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Interesting Links for 14-12-2025
Dec. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Looks like the BBC are bullying people out unless they're bigots
- (tags:LGBT bigotry BBC OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Analysis finds "anytime electricity" from solar available as battery costs plummet
- (tags:electricity solarpower batteries )
- 3. Twins reared apart do not exist (The shaky science of genetic determinism)
- (tags:genetics twins iq history psychology )
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- batteries,
- bbc,
- bigotry,
- electricity,
- genetics,
- history,
- iq,
- lgbt,
- links,
- ohforfuckssake,
- psychology,
- solarpower,
- twins
Interesting Links for 17-11-2025
Nov. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. A Crucial Genetic Mutation Behind Crohn's Disease Has Finally Been Revealed
- (tags:disease genetics )
- 2. The North-South Tramline: Building a Connected, Prosperous Edinburgh?
- (tags:transport economics Edinburgh )
- 3. Behold - the Future of Poltics!
- (tags:politics satire comic conspiracy )
- 4. The sad truth about most end of life healthcare
- (tags:healthcare age satire funny comic )
- 5. Repeated mRNA Covid vaccinations make a more diverse and stronger T-cell response
- (tags:vaccine pandemic GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 10-11-2025
Nov. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
- (tags:politics fascism ElonMusk twitter bias )
- 2. James Watson: From DNA pioneer to untouchable pariah
- (tags:biography DNA history viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani
- (tags:politics usa satire funny )
- 4. Reminder that the New York Times regularly prints hateful nonsense (an article about someone they tried to interview about Zohran Mamdani)
- (tags:politics newyork journalism OhForFucksSake USA viaKenny )
- 5. A bunch of engineers built a drifting wheelchair for an injured coworker. It looks awesome.
- (tags:disability engineering video )
- 6. The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system
- (tags:biology genetics earth )
- 7. Meet the teen behind the Louvre 'Fedora Man' mystery photo
- (tags:france police photos crime Paris style )
- 8. New flu virus mutation could see 'worst season in a decade' (get your vaccinations!)
- (tags:flu doom )
- 9. Long-term Melatonin use associated with much higher risk of heart problems and death
- (tags:medicine heart )
- 10. Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
- (tags:usa politics )
- 11. Scotland's first commercial windfarm will be able to deliver five times more clean power than before after being upgraded
- (tags:scotland windpower GoodNews )
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- bias,
- biography,
- biology,
- crime,
- disability,
- dna,
- doom,
- earth,
- elonmusk,
- engineering,
- fascism,
- flu,
- france,
- funny,
- genetics,
- goodnews,
- heart,
- history,
- journalism,
- links,
- medicine,
- newyork,
- ohforfuckssake,
- paris,
- photos,
- police,
- politics,
- satire,
- scotland,
- style,
- twitter,
- usa,
- viakenny,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- video,
- windpower
Interesting Links for 09-11-2025
Nov. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Women are three times more likely than men to get severe long COVID
- (tags:women Pandemic )
- 2. We've found a biomarker for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- (tags:babies death )
- 3. Chinese Authorities Shut Down Film Festival in New York (By harrassing filmmakers and their families)
- (tags:china censorship movies usa OhForFucksSake )
- 4. The modern homes hidden inside ancient ruins
- (tags:architecture history )
- 5. What do voters think would count as Labour breaking their promises on tax?
- (tags:tax labour polls politics uk )
- 6. A Gene Editing Therapy Cut Cholesterol Levels by Half (trial only lasted 60 days)
- (tags:genetics health )
- 7. Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans
- (tags:history USA maps visualisation )
- 8. Why didn't Democrats codify Roe v. Wade when Obama had a fillibuster proof majority in 2009?
