Entries tagged with engineering

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Interesting Links for 24-05-2024

1. New pylons to be installed across the UK in National Grid's £30bn green upgrade: (tags:uk electricity infrastructure )
2. For whom Good Omens is being written: (tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett alzheimers TV writing )
3. Football Association resists government pressure to change its transgender inclusion policy: (tags:football UK transgender LGBT GoodNews sports )
4. The next food marketing blitz is aimed at people on new weight-loss drugs: (tags:food weight drugs )
5. Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking for first time in US: (tags:marijuana alcohol usa )
6. The Suit Died, but for Good Reasons: (tags:history clothing UK monarchy class USA )
7. Managers - what are they good for?: (tags:management engineering software )
8. Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue: (tags:Reddit Google ai OhForFucksSake safety advice headline epicfail )

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Interesting Links for 14-03-2024

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 04-03-2023

1. Privileges Committee Believes Boris Johnson May Have Misled House On Partygate: (tags:BorisJohnson lies fraud politics pandemic )
2. EU countries postpone vote on combustion engine ban (because Germany wants to be allowed to keep making them): (tags:politics europe cars pollution )
3. ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, And having it pretend to be one leads us in very difficult directions: (tags:philosophy morality ai language )
4. There's a Good Reason Why So Many Terrorists Are Engineers: (tags:terrorism engineering )
5. "Eat Out To Help Out" caused an increase in Covid cases. Matt Hancock covered it up.: (tags:Pandemic restaurant OhForFucksSake murder censorship )
6. Iowa: Republicans propose ban on same-sex marriage: (tags:LGBT marriage USA republicans OhForFucksSake )
7. Happy Weird Pride Day!: (tags:weird pride )
8. Food Timeline: food history research service: (tags:food history )

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Interesting Links for 12-12-2022

1. The Five-Year Engineering Feat Germany Pulled Off in Months: (tags:Germany engineering gas energy Russia impressive )
2. Countries that have banned spanking have lower rates of violence amongst children: (tags:children violence spanking )
3. Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer: (tags:Cancer genes GoodNews )
4. Where Do US Teaching Skeletons Come From?: (tags:USA education bodies India )
5. Aspartame makes mice anxious. And their children. and their grandchildren: (tags:food anxiety mice psychology )
6. If you're in London you should go see The Wolves in the Walls: (tags:wolves theatre puppets video London neilgaiman )
7. On White Girls Wearing Braids as Cultural Appropriation: (tags:cultural_appropriation hair race )
8. I object to headlines about Edinburgh Zoo penguins playing adorably in the snow when the video clearly shows them just standing about acting entirely normal!: (tags:headline OhForFucksSake journalism video penguins )
9. This lizard is behaving exactly the same as our cat, Jim: (tags:animals behaviour video )
10. What happens to your smartphone when it gets stolen?: (tags:iphone crime viaPatrickHadfield )

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Interesting Links for 21-07-2022

1. New EU rules come in affecting Google, Apple, etc. The fallout is going to be *fascinating*: (tags:google apple regulation europe )
2. Sizewell C nuclear power station approved by UK government amid energy crisis: (tags:nuclearpower uk )
3. This Food Does Not Exist 🍪🍰🍣🍹: (tags:food ai fake )
4. The cute lovable robot dogs now have assault rifle attachments: (tags:robots dogs video guns )
5. Quidditch changes its name to distance itself from JK Rowling: (tags:jkrowling sports )
6. Addressing The Claims In JK Rowling's Justification For Transphobia: (tags:jkrowling LGBT transgender bigotry )
7. A doctor discovers an important question patients should be asked: (tags:healthcare viaEatSoylentGreen )
8. Edinburgh secures blockbuster Doctor Who exhibition for show's 60th anniversary year: (tags:drwho edinburgh )
9. Scotland's Drugs Death Taskforce chief says punishing addicts must stop: (tags:scotland drugs death addiction law )
10. 4 Myths About Construction: Debunked: (tags:myths construction engineering FactCheck )
11. Brexit red tape: Bookings of UK musicians at EU's biggest festivals crash by 45%: (tags:uk europe music trade doom )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4114819.html

