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Interesting Links for 23-01-2024
Jan. 23rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. EU pushes for Palestinian statehood, rejecting Israeli leader's insistence it's off the table
- (tags:Israel Palestine Europe )
- 2. No evidence of inflated mortality reporting from the Gaza Ministry of Health
- (tags:death statistics Palestine Israel )
- 3. What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?
- (tags:space security research )
- 4. No cervical cancer cases detected in women who had HPV vaccine, Public Health Scotland study finds
- (tags:cancer women GoodNews vaccine )
- 5. New Brexit red tape creating 'existential' crisis, say food and flower firms
- (tags:uk europe food flowers doom )
- 6. The World's First Malaria Vaccine Program for Children Starts Now
- (tags:malaria vaccine )
- 7. Does Palworld break Pokémon's copyright? A lawyer speaks
- (tags:law copyright pokemon nintendo games design )
- 8. Finally some hope on Alzheimer's
- (tags:alzheimers )
Interesting Links for 04-10-2022
Oct. 4th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. New DNA Analysis Shows How Cats Spread Around Europe, Africa, And The Middle East - Including on Viking Ships
- (tags:viking genetics cats )
- 2. Autistic children with imaginary friends have better social skills, just like neurotypical children
- (tags:psychology imagination friendship autism children )
- 3. A flower woman in the style by 1500+ artists, by an AI
- (tags:ai art flowers women )
- 4. "I'm not interested in reality, I'm interested in the images": Andrew Dominik on Blonde
- (tags:movies celebrity rape history )
- 5. A story about the Big Bird actor that made me tear up
- (tags:SesameStreet children death )
- 6. Ukraine ambassador tells Elon Musk to 'fuck off' after Tesla boss tries Twitter poll to solve conflict
- (tags:ElonMusk Twitter Russia Ukraine )
- 7. Twitter's edit button is already being used for terrible, sinister, purposes
- (tags:Twitter funny editing )
- 8. A really impressive piece of stop motion animation (with doodles)
- (tags:stopmotion animation video )
- 9. Compare detail levels between OpenStreetMap 2012 and 2022
- (tags:OpenStreetMap history )
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- viking,
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Interesting Links for 02-07-2022
Jul. 2nd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh's 2030 Festival City Vision
- (tags:Edinburgh thefuture festival viaPatrickHadfield )
- 2. Universal Credit has increased crime rate by 6.5%
- (tags:welfare uk crime OhForFucksSake )
- 3. How flowers are 'put to sleep' for long sea voyages
- (tags:trade flowers sea )
- 4. Germany seeks ′safety first′ approach to legalizing cannabis
- (tags:marijuana legalisation germany )
- 5. Yes, part of the UK constitution is (or was) a letter written to the Times under a pseudonym
- (tags:uk monarchy politics constitution history )
- 6. Major chords are happy and minor chords are sad? Only if society has trained you that way!
- (tags:music psychology emotion )
- 7. Germany unveils plans for simpler gender change process
- (tags:LGBT transgender Germany GoodNews )
- 8. UK's export support agency stops investing in new fossil fuel projects
- (tags:globalwarming investment UK GoodNews )
- 9. Giraffes eat acacia trees from downwind, because otherwise they warn each other to taste bitter!
- (tags:trees self-defence )
- 10. Boris Johnson wants multi-generational mortgages so parents can pass on debt to children
- (tags:mortgages conservatives BorisJohnson )
- 11. Melatonin peaks in teenagers at 7am. Waking them then is like waking an adult at 4am
- (tags:sleep teenagers )
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Interesting Links for 26-02-2022
Feb. 26th, 2022 12:00 pm- Hard truths about the gender pay gap
- (tags:gender gender_equality pay )
- Air Pollution Stops Insects From Smelling Flowers
- (tags:pollution flowers insects doom bees )
- I highly recommend the exhibition of Audubon's Birds of America at the National Museum Of Scotland (fascinating combination of art, science, and history)
- (tags:art birds museum scotland )
- Magpies have outwitted scientists by helping each other remove tracking devices
- (tags:crows birds altruism Intelligence tracking )
- What It Would Take to Bring the ISS Back to Earth in One Piece?
- (tags:iss space )
- Behind Pornhub's decade-old moderation problems
- (tags:porn web business )
- Playing Wordle to lose as badly as possible
- (tags:games words loss )
- Why The UK Wants To Block Russia From SWIFT Payment System While The EU Is Resistant
- (tags:uk europe banking russia ukraine )
- Understanding the War in Ukraine (a great overview by a military historian)
- (tags:Ukraine Russia NATO viaDanielDWilliam )
- The Beginner's Guide to Elden Ring (a most informative video)
- (tags:games advice video )
- This is clearly the best of all possible burgers
- (tags:food video )
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Interesting Links for 29-05-2020
May. 29th, 2020 12:00 pm- Coronavirus lockdown breakers telling police 'if it's okay for Cummings, it's okay for us',
- (tags:UK pandemic doom OhForFucksSake )
- Mongolia has had the best COVID-19 response in the world
- (tags:Mongolia pandemic )
- Lord OF The Rings Reunites Apart on Sunday!
