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Interesting Links for 28-10-2021
Oct. 28th, 2021 12:00 pm- The teaser for "Lightyear" (a new Pixar movie) looks like a lot of fun
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- Oregon's arboreal smiley
- (tags:trees emoji viaDanielDWilliam photos )
- "Dune" (the movie), annotated
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- Exams in Scotland to be reformed, but not scrapped
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- The UK Media Has Seriously Bungled the Kathleen Stock Story
- (tags:transgender media academia LGBT uk journalism )
- People Who Technically Did Their Job, But In A Really Bad Way
- (tags:work funny fail viaCharlesStross )
- I just donated to the Legal Defence Fund for Transgender Lives
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- Facebook prioritized 'angry' emoji reaction posts in news feeds - pushing more provovactive content into users' news feeds
- (tags:facebook emotion viaSwampers OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 05-05-2021
May. 5th, 2021 12:00 pm- The world's biggest jeweller, Pandora, says it will no longer sell mined diamonds and will switch to exclusively laboratory-made diamonds
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- Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border
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- Efficiency Is the Enemy - to be effective you need slack
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- Nose size indicates maximum penile length
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- The Unlikely Success of Fish Fingers (sticks in the USA)
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- The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer
- (tags:ai food bread cancer viaMyBrotherHugh )
- Louisiana Anti-Trans Bill Dropped After Overwhelming Opposition
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- Fishing row triggers French threat of Jersey power cut
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- China's falling rocket: What happens if out-of-control Long March 5B hits the Earth?
- (tags:China space fail viaDanielDWilliam )
- New study maps out Earth's global atmospheric rivers
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- The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think
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- Why student libraries never have enough eBooks
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- Germany Will Return Benin Bronzes to Nigeria in 2022
- (tags:archeology nigeria GoodNews art history )
- Autistic people are better at detecting lack of interest in further conversation than non-autistic people are
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Interesting Links for 03-01-2020
Jan. 3rd, 2020 12:00 pm- Details of Valve's unreleased Portal prequel revealed
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- Higher cow-milk fat intake is associated with lower childhood adiposity
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- The many crimes of Macavity
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- Ex-Google exec savages firm on human rights
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- 80% of betting company money comes from 2% of customers
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- Jimmy Savile and the BBC: the report's key sections
- Yes, it's a couple of years old, but I just bumped into it.
(tags:OhForFucksSake bbc children rape RapeCulture viaFJM ) - The extensive problems with Keir Starmer's past
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- The best way to make popcorn
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- Duolingo sparks Gaelic boom as young Scots shrug off 'cringe' factor
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- Psilocybin found safe for consumption in largest ever controlled study
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- U-Haul to Implement Nicotine-Free Hiring Policy
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- U.S. kills top Iranian commander Soleimani in air strike
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- Epilepsy Foundation Was Targeted in Mass Strobe Cyberattack
- Also: 30 times? Can someone help them with their security?
(tags:assault epilipsy OhForFucksSake hacking ) - Words used in fanfic to describe genitals. Warning: may cause giggling
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- Why killer whales—and humans—evolved menopause
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- Which emoji scissors close (I love the obsession you get with these)
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- Most illustrations of butterflies show dead ones
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Interesting Links for 07-11-2019
Nov. 7th, 2019 12:03 pm- Revealed: Russian donors have stepped up Tory funding
- (tags:conservatives Russia OhForFucksSake )
- Transgender Laws in Transition: European Courts on Non-Binary Gender Recognition
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- "Orbital Comics" of London to Stop Selling New Weekly Comics
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- The proposed ITV debate format is flawed. Other countries do it better.
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- A thread of rating every horse emoji
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- Help me ask "Why you didn't just…?"
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- If You Like to Complain About 'Decimate'...
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- Evidence That the Clitoris Is Important for Reproduction
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- Lib Dems, Greens and Plaid agree 60-seat 'Remain alliance' election pact
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- Former Twitter employees charged with spying on users for Saudis
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- October was hottest in Earth's recorded history
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- A Study of Meditation Under the Influence of Psilocybin
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- The Tories are having a _terrible_ start to their election campaign. Do not be reassured by this.
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- Craigslist's 'erotic services' alone reduced the murder of women in the US by 10-17%. (almost 500 women per year)
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- The Vampire Apocalypse Calculator
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- People have strange internalised rules about money and food
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- It's Time to Take Down the Mona Lisa
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- "I was an astrologer - here's how it really works, and why I had to stop"
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Interesting Links for 09-04-2018
Apr. 9th, 2018 12:00 pm- 8 tips to help you become more resilient
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- Best Breast Pumps 2018 (mostly saved for later for me)
- (tags: breastfeeding Technology review )
- The Oral History Of The Poop Emoji
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- The Racist and Sexist History of Keeping Birth Control Side Effects Secret
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- Why did fans leave LiveJournal, and where will they go after Tumblr?
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- Dark Souls speed run in 55 minutes with no glitches
- By comparison it took me a few dozen hours.
(tags: games video impressive ) - Publishers Haven't Realized Just How Big a Deal GDPR Is
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- GDPR Requirements in Plain English
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- Star Wars turns out to still be popular, despite loud whining on the internet about ruined childhoods
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- Brexit: Nearly 20 banks have committed to Frankfurt since vote to leave EU
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- Childbirth stories are the stuff of life. We should share them
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- The "Solo: A Star Wars Story" trailer actually looks pretty good
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- An introduction to cat behaviour for dog owners
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- I simply don't believe that security on the iPhone works this badly. I assume it's a hoax of some kind.
