyFans chatters who pretend to be sexy women.
- (tags:sexwork fraud communication )
- 2. The future of motorway rehabilitation - a bridge that runs along the length of the motorway so that repairs can happen underneath
- (tags:design Technology video impressive )
- 3. 2023 temperatures were warmest we've seen for at least 2,000 years
- (tags:globalwarming doom )
- 4. Edinburgh planning: £80 million two tower blocks in Leith approved
- (tags:Edinburgh housing )
- 5. Body temperature and depression seem to interact with each other in interesting ways
- (tags:temperature depression )
- 6. Sex Education - Benefits and Statistics
- (tags:education sex children )
- 7. Raw Milk Sales Skyrocket in the USA as Idiots Believe Drinking Bird Flu Will Give Them Immunity
- (tags:virus disease birds milk EpicStupidity USA )
- 8. A fantastic review of Chuck Tingle's trans wizard novel.
- (tags:lgbt harrypotter transgender review fantasy satire )
- 9. 'It's destroyed us': Parents of children with long Covid accused of making it up - threatened with having their children taken away
- (tags:pandemic children OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 07-02-2024
Feb. 7th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Can anyone explain to me why Edinburgh is Scotland's worst-funded local authority?
- (tags:Scotland Edinburgh money )
- 2. The UK government is running a consultation on their terrible trans children guidance for schools. Please take the time to comment on it
- (tags:lgbt transgender uk england school )
- 3. Bluesky social network drops invite-only sign ups
- (tags:socialnetworking )
- 4. No matter the law juries will not fine people for feeding the homeless
- (tags:homelessness law GoodNews USA OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Elevated body temperature is associated with depressive symptoms
- (tags:heat depression psychology )
- 6. New paper explains why females are more prone to autoimmune diseases
- (tags:gender immune_system disease )
- 7. First 3D-printed functional human brain tissue grows like the real thing
- (tags:brain 3dprinting )
- 8. UK pylons minister reshuffled after … campaigning against local pylons
- (tags:uk electricity infrastructure )
- 9. 'We feel castrated': the young British men embracing right-wing, misogynistic politics
- (tags:politics men feminism uk )
Interesting Links for 07-12-2023
Dec. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The internet helps solve an X-Files question that fans have been wondering about for 25 years
- (tags:x-files music Twitter )
- 2. Why are movies full of CGI lying about it?
- (tags:cgi movies fraud )
- 3. Incidence and burden of long COVID in Africa - the rates are *staggering*
- (tags:Africa Pandemic Doom )
- 4. Building end-to-end security for Facebook Messenger
- (tags:Facebook communication encryption )
- 5. No, having a cat doesn't increase your risk of developing schizophrenia. Probably.
- (tags:cats schizophrenia ToxoplasmaGondii )
- 6. Services across England now lag far behind East Germany, as experts call for 'universal basic infrastructure' in UK
- (tags:uk germany OhForFucksSake infrastructure austerity )
- 7. Commuting longer than 30 minutes os associated with depression
- (tags:travel work depression mentalhealth )
- 8. Can the new Rwanda bill work and what could stop it?
- (tags:law immigration uk rights echr )
Interesting Links for 19-11-2023
Nov. 19th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The UK's economic assessment for vaccination eligibility is a masterpiece of fraud. (We bought the vaccines and then didn't give them to people it would have helped, even though it would also have helped others!)
- (tags:vaccination UK OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Pharmacies prescribing the contraceptive pill will put women's mental health at risk
- (tags:depression hormones women mentalhealth contraception )
- 3. Russell T Davies on the portrayal of disabled people (and facial scarring) and why they decided to change Davros
- (tags:disability drwho evil TV society )
- 4. Evil Cripple - TV Tropes
- (tags:disabilities society tropes TV )
Interesting Links for 31-07-2023
Jul. 31st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. China Launches First 700 TEU Electric Containership - with swappable batteries to keep it on the move
- (tags:electricity shipping China )
- 2. "The Tragedy of the Commons" is nonsense written by a racist
- (tags:economics psychology wrong )
- 3. 'No one I know has a bank account that stays open for long': The rise of sex industry workers being de-banked
- (tags:Banking sexwork OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Why non-Jews being cast as Jews in Oppenheimer really isn't a problem
- (tags:jewish movies society )
- 5. UK public libraries return six times their investment, generating billions of pounds worth of value
- (tags:libraries economics UK )
- 6. Regular use of vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases
- (tags:vitaminD cancer )
- 7. Government cuts cost of polluting in Britain in latest anti-green move
- (tags:Conservatives pollution OhForFucksSake uk )
- 8. How should you pronounce the name of the company that was Twitter?