- (tags:lotr video pandemic )
- Coronavirus: What can you do in Scotland from Friday?
- (tags:Scotland pandemic )
- How poppy flowers get those vibrant colors that entice insects
- (tags:flowers plants nature colour viaDanielDWilliam )
- Advice to a doctor
- (tags:doctors advice )
- The Vintage Beauty Of Soviet Control Rooms
- (tags:design Russia history technology )
- Westminster is broken (only 50 MPs allowed in Westminster at once, no online voting allowed)
- (tags:UK government OhForFucksSake Westminster parliament )
- Twitter hides Trump tweet for glorifying violence
- (tags:twitter censorship politice politics usa )
- How to describe an official history as being utterly full of shit, but in a much politer way.
- (tags:academia lies writing )
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- twitter,
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- viadanieldwilliam,
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- westminster,
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Interesting Links for 22-05-2020
May. 22nd, 2020 05:57 pm- If you are a cisgender woman and consider yourself a friend and ally to trans people then please consider signing this open letter to Liz Truss.
- (tags:transgender LGBT politics )
- Scientists find area of mouse brain that shuts off pain
- (tags:pain mice )
- Scotland's route map through and out of the pandemic
- (tags:pandemic scotland government )
- This is my new favourite house listing
- (tags:funny housing )
- What it's like to be Elon Musk's neighbor.
- (tags:ElonMusk OhForFucksSake texas )
- The DfE has done no modelling on the impact on transmission rates of starting to reopen schools.
- (tags:Education pandemic OhForFucksSake England )
- Bumblebees fools plants into flowering - by biting them
- (tags:bees flowers plants )
- Coronavirus: Britons not welcome in Greece until infection rate declines
- (tags:Greece UK pandemic tourism )
- Breaking: The Scottish First Minister knows you're horny.
- (tags:Scotland pandemic sex Twitter funny )
- Pro-tip - if you're going to murder someone then don't do it while they're on a Zoom call with 20 witnesses
- (tags:murder Technology )
- Tens of thousands of coronavirus tests have been double-counted - tests which involve taking saliva and nasal samples from the same patient are being counted as two tests, not one.
- (tags:testing UK OhForFucksSake )
- 'Siri, What Time Is It in London?'
- (tags:computers stupidity )
- Left, Right, Above, and Under: Intel 3D Packaging Tech Gains Omnidirectionality
- (tags:3d processor computers technology )
- The science behind human irrationality just passed a huge test
- (tags:psychology behaviour rationality )
- Tracking down "The Worst Person You Know"
- (tags:meme photos journalism internet )
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Interesting Links for 08-02-2019
Feb. 8th, 2019 11:58 am- Car park tax unworkable? One English city would disagree
- (tags:uk cars tax cities transport )
- Who does Donald Tusk think he is? We've always been so civil with these 'EU dirty rats'
- (tags:UK europe language )
- New top floor for Edinburgh's Waverley Mall
- (tags:Edinburgh viaDanielDWilliam )
- Google Death: A Tool to Take Care of Your Gmail When You're Gone
- (tags:Google Gmail death viaSwampers )
- When people see Measles first hand, they go get vaccinated
- (tags:disease vaccination usa )
- On educating the kink community about STIs
- (tags:disease sex education kink )
- My disabled son - 'the nobleman, the philanderer, the detective'
- (tags:gaming life death )
- New Tonga island is now home to flowers and owls
- (tags:pacific volcano flowers wildlife )
- Sweden's surprising rule for time off to start your own company
- (tags:sweden business )
- Today's press release from Juncker and May contains...nothing at all. Nothing has changed, and A No-Deal Brexit is 50 days away.
- (tags:uk europe doom )
- The Cookie Monster AMA is brilliant
- (tags:muppets reddit funny viaSwampers )
- Female-led funeral directors out to buck several trends in male-dominated industry
- (tags:death gender uk )
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Interesting Links for 03-08-2017
Aug. 3rd, 2017 12:00 pm- 'No major incidents' as driverless buses launch in Estonia
- (tags: automation transport buses )
- Men Will Lose the Most Jobs to Robots, and That's OK
- (tags: gender work society automation )
- How central are female characters to a movie?
