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Interesting Links for 29-06-2023

1. Can you beat...The Password Game
(tags:passwords funny game )
2. 10cm African huntsman spider found in Edinburgh suitcase
(tags:spiders aieeee! edinburgh )
3. Edinburgh tram report 'still with publishers' nine weeks on
(tags:Edinburgh trams publishing wtf )
4. The Connection Between Autism And The Gut Microbiome Is Clearer Than Ever
(tags:autism microbiome )
5. Catching Covid? Try not to have blood type A
(tags:blood Pandemic )
6. Canadian Smoke Reaches Europe (the pictures are terrifying)
(tags:Canada fire Europe Portugal )
7. do gender differences (sometimes) seem bigger in more gender equal countries? (If people think real sex differences exist, segregation will result regardless of real skill differences)
(tags:gender psychology society ViaDrCross )
8. Forcing council meetings to be in person causes those with jobs, children, and disabilities to quit
(tags:disability politics UK parenting work )
9. A Russian soldier on what it's like on their front lines in Ukraine
(tags:Ukraine Russia war epicfail incompetence )
10. US public wants climate change dealt with, but doesn't like the options
(tags:usa globalwarming doom )
11. Sharpie scanning goof reveals major PlayStation budgets and revenues - and that millions of gamers buy a PS just to play Call of Duty
(tags:games playstation sony )
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The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency (for free!)
(tags:fraud jobs OhForFucksSake )
Benefits changes could have serious consequences on mental health, warns UK psychologists' body
(tags:mentalhealth welfare uk OhForFucksSake )
Lit-Up Fishing Nets Dramatically Reduce Catch of Unwanted Sharks, Rays and Squid
(tags:light fish fishing sharks squid )
First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children
(tags:genetics Jews medicine )
How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading
(tags:reading books organisation )
Some Reasons why Babies Cry in the First Three Months, How to Tell Them Apart, and What to Do
(tags:babies advice )
Where Are All the Men in Science Fiction?!?
(tags:scifi men gender women publishing )
The "Peacemaker" Opening Credits are just...amazing. (I just about held it together until the eagle. And then the giggling started.)
(tags:tv superheroes video funny )
Wordle, confirmation bias, and conspiracy theories
(tags:conspiracy words game psychology )
Boris Johnson takes away the tools people use to avoid killing their relatives
(tags:conservatives Pandemic OhForFucksSake )
We are in an unprecedented era of UK relative macroeconomic decline
(tags:economics uk doom Conservatives viaDanielDWilliam )
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'Clients say it feels like we've always known each other': the mental health experts who believe their autism has turbocharged their work
(tags:mentalhealth autism counselling )
Black civil servant handed six-figure payout amid systematic racism in the heart of British government
(tags:racism government uk )
The case for and against analogies
(tags:communication )
NI Protocol: How Britain is causing chaos to avoid dealing with the issues
(tags:UK NorthernIreland Europe Ireland borders trade regulation )
Cerebrospinal fluid washing in and out of the brain during sleep
(tags:sleep brains )
Mapping the celebrity NFT complex
(tags:celebrity blockchain )
Worldle - Can you guess the country? (guesses give you a direction and a distance you were wrong by)
(tags:countries game )
Girl who followed party rules asks Boris Johnson for apology
(tags:BorisJohnson party Pandemic )
15 EU states subsidise fossil-fuels more than renewables
(tags:Europe subsidies globalwarming OhForFucksSake )
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Australia is much more interested in a deal with the EU than one with the UK
(tags:trade UK europe australia )
Any of my friends got $75,000 and want a robot dog?
(tags:dogs robots )
Mars: Green glow detected on the Red Planet
(tags:mars )
Please write to your MP about trans rights. It seems to be working so far, and anything you can do to persuade your MP will help.
(tags:LGBT transgender UK politics )
Brexit trade deal with New Zealand will have 'close to zero' benefit to UK economy, government admits
(tags:UK newzealand trade pointless )
This Simon Cowell "Choose Your Own Adventure" is both fun and full of ridiculous musical parodies. Check every branch!
(tags:music funny game twitter viaJennieRigg )
Abuse and threats aimed at wheelchair user over faked photo
(tags:abuse OhForFucksSake disability )
Trump asked Chinese president to help him win reelection
(tags:republicans USA politics China )
The Physics of Taking Down Racist Statues (From "Popular Mechanics" of all places)
(tags:statue physics racism )
Diluting blood plasma rejuvenates tissue, reverses aging in mice
(tags:mice age blood )
D&D Creators Are Rethinking Race In Dungeons And Dragons
(tags:race games dungeonsanddragons )
Deaths involving coronavirus (COVID-19) in Scotland - very detailed, if you like crunching numbers
(tags:Scotland pandemic statistics viaPatrickHadfield )
DNA study reveals Ireland's age of 'god-kings'
(tags:Ireland genetics archeology )
Coronavirus: 'Significant transmission' of Covid-19 takes place in households before people develop symptoms
(tags:pandemic )
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Interesting Links for 28-01-2020