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Interesting Links for 20-11-2021

What's life like with executive dysfunction?: (tags:behaviour mentalhealth comic organisation tidiness )
York council are making it impossible for people with disabilities to access the city centre: (tags:disability yorkshire OhForFucksSake )
Necromolds: When wargaming meets Playdoh!: (tags:gaming wargames sculpture )
Boris Johnson strips Transport for the North of powers after it criticises his rail plan: (tags:transport UK trains )
New Covid Drugs Are Here—and They Could Change the Pandemic: (tags:Pandemic medicine )
Games Workshop fights back against fascist hate symbols in the Warhammer 40K community: (tags:warhammer fascism )
The Ones Who Take the Train to Omelas (mostly for the pictures): (tags:scifi short_story )
Pangea Aerospace successfully hot fire tests the first MethaLox aerospike engine in the world: (tags:space engineering )
Looks like I'll be skipping the Wheel of Time TV show: (tags:TV fantasy )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4101746.html

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Interesting Links for 20-10-2021

The Tragedy of The Last Duel Flopping at the Box Office (I do actually fancy this. But I'm not going to a cinema until cases are 1/20 of what they are now): (tags:movies pandemic viaSwampers RidleyScott )
The British ambassador to Afghanistan repeatedly warned Dominic Raab that Kabul would swiftly fall into Taliban hands: (tags:uk afghanistan epicfail OhForFucksSake )
New Delta sub-variant is 15% more transmissible: (tags:pandemic )
New Edinburgh primary school to get one of three names as shortlist unveiled (Sophia will be there in 2 years): (tags:school Edinburgh names )
The time Claudia Black gave James McAvoy advice: (tags:acting scifi advice )
So You Want To Abolish Time Zones...: (tags:time )
Android 12's Extra Dim Feature is One of My Favorites: (tags:Android darkness light phones )
An interesting fact that political campaigners ought to know: (tags:politics marketing comics )
Memes of classical history: (tags:history meme funny )
Engineers know who is to blame for the Trolley Problem: (tags:philosophy engineering )
Surgeons perform first successful transplant using pig kidney in a human: (tags:pigs humans organs )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4091443.html

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Interesting Links for 27-09-2021

Angela Rayner defends pointing out that PM and senior Tories are scum: (tags:politics labour conservatives UK )
Labour's eternal civil war really is awful: (tags:labour politics OhForFucksSake )
Labour delegates vote to nationalise energy firms in defeat for Keir Starmer: (tags:labour electricity )
It's not your age that's slowing your metabolism, new research says.: (tags:age metabolism fitness )
Government to cut threshold for graduate repayment of student loans: (tags:UK university money )
How do you repair a major underground power cable? (Impressive engineering feats!): (tags:engineering electricity impressive )
Repairing Underground Power Cables Is Nearly Impossible (a video on the story I shared earlier - complete with an update!): (tags:video electricity engineering impressive )
NHS Doctors Who Volunteered In Novavax Trial Say They're Unable To Travel Or Get Boosters: (tags:vaccination research OhForFucksSake )
What it's like when the police raid a brothel: (tags:sexwork police OhForFucksSake )
Do you *really* respect other people's beliefs?: (tags:belief comic funny )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4059701.html

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Interesting Links for 11-07-2021

Quest for "green" cement draws big name investors to $300B industry: Extra info https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27795416
(tags:materials co2 cement )
Off-Patent Osteoporosis Drug Also Found to Extend Lifespan: (tags:lifespan viaDanielDWilliam )
The Planets with the Giant Diamonds Inside (inside two fascinating planets you don't hear much about): (tags:space planets history astronomy )
Why Do Gamers Love Speedrunning So Much Anyway?: (tags:games speed )
Government's Mass Infection Plan pushed by Great Barrington Declaration Lobbying Effort to End COVID Protections: (tags:conspiracy vaccine pandemic UK government OhForFucksSake )
Not wearing a mask is associated with antisocial traits: (tags:psychology pandemic )
Boris Johnson's £11.6bn climate fund to be swiped from aid budget: (tags:UK globalwarming aid OhForFucksSake )
What is "The child-annihilating zipline"? (with bonus terrible kitchen redesign): (tags:death children engineering )
No bids for over 70% of Indian coal mines up for auction: (tags:coal India )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4051560.html