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- Content aware scaled cats are delightfully odd
- (tags: cats photoshop weird ViaDrCross )
- Fear mongering about cell phones and cancer
- (tags: phones cancer fraud OhForFucksSake )
- The handwriting of Bowie, Cobain, Lennon and more are now downloadable typefaces
- Both cool and creepy
(tags: font music viaElfy ) - Gut microbes are vulnerable to wide range of drugs
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- Does the “Article 50 Challenge” have any merit?
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- Myth busting: Why didn't the Skripals die on the spot?
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- Why fat piles on when the body’s daily cycles are in disarray
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- Too many toys stifles toddler creativity
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- GTA 5 Is The Most Profitable Entertainment Title Of All Time, Over 90 Million Units Sold, $6Billion made
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- Bacteria found in the small intestines of mice and humans can travel to other organs and trigger an autoimmune response
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Interesting Links for 07-12-2017
Dec. 7th, 2017 01:00 pm- Screaming dinosaurs and pop music. What's not to like?
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- Bitcoin’s energy consumption, explained
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- Sad poop emoji gets flushed after row
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- Person of the Year: Time honours abuse 'silence breakers'
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- Theresa May "I have a method for avoiding a hard Irish border, but it is too large to fit in this margin"
- (tags: Ireland NorthernIreland UK europe politics OhForFucksSake )
- Autistic social problems partially down to neurotypicals shunning them
- (tags: autism communication social psychology viaJennieRigg )
- Genetically mutated rats could be released in Britain to solve rodent problem
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- The impossible heterosexuality of losing weight.
- (tags: lgbt desire weight society viaLizzieCassMaran )
- Extinct kangaroo-like lion discovered in Australia
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- China's debt levels pose stability risk, says IMF
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- What is the secret to being more assertive? Having self respect
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- Australian stock exchange to move to blockchain
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- The Big Vitamin D Mistake
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Interesting Links for 14-07-2017
Jul. 14th, 2017 12:00 pm- Mario Kart VR looks absolutely incredible
- (tags: Mario nintendo VirtualReality awesome video )
- At Wimbledon 2017, one of the oldest tennis tournaments serves up new tech
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- Miniatur Wunderland, world's largest model railway, filmed with Google Maps Street View
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- Electric cars to account for all new vehicle sales in Europe by 2035
- (tags: cars thefuture electricity )
- Superconducting Quantum Levitation on a 3π Möbius Strip
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- Eight unusual neuropsychological syndromes (that I'd never heard of)
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- Pakistan’s secret atheists
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- This is still the best joke of all time
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- Turn JavaScript code into Emoji (It was only a matter of time)
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- The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2020
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- Dark Souls cake!
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- I Worry Blizzard Won't Make 'Diablo 4' If They Can't Monetize It With Loot Boxes
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- Labour's 2017 election campaign worst in almost 70 years at turning votes into seats
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- Ravens can be better at planning ahead than four-year-old children
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Interesting Links for 01-07-2017
Jul. 1st, 2017 12:00 pm- Renewable energy sets new record for UK electricity generation (26% in first three months, low-carbon now at 46%)
- Also, that top photo is _really_ odd. Those wind turbines are at Braes of Doune, a good 10km North of Stirling. How on earth was that photo taken?
(tags: windpower renewables uk ) - Designing Genderless Emoji? It Takes More Than Just Losing the Lipstick
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- Having more than one illustration per page results in poorer word learning among pre-schoolers
- (tags: pictures language learning children )
- A Brutal Intelligence: AI, Chess and the Human Mind
- (tags: chess games brain Intelligence ai )
- Neural networks + Kittens = !!!
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- Women in Tech Speak Frankly on Culture of Harassment
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- Summary of Solutions to Climate Change
- (tags: climatechange Technology )
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Interesting Links for 30-08-2016
Aug. 30th, 2016 12:00 pm- Balls to learning how to animate, let's rotoscope some parkour!
- (tags: games animation computers )
- What the world needs now is a dinosaur emoji
- "To be clear, Schwarz does not own any dinosaurs. He lives in Berlin and works at a travel start-up."
(tags: dinosaurs emoji ) - The giant pyramid hidden inside a mountain
- (tags: design history mexico )
- Shetland turbines at Bluemull Sound connected to grid
- (tags: power scotland renewables )
- Lightning strike kills 323 reindeer
- (tags: norway weather electricity video viaSwampers )
- It’s Time for Shows to Start Saying No to Season Two (some spoilers)
- (tags: tv writing business )
- Facebook fires human editors, algorithm immediately posts fake news
- (tags: facebook news ai fail )
- Rebutting papers doesn't stop scientists believing them
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- Dogs recognize both words and tone to know when they’re good
- (tags: dogs language emotion Intelligence )
- Trent Reznor Recalls How David Bowie Helped Him Get Sober
- (tags: DavidBowie TrentReznor music drugs alcohol )
- Not all problems in the US healthcare system require more regulation
- (tags: drugs healthcare usa regulation lobbying corruption )
- More evidence that literary, but not pop, fiction boosts readers’ emotional skills
- (tags: emotion fiction writing books )
- Killer wives are "wicked", killer husbands are "stressed" – uncovering the sexism in judges’ closing remarks (small study, but interesting)
- (tags: law sexism murder australia )
- Facebook recommended that this psychiatrist’s patients friend each other
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- Apple should repay Ireland €13bn, European Commission rules
- (tags: tax ireland apple europe )
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