How Warcraft III birthed a genre, changed a franchise, and earned a Reforge-ing
(tags:games history WarCraft )
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's duck?" and other sayings
(tags:language funny game )
A brief history of early Kirk/Spock slash (and the trouble it could get you in back then)
(tags:society StarTrek fandom lgbt gay writing slash )
How Labour lost the Scottish working class
(tags:Labour Scotland politics )
10 Videogame Characters That Are Way Better Than Humans This Valentine's Day
(tags:relationships funny games valentines_day )
Nuclear weapons waste storage plans aren't as safe as we thought
(tags:environment materials nuclearweapons )
'I Do Not Like Working Too Hard or Too Long': A Refreshingly Honest Talk With The Witcher's Creator
(tags:TV books interview fantasy )
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Interesting Links for 29-09-2019

Google to stop showing news snippets for French users
(tags:Google news france )
Brussels loses faith in 'volatile' UK
(tags:UK Europe Doom )
Pronoun button badges for sale
(tags:gender )
There is no point in appealing to the decency of the alt-right.
(tags:fascism )
Communication with locked-in patients in question after misconduct finding
(tags:research disability communication fraud )
President Trump told two senior Russian officials in a 2017 Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election because the United States did the same in other countries,
(tags:USA UK elections fraud OhForFucksSake )
Nervous Kremlin Warns U.S. Against Releasing Transcripts Of Trump's Calls With Putin
(tags:politics USA Russia )
Analysis of the Vote Leave messaging strategy.
(tags:UK Europe propaganda marketing )
What organisational structures allow DevOps to flourish (or doom it)
(tags:development software organisation support viaFanf )
Adventures With Anxiety! (a simple game where you play a person's anxiety, trying to keep them safe)
(tags:anxiety game ViaDrCross )
I'm afraid I won't be backing anything on Kickstarter again
(tags:Kickstarter unions OhForFucksSake )
China unveils 500MP camera that can identify every face in a crowd of tens of thousands. Britain is doing similar things
(tags:surveillance China uk )
High in the Cascades, a lone fire lookout still keeps watch
(tags:fire nature usa )
The Kickstarter union organisers do not want a boycott
(tags:unions Kickstarter )
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China Has Already Gene-Edited 86 People With CRISPR
(tags: china genetics )
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
(tags: abuse sex patriarchy )
City transit is undermined by rich people pretending that everyone can travel the way that they like to, despite that being physically impossible
(tags: transport design cities )
Producers Guild of America Anti-Sexual Harassment Guidelines
(tags: harassment abuse movies advice )
How Heartland saved a fortune on tax by adding molasses - and then removing it again
(tags: tax usa canada law )
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
(tags: sperm fertility )
Star War-inspired 3D images floating in thin air
(tags: StarWars Holograms light )
New test can tell IBS sufferers whether the low-Fodmap diet will help (which it does 73% of the time)
(tags: diet IBS food )
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!
(tags: hplovecraft game science cthulhu )
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
(tags: Poland holocaust )
The Follower Factory - huge numbers of fake Twitter followers sold for pennies a time to desperate celebrities
(tags: Twitter fraud )
Record-setting polar explorer, 16, hits back at men who say she belongs in the kitchen
(tags: abuse patriarchy society arctic exploration )
‘We Shall Overcome’ Is Put in Public Domain in a Copyright Settlement
(tags: music copyright GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 15-01-2018

