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Interesting Links for 02-03-2026
Mar. 2nd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. UN Human Rights Council Castigates The EHRC For Their Proposed Trans Exclusion
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- 2. How to write (and, frankly, understand what it's like to be) women
- (tags:women writing )
- 3. New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue (in mice)
- (tags:nanotech mice materials cancer )
- 4. Keir Starmer's statement on Iran in full as US granted access to UK bases
- (tags:usa uk iran war )
- 5. A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator
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Interesting Links for 19-02-2026
Feb. 19th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Messages telling people to gamble responsibly have no effect.
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- 2. One Way to Immunize Yourself Against Pseudoscience and Other Nonsense
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- 3. A lost story from The Dark Is Rising.(Made for TV in the 70s)
- (tags:fiction children UK video viaDrJon )
- 4. Tactical voting - a ton of information about who voters would pick in various situations
- (tags:voting polls uk )
- 5. Designing for the average designs for no one - Lessons from the U.S. Air Force Cockpit Design (
- (tags:design average usa military )
Interesting Links for 18-02-2026
Feb. 18th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. U.K. government covered up dramatic spike in trans youth suicides
- (tags:transgender suicide UK OhForFucksSake LGBT )
- 2. WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
- (tags:manufacturing harddrive Technology doom )
- 3. Ancient bacteria found frozen in cave resistant to 10 types of antibiotics
- (tags:antibiotics bacteria doom )
- 4. Fake law: Barrister suing Dan Neidle relied on cases from ChatGPT
- (tags:ai law fail UK )
- 5. The association between academic pressure and adolescent depressive symptoms and self-harm
- (tags:mentalhealth academia UK psychology )
- 6. Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy
- (tags:origami materials design architecture )
- 7. Amazon are cracking down on erotica
- (tags:erotica publishing Amazon OhForFucksSake )
- 8. How "Remote Assistance" works with Waymo's autonomous taxis.
- (tags:taxi driving automation )
- 9. Inside Horden, the County Durham town failed by politics (if you were wondering why people are turning to Reform)
- (tags:politics poverty uk )
- 10. New Silent Hill game inspired by tiny fishing village in Fife
- (tags:horror games scotland )
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Interesting Links for 16-02-2026
Feb. 16th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Good Omens Season 3 Release Date Confirmed By Prime Video To Close Out Hit Show
- (tags:TV neilgaiman terrypratchett )
- 2. On the immorality of bad jokes
- (tags:jokes funny comic philosophy )
- 3. I don't understand why people are using the internet less
- (tags:internet phones society awfulness comic )
- 4. In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud
- (tags:Technology sound music )
- 5. Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging
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- 6. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy stage show - a review
- (tags:review HHG2G )
- 7. What Exact Products Do Games Sell, Two Case Studies
- (tags:games design )
- 8. A brief history of "Mysterioso Pizzicato" - one of the most famous pieces of music you may not have thought about.
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Interesting Links for 15-12-2025
Dec. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Flat-pack washing machine for people without an electricity connection
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- 2. 5D glass storage 'memory crystals' promise up to 13.8 billion years of data storage resilience, which is roughly the age of the universe — crams 360 terabytes into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser
- (tags:storage Technology )
- 3. 'Throw the parcel at the door' - Evri couriers cutting corners to earn a decent wage
- (tags:delivery uk OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
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Interesting Links for 26-11-2025
Nov. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How Ferrari's Formula One Pit Stop Team saved the lives of thousands of children
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- 2. EU's Top Court landmark judgment: Member States Must Recognise Same-Sex Marriages from Other EU Countries
- (tags:Europe LGBT marriage GoodNews law )
- 3. Suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%
- (tags:suicide children LGBT transgender hormones research )
- 4. Justice secretary wants most jury trials scrapped
- (tags:law UK labour )
- 5. Lammy Furiously Backed Campaign for 'Vital' Jury Trials 'To Prevent Bias and Ensure Justice' - before deciding to get rid of them
- (tags:law UK labour hypocrisy )
- 6. Concept Art for Characters That Ended Up as Blonde White Women
- (tags:design games racism )
- 7. BBC accused of censoring Trump line from historian's lecture
- (tags:bbc censorship corruption usa politics )
Interesting Links for 14-11-2025
Nov. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
- (tags:usa racism )
- 2. Lupus may be caused by the common Epstein-Barr virus (as well as MS)
- (tags:disease virus immune_system )
- 3. Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix
- (tags:automation driving usa )
- 4. The last-ever US penny was minted today in Philadelphia
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- 5. Inside China's Mini PC Production: How Tiny Computers Are Made (a 22 minute factory tour)
- (tags:computers video manufacturing )
- 6. Marble: generating 3D scenes from text and imagery prompts
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- 7. GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE (apocalyptically strange looking film, I rather fancy it)
- (tags:movies trailer weird video )
- 8. 5 key points as legal experts grilled by MSPs on indyref2
- (tags:scotland independence law )
- 9. Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World (down 17% in a decade, to less than half)
- (tags:religion USA )
- 10. UK tax calculator showing tax rates and marginal rates under various suggestions by different groups/parties
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Interesting Links for 08-11-2025
Nov. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What's wrong with the UK's housing market (and why are Labour's plans to tinker around the edges unlikely to help)
- (tags:uk housing doom viaFJM )
- 2. The Battle Iranian Women Are Winning
- (tags:iran women religion society GoodNews islam clothing )
- 3. Early-stage clinical trial demonstrates promise of intranasal influenza vaccine in generating broad immunity
- (tags:vaccines viaKenny flu GoodNews )
- 4. Getty Images v Stability AI: A landmark High Court ruling on AI, copyright, and trade marks
- (tags:uk ai law )
- 5. The old proxies for trustworthiness no longer work.
