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- 1. Princes Street to reopen on Saturday
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- 2. How 1,200 AI agents collaborated secretly to cheat on their tests, and then launched an attack on another server they thought had the answers
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- 3. Women have neanderthal pelvises
- (tags:men women bodies walking evolution )
- 4. *Somehow* it is unclear if Andrew Garfield's new film is about the Peasants Revolt or Robin Hood
- (tags:movies history EpicWTF marketing UK )
- 5. "Why I Am Right About AI"
- (tags:ai writing )
Interesting Links for 14-08-2026
Aug. 14th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. ICE equipping agents with gloves that deliver electric shocks (380 volts!)
- (tags:electricity usa immigration OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Are Raccoons Evolving Into Pets? (They are currently terrible at it)
- (tags:raccoon pets evolution )
- 3. Six London councils keep trans-inclusive services despite EHRC guidance
- (tags:London LGBT transgender GoodNews UK )
- 4. Latest images and progress following the Princes Street fire
- (tags:photos Edinburgh fire )
- 5. Princes Street should reopen by end of August
- (tags:fire Edinburgh )
- 6. Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal
- (tags:microsoft addiction ai )
- 7. Slop art - what is it, and why does that matter?
- (tags:ai writing art comics philosophy )
- 8. So what exactly did Q Manivannan say that was so wrong?
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- 9. Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game
- (tags:military Technology )
- 10. Curing drug addiction with ultrasound
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Interesting Links for 10-08-2026
Aug. 10th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. How the 'fecal revolution' changed Earth's ecosystems and caused the Cambrian Explosion
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- 2. The Human-Origin Story Is Being Radically Revised
- (tags:humans evolution prehistory )
- 3. Photos of Norwich show the increasing environmental impact of the drought
- (tags:UK drought globalwarming doom England )
- 4. Finding the Princes Street fire shop owner (who seem to be *very* good at covering their tracks)
- (tags:edinburgh fraud shops london fire )
Interesting Links for 24-05-2026
May. 24th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Labour continue to try and cherry pick an EU deal, with as much success as you'd expect
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- 2. What effect will global warming have on the UK? (figure 2 is terrifying)
- (tags:globalwarming UK doom )
- 3. Why Do Our Fingers Get Wrinkly In Water? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains
- (tags:water bodies evolution viaPatrickHadfield )
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Interesting Links for 15-04-2026
Apr. 15th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Why don't humans have a penis bone?
- (tags:evolution sex penis bone badgers ViaDrCross )
- 2. For the First Time in the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas
- (tags:renewables GoodNews USA )
- 3. YouTube Now Worlds Largest Media Company, Topping Disney
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- 4. Anti-SLAPP law: how litigation is silencing UK journalists
- (tags:UK law censorship )
- 5. Takeaway cup recycling made easier in Edinburgh
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- 6. Projected warming will exceed the long-term thermal limits of rice cultivation
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Interesting Links for 21-12-2025
Dec. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Transgender kids change their minds only 6% of the time
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- 2. A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London
- (tags:electricity infrastructure tunnels London UK )
- 3. AI Chatbots Are Poisoning Research Archives With Fake Citations
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- 4. Italian bears living near villages have evolved to be smaller and less aggressive
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- 5. Santa Claus is still a woman
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Interesting Links for 19-09-2025
Sep. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour's plan to jumpstart city building after Rayner's 1.5m homes drive stalls
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- 2. Chimps consume a pint of lager's worth of alcohol every day in fruit
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- 3. Man with Covid for over two years became virus incubator, as it evolved into new variants of concern
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- 4. Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads (and so I will never buy one)
- (tags:advertising Samsung technology OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms (in Canada)
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- 6. Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
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- 7. An "At The Mountains Of Madness" game, where you play as a penguin.
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Interesting Links for 17-08-2025
Aug. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What's your answer to the UK's population implosion?
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- 2. African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent's true size
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- 3. People (wrongly) don't believe that building homes helps with the cost of housing.
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- 4. Snow White, various dwarves, and convergent evolution with butterflies
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Interesting Links for 09-04-2025
Apr. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Confusion surrounds ETA visa waiver process for some dual national Brits
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- 2. Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals
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- 3. No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
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- 4. Trump tariffs based on massive error (as well as being total nonsense)
- (tags:mathematics trade incompetence EpicStupidity politics usa )
- 5. Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy (current payback time for a solar panel in Pakistan is 2-3 years)
- (tags:pakistan solarpower GoodNews )
- 6. People conceived during colder months may end up with a lower body mass index and less fat around internal organs
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- 7. What's going on with the announcements of "bringing dire wolves back from extinction"
- (tags:prehistory DNA animals wolves genetics viaPatrickHadfield )
- 8. Bracket City - a fun new daily puzzle!
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- 9. Trade Will Move On Without the United States
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- 10. Great Moments in Peaceful Protest History
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- 11. Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws
- (tags:gender race research libraries USA censorship )
- 12. China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
- (tags:china materials USA trade doom )
- 13. How are Trump's supporters dealing with the tariff fallout?
