Interesting Links for 16-03-2025
- 1. There's no such thing as Italian cuisine
- (tags:food Italy history )
- 2. African countries have huge solar potential, they're beginning to use it
- (tags:solarpower Africa )
- 3. What is like in America if you're trans right now
- (tags:LGBT transgender USA bigotry )
- 4. How did the world's leading thinker on decisions decide to die?
- (tags:euthanasia death decisions )
- 5. The UK's solar revolution, mapped - as 3,500 projects in the pipeline are set to install 50% more than last year.
- (tags:solarpower UK GoodNews )
- 6. How to learn a language like a baby
- (tags:language babies reading )
- 7. 'They're Really Close To My Body': A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and their resident mystic Robin Finck
- (tags:music history )
- 8. (Any) 8-hour time-restricted-eating window effective for weight loss
- (tags:weight time diet )
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Interesting Links for 24-11-2024
- 1. On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what's now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people.
- (tags:fish SouthAmerica archeology history )
- 2. UK Views on assisted dying
- (tags:polls euthanasia UK )
- 3. Results Of The AI Art Turing Test?
- (tags:art ai )
- 4. 10 amazing trans women you didn't learn about in history class
- (tags:transgender history women )
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Interesting Links for 13-11-2024
- 1. New Electricity links between GB and island of Ireland approved
- (tags:electricity uk ireland infrastructure )
- 2. Assisted dying bill: What is in the proposed law?
- (tags:euthanasia law uk )
- 3. HS2's £100m 'bat shed' protects colony of 300 that doesn't live in same woodland
- (tags:bats environment hs2 OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Edinburgh University students tell of discrimination on campus
- (tags:scotland university OhForFucksSake bigotry )
- 5. Beluga whale was Russian military asset - but no spy
- (tags:whales russia )
Interesting Links Catchup 17-18/10/2024
- 1. Why you shouldn't hand control of franchises to their fans
- (tags:fandom movies TV )
- 2. Amazon and Google are giving people incorrect information by misquoting fact-checkers
- (tags:amazon google lies )
- 3. This approach to euthanasia makes me very uncomfortable
- (tags:euthanasia society death religion )
- 4. Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI concepts we've seen
- (tags:ai 3d art Adobe )
Interesting Links for 02-10-2024
- 1. "We're all a bit autistic" says woman who doesn't realise she's a lot autistic
- (tags:autism funny )
- 2. SFGATE Drew Magary begs you not to see Francis Ford Coppola's new film
- (tags:movies review epicfail )
- 3. The Netherlands Has Returned 288 Stolen Artifacts to Indonesia
- (tags:history museums netherlands Indonesia )
- 4. Scottish government: Assisted dying bill not in Holyrood's powers
- (tags:scotland uk euthanasia )
- 5. The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books
- (tags:reading education USA books )
- 6. The English language is the worst
- (tags:language English funny video viaSwampers )
- 7. REVIEW: Math from Three to Seven, by Alexander Zvonkin (A Russian struggles to teach maths to little kids)
- (tags:mathematics children Education )
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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 )
Interesting Links for 13-03-2024
- 1. Edinburgh Future Libraries Strategy 2024 - 2029 - have your say!
- (tags:Edinburgh libraries consultation )
- 2. Some absolutely amazing dancing (to "Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye)
- (tags:dancing video impressive )
- 3. The viral dance by CDK to "Somebody That I Used To Know) - performed live!
- (tags:dance video music )
- 4. If you want to live in a Friendly Neighborhood this house looks Amazing (particularly photo 45)
- (tags:house spiderman )
- 5. The ocean that humans carry inside of us
- (tags:humans ocean evolution blood )
- 6. Keir Starmer pledges landmark assisted dying vote in parliament
- (tags:euthanasia UK politics labour )
Interesting Links for 20-08-2022
- 1. Want to make your own train announcement system? Now you have all of the pieces. (Who's making the hardcore techno remix?)
- (tags:trains audio viaPatrickHadfield )
- 2. My Year of Grief and Cancellation (By the person behind Your Fave Is Problematic)
- (tags:Tumblr society celebrity )
- 3. South West Water boss trebles pay with huge bonus as beaches are shut due to raw sewage pumped into sea
- (tags:water money )
- 4. Edinburgh council warns condition of city's roads will get worse over the rest of this decade
- (tags:roads Edinburgh fail Doom )
- 5. Canada's euthanasia laws go too far
- (tags:disability euthanasia Canada )
- 6. Piracy is preservation, reflections on the HBO animation cull
- (tags:animation HBO piracy TV )
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Interesting Links for 17-06-2022
- 1. Is it good when party representatives refuse to say whether the party leader is honest?
