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Interesting Links for 19-02-2024
Feb. 19th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Can ChatGPT edit fiction? 4 professional editors asked AI to do their job - and it ruined their short story
- (tags:ai editing fail viaMarrog )
- 2. Mercury: Council and Parliament strike a deal to completely phase out mercury in the EU
- (tags:Europe dental mercury lighting )
- 3. There's a fascinating discussion in this article about who "the Celts" were
- (tags:prehistory Europe language society )
- 4. 2023 Hugo winner announces that they no longer consider themselves to have won
- (tags:Hugo awards china fraud )
- 5. All new NHS building projects in Scotland put on hold
- (tags:Scotland NHS money building )
- 6. Rabbit Test - the short story that won* a Hugo
- (tags:hugo abortion rights women scifi )
- 7. Fertility doctor uses own sperm to impregnate lots of women, leading to incest
- (tags:usa fertility incest OhForFucksSake healthcare fraud )
- 8. The Fifteenth Doctor audition piece
- (tags:tv drwho acting RusselTDavies )
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Interesting Links for 03-11-2023
Nov. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Bigots lose Scottish court case over definition of 'woman'
- (tags:bigotry GoodNews scotland transgender )
- 2. The Information Commissioner found, two years ago, that the Scottish Government didn't use WhatsApp for discussions.
- (tags:Scotland government communication )
- 3. Ancient roman road found in Stirling garden.
- (tags:Scotland Rome archeology )
- 4. Peter Jackson Talks About Making The Beatles' Last Music Video
- (tags:peterjackson Beatles video music )
- 5. Insulin less temperature-sensitive than previously thought (can cope at temperatures up to 25 degrees for 6 months)
- (tags:insulin diabetes temperature )
- 6. This Plane Wasn't Snooping On Protesters In Los Angeles, It Was Dropping Irradiated Bugs
- (tags:insects radiation fertility USA airplanes )
- 7. Cyclists are Better People than Drivers
- (tags:cycling psychology morality driving cars bicycles )
- 8. The TRUTH about stars!
- (tags:stars space comic funny )
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Interesting Links for 17-03-2023
Mar. 17th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Finally, the true meaning of the universe is revealed
- (tags:meaning StarWars comic funny )
- 2. The condemnation of Jess Phillips for honouring a trans teenager is a new low in our culture wars
- (tags:bigotry uk lgbt transgender )
- 3. National Academies: We can't define "race," so stop using it in science
- (tags:race racism science )
- 4. There's a hierarchy of racism under Starmer
- (tags:labour racism UK OhForFucksSake politics )
- 5. Against the idea of gender dysphoria as a mental illness
- (tags:gender mentalhealth transgender LGBT )
- 6. Silicon Valley Bank's collapse was spotted well in advance by everyone in the know - other than the regulators.
- (tags:banking regulation OhForFucksSake )
- 7. 10 best D&D map makers for dungeons, cities and worlds
- (tags:maps dungeonsanddragons )
- 8. So, you've been challenged to a duel. What are the rules?
- (tags:duelling rules usa history )
- 9. Nebraska lawmaker 3 weeks into filibuster over trans bill
- (tags:LGBT USA transgender politics )
- 10. Northern Ireland rejects Irish unity by large margin (50% to 26%)
- (tags:NorthernIreland polls )
- 11. A Pro-Trump Social Network Wants to Corner the Anti-Vax Jizz Market
- (tags:fertility politics USA viaPatrickHadfield headline )
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Interesting Links for 28-02-2023
Feb. 28th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh Labour councillor quits, says that Labour head office banning coalitions with Greens or SNP has caused a shambles
- (tags:labour scotland OhForFucksSake )
- 2. This is my favourite recent computer game review
- (tags:games review )
- 3. A Stroke Of The Pen: A Collection Of Rediscovered Short Stories By Terry Pratchett
- (tags:terrypratchett short_story )
- 4. I am actually pretty impressed at how much the UK managed to get in the new deal over Northern Ireland
- (tags:NorthernIreland trade Europe UK Ireland )
- 5. Rez on the PSVR 2 uses eye tracking for locking on!