- (tags: movies gender society )
- The incredible privilege of men's clothing
- I literally had no idea until I went clothes shopping with female friends how awful their clothing options are.
(tags: clothing gender privilege ) - It's not that people born after 1980 are narcissists, it's that young people are always narcissists
- (tags: generation society youth psychology )
- Earth Overshoot Day: Mankind has already consumed more natural resources than the planet can renew throughout 2017
- (tags: earth renewables doom )
- Gamblers more likely to have suffered childhood traumas
- (tags: children gambling psychology trauma )
- What flowers looked like 100 million years ago
- (tags: flowers prehistory )
- 'Dr. Men' figurines coming in the Autumn!
- (tags: drwho )
- Bitcoin: splits, shorts, longs, and complications
- (tags: bitcoin finance )
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Interesting Links for 23-07-2017
Jul. 23rd, 2017 12:00 pm- China forces its Muslim minority to install spyware on their phones
- (tags: China islam surveillance phones OhForFucksSake )
- How could so many be furious over a female Doctor Who? They answer is they’re not
- Anyone fancy gathering evidence and writing a rebuttal?
(tags: internet anger fraud media drwho ) - The Charlie Gard story reveals what we won't accept about medicine
- (tags: medicine society death fail )
- The Truth Behind Snape's First Words To Harry In 'Harry Potter'
- (tags: viaSwampers harrypotter flowers )
- A world of free movement would be $78 trillion richer
- (tags: immigration economics )
- Yellowstone Bears Eat 40,000 Moths a Day in August
- (tags: bears )
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- viaswampers
Interesting Links for 08-06-2017
Jun. 8th, 2017 12:00 pm- FactCheck: Corbyn wrong on working-class students
- (tags: class labour students fees university )
- China and California sign deal to work on climate change without Trump
- (tags: globalwarming china california usa GoodNews )
- Which party manifestos were the best (or worst) grammatically?
- (tags: grammar politics uk )
- How one refugee changed the mind of his travel ban-supporting neighbour
- (tags: bigotry usa politics refugee immigration viaSwampers )
- When it comes to politicians and statistics you need to really look at the definitions
- (tags: statistics politics uk )
- Electric cars accelerate past 2m mark globally - up by 60% in a year
- (tags: electricity cars Technology )
- A Vietnamese skin clinic accidentally used the Umbrella Corporation logo...
- (tags: games funny fail )
- Sony sells one million VR headsets (very happy with mine)
- (tags: VirtualReality playstation sony )
- Parents kissing their children on the lips: Threat? Or Menace?
- (tags: children parenting wtf viaSwampers )
- Genes influence ability to read a person's mind from their eyes
- (tags: eyes genetics psychology empathy )
- We need to talk about Diane Abbott.
- (tags: Labour politics uk women race history )
- 10+ Times People Failed To Send Dog Pics To ‘We Rate Dogs’ Twitter
- (tags: dogs cute funny )
- 3-year-olds consuming alternative milks were 1.5 cm shorter on average
- (tags: milk children height )
- Kansas Republicans raise taxes, ending their GOP governor’s ‘real live experiment’ in conservative policy
- (tags: tax usa republicans )
- The transgenic petunia carnage of 2017
- (tags: genetics flowers )
- Portraits of Imaginary people (as drawn by a neural network)
- (tags: ai faces )
- Using VR to help a severe stutter
- (tags: speech VirtualReality video )
- Elections in the UK are run by an elite club. Chances are, you're not in it.
- (tags: voting uk video )
- Renewables provide more than half UK energy for first time (70.2% low-carbon)
- (tags: power electricity uk renewables GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 09-08-2015
Aug. 9th, 2015 12:00 pm- Amnesty should support decriminalisation of sex work
- Sex work battle: Hollywood actresses v Amnesty International
- Australian Whistleblower Leaks Spy Documents to 4chan, 4chan Ignores Them, Calls Them "Gay"
- Anti-Piracy Group Hits Indie Creators For Using the Word 'Pixels'
- Charles Darwin's genius revealed again as study shows his insight into sexual behaviour of the primrose was correct
- What really happened to the dwarves of Auschwitz?
- Time May Change Me (An animated David Bowie morphs through every phase of his careeer)
- 2015 is the year the old internet finally died
- Contrarians, Crackpots, and Consensus
- How bee hives work (and why Britain doesn't have any wild ones)
- The Power of Kawaii: Viewing Cute Images Promotes a Careful Behavior and Narrows Attentional Focus
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- web,
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Interesting Links for 15-07-2014
Jul. 15th, 2014 12:00 pm- Man misdiagnosed as delusional for 20 years sues
- Executive pay is 180 times the average - up from 60x in the 90s
- Slytherin 101: How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Restaurant CEOs Make More Money in Half a Day Than Their Employees Make in a Year
- The Beautiful Death's of Game Of Thrones
- What is it that Michael Bay does?