Eliza Dushku speaks out about being molested age 12
(tags: abuse Child_abuse hollywood )
Data Wing is the best mobile game I've played.
(tags: game review phones )
Legal marijuana cuts violence
(tags: violence murder marijuana drugs usa legalisation )
"People who made an impulse decision when they found out Hawaii was going to be nuked, what did you do and do you regret it?"
(tags: Hawaii nuclearweapons )
Rape Culture, Autism, Ableism, Body Language and Consent
(tags: consent disability rape RapeCulture autism )
The US commando who vanished in Vietnam, and then reappeared 40 years later. Or did he?
(tags: identity war vietnam history usa )
Virgin Trains will stock Daily Mail newspapers, says Richard Branson in U-turn decision
(tags: DailyMail virgin trains )
First-time buyers see biggest rise in asking prices (because they're exempt from stamp duty people can afford to pay more)
It's fairly simple economics - (most) people pay as much as they can afford per month. So removing stamp duty was never going to actually lower the prices. The only way to do that is to...produce more housing supply.
(tags: housing uk )
Seattle builds new apartments, rental prices drop
(tags: economics housing usa )
Meet Science Cat!
(tags: cats science funny comic )
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Interesting Links for 24-08-2016

Britain’s Hardest Workers: the most gobsmacking reality TV show to date
(tags: work tv poverty )
What kind of game is No Man's Sky, and what kind of game is it not?
Framing is everything.
(tags: games space )
The Rio Games Were An Unjustifiable Human Disaster, And So Are The Olympics
(tags: olympics sport corruption inequality OhForFucksSake )
America’s First Offshore Wind Farm May Power Up a New Industry
(tags: wind windpower electricity usa )
Six ways to tackle the gender pay gap
(tags: gender pay money inequality viaSwampers )
Dragon Age Cosplay Is Better With Dogs
(tags: cosplay dogs viaSwampers )
Very cute programming game
(tags: game programming viaTheWeaselKing )
31 Essential Science Fiction Terms And Where They Came From
(tags: language scifi )
First study to explore language and LSD since the 1960s
(tags: language psychedelics lsd )
Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move From Above
(tags: surveillance usa police )
Wasting time on the internet? There's a book for that
(tags: viaSwampers internet )
More than 400 Tb of live streaming were transferred during the Olympic Games Rio 2016 (In Brazil alone!)
I wonder what percentage watched on TV vs over the internet.
(tags: video olympics Technology brazil internet )
Of kimono and cultural appropriation
(tags: japan cultural_appropriation )
Learning difficulties linked with winter conception
(tags: children time Intelligence weather )
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Interesting Links for 09-03-2016

The Scottish Government is trying to water down the Lobbying Bill. Talk to your MSP now!
(tags: transparency government scotland )
How the Japanese Diet Became the Japanese Diet
(tags: japan diet history )
The "Is This Prime?" game
(tags: math game )
New Order, olden style: A unique take on Blue Monday
(tags: music art video viaSoonLee )
The best suggested use for Samuel L Jackson in quite some time.
(tags: movies funny )
Star Trek, Teleporters, Consciousness, and the Silent Holocaust
I've encountered this kind of discussion many times in the past, but this is a very nicely done take on it.
(tags: consciousness StarTrek death video )
Google's DeepMind defeats legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in historic victory
(tags: games ai Go )
Is it time to stop giving so much of a damn at work?
(tags: work psychology happiness )
Sir George Martin dead: Game of Thrones fans had ‘mini-heart attack’ when they thought George RR Martin had died
(tags: funny GeorgeRRMartin death gameofthrones )
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