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Interesting Links for 31-01-2022

When you're trying not to make any noise in the middle of the night: (tags:rickroll noise night video )
No, Ivermectin Is Not Making People Poop Out "Rope Worms". The Truth Is Much Worse: (tags:idiocy Pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Bigots Launch Attacks on the Women's Sector in Pursuit of a Trans-Free World: (tags:transgender women rights OhForFucksSake bigotry )
Spotify: Streaming giant announces plans to clamp down on Covid misinformation: (tags:lies Pandemic streaming )
Plant-based diets + rewilding provides massive opportunity to cut CO2: (tags:food globalwarming )
Huxley vs. Orwell - who was right?: (tags:AldousHuxley GeorgeOrwell society )
A Billion Years of Time Are Mysteriously Missing. Scientists Think They Know Why. (Glaciers): (tags:ice geology time )
University Study Finds Reducing Inequality Can Reverse Political Polarisation: (tags:inequality politics )
How the popularity of different movie genres has changed over time: (tags:movies visualisation time )

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Interesting Links for 31-12-2019

The Dazzling Designs of Alpine Lake Ice Formations: (tags:Ice water beautiful Germany )
Hard work and success - how interlinked are they?: (tags:work success )
Syd Mead, Blade Runner, Alien, Tron and futurist designer, dies at 86: (tags:design obituary movies )

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Interesting Links for 19-12-2019

The anti LGBT organisation 'One Million Moms' is just one.: (tags:homophobia lgbt USA OhForFucksSake viaZornhau )
What makes something a Christmas film?: (tags:Christmas movies )
Hidden 'dark river' could stretch more than 1,000 miles under Greenland: (tags:greenland ice rivers )
ScotRail contract to end three years early after commuter anger rises: (tags:Scotland trains )
Man threatens to sue magazine for using his photo in article about hipsters looking alike, before realising it isn't him: (tags:clothing identity funny mathematics headline )
Why India shuts down the internet more than any other democracy: (tags:india censorship internet )
The National Theatre's "Smart Caption Glasses" are an awesome use of technology: (tags:disability captions glasses Technology awesome theatre )
Hedge funds hacked into Bank of England briefings: (tags:hacking banking economics uk )
Judge rules that transphobia isn't protected speech: "The approach is not worthy of respect in a democratic society"
(tags:LGBT transgender bigotry hate GoodNews )

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Interesting Links for 20-11-2019

Nationalisation for the public good: Labour's radical new programme emerges: (tags:Labour economics UK politics )
How to Have Sex in the 600s: (tags:sex nsfw history religion UK )
40% of multinational profits are shifted to tax havens each year: (tags:tax OhForFucksSake )
Homosexuality and bisexuality commonplace in thousands of animal species and may play key role in evolution: (tags:LGBT sexuality homosexuality bisexual )
Shockingly, it turns out the British press are Pro Tory.: (tags:UK politics newspapers )
Gorgeous outdoor skating on a frozen lake: (tags:Ice video nature )
Ayahuasca alters brain waves to produce waking dream-like state: (tags:neuroscience psychedelics )
Canterbury: Fighting to hold the anti-Tory vote together as election approaches: (tags:politics UK )
Alan Moore on Jerusalem, Superheros, Eternalism, Anarchy and Herbie!: (tags:alanmoore comics superheroes writing interview )
When 331 trans people were murdered this year, it's hard not to feel helpless: (tags:lgbt transgender murder )
If you want a model of what a television debate could look like, here's Roy Jenkins and Tony Benn debating EEC membership in 1975. No studio audience, little intervention from the chair, just 50 minutes of serious and substantial debate.: (tags:Europe referendum history video )
BT joins list of companies that will not work with company linked to Prince Andrew: (tags:royalty business scandal )

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Interesting Links for 08-11-2019

Jeremy Corbyn 'will keep free movement of people' in Brexit U-turn: (tags:Labour immigration GoodNews )
Bond Film Anagrams. Very nicely done: (tags:JamesBond language funny )
Microsoft's Project Silica offers robust thousand-year storage: (tags:glass storage )
When you have already lied to a judge, for god's sake stop digging!: (tags:lying law USA OhForFucksSake )
Neil Gaiman confirms that work is already underway on Sandman season 2: (tags:sandman tv neilgaiman )
On historical women's fashion, patriarchy, and ease of movement: (tags:women history clothing )
Whom the fuck?: (tags:language swearing )
Welcome to Britain (WWII Orientation Film for US servicemen arriving in the UK): (tags:USA UK history video wwii )
Italy Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre under guard amid death threats: (tags:Holocaust Jews Italy OhForFucksSake )
Man has chip implanted in his brain to help tackle opioid addiction: (tags:cyborg addiction )
Penis-and-scrotum transplant patient reports near-normal erections, orgasms: (tags:penis organdonor )
MRP models and tactical voting: (tags:statistics data voting advice polls )
Massive Facebook document leak gives ammunition to investigators: (tags:facebook )
It keeps going: 1 meter sea-level rise by 2300 is now inevitable: (tags:globalwarming ocean )
A New Floating Solar Farm Shows That Renewables Can Be Easy: (tags:solarpower viaDanielDWilliam water )
Why are India's Twitter users moving to Mastodon?: (tags:twitter india decentralisation socialnetworking censorship )
'Ice eggs' cover Finland beach in rare weather event: (tags:ice eggs finland weird weather )
My friend Kenny takes gorgeous photos, including some great cosplay and concert pics: (tags:photography cosplay music )
When he supported the Norway option: The Brexit policy Farage would rather forget: (tags:UK Europe Norway )
The tech of PIXAR: Piper (modelling millions of grains of sand): (tags:pixar sand cgi animation )