- I find myself obsessed with reviews that rip Transformers 4 to shreds. I have no idea why - they're just so much fun!
- A six-pack doesn't cut it in Hollywood anymore. How today's male stars get into the ridiculous shape they need to.
- When I Started Writing ‘Game Of Thrones,’ I Didn’t Know What Horses Looked Like
- You'll all be glad to know this didn't happen on our anniversary
- FCA imposes cap on payday loans
- Reshuffle: One Nation Toryism has gone to meet its maker
- X-Rays of Flowers (the ones of toys are also very cool)
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Interesting Links for 09-07-2014
Jul. 9th, 2014 12:00 pm- SSRIs: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
- Apparently we now have sniffer dogs trained to detect electronic circuitry...
- I'm gonna open up a retail store called KickstartMart
- A list of things which are accidentally Turing Complete
- Some rambling thoughts on region restrictions in ebooks
- Some statistics on inequality in the UK. Anyone care to dispute these?
- Taking on the packaging giants with a sustainable alternative made from straw
- Flowers in the Badlands - a gorgeous collections of photos
- Stonewall, sadly supporting the voices of transphobia and bi-erasure
- Apparently Scotland leaving would cause the rest of the UK to turn into an apocalyptic wasteland
- Brave Men Take Paternity Leave, making it easier for others to do likewise
- Authors' incomes collapse to 'abject' levels
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Interesting Links for 04-10-2013
Oct. 4th, 2013 12:00 pm- France approves 'anti-Amazon' bill
- Children switch from mobile phones to tablets
- Exercise as effective as many drugs for common diseases
- Giant! Hornets! Attack! China!
- European organizations file lawsuit against UK over vast digital surveillance
- Study accuses media companies of cooking the books on piracy losses
- Deadly lake turns animals into statues
- What Is the Best Way for a Programmer to Learn a New Language?
- Brain stimulation affects compliance with social norms (of fairness)
- What it's like to be seduced by a serial killer
- Ocean acidification is at its highest for 300m years
- Interesting changes in colour between Desolation of Smaug trailer #1 and trailer #2
- Diesel fumes affect how bees find flowers
- The EU is cutting red tape
- The campaign to take the UK to court over digital surveillance is raising money. I gave £20
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- programming,
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- terrifying,
- thehobbit,
- uk,
- usa,
- wasp
Interesting Links for 20-09-2013
Sep. 20th, 2013 12:00 pm- Margaret Atwood answers reader's questions
- 32% of Americans Think the Syrian Crisis is Part of ‘End Times’
- How JP Morgan Chase was fined $1Bn for losing $6Bn
- How house prices have risen relative to earnings (Love to see this with mortgage payments)
- Inside the gene that causes raised depression, anxiety, and memory loss in 20% of the population.
- Endocrine-disrupting chemicals pose a global health threat
- These two images probably sum up your life right now
- How long does a queen last?
- Martin Klimas exploding flowers
- Amazing video taken from the back of an eagle in flight
- I feel this way about mess all the time
- Conan Doyle estate seeks to preserve US copyright of Sherlock Holmes's 'complex personality'
- Apple iOS 7 surprises as first with new multipath TCP connections
- Labour call for pro-Union parties to talk about what the UK should look like
- Pope Francis Criticizes 'Obsessed' Church Focus On Abortion, Gay Marriage, Contraception
- How many knots do you have to tied yourself in to deny global warming?
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- reddit,
- sherlockholmes,
- syria,
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Interesting Links for 06-02-2013
Feb. 6th, 2013 11:00 am- Techno Viking and the curse of internet celebrity
- The Lib-Dems just tried to kill secret courts, but were blocked by the DUP supporting the Conservatives
- Diet, parental behavior and preschool can boost children's IQ
- What living on benefits really means
- The cutest puppy photo I've seen in a while.
- What Orbital bombardments look like from EVE online into Dust 514, recorded at the same time.
- A missing scene from Groundhog Day resurfaces.
- Bacon Roses!!!!!
- Some really, really stinky cheese jokes.
- How the perfection of modern actors looks out of place in period productions
- Quentin Tarantino Applauds ‘The Hobbit’s’ Gratuitous Use of N-Word
- Husbands who do more traditionally female housework have less sex
- Disney CEO says we're getting Star Wars spinoff films on top of the new trilogy
- Opinion poll indicates NI voters would reject Irish unity
- GSK to publish clinical trial data for drugs - fantastic news!
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