Interesting Links for 29-05-2021
May. 29th, 2021 12:00 pm- Janssen single-dose Covid vaccine approved by UK (85% efficiency)
- (tags:Japan vaccine pandemic )
- The five neurodivergent love languages
- (tags:love neurodiversity viaSwampers )
- US Soldiers Expose Nuclear Weapons Secrets via Flashcard Apps
- (tags:secrecy weapons nuclearweapons OhForFucksSake )
- Primates change their 'accent' to avoid conflict
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- Fully Paralysed Terminally Ill Patients Still Face Inhumane Benefits Process Almost Two Years After Promised Review
- (tags:welfare UK illness OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 19-04-2021
Apr. 19th, 2021 12:00 pm- Nil-by-mouth foodie: The chef who will never eat again
- (tags:food cooking illness healthcare fail )
- When my friends have supported me in getting out of a terrible relationship and then...
- (tags:funny video sheep decisions fail )
- Is Scotland heading for Catalonia-style meltdown?
- (tags:Scotland independence uk )
- How Cashless Restaurants Reinforce Systemic Racism
- (tags:inequality cash technology )
- Elmo and Robin Williams (blooper reel) - made me giggle a lot
- (tags:SesameStreet TV funny fail )
- An MP with this YouTube viewing list is a bit disturbing
- (tags:belief aliens YouTube government )
- US police kill twice as many people as die in mass shootings
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- Mice Fed Fast Food Get More Anxious, Worse Memory
- (tags:memory anxiety food )
- The looming software kill-switch lurking in aging PlayStation hardware
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- This is what Doom looks like on a holographic display.
- (tags:Holograms doom video )
- United Nations experts says race report "repackages racist tropes and stereotypes into fact"
- (tags:racism uk )
Interesting Links for 20-04-2020
Apr. 20th, 2020 12:00 pm- How the government could have done more earlier to protect against Covid-19
- (tags:Incompetence government UK pandemic )
- How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body
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- Coronavirus: UK Care home deaths are far higher than official figures
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- Hilariously bad wildlife photos
- (tags:nature photos funny viaEatSoylentGreen )
- Ten Types Of Authors Who Can Go Fuck Themselves
- (tags:writing authors viaFJM )
Interesting Links for 22-02-2020
Feb. 22nd, 2020 12:00 pm- No raw data, no science: another possible source of the reproducibility crisis
- (tags:data fraud research transparency viaNancyLebov )
- Treating fever in children: paracetamol or ibuprofen?
- (tags:drugs children illness )
- Moore's Law is holding up pretty darn well
- (tags:processor computers technology video history )
Interesting Links for 21-02-2019
Feb. 21st, 2019 12:07 pm- Edinburgh dad's anger as parents block sick child from lessons
- (tags:children illness robots education OhForFucksSake edinburgh )
- On YouTube, a Network of Paedophiles Is Hiding in Plain Sight
- (tags:youtube paedophilia )
- I'm not one for pointing out out plot holes in kids books, but this is too funny not to make fun of Harry Potter over
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- Shamima Begum is not a Bangladeshi citizen
- (tags:citizenship UK OhForFucksSake )
- Just 13 Percent of British Jews Say They Will Vote For Labour and Jeremy Corbyn. Here's Why.
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- Dad reflexes. (Still impressed by the time I caught her one handed upside down when she back flipped off a table)
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- How New Orleans Reduced Its Homeless Population By 90 Percent
- (tags:homelessness usa )
- Germany refuses to bow to UK pressure to resume arms sales to Saudi Arabia
- (tags:saudiarabia uk military trade )
- Just Eat to ban takeaways given rating of zero for hygiene
- (tags:food safety uk restaurant )
Interesting Links for 12-08-2018
Aug. 12th, 2018 12:00 pm- Can Society Scale?
- (tags: society internet community discussion )
- Men take care of their spouses just as well as women (new research suggests)
- (tags: relationships gender illness )
- Free sanitary products roll out to Edinburgh schools
- (tags: Scotland menstruation GoodNews school women edinburgh )
- The sequel to snakes on a plane looks a little bit cheap
- (tags: snakes funny video )
- "It's called a green screen Morty" (a most excellent tattoo, click to animate)
- (tags: tattoo awesome animation tv )
- Inigo Montoya has helped me go viral (300,000 people so far)
- (tags: meme internet viral )
- Why we should be spending huge quantities of cash on big telescopes to look at planets
- (tags: space astronomy )
- This is the "About" page for an Etsy account. Well worth reading. No seriously, read it.
- (tags: craftwork etsy Scotland children viaPatrickHadfield )
- Worst Computer Bugs in History: Therac-25
- (tags: bugs death healthcare radiation epicfail )
- Brexit: More than 100 constituencies that backed Leave in 2016 referendum would now vote Remain
- (tags: UK Europe polls )
- How folklore starts
- (tags: myths )
- World of Warcraft’s "No Honor No Pauldrons" movement makes MMOs special
- (tags: Hanhaa mmo community viaSwampers )
- Man bun hairstyle gets British Airways worker the sack
- The idea that long hair isn't ok in men is, frankly, not acceptable.