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Interesting Links for 20-06-2021

Texas Governor Signs Law Banning Teachers From Talking About Racism: (tags:racism USA OhForFucksSake )
Doctor invents a hiccup-curing straw with a 90% success rate: (tags:hiccups )
The Caucasian's Guide to Celebrating Juneteenth: (tags:USA racism holidays )
Does Your Daughter Know It's OK To Be Angry?: (tags:women anger emotion patriarchy society )
Injection-Molded Glass Breakthrough Shatters Ceiling Of Work Methods: (tags:glass technology viaNancyLebov )
North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about engineering: (tags:engineering USA regulation )
Brexit red tape stops Royal British Legion selling poppies in the EU online: (tags:Europe UK charity OhForFucksSake )
Brexit farmer faces the consequences of his own actions: (tags:UK Europe farming Doom video )
The efforts to make text-based AI less racist and terrible: (tags:racism bigotry ai )
Lecturer loses job in London over being a rabbi while also a woman: (tags:women judaism academia UK OhForFucksSake )
G7 summit was 'super spreading' event for Cornwall as cases rocket 2,450% after Johnson and Biden visit: (tags:pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Assisted dying bill to be lodged at Scottish Parliament: (tags:Scotland euthanasia )

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Interesting Links for 16-03-2021

What You Need to Know About 'Roblox'—and Why Kids Are Obsessed: (tags:games children )
EU launches legal action against UK over serious Northern Ireland protocol breach: (tags:europe uk trade doom NorthernIreland )
Do Liberals And Conservatives Really Have Different Moral Foundations?: (tags:voting politics psychology )
Have some very impressive balance/acrobatics: (tags:impressive video )
Justice League's Snyder cut review: No longer Whedonesque—and all the better: (tags:movies DC superheroes review )
An impressive feat of engineering: (tags:engineering transport Netherlands video roads viaDanielDWilliam )
Scotland aims to build 100,000 more affordable homes: (tags:Scotland housing )
Beatings will continue until women know their place, confirm Met Police: (tags:satire police women UK violence )
Who wants to see a baby emu hatch?: (tags:birds eggs )
Yakko's World but Barack Obama Singing: (tags:barackobama world music mashup video viaSwampers )
Covid: UK vaccination surge expected in coming days as 10 million doses arrive from India: (tags:vaccination uk india )
Seasonal energy storage in aluminium for 100 percent solar heat and electricity supply: (tags:materials electricity storage metal )
Performance vs Trust (and why you don't always want the most effective person): (tags:trust performance video )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4010158.html

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Interesting Links for 06-03-2021

Women in 20s told 'get pregnant' to ease endometriosis symptoms: (tags:pregnancy healthcare women UK OhForFucksSake )
Lying liar Boris Johnson lied to parliament over Covid contracts, court order shows: (tags:lies BorisJohnson UK contracts pandemic )
What is going on with government Covid contracts?: (tags:UK contracts corruption government )
Why I hate "The Knack" (the idea that some people are born to be engineers, and nobody else can be one): (tags:engineering )
The amount of money that the average young person can expect to have has dropped dramatically over the last 30 years.: (tags:wealth inequality history visualisation )
Why have Harvard University's expenses gone up 45% between: 2004 and 2019?: (tags:university business accounting )
The Notorious B.I.G. raps H.P. Lovecraft's Nemesis (produced using AI speech synthesis. Impressive stuff): (tags:hplovecraft music ai video )
NFTs, explained: what they are, and why they're suddenly worth millions: (tags:art cryptography WTF )
Someone forgot to tell Audrey Niffenegger they were making a musical of The Time Traveller's Wife (which she wrote): (tags:books scifi wtf musicals )
Young People 'On The Brink Of Revolution' As Older Generations Book Holidays Abroad: (tags:pandemic age UK inequality )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3983169.html

