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Interesting Links for 10-10-2024
Oct. 10th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The future of mining is giant autonomous electric trucks
- (tags:automation mining australia viaElfy )
- 2. Consultation on the Visitor Levy (tourist tax) for Edinburgh
- (tags:edinburgh tourism tax )
- 3. Ants learned to farm fungi during a mass extinction
- (tags:extinction ants fungus )
- 4. Entirely New Ecosystem Discovered Beneath The Ocean Floor
- (tags:ocean lava life )
- 5. Elon Musk is piling onto all the hurricane disinformation, hampering relief efforts
- (tags:ElonMusk disinformation disaster OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Wealth distribution in the United States
- (tags:usa wealth inequality )
- 7. Cards Against Humanity Is Paying People To Come Out Against Trump
- (tags:games voting usa )
Interesting Links for 07-09-2024
Sep. 7th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Neil Gaiman Film The Graveyard Book Paused After Sexual Assault Claims
- (tags:neilgaiman books Disney assault )
- 2. Russia Aimed Propaganda at Gamers, Minorities to Swing 2024 Election
- (tags:russia elections usa fraud )
- 3. Disabled children's charity hands 43% of grants to rightwing think-tanks
- (tags:uk charity OhForFucksSake )
- 4. University of Edinburgh submits plans for 'New Darwin' bioscience hub at King's Buildings
- (tags:Edinburgh university )
- 5. Sir Tony Blair branded 'despicable' by Fire Brigades Union for comments on Grenfell fire
- (tags:fire UK tonyblair disaster )
- 6. Puberty blockers a 'safe, effective and reversible' form of gender-affirming care, finds Australian review
- (tags:Australia puberty healthcare transgender )
- 7. Study: Playing Dungeons & Dragons helps autistic players in social interactions (it certainly did with me!)
- (tags:dungeonsanddragons autism )
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Interesting Links for 11-07-2024
Jul. 11th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Can someone explain why train companies use overtime so much, rather than employing enough drivers?
- (tags:trains scotland )
- 2. How would the election have gone if Reform hadn't stood?
- (tags:UK elections politics )
- 3. What Labour's strategy was in the election, and how it depended not just on how many votes it got, but what kind
- (tags:voting UK Labour Conservatives politics )
- 4. China's Batteries Are Now Cheap Enough to Power Huge Shifts
- (tags:batteries china )
- 5. These rats could be the future of search and rescue
- (tags:rats disaster )
Interesting Links for 29-01-2024
Jan. 29th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. "Lena" isn't about uploading (it's a great short story though)
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- 2. "My son says he is not a book person. Where did my parenting go wrong?"
- (tags:books children funny computers parenting )
- 3. What does the ICJ ruling mean for Gaza and Israel? Cambridge professor explains
- (tags:rights law Palestine Israel )
- 4. Why You've Never Been In A Plane Crash (the no-blame culture of crash investigations)
- (tags:airplanes disaster organisation )
- 5. Pavement parking crackdown begins in Edinburgh
- (tags:cars Edinburgh )
- 6. Edinburgh roads: Through traffic to be banned from key routes across city centre
- (tags:transport edinburgh roads cars )
- 7. Talking points for calling your Senators about KOSA
- (tags:politics usa OhForFucksSake internet regulation )
- 8. How a Worldcon happens, and what might happen to them next
- (tags:conventions hugo china scifi )
Interesting Links for 30-09-2023
Sep. 30th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. By breaking Net Zero pledges the Conservatives are alienating everyone but a small section of their own voters.
- (tags:Conservatives globalwarming uk viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. Search for phone signal caused oil spill, triggering the biggest environmental disaster in Mauritian history
- (tags:oil shipping disaster phones OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Rishi Sunak's free childcare offer could close thousands of nurseries
- (tags:childcare Doom UK conservatives )
- 4. Revealed: Proof PM knows cutting HS2 would lead to chaos
- (tags:trains conservatives Doom UK )
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Interesting Links for 21-08-2023
Aug. 21st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. West Virginia can't require incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming
- (tags:atheism religion USA law prison viaSwampers )
- 2. English Chess Federation will not exclude trans women
- (tags:LGBT chess UK viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. The ecological impact of wolf reintroduction to Britain.
- (tags:wolves ecology viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. Why does global warming lead to both droughts and flooding?
- (tags:globalwarming disaster flooding drought )
- 5. Artists have forgotten how to draw
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- 6. Saying Hello To Your Neighbors Linked to Higher Wellbeing, but With Limits
- (tags:happiness health community psychology )
- 7. Two Drums and a Cymbal Fall off a Cliff
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- 8. I am really delighted by how well Rick Astley has done recently. (Here pulled into an impromptu collaboration with the Foo Fighters)
- (tags:music rickroll video viaDanielDWilliam )
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Interesting Links for 22-07-2022
Jul. 22nd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Brexit continues to be the sucking void at the centre of British politics
- (tags:uk europe Conservatives doom viaKalimac )
- 2. Families With Trans Kids Are Fleeing Hostile States for Welcoming Ones
- (tags:USA transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- 3. The new Dungeons & Dragons movie does not look terrible!
- (tags:movies trailer dungeonsanddragons )
- 4. On Babel events and wrestling God
- (tags:languages God disaster construction bible viaNancyLebov )
- 5. UK plans to introduce visa requirements for some people crossing the Irish border.
- (tags:ireland NorthernIreland borders doom )
- 6. Edinburgh strippers hit back at councillor's claim exotic dancing is 'not work'
- (tags:sexwork edinburgh )
- 7. Alan Grant: Tributes flood in for Scottish comic book writer behind Batman and Judge Dredd stories
- (tags:comics 2000AD writing scotland )
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Interesting Links for 09-10-2021
Oct. 9th, 2021 12:00 pm- Lateral flow tests: Health chiefs probe 'high number' of positive rapid Covid tests followed by negative PCRs
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- Edinburgh's former Royal High school: Lease granted for music school trust
- (tags:edinburgh school history architecture )
- How the worst civilian rail disaster in UK history helped create the paramedic
- (tags:healthcare disaster history rail UK )