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Interesting Links for 02-01-2019

What could have wiped 3km of rock off the entire Earth?: (tags: earth prehistory ice geology )
Ten-year-olds in the UK have already consumed 18 years’ worth of sugar: (tags: sugar children uk )

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Interesting Links for 22-12-2018

World Cup: Almost half world's population watched Russia 2018: (tags: football )
The shampoo bottle saving babies from pneumonia (deaths dropped by 75% for a trivial cost): (tags: healthcare babies disease india )
The academics and the drone, a tale of hubris.: (tags: academia drone funny )
Analysing 122 Hours of Christmas Radio - from Martin Luther to Michael Bublé: (tags: music christmas radio viaSwampers )
'Wonderful Christmastime' is the worst Christmas song–and quite possibly the worst song–ever: (tags: music christmas awful )
President Trump has made 7,546 false or misleading claims over 700 days: (tags: usa republicans lies )
Terrible news for fans of thinking.: (tags: psychology thought funny )
Origins: Puff the Magic Dragon: (tags: music myths )
Mars Express beams back images of ice-filled Korolev crater: (tags: Mars water ice )

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Interesting Links for 25-04-2018

Nasa scientists baffled by unexplained strange shapes found in the Arctic: (tags: arctic ice weird )
Abolish all bank holidays and let workers choose their time off: This is how my office mostly works. Closed Christmas and New Year, and otherwise I take my days whenever I like.
(tags: holidays uk )
Amazon can now deliver packages to the inside of your car: (tags: cars Amazon delivery )
Autistic? Living in Edinburgh? There's an event on autism awareness you may be interested in: (tags: autism edinburgh media )
How streaming saved the music industry: (tags: music streaming money )
"My wife didn't want to do Maternity pictures. So I did them.": (tags: pregnancy men photos funny viaElfy )
The 3-ladder system of social class in the U.S.: (tags: class usa )
90 percent of all the plastic that reaches the world's oceans gets flushed through just 10 rivers: (tags: plastic ocean environment rivers )
The Ocean Cleanup's Machine Is About to Set Sail: (tags: plastic ocean GoodNews )
In UK universities there is a daily erosion of integrity: (tags: uk academia )
Apple will start paying €13 billion in back taxes to Ireland: (tags: tax ireland apple )
Cognitive behavioral therapy can improve emotion regulation in children with autism: (tags: therapy emotion autism )
Children are as fit as endurance athletes: (tags: children fitness )
Women tend to get less stressed over time.: (tags: women stress age )
Study of long-term heterosexual couples finds women over-estimate and men underestimate their partner’s sexual advances: (tags: sex relationships )

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Interesting Links for 07-03-2018