- (tags:abortion politics USA )
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Interesting Links for 03-10-2025
Oct. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3b in income, $13.5b in loss
- (tags:ai business doom )
- 2. Features of autism can affect age of diagnosis — and so can genes
- (tags:genetics autism age )
- 3. UK plummets down rankings for LGBTQ+ rights (from 1st place a decade ago to 22nd place today)
- (tags:uk bigotry rights lgbt OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 29-09-2025
Sep. 29th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Keir Starmer calls Reform migrant policy 'racist' and 'immoral'
- (tags:UK politics migration racism labour )
- 2. UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer
- (tags:rice farming UK )
- 3. 'Amazing feat': US man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
- (tags:organs pigs impressive )
- 4. We've found Mendel's genes!
- (tags:genetics history vegetables )
- 5. Microplastics Could Be Weakening Your Bones
- (tags:plastic bone doom )
Interesting Links for 07-08-2025
Aug. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The U.S. Constitution website has removed important sections limiting states rights and removing Writ Habeas Corpus or the right to due process.
- (tags:usa constitution doom )
- 2. JK Rowling calls for M&S boycott because a tall woman spoke to a girl
- (tags:jkrowling bigotry shops )
- 3. I just sent a supportive email to Marks and Spencer over the ridiculous bigotry being sent their way. If you want, you can do that here.
- (tags:shopping communication bigotry LGBT transgender MarksAndSpencer )
- 4. Dispelling harmful misinformation about M&S 'trans' bra fitting row
- 5. ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome linked to your genetics
- (tags:genetics ChronicFatigueSyndrome viaKenny )
- 6. Brown 'functionally inaccessible' for trans students after Trump deal
- (tags:university bigotry transgender LGBT USA )
- 7. Older people react less strongly to colours.
- (tags:colour age )
- 8. Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have
- (tags:politics usa satire lobsters )
- 9. Politicians have been lying to the British public about the economy for decades. At some point we'll have to stop.
- (tags:economics uk politics )
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Interesting Links for 06-08-2025
Aug. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Scientific fraud has become an industry, alarming analysis finds
- (tags:science research publishing fraud OhForFucksSake )
- 2. An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine (Finds that less than 2% of the money raised goes to the candidates)
- (tags:democrats fundraising corruption )
- 3. Didn't Take Long To Reveal The UK's Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
- (tags:UK privacy censorship politics OhForFucksSake )
- 4. World Athletics' mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know - I discovered the relevant gene in 1990
- (tags:genetics sports gender )
- 5. Tech billionaires are arguing amongst themselves about how exactly humanity should go extinct
- (tags:extinction humans ai thefuture )
- 6. When Disney Went Digital (earlier than you'd think)
- (tags:Disney history computers technology art animation movies )
- 7. Labour got a bunch of former-Conservative voters in Scotland, and are now in danger of shedding them to Reform (might explain a few things)
- (tags:scotland politics Conservatives labour )
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- animation,
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- censorship,
- computers,
- conservatives,
- corruption,
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- disney,
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- fraud,
- fundraising,
- gender,
- genetics,
- history,
- humans,
- labour,
- links,
- movies,
- ohforfuckssake,
- politics,
- privacy,
- publishing,
- research,
- science,
- scotland,
- sports,
- technology,
- thefuture,
- uk
Interesting Links for 05-08-2025
Aug. 5th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How the UK's Equality and Human Rights Commission has gone horribly wrong,
- (tags:uk equality rights OhForFucksSake politics )
- 2. "The Demon that Wears my Face"
- (tags:jobs ai short_story scifi )
- 3. You get women with XY chromosomes who can give birth. Turns out biology is complicated
- (tags:gender women genetics )
- 4. The Math Is Haunted (a look at a mathematics prover)
- (tags:mathematics programming )
- 5. Scientists unravel decade-long mystery behind death of five billion starfish
- (tags:life disease ocean sea )
- 6. Aerial footage filmed by ITV News shows the scale of Gaza's destruction
- (tags:gaza genocide Israel )
- 7. Grid-scale Batteries in Scotland Stabilize Power
- (tags:Scotland batteries electricity )
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- ai,
- batteries,
- disease,
- electricity,
- equality,
- gaza,
- gender,
- genetics,
- genocide,
- israel,
- jobs,
- life,
- links,
- mathematics,
- ocean,
- ohforfuckssake,
- politics,
- programming,
- rights,
- scifi,
- scotland,
- sea,
- short_story,
- uk,
- women
Interesting Links for 17-07-2025
Jul. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The UK is stuck in a fiscal corner (The only way I see out of it is the trade bump we'd get from rejoining the EU)
- (tags:uk economics doom viaKenny )
- 2. Babies from three people's DNA prevents heriditary disease
- (tags:disease genetics babies )
- 3. Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements
- (tags:morality brain psychology )
- 4. Which of us has not been woken at night by a religious leader dressed as a yeti, so that we can swear a blood oath?