- (tags:VirtualReality games eyes amazing )
- 6. Aurora Borealis. Edinburgh, 26 February 2023. (I couldn't see from where we live, but I do appreciate these photos)
- (tags:auroraborealis edinburgh scotland )
- 7. The Jewish influence on Good Omens
- (tags:judaism neilgaiman )
- 8. Elon Musk defends racist tirade by Dilbert creator Scott Adams
- (tags:racism dilbert ElonMusk )
- 9. TikTok's new face filters are very impressive, and make people feel awful about their real faces
- (tags:faces photoshop video )
- 10. Amazon Removes Books From Kindle Unlimited After They Appear on Pirate Sites
- (tags:copyright amazon piracy wtf publishing )
- 11. Physically Demanding Work Tied to Male Fertility
- (tags:exercise fertility men )
- 12. Eggs and margarine drive food inflation to record 17.1%
- (tags:food inflation economics uk eggs ukraine doom )
- 13. Two in three Britons want new political party to take on Tories and Labour
- (tags:politics UK )
- 14. Study finds video games are not harmful to children's brains
- (tags:videogames games brain children )
- 15. 25 years after the MMR vaccine autism fraud, we're still dealing with the consequences
- (tags:fraud autism mmr vaccination OhForFucksSake history )
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Interesting Links for 06-08-2022
Aug. 6th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Benjamin Zephaniah: I'm 64 and my infertility still brings me to tears
- (tags:fertility men )
- 2. Mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) 101
- (tags:disease allergies )
- 3. Leaked video shows Rishi Sunak saying he took funding from deprived urban areas
- (tags:Conservatives money inequality )
- 4. French mayor threatens €15,000 deposit to climb Mont Blanc
- (tags:mountains france )
- 5. Skin exposure to UVB light induces sexual behavior
- (tags:light sex )
- 6. Nexflix's 'The Sandman' is an emotionally deeper and more adult version of the original comics (found this through Neil Gaiman approvingly sharing it)
- https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1555587788879417344
(tags:comics TV writing sandman neilgaiman ) - 7. Generating computer game descriptions and art with two different AIs
- (tags:AI art writing games design ViaDrCross )
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Interesting Links for 19-07-2022
Jul. 19th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Forests Now Cover 2% of Iceland (up 6x since 1990)
- (tags:iceland forests )
- 2. A new milestone in augmented reality: Functional contact lenses
- (tags:augmentedreality contact_lenses Technology impressive )
- 3. Want to be an artist? Having millionaire parents *really* helps!
- (tags:wealth inequality art )
- 4. Keir Starmer rules out 'any agreement' with the Lib Dems after next election
- (tags:labour libdem OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Mint is not a necessary part of toothpaste. If you don't like it then feel free to use other flavours
- (tags:teeth health )
- 6. The future of sports: Revealed!
- (tags:sports technology funny video )
- 7. Ballet imposes gender roles on dancers
- (tags:gender dance ballet )
- 8. Audiobooks or Reading? To Our Brains, It Doesn't Matter
- (tags:reading audio brains psychology books )
- 9. Stray, a game where you play as a cat in a world populated by robots is clearly not going to make any money at all
- (tags:games cats review video )
- 10. Scientists design contraceptives to limit grey squirrels
- (tags:squirrel UK contraceptive fertility )
- 11. Cheese reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart failure, coronary heart disease, hypertension, and ischemic stroke
- (tags:cheese health heart diabetes )
- 12. Heat wave kills more than 1,100 people in Spain and Portugal
- (tags:heat globalwarming death spain portugal )
- 13. UK set to have world's biggest automated drone superhighway
- (tags:drone uk )
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Interesting Links for 15-07-2020
Jul. 15th, 2020 12:00 pm- Eating Lunch At Your Desk Again? Study Examines Why Workers Don't Always Take Breaks
- (tags:psychology work food working_hours )
- Feeling Anxious About Wearing A Mask? Here Are 5 Ways To Overcome It
- (tags:anxiety pandemic )
- China Poised to Pull Plans for U.K. Nuclear Plants and HS2 over Huawei 5G ban
- (tags:China UK nuclearpower hs2 technology trade )
- I Hate Condoms, And I Hate Masks.
- (tags:responsibility pandemic )
- Yes, balancing work and parenting is impossible. Here's the data.