- (tags:trust design scam fraud )
Interesting Links for 13-09-2025
Sep. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. If you were wondering what Bryan Fuller and Mads Mikkelsen were up to, it's a movie about a guy who will (for the right money) kill the monster under your bed. Dust Bunny (also starring Sigourney Weaver).
- I wish my kids were a few years older...
(tags:monsters children movies trailer ) - 2. How were escalators invented, and how safe are they? (very, unless your maintenance people are corrupt)
- (tags:design technology safety video history )
- 3. Israeli conductor condemns his country in extraordinary Proms outburst
- (tags:Israel Palestine )
Interesting Links for 08-07-2025
Jul. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 7 Engineers Suspended After $2.3 Million Bridge Includes Bizarre 90-Degree Turn
- (tags:architecture design epicfail India )
- 2. Edinburgh Airport liquid limit increased from 100ml to two litres
- (tags:airport security Technology )
- 3. The Time Someone Plagiarized Calvin & Hobbes and Nobody Noticed or Cared
- (tags:comics plagiarism history art ai )
- 4. Turns out a great way to get children to want to learn their times tables is to set them to pop songs
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- 5. Employers to be banned from silencing harassed or abused staff
- (tags:regulation abuse work UK law )
- 6. Some English children are living in 'Dickensian' poverty, says commissioner
- (tags:england poverty children OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Electricity from large solar arrays with batteries now cheaper than from fossil plants in Germany
- (tags:electricity solarpower batteries germany GoodNews )
- 8. O Fortuna Misheard Lyrics
- (tags:music hearing words illusion funny video )
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Interesting Links for 24-06-2025
Jun. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Mechanical Watch: Exploded View
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- 2. Language is complicated (Japanese star edition)
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- 3. Reminder that you can be lovely to your friends and family and still a disgustingly awful genocidal murderer
- (tags:Nazis history people )
- 4. What Britain looks like after Brexit (written in 2016, about 2025). Anyone want to assign it marks for accuracy?
- (tags:UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Voyager 2 Illuminates Boundary of Interstellar Space
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- 6. Upcycling plastic into painkillers: Microbes transform everyday waste into acetaminophen
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- 7. Some great photos from Edinburgh's Pride March
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- 8. Businesses still gatekeep jobs for graduates - it's harmful and cruel
- (tags:business academia university OhForFucksSake )
- 9. What does the new Industial Strategy mean for Scotland?
- (tags:scotland government )
- 10. The USA is definitely not at war. Probably. Maybe. Kinda.
- (tags:war USA Iran Israel video funny )
Interesting Links for 19-06-2025
Jun. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Doctor uses robot to remotely perform surgery on patient thousands of miles away
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- 2. General-purpose robots are very nearly here
- (tags:robots ai video impressive )
- 3. How roundabouts transformed Carmel, Indiana
- (tags:transport planning roads design usa )
- 4. Beware the gaze of raccoons!
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- 5. Banning smartphones in schools has little or no impact on the wellbeing of students or their education or on the prevalence of online bullying
- (tags:phones school )
- 6. A Provocative Argument About What Creates Serial Killers (possibly Heavy Metals)
- (tags:murder brain pollution )
- 7. Scottish Government advice on school uniforms now says that you shouldn't need branded items.
- (tags:school clothing GoodNews )
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
- (tags:superman movies trailer comics video )
- 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
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- 9. Audible to use AI narrators and translators
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- 10. South Korea's robot chefs worry human workers, disappoint customers
- (tags:food cooking robots )
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Interesting Links for 06-04-2025
Apr. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Darkest Timeline For Board Games
- (tags:games economics usa OhForFucksSake doom )
- 2. Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans
- (tags:usa healthcare europe inequality )
- 3. Exeter's unassuming Co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'
- (tags:HeavyMetal design logo Devon UK )
- 4. Science Stopped Believing in Porn Addiction. You Should, Too
- (tags:addiction porn psychology morality )
- 5. UK bans fake reviews and hidden online shopping fees under new law
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- 6. The bits of Excel that you didn't know about (and might make your life easier)
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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 )
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Interesting Links for 30-01-2025
Jan. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The one critic Elon Musk can't counter: his daughter
- (tags:ElonMusk family transgender lgbt )
- 2. A really simple guide to self-care
- (tags:advice health mentalhealth )
- 3. OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
- (tags:ai intellectual_property )
- 4. Edinburgh theatre run of Coraline scrapped over sexual misconduct allegations involving author Neil Gaiman
- (tags:neilgaiman rape theatre )
- 5. Friends make tasks seem easier
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- 6. Good Omens Graphic Novel Kickstarter will not be giving Neil Gaiman any money.
- (tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett kickstarter )
- 7. Elon Musk can't even play computer games
- (tags:games ElonMusk cheating )
- 8. 55% of Britons support rejoining the EU. Only 30% think we were right to leave.
- (tags:uk europe polls )
- 9. Sicko game developers keep returning to reinvent Tetris
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- 10. Waymo to test its autonomous taxis in 10 new cities in 2025, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego
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Interesting Links for 22-11-2024
Nov. 22nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What good cycling infrastructure looks like when it interacts with roads and pavements
- (tags:cycling netherlands infrastructure design roads )
- 2. Why were two Scottish ferries 6 years late and four times over budget?
- (tags:scotland ships epicfail )
- 3. How Democrats killed #MeToo
- (tags:politics misogyny democrats USA )
Interesting Links for 24-09-2024
Sep. 24th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What It's Like Being a Billionaire's Personal Assistant
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- 2. How much energy does desalinisation use? Is it "absurdly cheap"?
- (tags:water electricity desalination )
- 3. Persepolis Now - looking at the future of Iran
- (tags:iran politics islam )
- 4. How Upside-Down Models Revolutionized Architecture
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