- (tags:twitter names greece )
- 9. The evidence on low-traffic neighbourhoods and what fewer cars means for pollution and street safety
- (tags:traffic uk evidence )
- 10. The looming battle over pylons across Scotland for green energy
- (tags:scotland electricity infrastructure windpower nature )
- 11. Mindfulness reduces psychological distress
- (tags:mindfulness psychic anxiety depression )
- 12. r/law bans Twitter submissions over child sex abuse material
- (tags:twitter reddit )
Interesting Links for 30-07-2023
Jul. 30th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. UNAIDS - Global Report 2023 - The path that ends AIDS
- (tags:aids UnitedNations )
- 2. What causes people to bounce off of Mastodon?
- (tags:socialnetworking ux )
- 3. Woman denied Police Scotland job over antidepressants policy
- (tags:depression medication police Scotland )
- 4. Is Ulez working? The impact of the ultra low emission zone on toxic air levels in London
- (tags:pollution London transport )
- 5. Free prison phone calls boost family ties, rehabilitation
- (tags:communication prison rehabilitation phones )
- 6. UK set to miss target on charging stations by two decades despite plan to ban new petrol cars by 2030
- (tags:UK incompetence electricity cars )
- 7. Cis woman shares relentless transphobic attacks on her gender
- (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake sports )
Interesting Links for 06-04-2023
Apr. 6th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh's North Bridge will reopen to two-way traffic on the 21st of April
- (tags:edinburgh bridge traffic transport GoodNews )
- 2. What happens if you ask an AI how to turn the world into paperclips?
- (tags:ai funny )
- 3. What *is* the rabbinical consensus on the Plague of Frog?
- (tags:frogs Jews religion funny )
- 4. Psychedelic drug DMT improves symptoms of depression for at least six months
- (tags:psychedelics depression )
- 5. Timeline of police probe into SNP finances
- (tags:snp money politics scotland police )
- 6. 10 Reasons Board Games Are Better Now (a sometimes contradictory but always interesting video)
- (tags:boardgames video games history )
- 7. 'I consider the president a war criminal' An interview with the highest-ranking secret service officer to escape from Russia
- (tags:Russia interview military )
Interesting Links for 24-02-2022
Feb. 24th, 2022 12:00 pm- Russia has list of journalists, activists, and gay rights advocates to be killed or sent to camps after invasion of Ukraine
- (tags:Russia bigotry activism OhForFucksSake Ukraine )
- On More Covid Next Winter
- (tags:Pandemic Doom winter vaccination thefuture )
- Texas CPS says it will treat hormone treatments for transgender kids as possible child abuse
- (tags:Texas transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake republicans )
- New Covid vaccine 100% effective against severe disease
- (tags:Pandemic vaccine GoodNews )
- Sex differences, depression, anxiety, and strength
- (tags:anxiety depression psychology gender viaDanielDWilliam )
- The Estonian Government requests consultations under Article 4 of the NATO Treaty
- (tags:Estonia nato Russia Ukraine )
- This is pretty much how I feel about immortality
- (tags:lifespan craftwork )
Interesting Links for 10-02-2022
Feb. 10th, 2022 12:00 pm- What do autistic women look like?