- (tags:work children parenting pandemic )
- UK has second-highest COVID-19 health worker deaths in the world
- (tags:UK epicfail death healthcare pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- The Lost Art of Growing Blueberries With Fire
- (tags:food farming fire )
- Fertility is continuing to drop. which is a good thing, but will mean a big change to society
- (tags:fertility thefuture society GoodNews )
- Me and my neurodivergent brain: A short play I appear to be writing while I should be cleaning the kitchen. (fascinating and funny)
- (tags:brain ViaDrCross )
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Interesting Links for 03-01-2020
Jan. 3rd, 2020 12:00 pm- Details of Valve's unreleased Portal prequel revealed
- (tags:games valve video )
- Higher cow-milk fat intake is associated with lower childhood adiposity
- (tags:fat weight children )
- The many crimes of Macavity
- (tags:crime cats musicals )
- Ex-Google exec savages firm on human rights
- (tags:rights China google )
- 80% of betting company money comes from 2% of customers
- (tags:gambling )
- 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
- (tags:Labour politics crime OhForFucksSake rape )
- The best way to make popcorn
- (tags:food )
- Duolingo sparks Gaelic boom as young Scots shrug off 'cringe' factor
- (tags:Scotland language )
- Psilocybin found safe for consumption in largest ever controlled study
- (tags:psilocybin psychology depression research safety )
- U-Haul to Implement Nicotine-Free Hiring Policy
- (tags:nicotine smoking USA jobs OhForFucksSake )
- U.S. kills top Iranian commander Soleimani in air strike
- (tags:USA Iran iraq )
- 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
- (tags:writing fanfic genitals funny )
- Why killer whales—and humans—evolved menopause
- (tags:grandparents whales menstruation fertility family )
- Which emoji scissors close (I love the obsession you get with these)
- (tags:emoji design )
- Most illustrations of butterflies show dead ones
- (tags:insects illustration death )
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Interesting Links for 02-06-2019
Jun. 2nd, 2019 03:22 pm- Don't do this to your daughters.
- (tags:girls children )
- Chinese goods navigate alternate trade routes to US shores to avoid tariffs
- (tags:trade USA globalization )
- For the first time ever hymns didn't make the top ten songs played at funerals in the UK
- (tags:music death religion uk )
- Who owns the Bitcoin white paper?
- (tags:bitcoin identity copyright )
- If Star Trek's Data really didn't have emotions
- (tags:funny StarTrek emotion comic )
- Praying to Mister Rogers
- (tags:religion prayer comic )
- Review: This Is How You Lose the Time War
- (tags:review scifi )
- Science dresses for children
- (tags:clothes science girls )
- A few things to make you think that Russia might be involved with Trump
- (tags:russia politics usa republicans )
- Chefs ShareTheir Biggest Restaurant Red Flags
- (tags:restaurant food )
- Researchers strapped video cameras on 16 cats and let them do their thing. Here's what they found
- (tags:cats video behaviour )
- Scepticism can easily lead to supporting the status quo by default
- (tags:scepticism conservatism )
- 'They have you in a cultish grip': the women losing thousands to online multi level marketing schemes
- (tags:OhForFucksSake marketing women business )
- Net worth of Americans aged 18 to 35 has dropped 34 percent since 1996
- (tags:inequality age USA economy doom )
- The old route into the arts for working class Brits has been closed off
- (tags:welfare art UK class )
- What does the next Prime Minister do?
- (tags:politics UK Doom )
- Austerity to blame for 130,000 preventable UK deaths
- (tags:UK austerity murder death OhForFucksSake )
- Revealed: women's fertility app is funded by anti-abortion campaigners
- (tags:abortion fertility viaSwampers OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 23-12-2018
Dec. 23rd, 2018 11:00 am- A tale of two constituencies (and their shifting opinions on Brexit)
- (tags: UK europe viaDanielDWilliam )
- Labour, happy to work with the DUP, while ruling out working with the SNP. They can carry on fucking off.
- (tags: labour DUP snp OhForFucksSake UK politics )
- What’s the real reason Britons aren't offered the chickenpox vaccine?
- (tags: UK vaccination wtf )
- Jeremy Corbyn pledges to push on with Brexit if Labour win election
- (tags: labour UK europe OhForFucksSake )
- Fog Waves look absolutely magical
- (tags: water weather photography beautiful )
- Number of babies born in Japan is the lowest since records began
- (tags: Japan fertility population )
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Interesting Links for 10-11-2018
Nov. 10th, 2018 11:00 am- Edinburgh's road signs hacked by artist
- (tags: roads sign graffiti art edinburgh )
- More than 50% of countries now have a declining population
- (tags: population children GoodNews )
- Women over 34 are being refused IVF treatment in England
- (tags: uk england fertility women nhs )
- Number of shop closures in Scotland accelerates
- (tags: scotland shopping )
- Iceland's Christmas TV advert banned for being too political
- (tags: iceland advertising uk politics business )
- The 2018 US Gender voting Gap Was Huge
- (tags: voting politics usa gender )
- Ryanair plane seized by French authorities in cash row
- (tags: airplanes france subsidies )
- We didn’t have to do Brexit in this damn silly way
- (tags: uk europe epicfail )
- Female Afghan barrister sacked in favour of white man
- (tags: women afghanistan law uk bigotry )
- Conservative minister resigns over Brexit deal - demands new referendum.