(tags: hair work OhForFucksSake ) - Reddit's legaladvice forum is a mine of fascinating things
- (tags: law advice interesting )
Interesting Links for 25-12-2017
Dec. 25th, 2017 12:00 pm- This is my other favourite Last Jedi review
- (tags: StarWars review )
- Boris Johnson and Michael Gove attack HMRC over Brexit donor tax grab
- (tags: tax uk europe )
- Wagamama apology for 'don't be sick' staff notice
- (tags: illness work UK )
- The refugees who brought hope to a Scottish island
- (tags: Scotland Syria refugee immigration )
- Travelodge UK writes to its EU employees (here - Polish) in their own languages (!) to say how much they value their contribution, guarantee a refund of permanent residence application & wish happy Christmas.
- (tags: UK Europe hotel immigration )
- Atomic Tests During the 1950s Probably Killed Nearly Half a Million Americans
- (tags: usa nuclearweapons death )
- Ride-Hailing Apps Are Clogging New York's Streets
- (tags: taxis transport fail newyork )
- The solar system could have formed in a bubble around a giant star
- (tags: solarsystem space )
- 2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’
- (tags: ufo flying )
- 'The difficulty is the point': teaching students how to really read
- (tags: reading education english )
- Britain is sliding away from Europe
- (tags: uk europe )
- Margaret Atwood’s Resistance Reading
- (tags: margaretatwood books advice )
- The Nazi Sympathisers who nearly ruled Britain
- (tags: uk nazis )
- Can you identify this (sub)genre?
- (tags: fiction )
- On making the most of the Mastodon social network
- (tags: socialnetworking )
Interesting Links for 21-10-2017
Oct. 21st, 2017 12:00 pm- The CEO of Goldman Sachs on Brexit
- (tags: UK Europe thefuture doom )
- Famous Irishmen subject of Westminster Wikipedia editing spree
- (tags: Wikipedia Ireland UK history )
- The U.S. Is Retreating from Religion
- (tags: religion thefuture usa )
- Disney's new solar farm shaped like Mickey Mouse
- (tags: Disney solarpower )
- How to have lucid dreams
- (tags: dreams psychology )
- US University defends fascist posters telling gay people to kill themselves
- (tags: usa University abuse OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
- A lovely story about a very sick girl and a photographer
- (tags: sick illness children photography )
- Other people not being such twats ‘can help treat depression’, finds study
- (tags: satire depression funny )
- Britain thinks Germans care about Brexit — they don’t
- (tags: Germany Europe uk doom )
- Student speech to be censored at UK universities
- (tags: university uk freespeech students )
- The problem with starting a new centrists political party
- (tags: politics uk )
- Why the next general election will be in 2022
- I'm still hoping for a split in the Conservatives. But it's terribly unlikely.
(tags: politics elections uk ) - A Fire Story (A Californian comic artist's tale of evacuation)
- (tags: fire california usa comic )
- It's _really_ important to care for your cookware right
- (tags: food comic funny )
- Guest blog: Ethical porn - is it real?
- (tags: porn morality )
- Awesome spooky plants!
- (tags: scary plants awesome )
Interesting Links for 12-04-2017
Apr. 12th, 2017 12:00 pm- Google’s Dueling Neural Networks Spar to Get Smarter, No Humans Required
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- European Parliament votes to end visa-free travel for Americans
- (tags: europe usa travel OhForFucksSake )
- 38% of Labour supporters think Corbyn would be a better Prime Minister than May
- Which, I think, comes down to perceived competence. May might be an awful human being who is unnecessarily tearing the country apart, but she still comes across as more capable of organising a piss-up in a brewery than Corbyn does.
(tags: labour Conservatives politics uk epicfail ) - What lurks inside the walls of ancient buildings, and how was it supposed to keep out evil?
- (tags: history witchcraft superstition uk )
- Boeing Dreamliner Gets $3M Cheaper Thanks to Rapid Plasma Deposition
- (tags: 3dprinting airplanes )
- The Osiris Child - a trailer for proper trashy b-movie science fiction
- (tags: scifi trailer video movies )
- The 5 Types Of Vaginas, As Revealed By A Bikini Waxer
- (tags: vagina )
- Amazon's new sick policy: collective punishment
- (tags: amazon sick illness OhForFucksSake )
- What Happened to "Who"?