- (tags:honesty BorisJohnson Conservatives )
- 2. Italy carries out its first assisted suicide
- (tags:euthanasia italy )
- 3. A theory about age and writers (the bit under the comic, not the comic itself)
- (tags:writing age writers )
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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 19-03-2021
- The Conservatives Are Horrible Racist People: Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill Edition
- (tags:law conservatives racism OhForFucksSake )
- UK local councils, courts, the police, transport and benefits all face budget cuts
- (tags:UK austerity Doom )
- Less Than One In Six Rape Victims Report Crimes To The Police (10% of 16-19 year olds)
- (tags:rape police awful uk )
- 4 Million Vaccine Doses From India Are Delayed And 1.7 Million More Need Re-Testing
- (tags:vaccine UK pandemic )
- Ramping up the UK rollout of full-fibre broadband
- (tags:UK broadband fibreoptics regulation )
- BBC to move key jobs and programmes out of London
- (tags:BBC )
- Facebook moves in to haptics and electromyography
- (tags:technology Facebook )
- Spain: Parliament passes law legalizing assisted suicide
- (tags:euthanasia Spain law )
- Census 2021: Filling out the form? If you're not religious, say so
- (tags:religion census UK )
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Interesting Links for 06-06-2019
- Kickstarters can go wrong in a variety of ways. This one really hasn't had a good time
- (tags:kickstarter CrowdFunding fail manufacturing austria )
- Boris Johnson failing to appeal to floating voters needed to win election
- (tags:Conservatives uk doom )
- The UK will probably never be as ready for no deal as it was in March
- (tags:government uk europe doom CivilService )
- Friends, Simpsons & Stranger Things living room, now available at IKEA
- (tags:IKEA TV simpsons viaElfy )
- Trump's post truth communication techniques cement his supporters' beliefs
- (tags:society lies politics usa )
- The Weather Forecaster Who Saved D-Day
- (tags:weather wwii history uk )
- Watch the former head of the WTO, back in 2016, pointing out the damage Brexit is going to do to the UK
- (tags:UK Europe Doom trade )
- Ann Widdecombe's one-woman show pulled by theatre after gay therapy remark, saying it will not 'provide stage for these vile people'
- (tags:LGBT )
- A disabled person talks about how they came to support Scottish Independence
- (tags:disability Scotland independence )
- Glasgow drives huge fall in serious violent crime across Scotland
- (tags:crime Scotland violence GoodNews glasgow )
- Labour will not win general election unless it backs second Brexit referendum
- (tags:UK Europe Labour )
- The euthanasia that wasn't
- (tags:euthanasia fail journalism Netherlands uk )
- California has 6,000 square miles of ladybugs
- (tags:insect California )
- Heathrow scanners will mean liquids can stay in bags
- (tags:airplanes security_theatre Technology )
- The Stigma Against Women who Report Sexual Harassment
- (tags:harassment OhForFucksSake )
- I'm curious how they lost the ability to make good X-Men movies
- (tags:movies xmen fail )
- The cutting-edge of cutting: How Japanese scissors have evolved
- (tags:design Japan )
- Robots pretending to be humans pretending to be robots pretending to be humans
- (tags:robots humans funny AI turing ViaDrCross )
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Interesting Links for 02-05-2019
- Julian Assange jailed for 50 weeks for breaching bail
- (tags:JulianAssange )
- The Guardian breaks even
- (tags:business journalism uk )
- Are you an anti-Semite? Take our interactive test to find out!
- (tags:racism Jews satire politics uk )
- Chief whip warns cabinet that referendum or customs union are price of Brexit
- (tags:UK europe politics )
- A Christian minister talks about walking away from their faith
- (tags:religion Christianity society usa )
- Women not allowed to compete if they're too naturally good at sport
- (tags:sports testosterone OhForFucksSake women )
- A Conspiracy To Kill IE6
- (tags:Google ie6 browser history web youtube )
- I had not noticed this about the climax of this week's Game of Thrones
- (tags:gameofthrones )
- Scotland's greenhouse gas emissions to be net-zero by 2045
- (tags:globalwarming scotland GoodNews )
- Brexit will hammer Britain's financial services - and no-one seems to have noticed
- (tags:uk europe finance economy )
- 10% of British people go to church regularly. 26% of us believe Jesus died and was resurrected for our sins.