- (tags: UK europe Conservatives )
- A Work in Progress: Earthsea Sketches by Charles Vess (I have the book on my Christmas list)
- (tags: UrsulaKLegGuin books fantasy )
- Photos of Kristallnacht.
- (tags: Jews holocaust history germany )
- Before Envelopes, People Protected Messages With Letterlocking
- (tags: history paper letter )
- Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Being Sued Over Satanic Deity
- (tags: religion TV intellectual_property )
- Living in Canada? Now you can date through Facebook
- (tags: facebook dating relationships )
- Jeremy Corbyn angers Labour MPs as he declares 'we can't stop Brexit'
- (tags: labour UK europe OhForFucksSake )
- EU clamps down on Isle of Man tax loophole for private jets and yachts
- (tags: tax europe UK )
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Interesting Links for 20-07-2018
Jul. 20th, 2018 12:00 pm- In 5 states, richest Americans live in a new Gilded Age
- (tags: inequality usa )
- The idea of brainwashing is pseudoscientific and dehumanises people
- (tags: psychology religion brain )
- Parents set to lose right to veto sex education at age 15
- (tags: sex Education children uk GoodNews )
- The Irish ‘backstop’ offers a key to unlocking the Brexit impasse (albeit a really painful one that isn't sustainable)
- (tags: europe uk trade )
- An MP was wheeled through the voting lobbies, high on morphine and carrying a sick bucket, the moment Brexit lost the dignity it never had
- (tags: uk Europe voting politics )
- Project Loon signs its first deal for Internet-delivering balloons—in Kenya
- (tags: internet balloon kenya )
- Magic Leap's First Augmented Reality Demo Is Anything but Impressive
- (tags: augmentedreality )
- Two weeks before his inauguration, Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that Putin had personally ordered cyberattacks to sway the election.
- (tags: Russia usa security fraud voting elections )
- 8 Ways The Tories Have Torn Up Parliament's Conventions
- (tags: uk parliament conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- Depression-induced inflammation during pregnancy may impact newborns
- (tags: babies depression inflammation )
- ADHD drugs do not improve cognition in healthy college students
- (tags: adhd medication )
- Australia-led global push to tackle PCOS -- the principal cause of infertility in women
- (tags: pcos testosterone women fertility )
- "No Deal Brexit would be awful. So awful that it won't be allowed to happen. Therefore: Don't worry about it." *headdesk*
- (tags: uk europe doom )
- Good penguin, bad penguin: a thread
- (tags: penguins )
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Interesting Links for 15-05-2018
May. 15th, 2018 12:00 pm- EEA+CU is the least bad version of Brexit. It is however still an extremely poor option.
- (tags: europe uk )
- There's A Cheap And Effective Way To Reduce Gun Violence. Why Aren't More States Doing It?
- (tags: guns usa viaAmaebi )
- D&D adventure premises inspired by stupid bear puns
- (tags: pun bears dungeonsanddragons )
- Are you a terrorist? Would you like an easy way to get through security without being checked closely?
- (tags: islam security OhForFucksSake )
- Ninja cat runs the gauntlet.
- (tags: cats running video )
- Waterstones accused of breaking pledge not to take on independents
- (tags: books edinburgh waterstones )
- Do You Know Where Your Healing Crystals Come From?
- (tags: mining children OhForFucksSake )
- Cause of polycystic ovary syndrome discovered at last (in mice)
- (tags: fertility women health testosterone mice viaSwampers )
- Brexit: No significant progress made on any issue in negotiations since March, says EU
- (tags: uk europe )
- John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories
- (tags: games Apple history doom stevejobs )
- Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system
- (tags: brain ai dopamine )
- May’s Brexit meeting to end in ‘long grass’ and ‘fudge’ amid standoff over customs
- (tags: UK Europe conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- Stop talking about "fighting" cancer
- (tags: cancer )
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Interesting Links for 27-03-2018
Mar. 27th, 2018 12:00 pm- Poll: Brits Would Rather Leave EU Than Keep Northern Ireland In The UK
- (tags: uk europe NorthernIreland polls )
- The defiance of an 'untouchable' New York subway worker
- (tags: india usa bigotry )
- Apple thinks you should have to sign up to multiple music services to get access to all music.