- (tags:women autism )
- Downing Street Refuses To Confirm If Picture Of Boris Johnson With Prosecco And Tinsel Was A Party
- (tags:party pandemic BorisJohnson )
- Pupils shouldn't be allowed to criticise Dear Leader in class, says education secretary
- (tags:BorisJohnson politics conservatives school UK )
- Scottish estate licence restricted over golden eagle poisoning
- (tags:Scotland poison birds animals crime )
- Scottish Covid powers to be extended by six months
- (tags:Scotland Pandemic law )
- British renewables auctions to be held annually in green energy push
- (tags:UK renewables GoodNews )
- Boomer mathematics: why older generations can't understand the millennial struggle to buy a house
- (tags:age economics generation inflation luxury )
- Post-natal depression affects 10% of men, but there's no support for it.
- (tags:depression men childbirth )
- This AI beat the world's best Gran Turismo players
- (tags:games ai driving )
- Ebola virus can lurk in the brain and re-emerge years after recovery to cause fatal disease
- (tags:disease brain )
- London's smallest flat is up for sale for just £50k
- (tags:london housing )
- They're finally building on the ex-petrol station opposite The Regent Bar near where I used to live!
- (tags:edinburgh housing students )
Interesting Links for 09-02-2022
Feb. 9th, 2022 12:00 pm- An EU border across britain: Scotland's borders after independence
- (tags:europe uk scotland borders )
- Women led the Bronze Age immigration to Orkney
- (tags:scotland prehistory genetics women migration )
- When, exactly, were tattoos the exclusive domain of the sailor?
- (tags:tattoos history society )
- Jacob Rees-Mogg Says It Could Take 50 Years To Reap The Benefits Of Brexit
- (tags:UK Europe Doom )
- Archaeological Detective: the game where you're trying to track down whoever it was who raided all these tombs!
- (tags:games indianajones funny archeology )
- Snowy Scottish mountains are quite pretty.
- (tags:photo mountains Scotland )
- Massive new Edinburgh £19.4m Roseburn to Leith cycle route work gets underway
- (tags:bicycles transport Edinburgh )
- Autistic sons trapped in Scottish psychiatric hospitals
- (tags:scotland autism OhForFucksSake )
- The English test that ruined thousands of lives
- (tags:uk immigration testing OhForFucksSake language )
- Stimulating spinal cord helps paralysed people to walk again
- (tags:nerves Technology cyborg disability impressive )
- Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study
- (tags:microbiome depression )
- Disney's Filmmaking Process (in-depth and fascinating)
- (tags:Disney animation howto movies )
Interesting Links for 15-12-2021
Dec. 15th, 2021 12:00 pm- The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol - Here's Why!
- (tags:muppets christmas viaMarrog )
- Peter Molyneux's next game is a Blockchain pyramid scheme
- (tags:games blockchain OhForFucksSake PeterMolyneux )
- Scottish bottle return scheme will not start until 2023
- (tags:Scotland recycling )
- Omicron has an R over 5 and a doubling time of 2 days
- (tags:Pandemic Doom )
- Van Gogh Alive Comes to Edinburgh
- (tags:VincentVanGogh Edinburgh art Scotland )
- Testing disruption leaves UK 'flying blind' over scale of omicron wave
- (tags:UK Pandemic testing Doom )
- About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated
- (tags:religion usa )
- Star Wars: Imperial March x Carol of The Bells
- (tags:StarWars viaConuly music christmas video )
- The Depression Treatment That Is Turning Lives Around in Five Days (I'd love to know how long it lasts)
- (tags:depression neuroscience fmri )
- Omicron symptoms differ from other Covid strains
- (tags:pandemic virus )
- HTTP/3 is Fast
- (tags:web http )
- Why battery costs have plunged 89 percent since 2010
- (tags:batteries economics )
- UK Hospitals likely to be overwhelmed by omicron
- (tags:uk nhs doom )
- What it's like making friends with men
- (tags:men friendship comic funny )
- Malta becomes first EU nation to legalise cannabis
- (tags:malta marijuana legalisation )
- 'Harvey Weinstein would threaten to get Tarantino to direct': An oral history of The Lord of the Rings at 20
- (tags:lotr history movies )
Interesting Links for 11-11-2021
Nov. 11th, 2021 12:00 pm- The Americans Are Not Impressed By The UKâs Threat to Invoke Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol
- (tags:uk usa trade doom politics )
- The secret 1930s court case that led to transgender people losing their rights
- (tags:law UK history transgender LGBT ViaDrCross )
- Psilocybin trial finds psychedelic is effective in treating depression - but has side-effects
- (tags:psilocybin depression research )
- Remember, brave soldiers fought and died for your right to wear the remembrance thong
- (tags:clothes war history wtf )
- White House hails vaccine mandates as number of unvaccinated drops 40%
- (tags:vaccination usa pandemic GoodNews )
- How Are Kids Handling The Pandemic? We Asked Them.