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Interesting Links for 10-07-2024
Jul. 10th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What's the state of housing in the UK (spoilers: terrible)
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- 2. More than half of anti-abortion MPs lose seats in election
- (tags:abortion uk politics )
- 3. Vatican to trans people - please resist the urge to become God
- (tags:catholicism transgender god )
- 4. Scotland's 2024 General Election in numbers
- (tags:Scotland election statistics )
- 5. This is the best write-up I've seen of the Neil Gaiman assault allegations. The whole thing sounds like a mess.
- (tags:neilgaiman assault )
- 6. New weight-loss and diabetes drugs linked to lower risk of 10 cancers (if you have diabetes)
- (tags:diabetes cancer medicine )
- 7. Iain (M) Banks: Two Authors, One Man (An exhibition at the University of Stirling)
- (tags:IainBanks writing )
- 8. UK's sugar tax led to a nearly 50 per cent reduction in children's added sugar intake from sodas and other soft drinks
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- 9. Evolution explained by Rage Against The Machine
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Interesting Links for 18-03-2024
Mar. 18th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Yes, heat pumps slash emissions even if powered by a dirty grid
- (tags:USA heating electricity globalwarming co2 )
- 2. The chambered nautilus is a bunch of tentacles in armour. What keeps it penned into a tiny part of the ocean?
- (tags:evolution ocean )
- 3. What does Woke mean? An experiment.
- (tags:society twitter bigotry )
- 4. You're being targeted by disinformation networks that are vastly more effective than you realize. And they're trying you more hateful and depressed.
- (tags:russia china propaganda internet usa )
- 5. 12 months of record ocean heat has scientists puzzled and concerned
- (tags:ocean globalwarming doom )
- 6. Superiority by Arthur C. Clarke (a short story about superior technology losing the war)
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- 7. The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien is now available for pre-order.
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- 8. Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS
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Interesting Links for 13-03-2024
Mar. 13th, 2024 12:00 pm- 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 02-03-2024
Mar. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh parking: New permits for carers to be introduced in Capital
- (tags:Edinburgh driving )
- 2. CNN leak shows internal distress about double standards on Israel coverage
- (tags:Israel cnn journalism Palestine bias )
- 3. As banks buy up bitcoins, who else are the 'Bitcoin whales'?
- (tags:bitcoin investment banks )
- 4. Waymo Will Bring Autonomous Taxis to Los Angeles—Its Biggest Challenge Yet
- (tags:automation cars taxi USA )
- 5. Rock star: I've spent 30 years making a Scotland map from pebbles
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- 6. Who *doesn't* want Tenacious D covering Britney Spears?
- (tags:music video cover BritneySpears )
- 7. On the genetic basis of tail-loss evolution in humans and apes
- (tags:genetics humans evolution )
- 8. Facebook, Instagram, X and Telegram fail to remove posts selling date rape drugs
- (tags:drugs rape Facebook twitter OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 21-02-2024
Feb. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Probably the best social media advice you can get
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- 2. England has lost 28% of local bus provision per person since 2011
- (tags:England buses transport )
- 3. Why Oscar-nominated family friendly queer animation 'Nimona' is available for free for the next week
- (tags:Oscars animation LGBT movies children )
- 4. Why did Keir Starmer lavish praise on an Islamophobic radical-right bigot?
- (tags:Russia bigotry )
- 5. Yes Prime Minister, questionnaire design matters (leading questions in this case)
- (tags:polls TV UK )
- 6. Why are Scottish transgender healthcare waiting times so long?
- (tags:scotland transgender lgbt healthcare OhForFucksSake )
- 7. The government prevented compensation payments to postmasters, and then lied about it
- (tags:uk government Conservatives postoffices money OhForFucksSake )
- 8. More than 500 games on Steam earned over $3 million in 2023
- (tags:games steam valve )
- 9. ADHD may have emerged in humans as an evolutionary advantage
- (tags:adhd evolution behaviour )
- 10. BT Tower: 'Iconic' landmark to be turned into a hotel
- (tags:london architecture bt hotel history postoffices )
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Interesting Links for 03-12-2023
Dec. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. DNA-researcher: It's not 'woke' to portray prehistoric Europeans with dark skin. It's evolution.
- (tags:evolution colour skin Europe prehistory genetics )
- 2. Reminder that you don't own any streaming content that you "bought" and it can be removed at any point
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- 3. "I Rewatched Love Actually and Am Here to Ruin It for All of You"
- (tags:love romance movies society OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Israel intercepted step-by-step Hamas massacre plan over a year ago - but dismissed it
- (tags:Israel Palestine terrorism intelligence epicfail )
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Interesting Links for 10-08-2023
Aug. 10th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Russia using Wagner in Africa to displace the West and erode democracies
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- 2. Global warming increases ocean temperatures, stripping the seas of oxygen
- (tags:oxygen ocean fish doom )
- 3. People are publishing AI books with real authors' names.