- Make it harder for me to access music and I will stop spending £120/year on music and go back to downloading it.
Frankly, I hadn't spent £120 on albums per year since I was about 25. Spotify gets me paying far more than I otherwise would.
(tags: music apple OhForFucksSake ) - Microsoft Bans “Offensive Language” from Skype - can fuck off
- (tags: microsoft censorship OhForFucksSake )
- ‘Solo’ Actor Says Phil Lord and Chris Miller ‘Weren’t Prepared’ for ‘Star Wars,’ Alden Ehrenreich ‘Just Not Good Enough’
- (tags: StarWars movies )
- French waiter says firing for rudeness is 'discrimination against my culture'
- Somehow not satire
(tags: behaviour france food restaurant job headline ) - First self-driving train launches on London Thameslink route
- (tags: London trains automation transport )
- All the Things the Star Wars: The Last Jedi Novelization Adds to the Movie
- (tags: StarWars books )
- Same-sex marriage bill for Northern Ireland to be introduced at Westminster in absence of power-sharing at Stormont
- (tags: marriage equality LGBT NorthernIreland )
- It all made sense when we found out we were autistic
- (tags: autism life )
- Fitbit Versa review: What the Pebble did next
- (tags: watch technology review )
- G Found in 31 Non-Western Cultures: Strong Evidence That G Is a Universal Trait
- (tags: intelligence psychology )
- One Strange Rock is a Cosmos for the Earth-bound that’s worth watching
- (tags: TV review earth science )
- Does the UK’s case against Russia stack up?
- (tags: chemistry weapons spying Russia uk )
- Music lessons improve children's cognitive skills and academic performance
- (tags: music education children )
- Neuroscientists say daily ibuprofen can prevent Alzheimer's disease
- (tags: alzheimers drugs )
- Global carbon emissions could be cut 3 percent by following the UK's example
- (tags: UK globalwarming electricity co2 )
- The 30 Best Protest Signs from the March For Our Lives
- (tags: protest guns usa funny )
- Arizona Government Suspends Uber's Self Driving Cars from Roads
- (tags: automation driving cars usa fail )
- Scientists Print All-Liquid 3-D Structures
- (tags: 3dprinting water )
- It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying on you
- (tags: surveillance advertising business )
- Prenatal stress changes brain connectivity in-utero
- (tags: stress babies brain )
- Irn Bru sales go up after new recipe introduced
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- Science Is Getting Us Closer to the End of Infertility
- And producing whole new ways of making new life
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Interesting Links for 09-02-2018
Feb. 9th, 2018 12:00 pm- Crushed wood is stronger than steel
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- Venom: first trailer released for Tom Hardy's Spider-Man spin-off
- (tags: movies marvel spiderman )
- If incarcerated menstruating women in Arizona bleed through the 12 pads (0 tampons) they're allotted each month and stain their clothes, they get a dress code violation. That violation means they can't purchase store items, including tampons and pads!
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- "Deadpool, Meet Cable" (new trailer, made me giggle an awful lot)
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- Japanese ambassador to UK warns on Brexit
- "companies, in particular the major manufacturers, expected free access to the European market" it says on a different site.
(tags: Japan trade UK europe ) - Boris Johnson decides 'it would not be appropriate' to intervene as Bermuda repeals same-sex marriage
- (tags: marriage lgbt UK OhForFucksSake )
- You should read Japan's Brexit note to Britain — it's brutal
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- Northern Ireland will stay in single market after Brexit, EU says
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- First human eggs grown in laboratory
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- New York Times Subscription Revenue Surpassed $1B in 2017
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- What It’s Like to Live in a Surveillance State
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- Plagiarism software unveils one of Shakespeare’s sources
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- Facebook testing 'downvote' button
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Interesting Links for 02-02-2018
Feb. 2nd, 2018 12:00 pm- Theresa May starts another fight she will not win (over transition this time)
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- Free Bananas In the Break Room - a tale of email apocalypse
- (tags: email funny OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
- Baltimore: more than twice as lethal as Northern Ireland during the Troubles
- (tags: NorthernIreland usa racism OhForFucksSake )
- Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person
- (tags: usa guns police corruption OhForFucksSake )
- 13% of British households are millionaires (Mostly because of pensions and housing)
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- The government isn't planning for "No Deal" - here's how you can tell
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- A interview with an Elite Dangerous player from 10 years from the future.