- (tags:catholicism wtf )
- 5. Police participation in pride ruled unlawful
- (tags:police LGBT OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 15-07-2025
Jul. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem
- (tags:people comics ai doom communication )
- 2. How old are you in your head? (Mid 30s for me)
- (tags:age psychology )
- 3. Reddit will start verifying the age (but not the identity) of UK redditors
- (tags:uk age reddit regulation internet )
- 4. "Autism" is at least 4 different syndromes, each with distinct biological and genetic pathways.
- (tags:autism genetics )
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- age,
- ai,
- autism,
- comics,
- communication,
- doom,
- genetics,
- internet,
- links,
- people,
- psychology,
- reddit,
- regulation,
- uk
Interesting Links for 07-07-2025
Jul. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour promised LGBT voters a 'reset' - now many feel betrayed
- (tags:LGBT bigotry Labour OhForFucksSake UK transgender )
- 2. Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with Starlink antenna
- (tags:drugs automation submarine Colombia )
- 3. The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation
- (tags:fraud OhForFucksSake publishing crime lies )
- 4. Is Autism Genetic? (About 80% yes)
- (tags:autism genetics )
- 5. Why your baby is crying (at 2 months, 50% genes. at 5 months 70% genes)
- (tags:babies crying genetics )
- 6. 'Improved' Twitter AI criticizes Democrats and Hollywood's 'Jewish executives'
- (tags:twitter ai bigotry Jews usa politics OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 04-07-2025
Jul. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Five baby beavers born at Cairngorms National Park in Scottish Highlands spotted for first time
- (tags:beavers Scotland video )
- 2. Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate implications
- (tags:globalwarming ocean doom )
- 3. Deafness reversed: Single injection brings hearing back within weeks | ScienceDaily
- (tags:hearing deafness genetics )
- 4. High-Fidelity Simultaneous Speech-To-Speech Translation
- (tags:translation ai )
- 5. Ita O'Brien: Up close and professional with the world's leading intimacy coordinator
- (tags:sex acting safety tv movies )
- 6. Trump seems to have decided that America should be more like Rome
- (tags:usa fighting republicans EpicWTF )
- 7. The perfect, but slow, way to boil an egg - according to science
- (tags:eggs cooking )
Interesting Links for 04-05-2025
May. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes
- (tags:automation driving delivery )
- 2. "I like being autistic": Assessing the benefit of autistic-led psychoeducation for autistic children
- (tags:autism education children )
- 3. Snake enthusiast survived hundreds of bites. Now his blood is aiding the search for a universal antivenom
- (tags:snakes immune_system genetics viaKenny )
- 4. They Sent the Message. But Did They Write It? (How AI is disrupting actual communication)
- (tags:communication ai doom )
- 5. Love in the time of cancer
- (tags:cancer love death )
- 6. Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director
- (tags:TV Australia art animation )
Interesting Links for 03-05-2025
May. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 1.5m Britons a month pay for weight-loss jabs
- (tags:UK weight medication )
- 2. Why our waistlines expand in middle age—aging stem cells shift into overdrive (in rats)
- (tags:weight age rats )
- 3. Germany's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech Just Got Even More Ridiculous
- (tags:Germany genocide Palestine Israel freespeech law viaKenny )
- 4. RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To Do Their Own Research About Dragons
- (tags:politics USA dragons satire funny )
- 5. UN says 9,000 Gaza children acutely malnourished as aid blockade passes two months
- (tags:children food gaza Israel Palestine OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Genomic evidence for behavioral adaptation of herding dogs
- (tags:dogs genetics behaviour )
- 7. I missed that the horror version of Steamboat Willie had already been released
- (tags:horror Disney mice )
Interesting Links for 21-04-2025
Apr. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Scandal of Financial Nihilism
- (tags:life money philosophy )
- 2. As unions decline, inequality rises
- (tags:unions inequality )
- 3. Happy Easter! 'Chris is Risen'!