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Interesting Links for 11-01-2021

Trump's coup was stochastic, incompetent, and undeservedly more successful than it should have been. Here's what happened with the planning and on the day: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1347873482550468609.html
(tags:politics USA coup )
Wethespoons wants to kill your grandparents: (tags:alcohol pandemic OhForFucksSake UK )
The UK needs to reintroduce wolves as soon as possible!: (tags:deer nature UK )
How staff at the US Antarctic base eat (and with only one food delivery per year): (tags:food cooking USA antarctic viaJane )
Feds say police found a pickup truck full of bombs and guns near Capitol insurrection: (tags:USA coup )
If you're not already taking vitamin D please please start: (tags:vitaminD pandemic )
Why some engineering types are particularly susceptible to crackpot theories: (tags:engineering science conspiracy )
Corporate America halts donations to Republicans who voted to overturn the election: (tags:money politics coup USA )
Covid in Scotland: Vaccination programme ramps up: (tags:Scotland vaccination pandemic )
Scotland's beaver repopulation is not going well: (tags:beavers Scotland )
Can a presidential pardon be revoked?: (tags:law USA politics history )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3976960.html

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3894182.html

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Interesting Links for 04-06-2020

Victorian Engineering Connections (everyone, apparently, knew everyone): (tags:engineering history visualisation )
Feminist action, not feminist identity: (tags:Identity feminism society )
Police corruption in the USA really does seem to be endemic: (tags:police corruption usa )
LEGO Asks Retailers to Stop Advertising Police Sets, Pledges $4M to Fight Racism: (tags:Lego police racism )
Madeleine McCann: Jailed German paedophile at centre of new police inquiry: (tags:abuse children )
Spanish porn star Nacho Vidal, who likes to advertise his aromatic candles shaped like male genitalia on Twitter, has been arrested on manslaughter charges following a man's death during a mystic ritual in which he inhaled psychedelic toad venom: (tags:headline death psychedelics )
Video of a mud slide dragging multiple houses into the sea: (tags:video Norway )
Australians horrified by the USA should look to themselves. There have been 432 Aboriginal deaths in custody since 1991 yet there has not been a single conviction: (tags:police australia racism )
A city built by slaves - remembering Edinburgh's shameful slave trade history: (tags:Edinburgh slavery Scotland )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3803549.html

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Interesting Links for 30-06-2019

Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers: (tags:engineering design software outsourcing airplanes )
The Conservatives are suffering entryism from Brexit extremists: (tags:UK Europe conservatives doom )
Stonewall was not the start - it took a decade of resistance to reach that point: (tags:lgbt transgender history protests viaLilysea )
Babylon 5 Is the Greatest, Most Terrible SF Series: (tags:tv Babylon5 review )
Are the Brits at it again?: (tags:UK funny )
Researchers model how octopus arms make decisions (and talk to each other without informing the brain): (tags:octopus communication nerves neuroscience )
Britain: Ruined since the 5th century: (tags:history uk )
Scotland's only breast milk bank is looking for volunteers: (tags:milk breastfeeding scotland )
German far-right group used police data to compile death list: (tags:fascism police germany )
Stonewall's CEO Reveals Why She Decided To Fight For Transgender Rights: (tags:Transgender LGBT uk )
Have some relationship advice: Some great comments too
(tags:relationships advice )
The computer games industry is renowned for terrible jobs. This is worst than most: (tags:Jobs games OhForFucksSake )
Three Halflings in a Trenchcoat: a homebrew fighter class for D&D: (tags:dungeonsanddragons funny )
Ray Harryhausen | Titan of Cinema | National Galleries of Scotland (next year): (tags:scotland specialeffects movies )
How tea killed the fairies: (tags:tea myths )
UK to deport aspiring astrophysicist, 23, to Pakistan where she faces death or forced marriage to cousin: (tags:UK pakistan OhForFucksSake )
100% renewable energy without blackouts (by 2050): (tags:renewables electricity thefuture )