- (tags:uk christianity religion )
- 84% of people in the UK support the right of terminally ill people to kill themselves
- (tags:euthanasia uk )
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Interesting Links for 29-07-2018
- British cabinet ministers meeting with far right nationalist
- (tags: UK OhForFucksSake Conservatives )
- Mary Berry plays drums with Rick Astley at Camp Bestival
- (tags: headline music cooking )
- ThunderMessage, Reddit's Blockchain Rival, Uses Bitcoin & Lightning Network Features
- (tags: bitcoin discussion )
- The death of a TLD
- (tags: internet )
- New Buffy: The Vampire Slayer series will be sequel, not reboot
- (tags: tv buffy )
- Sweden Dropped a Laser-Guided Bomb on a Forest Fire
- (tags: Sweden fire )
- Firefighters In Germany Have to Deal With Buried Explosives
- (tags: Germany fire history explosives )
- The Troubled Quest for the Superconducting Wind Turbine
- (tags: physics windpower superconductors engineering )
- Levi's now make their distressed jeans with lasers, and it's amazing
- (tags: clothing lasers )
- Largest ever poll on assisted dying shows 82% of public support change in the law
- (tags: euthanasia law uk )
- Pilots stop 222 asylum seekers being deported from Germany by refusing to fly
- (tags: Germany asylum airplanes )
- A withering verdict: MPs report on Zuckerberg, Russia and Cambridge Analytica
- (tags: russia Facebook fraud democracy uk )
- Army on standby for no-deal Brexit emergency
- (tags: UK military Europe doom )
- The British government still doesn't understand what the EU is
- (tags: Europe uk )
- Today marks 98 years since the first female jurors in England were sworn in.
- (tags: law UK history women feminism )
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Interesting Links for 30-05-2018
- Daughter 'would go to prison' over father's Dignitas death
- (tags: euthanasia uk law )
- Six reasons why Britain’s retailers can’t make ends meet
- (tags: business shopping uk fail )
- Star Wars Women: the stats
- (tags: women StarWars )
- The law of "Fuck Yes or No"
- (tags: sex relationships advice viaSwampers )
- UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right? (I will never get bored of reading articles about how messed up the treatment of time is)
- (tags: time date computers )
- Half of All Doctors Aren’t Trained to Spot Cancer on Black Skin
- (tags: cancer healthcare racism )
- I was fascinated by how long someone could convince people she had everything, when actually she had nothing
- (tags: fraud newyork usa )
- As 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Flops, Are Movies About White Men Box Office Poison?
- (tags: society race movies StarWars )
- That 400,000 Romanians live in the UK is a tragedy for their homeland
- (tags: Romania immigration OhForFucksSake corruption )
- Russia is using Interpol to harrass journalists investigating corruption
- (tags: russia police corruption journalism europe OhForFucksSake )
- What on earth happened to poor Tommy Robinson? 10 Things You Should Know.
- (tags: law racism justice uk )
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Interesting Links for 09-08-2017
- Death as a social privilege?
- (tags: death euthanasia race )
- Computer says no: Irish vet fails oral English test needed to stay in Australia
- (tags: OhForFucksSake ireland language accents australia )
- Unlearning the myth of American innocence
- (tags: usa history )
- Adorable Black Metal Comics That’ll Satisfy Your Dark Side
- (tags: music funny metal )
- Rare 'pink rainbow' spotted in sky over Bristol
- (tags: pretty sky )
- How a children’s cartoon ignited a debate about skin color in Roman Britain, and what it has to do with genetics
- (tags: genetics Rome UK history )
- The Broken US Economy, in One Simple Chart
- (tags: usa inequality )
- Edinburgh tram decision in September, with line due in 2022
- (tags: Edinburgh trams )
- The Most Common Error in Coverage of the Google Memo
- (tags: google diversity journalism )
- Keep them busy and poor
- (tags: unions politics students )
- How does biology explain the low numbers of women in computer science
- (tags: biology gender mathematics programming )
- Researchers are studying psychopathic chimps to better understand the human variety
- (tags: monkey psychology psychopath )
- Second whole-class failure of Inverness College media exam
- I would love to know how this happens. Do the teachers not understand what the exam boards want? Is there total incompetence on the part of the college?
(tags: Education fail )