- (tags:children pandemic psychology )
- North Carolina Republicans Passed A Heavily Skewed Congressional Map. How Will The Courts Respond?
- (tags:voting bias usa republicans OhForFucksSake )
- Brain Implant Translates Paralyzed Man's Thoughts Into Text With 94% Accuracy at 18 words per minute
- (tags:brain neuroscience writing )
- What Norwegians are learning as they pioneer autonomous ships
- (tags:automation boats )
Interesting Links for 06-11-2021
Nov. 6th, 2021 12:00 pm- Pfizer pill cuts Covid deaths by nearly 90%, study finds
- (tags:Pandemic medicine GoodNews )
- There Is No Such Thing as Unconscious Thought
- (tags:thinking )
- There Is No Such Thing as Conscious Thought
- (tags:thinking )
- IAB Europe cookie consent pop-ups to be found in breach of GDPR
- (tags:UK privacy dataprotection cookies )
- When you get offered an interview for the job you just got fired from - and decide to accept...
- (tags:Jobs interview funny )
- How were video games from the 90s so efficient?
- (tags:games history programming )
- HIV patient denied life-saving medication in UK detention centre
- (tags:UK migration OhForFucksSake hiv Jamaica )
- High Fructose Corn Syrup-Moderate Fat Diet Potentiates Anxio-Depressive Behavior (in mice)
- (tags:diet anxiety depression mice )
- Adding sad violin music to your ex's terrible apology text
- (tags:viaJennieRigg music funny relationships apology )
- Do *you* need a distraction log?
- (tags:distraction adhd advice )
- Lawyer, 41, Who Sued His University Over His Grade Sues His Parents to Pay Him $500 a Week, Loses Appeal
- (tags:wtf money law UK )
Interesting Links for 29-10-2021
Oct. 29th, 2021 12:28 pm- Impact of Brexit on economy is worse than Covid says Office for Budget Responsibility
- (tags:pandemic uk europe economy doom )
- Your code displays Japanese wrong
- (tags:japan language china unicode fonts )
- A charming song about your date's choice in movies being a red flag
- (tags:funny relationships viaSwampers music video movies horror )
- How Ace Ventura and South Park harmed trans people
- (tags:LGBT transgender SouthPark comedy abuse )
- Covid: Inexpensive antidepressant can cut hospitalisation risk by 30%
- (tags:pandemic medicine depression )
- Sluggish exports: the 'worrying trend' in the UK economy
- (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
- Anti-trans professor Kathleen Stock quits Sussex university
- (tags:GoodNews LGBT transgender bigotry academia UK )
- The answer to lactose intolerance might be in Mongolia
- (tags:milk history food Mongolia microbiome bacteria viaMyBrotherHugh )
- No end in sight for chip shortage as supply chain problems pile up
- (tags:cpu computers business Doom )
- Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company
- (tags:VirtualReality Facebook socialnetworking )
- Gifted dogs tilt their heads more than average
- (tags:dogs intelligence )
- Why Dogs Tilt Their Heads
- (tags:dogs behaviour )
- An intuitive guide to the mathematical constant 'e'
- (tags:growth mathematics )
- Artists - are you ready to make a fat stack of cash from NFTs?
- (tags:cryptography art money comic advice )
- Margaret Atwood seems to be back onside over transgender issued
- (tags:LGBT transgender margaretatwood )
- Why Canada won't print indigenous spelling on passports
- (tags:canada names OhForFucksSake )