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- Group Of DC Fans Attempting to Sabotage 'Black Panther's Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score
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- Scotland set to pass 'gold standard' domestic abuse law
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- Why PS4 downloads are so slow
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- How to Do Karate in a Victorian Dress
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- Last Commanders: a geeky new Knightmare-esque gameshow
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- Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware
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- A satirical list of tv shows that should exist
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- Ibuprofen could harm fertility of unborn baby girls
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- Interesting look at what it's like as a professional League of Legends player
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- Use of plastic straws scrapped at Scottish Parliament
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- Prostate cancer now kills more people than breast cancer
- (tags: uk prostate cancer )
- Asking the Right Questions About Artificial Intelligence
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- A Dad Stole This Toddler's Identity To Open Credit Cards. Here's How The System Failed Him.
- (tags: fraud credit viaSwampers children )
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Interesting Links for 28-01-2018
Jan. 28th, 2018 12:00 pm- China Has Already Gene-Edited 86 People With CRISPR
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- India's switched-at-birth babies who refused to swap back (The hospital bureaucrats should be fired)
- (tags: india babies )
- The President's Club, MeToo and a difficult conversation
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- City transit is undermined by rich people pretending that everyone can travel the way that they like to, despite that being physically impossible
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- Producers Guild of America Anti-Sexual Harassment Guidelines
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- How Heartland saved a fortune on tax by adding molasses - and then removing it again
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- How Jessica Chastain got Octavia Spencer five times the pay
- (tags: money race gender movies )
- Sperm counts in western men down by 50% since 1973
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- Star War-inspired 3D images floating in thin air
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- New test can tell IBS sufferers whether the low-Fodmap diet will help (which it does 73% of the time)
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- New Study Shows GA-Map Gut Microbial Composition Test Successfully Identifies IBS Patients That Can Benefit from FODMAP Diet
- (tags: diet food IBS )
- Tesla! vs! Lovecraft!
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- A 15-year look at how energy changed in the US, state by state
- (tags: energy electricity renewables co2 usa )
- Poland moves to make phrase 'Polish death camps' a criminal offence
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- The Follower Factory - huge numbers of fake Twitter followers sold for pennies a time to desperate celebrities
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- Record-setting polar explorer, 16, hits back at men who say she belongs in the kitchen
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- ‘We Shall Overcome’ Is Put in Public Domain in a Copyright Settlement
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Interesting Links for 25-08-2017
Aug. 25th, 2017 12:00 pm- Britain says it should still be able to influence EU regulations after leaving EU
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- ONS overestimated that 90,000 international students per year were overstaying. Actual figure is 4,600
- (tags: immigration fail students Education OhForFucksSake )
- Samsung TV owners furious after software update leaves sets unusable
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- Caffeine makes food and drink seem less sweet
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- Grenfell proved it: the British media are part of a disconnected elite
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- What It Takes to Hold Your Breath for 24 Minutes
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- The Best Way To End Poverty
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- 6 Inventions Making British Disabled People's Lives Better In 2017
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- Self-driving lorries to be tested on UK roads in the next year
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- Chemicals used in furniture and gym mats could be making women infertile
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- Here at the End of All Things : on losing oneself in in maps of fantasy worlds
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- Half-Life Writer Shares Episode 3 Details
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- British man's heavily-pregnant Chinese wife denied visa
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- The Scotsmen Who Invented Modernity
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- Fishing Planet has the most epic trailer music ever - for a game where you mostly stand still next to a river
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Interesting Links for 09-05-2016
May. 9th, 2016 12:00 pm- George Takei on Marvel's insulting casting in Dr Strange
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- One of the best film-making interviews I've read, with the Russo brothers
- Ignore the fact that half of it is about making Marvel movies. The other half, about how they got there, and their general approach and structure, is gold.
(tags: movies interview marvel ) - Donald Trump Announces Debt Plan That Would Collapse Entire Global Economy
- (tags: politics economics republicans OhForFucksSake )
- The cave divers who went back for their (dead) friends
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- IVF success rates vary dramatically by profession
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