The experiment which proved the theory of relativity wrong: (tags: physics errors history )
Could US-Canada border solve Irish dilemma? (Spoilers: No): (tags: ireland NorthernIreland uk europe usa canada borders )
France to fix legal age of sexual consent as 15: (tags: Consent law france sex )
What If Online Movie Ratings Weren’t Based Almost Entirely On What Men Think?: (tags: gender movies ratings )
Eight reasons UK ended up in this Brexit mess: (tags: uk europe history media EpicStupidity )
Secret NYPD Files: Officers Who Lie And Brutally Beat People Can Keep Their Jobs: (tags: newyork police OhForFucksSake )
"As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted" - How British media restarted after WWII: (tags: wwii history media bbc viaSwampers )
Conway's Game Of Life in APL - a short video which uses programming paradigms I've not encountered before. Math fans will appreciate: (tags: mathematics programming life video impressive )
When it's so cold that water freezes as it hits the beach: (tags: water ice cold video )
Who's a good boy? Why 'dog-speak' is important for bonding with your pet: (tags: dogs communication language )
So, Theresa May, renters are human beings too? It doesn’t feel like it: (tags: rental housing uk )
The dirty industry of fast fashion is causing an environmental emergency: (tags: fashion clothes OhForFucksSake pollution environment )
‘Silver bullet’ to suck CO2 from air and halt climate change ruled out: (tags: technology globalwarming co2 thefuture )
"I’m a Sinn Féin MP. This is why I won’t go to Westminster, even over Brexit": (tags: NorthernIreland Ireland politics uk )
Ten statistics people keep quoting even though they're nonsense: (tags: statistics fraud myths beliefs )
Nick Offerman Joins Amazon’s Neil Gaiman Series ‘Good Omens': (tags: neilgaiman terrypratchett tv )
Brexit: EU Parliament sets out stance on future UK relations: (tags: uk europe )
Great discussion of "secret family recipes" - including the first meta-secret recipe I've encountered!: (tags: recipe secrecy )
Was St Gildas the first Brexiteer? Or was he a Romeoaner?: (tags: history uk rome europe )
Disagreements beteeen Kosovo and Serbia cause electronic clocks across Europe to run 6 minutes behind: (tags: time electricity europe fail )
Lessons from Spotify: (tags: spotify music business )
Your co-workers probably know you better than you know yourself: (tags: psychology Intelligence personality )
Where we currently are on Brexit: (tags: doom thefuture europe uk )

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Interesting Links for 26-02-2018

If you work at a university, here's why you should join the strike: (tags: UK university strike pensions )
Cognitive decline sets in at 45. (Ban old people from voting!): (tags: age Intelligence )
Please, please stop saying that "Autistic people lack empathy": (tags: autism empathy OhForFucksSake )
For 1300 years Europeans thought that Queen Bees were Kings. Here's how that changed: (tags: science gender bees history society patriarchy )
‘Black Panther': choose your weapons.: (tags: weapons marvel movies )
If you look at the economics, it's completely reasonable for university lecturers to strike over pension changes: (tags: pensions regulation academia uk strike )
Genetic contribution to neuroticism associated with affluence, health, longevity: (tags: genetics emotion psychology success health money )
A 19th-century painting of Narnia - or as close as we can get: (tags: narnia CSLewis art history oxford uk )
i agree with Nigel Farage: (tags: politics borders nationalism )
Starlings Obscure Sky Over Rome in Dystopic Viral Photo: (tags: birds Rome italy )
What is the evolutionary purpose of having periods?: (tags: menstruation evolution humans )
How poverty changes your mind-set: (tags: poverty psychology )
What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures: (tags: globalwarming OhForFucksSake arctic ice )
How Gun Laws Could Change Even If Republicans Don’t Embrace Restrictions: (tags: usa guns )

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Interesting Links for 15-02-2018

Boris Johnson talking 'total nonsense' about EU, European Commission president says: (tags: Europe uk )
Russia has threatened to block access to YouTube and Instagram if they don't remove posts that show a senior government official sailing on a yacht with a billionaire oligarch, who has links with the Trump campaign: (tags: Russia censorship corruption )
What If Men And Women Skied Against Each Other In The Olympics?: (tags: gender sports olympics competition snow winter )
You've always wanted Robocop Valentine's cards: (tags: movies valentines_day funny )
In Leaked Chats, Wikileaks Discusses Preference for GOP: (tags: politics JulianAssange usa wikileaks OhForFucksSake )
This kid shattering the top of a frozen trampoline with one perfect jump may be the most satisfying thing you'll see all day.: (tags: ice trampoline awesome video )
Travelodge overbooks its rooms!: (tags: hotel OhForFucksSake )
Norwegian women drink least while pregnant, British women drink most: (tags: alcohol pregnancy )
Feminist has a T: (tags: feminism lgbt transgender )
Magic Leap One Video – Diffractive Waveguides Confirmed: (tags: augmentedreality Technology )
The crow that could count higher than Clive: (tags: crows numbers )

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Interesting Links for 28-05-2015

The scientists sending ice to Antarctica
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'English votes for English laws' is on its way
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On Fox Hunting and the SNP
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Labour moves to support Tories' lower benefit cap despite 'children on breadline' warnings
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Right to die: Scottish Parliament rejects attempt to legalise assisted suicide
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You can't stop the numbers
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BBC to pit low-paid against each other in Hunger Games-style show (Can I have my licence fee back?)
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A New Theory to Explain the Higgs Mass
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The Rise, Fall, Death, and Legacy of Ultimate Marvel
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Alex Salmond persuades House of Commons Speaker to investigative Tory "English Votes" plans
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I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How.
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Hallucinations and delusions more common than thought
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Pebble Time review: the simple but effective answer to Apple Watch (Looking forward to mine!)
- (tags: watches technology review )

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Interesting Links for 04-05-2015

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Interesting Links for 20-03-2015