- (tags:spelling fail easter UK religion Christianity )
- 4. 'Biological reality': What genetics has taught us about race
- (tags:race racism genetics history politics USA )
Interesting Links for 09-04-2025
Apr. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Confusion surrounds ETA visa waiver process for some dual national Brits
- (tags:migration uk passport )
- 2. Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals
- (tags:Intelligence crows primates evolution )
- 3. No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
- (tags:ai Technology images )
- 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
- (tags:weather temperature fat )
- 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!
- (tags:puzzle games )
- 9. Trade Will Move On Without the United States
- (tags:trade USA )
- 10. Great Moments in Peaceful Protest History
- (tags:protests funny satire comic )
- 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?
- (tags:politics usa republicans )
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- ai,
- animals,
- censorship,
- china,
- comic,
- crows,
- dna,
- doom,
- epicstupidity,
- evolution,
- fat,
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- games,
- gender,
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- incompetence,
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- mathematics,
- migration,
- pakistan,
- passport,
- politics,
- prehistory,
- primates,
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- puzzle,
- race,
- republicans,
- research,
- satire,
- solarpower,
- technology,
- temperature,
- trade,
- uk,
- usa,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- weather,
- wolves
Interesting Links for 02-04-2025
Apr. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. From tape to disk to solid-state - how storage has become faster (with some lovely animations to explain)
- (tags:storage visualisation )
- 2. I see Gilead are making a sequel to 'The Handmaid's Tale'
- (tags:dystopia USA TV margaretatwood women )
- 3. FTC: 23andMe buyer must honor firm's privacy promises for genetic data
- (tags:privacy genetics business )
- 4. AI models miss disease in Black and female patients (because it was trained less on them)
- (tags:racism sexism ai healthcare cancer )
- 5. What even is Britain?
- (tags:UK nationality history society viaDanielDWilliam )
- 6. What are your beliefs about the nature of reality? (I'm a scientific materialist. A mix of all of the subtypes.)
- (tags:reality beliefs )
- 7. "On the Best (Worst) Best Man Speech Ever (at My Super Mario-Themed Wedding)"
- (tags:wedding games movies relationships advice comedy )
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- advice,
- ai,
- beliefs,
- business,
- cancer,
- comedy,
- dystopia,
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- genetics,
- healthcare,
- history,
- links,
- margaretatwood,
- movies,
- nationality,
- privacy,
- racism,
- reality,
- relationships,
- sexism,
- society,
- storage,
- tv,
- uk,
- usa,
- viadanieldwilliam,
- visualisation,
- wedding,
- women
Interesting Links for 29-03-2025
Mar. 29th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Hayao Miyazaki on the use of AI: "I am utterly disgusted"
- (tags:ai ghibli art )
- 2. Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
- (tags:protest UK police )
- 3. Iron Age Britain was matrilocal (the female lines stayed still, the male lines migrated)
- (tags:archeology genetics uk )
- 4. Flight Bookings From Canada to the US Plummet Over 70%
- (tags:transport Canada USA doom )