- (tags:ai writing publishing fraud )
- 4. Covid testing in Scottish hospitals, care homes and prisons to end
- (tags:scotland pandemic )
- 5. Norway fines Facebook owner Meta $100k/day over privacy breaches
- (tags:norway facebook privacy regulation )
- 6. SUSE, the German Linux company, appear to be deeply anti-semitic
- (tags:Jews linux OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Inside Keir Starmer's plan to 'annihilate the left' and appoint 'middle-class and dull' candidate MPs
- (tags:labour politics )
- 8. The electoral breach in the UK was all Microsoft's fault
- (tags:uk hacking microsoft )
- 9. Complex ape-man culture, with burial practices, may have existed in Africa 300,000 years ago
- (tags:africa humans evolution society culture death )
- 10. Gender disparity in the rate of partner abandonment in patients with serious medical illness
- (tags:cancer divorce gender )
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Interesting Links for 23-06-2023
Jun. 23rd, 2023 02:43 pm- 1. 57 different scripts that all descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs (from Latin to Aramaic to Tibetan to Javanese)
- (tags:language history evolution )
- 2. I just discovered that the blobfish only looks ugly when it's been dragged up from the ocean depths.
- (tags:fish )
- 3. Why was the Titan's hull made of carbon fibre?
- (tags:materials submarine epicfail )
- 4. How does raising interest rates lower inflation? Why Bank of England hikes base rate to combat rising prices
- (tags:economics )
- 5. India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks
- (tags:India science evolution education OhForFucksSake )
- 6. One of the best pieces of advice on making art
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- 7. Major report says pupils should not sit exams before fifth year
- (tags:scotland school Education )
- 8. ID rules stopped more than 14,000 British people voting
- (tags:uk identity voting OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 15-06-2023
Jun. 15th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh trams: Plans for extension to Newbridge set to be abandoned in favour of route along A71 corridor
- (tags:edinburgh trams )
- 2. Do a quarter of British people really believe Covid was a hoax?
- (tags:conspiracy polls )
- 3. Who wants to read a judge interrogate lawyers for presenting AI gibberish as if it was reality?
- (tags:USA law AI epicfail )
- 4. Google risks forced breakup of ad business as EU alleges shocking misconduct
- (tags:Google advertising corruption fraud business regulation )
- 5. Body mass index gets smack down: American Medical Association calls out harms and "racist exclusion" | Ars Technica
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- 6. How many of these do you think are birds?
- (tags:birds paleontology evolution )
- 7. How do people treat you differently when you're skinny?
- (tags:weight bigotry society )
- 8. First time one of my posts on Mastodon has gone viral! (just hit 500 shares)
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- 9. Europe votes to regulate AI and ban use of live facial recognition
- (tags:regulation ai faces )
- 10. 'I got to know my gut microbiome - as a result, I sleep better, have more energy and I've lost 25lbs'
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- 11. Johnson Verdict: 'He lied, lied about lying, lied about lying about lying, and is generally a twat'
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- 12. Two children were born with 'insatiable hunger' that left them severely obese. Now scientists know why (leptin gene mutation)
- (tags:genetics hunger )
- 13. Boosting paternity leave has economic benefits and reduces inequality
- (tags:parenting men uk inequality )
- 14. Wildcats bred in captivity released into Cairngorms
- (tags:cats nature scotland )
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Interesting Links for 2023-05-22
May. 22nd, 2023 01:46 pm- 1. "I Don't Wanna Dance With Nobody" - a song for introverts
- (tags:music dancing funny video )
- 2. But *how* can a global communications network help us eat more sulfur?
- (tags:evolution funny ViaDrCross )
- 3. How to have theme music follow you around
- (tags:funny music )
- 4. "What watching my daughter play ‘The Legend of Zelda’ taught me"
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Interesting Links for 10-03-2023
Mar. 10th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Evolution of tree roots may have driven mass extinctions
- (tags:evolution apocalypse extinction trees )
- 2. Childcare: Full-time nursery for under-twos nearly £15k a year
- (tags:childcare money uk )
- 3. Mice born with two fathers
- (tags:mice men children )
- 4. Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country
- (tags:LGBT USA bigotry transgender law )
- 5. Rotating Sandwiches - that's it
- (tags:food video wtf )
- 6. Why It's So Hard To Build a Crochet Machine
- (tags:craft automation video viaNancyLebov )
- 7. Visceral Femininity: A Bloodborne Video Essay
- (tags:games menstruation blood horror )
- 8. Inside the chaos of Elon Musk's Twitter
- (tags:ElonMusk EpicStupidity business Twitter doom )
- 9. ONS Covid infection survey paused after 3 years, leaving no official method for tracking virus
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- 10. The Fed's Inflation Goal Is Completely Arbitrary
- (tags:inflation economics history viaDanielDWilliam )
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