Entries tagged with environment

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Interesting Links for 13-03-2025

1. Installing solar panels in deserts improves soil quality and biodiversity by providing areas of shade and shelter.: (tags:desert solarpower environment viaMyBrotherHugh )
2. Labour are going the wrong way on getting people in to work.: (tags:work welfare uk labour OhForFucksSake )
3. If you want to fix modern society then one of the things you'll need to do is build more homes: (tags:housing society inequality )
4. Edinburgh councillors approve new site for Social Bite Village in Granton: (tags:Edinburgh housing homelessness )
5. How locational, or "zonal" pricing could give Scotland the cheapest power in Europe ... and give everyone else in GB cheaper power too.: (tags:electricity economics UK )
6. Edinburgh's Big Wheel could be in place from July to New Year: (tags:edinburgh tourism )
7. Some interesting researhc going on with plastic recycling: (tags:recycling plastic research )
8. "I Was a U.S. Diplomat. Customs and Border Protection Only Cared That I Was Black.": (tags:racism usa immigration )

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Interesting Links for 23-10-2024

1. How does WhatsApp make money?: (tags:communication business )
2. You Don't Need Words to Think: (tags:language thinking )
3. Who wants to hear interesting facts about the English language?: (tags:language writing history video English )
4. Bohemian Rhapsody, told in memes: (tags:meme queen music funny )
5. George R.R. Martin Announces He's Written Every 'And' That Will Appear In Next Book: (tags:writing GeorgeRRMartin funny satire )
6. Keir Starmer scores first major Brexit reset success with landmark defence deal with Germany: (tags:UK Germany military russia )
7. Edinburgh city centre to get first major new public gardens for 200 years: (tags:edinburgh gardens school music )
8. Scientists Say Our Water Cycle Has Started Breaking Down: (tags:water environment doom )
9. Meet the winners of Nikon's 2024 photomicrography contest: (tags:photos awards microscope )
10. California Is Flooding School Cafeterias With Vegan Meals—and Kids Like It: (tags:food california vegan )
11. What explains the timing and manner of the Chagos Islands sovereignty deal? (the USA): (tags:usa uk india politics )
12. UK Supreme Court rules that individuals can take regulators to court to make them do their job.: (tags:uk regulation law )
13. "Autism" is at least four different things.: (tags:autism genetics development children )

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Interesting Links for 12-09-2024

1. Potentially biogenic carbon preserved in a 4.1 billion-year-old zircon: (tags:life prehistory carbon )
2. Port Talbot steel goes green with electric blast furnaces - but at a huge cost in jobs: (tags:UK materials jobs environment co2 )

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Interesting Links for 05-09-2024

1. The UK's last coal power station is closing at the end of this month: (tags:coal power electricity uk GoodNews environment )
2. More than 20% of people who get Covid take more than 90 days to recover: (tags:pandemic )
3. "I made a documentary about Zelensky - he is funny, fascinating and ruthless": (tags:Ukraine TV interview documentary )
4. "Debilitating a Generation": Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans: (tags:pandemic doom )
5. Evidence for sugar addiction: Behavioral and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake: (tags:sugar addiction )
6. Ukrainian drones now spray 2,500° C thermite streams right into Russian trenches: (tags:drone Russia Ukraine war )
7. Amazon tells delivery drivers they can't sing along to music (or move their lips too much): (tags:driving music amazon dystopia OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 06-08-2024

1. How war between Russia and the Olympics is fuelling boxing's gender row: (tags:gender sports olympics russia )
2. Watch Carbon Dioxide Move Through Earth's Atmosphere: (tags:co2 visualisation video )
3. BBC removing Huw Edwards from family and entertainment content (The Dr Who episode his voice was in will be redubbed): (tags:bbc pedophilia drwho )
4. What Happens in a Mind That Can't 'See' Mental Images (a brief history of aphantasia): (tags:psychology vision imagination )
5. The nature of consciousness, and how to enjoy it while you can: (tags:consciousness )
6. A brief explanation of why the Japanese currency markets are causing issues right now: (tags:economics investing Doom video )
7. Dinosaurs Did Not Trudge Through Thick Rainforests: (tags:trees dinosaurs )
8. OpenAI has the tech to watermark ChatGPT text—it just won't release it: (tags:ai )
9. The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media: (tags:socialmedia decentralisation )
10. Chrome is about to make it harder to block ads. I recommend switching to Firefox.: (tags:advertising chrome web OhForFucksSake )
11. Three different approaches to the problem of disposable plastic: (tags:plastic environment waste )

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Interesting Links for 30-05-2024

1. Corsica, Sardinia, and accidents of history (and why a Europe of The Regions is a good thing): (tags:Europe history Italy France viaPatrickHadfield )
2. Decoding the EU AI Act: (tags:europe regulation ai Technology )
3. How North Korea infiltrates large tech companies: (tags:NorthKorea espionage fraud technology USA )
4. Police Scotland apology to the LGBTQI+ communities of Scotland: (tags:Scotland LGBT police )
5. Road planners embrace an unconventional intersection: (tags:roads design USA )
6. infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii makes wolves 46 times more likely to become a pack leader: (tags:wolves ToxoplasmaGondii behaviour viaPatrickHadfield )
7. Tory, Labour, Lib Dem and Green environment pledges, ranked by experts: (tags:environment uk politics )
8. Risky business: Linking Toxoplasma gondii infection and entrepreneurship behaviours across individuals and countries: (tags:business behaviour ToxoplasmaGondii fear )

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Interesting Links for 22-03-2024

1. GPS jamming & interference map: (tags:gps maps )
2. Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds: (tags:security hotel )
3. A type of bacteria that causes dental plaque was found in 50% of colon cancers: (tags:cancer teeth bacteria )
4. A Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Was Just Transplanted Into a Person for the First Time: (tags:genetics pigs organs )
5. Larian Studios Won't Make Baldur's Gate 3 DLC, Expansions, or Baldur's Gate 4: (tags:games dungeonsanddragons )
6. A cargo ship's 'WindWing' sails saved it up to 12 tons of fuel per day (between 14 and 37 percent): (tags:fuel ships wind GoodNews )
7. Delighted to discover that the University of Maryland has a Gamer Symphony Orchestra (here playing the Dark Souls III Main Theme): (tags:music games )
8. UK warns of arms embargo to Israel as international pressure mounts: (tags:UK weaponry Israel )
9. Say Hello to Biodegradable Microplastics: (tags:environment plastic biodegradable )

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Interesting Links for 21-03-2024

1. Diane Abbott is a political pawn in Labour's farcical disciplinary process: (tags:politics labour racism OhForFucksSake )
2. Paris Preserves Its Mixed Society by Pouring Billions Into Public Housing: (tags:Paris housing )
3. Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden: (tags:sweden rape prostitution sexwork )
4. Elon Musk's X Is Suspending Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist's Identity: (tags:nazis twitter ElonMusk OhForFucksSake )
5. The cutest baby thing I've seen in a long time: (tags:cute babies video )
6. Vernor Vinge (1944-2024) - Author and creator of the concept of The Singularity: (tags:scifi singularity obituary writers )
7. Neuralink video shows patient playing chess using brain implant: (tags:brain video cyborg )
8. NIH Researchers Identify Brain Connections Associated With ADHD in Youth: (tags:adhd brain )
9. An Anthropocene Worth Having: (tags:ecology environment humans )

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Interesting Links for 03-02-2024

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