- (tags: grammar english usa viaLizzieCassMaran )
- Investigation finds prison inmates built computers and hid them in prison ceiling
- (tags: prison computers )
- The changing definitions of the word "Robot"
- (tags: robots history language english scifi )
- The factual impenetrability of zombie rules (Like insisting on "Who")
- (tags: language english history viaLizzieCassMaran )
- Intestinal bacteria may protect against diabetes
- (tags: microbiome diabetes )
- British man charged after US gamer is shot by Swat police following hoax terrorism call
- (tags: OhForFucksSake gaming police guns )
- Why Buying T-Shirts Is the Absolute Best Way to Support Bands You Like
- (tags: t-shirts music business viaBartCalendar )
- That Four-Star Rating You Left Could Cost Your Uber Driver Her Job
- (tags: ratings reviews OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 14-04-2016
Apr. 14th, 2016 12:00 pm- I am on the Kill List. This is what it feels like to be hunted by drones
- (tags: drone war pakistan usa assassination )
- The key to the perfect apology has been discovered by scientists
- (tags: psychology )
- A first for women: Lady Dorrian appointed Lord Justice Clerk
- (tags: scotland law women history )
- Classical painters depict software engineering
- (tags: software programming development art funny )
- Auto Mechanics Recreate Renaissance Paintings
- (tags: art funny engineering )
- Thoughts On Open Marriage and Illness
- (tags: relationships illness polyamory people viaErindubitably )
- Leaked scenes from the next movie in the Jurassic Park series.
- (tags: funny dinosaurs )
- The Strange Case of the Woman Who Can’t Remember Her Past—Or Imagine Her Future
- (tags: memory thefuture psychology )
- What It’s Like to ‘Wake Up’ From Autism
- (tags: autism magnets brains )
- REVEALED: Corbyn's links to apple thieves
- (tags: politics satire newspapers )
- Humans are scary
- (tags: humans scary )
- Almost 50% of the UK population hold authoritarian populist views
- (tags: politics uk )
- There Is a Moderate Republican in this Race, but She’s Running as a Democrat
- (tags: politics usa viaElfy )
- Swallowing the Red Pill: a journey to the heart of modern misogyny
- (tags: misogyny men society internet )
- Why my videogame chooses your character’s race and gender for you
- (tags: games gender race )
- Paralysed man now able to play Guitar Hero thanks to computer chip in his brain
- (tags: cyborg Technology thefuture )
- 360-degree video takes you inside the Game of Thrones titles
- (tags: video VirtualReality gameofthrones )
Interesting Links for 18-04-2015
Apr. 18th, 2015 12:00 pm- New research sheds light on how popular probiotic benefits the gut
- Many teens try e-cigs, but very few become regular users
- When insanity is contagious
- Psychology students are seduced by superfluous neuroscience
- High-fat diet alters behavior and produces signs of brain inflammation (in mice)
- The Origins of the White Collar Worker
- Why Young Men Go to War
- A QUIC update on Google’s experimental transport
- Study links brain anatomy, academic achievement, and family income
- I Hope You Get Officially Sick.
- Why not voting is such a pitifully ineffective form of protest
- When your job is editing the worst porn in the world
- A fantastic illustration of the Smurfette Principle
- The Batman equation
- This is my favourite story about Philip Glass
- Nothing is more indicative of a bullshit job than the interview
Interesting Links for 12-11-2014
Nov. 12th, 2014 11:00 am- Marijuana's long-term effects on the brain demonstrated
- EU court ruling backs curbs on 'benefit tourism'
- New party Left Unity to hold first annual conference
- Calvin Klein Never Called That Model ‘Plus-Sized’ — Twitter Did
- How to predict relationship success - with 94% accuracy!
- Cop cracks woman's iPad passcode to rescue her after crash
- Women! Don't fancy being raped? Practice your anti-rape face! Apparently!
- Loads Of Huge UK Rock Bands Still Have Day Jobs
- "Scottish News" are trying to start an independent Scottish News service
- What do you give a pig that's sick?
- Edinburgh: Just gorgeous
- City Attorneys train local cops to use "wish lists" for civil forfeiture
- How One Boy With Autism Became BFF With Apple’s Siri - NYTimes.com
- What kills us? The Leading Causes Of Death From 1900-2010
- How Yoga Alters Gene Expression (lowering stress and inflammation)
- Regulators slap $3.4bn fines on five banks in global foreign exchange probe
- Bizarrely, it turns out the Watergate scandal was not about water.
Interesting Links for 06-09-2013
Sep. 6th, 2013 12:47 pm- How Carnegie Mellon Increased the Proportion of Women in Computer Science From 7% to 42%
- Legal Aid for children in prison. A disastrous day for liberal values (not just Children)
- Down syndrome reversed in newborn mice with single injection
- Someone you know is ill? Here's what you should say to who
- Mirror's Edge Parkour POV (made my whole body clench on some of the jumps)
- Loki vs the Cookie Monster
- The greying of SF fandom will resolve itself through death.
- Update sex education guidance to schools, says Clegg
- Finally, the Netflix/Spotify of books!
- We have an in-built number sense.
- Labour call for state funding of political parties (and about time too)
- Amazing dubstep dancer performs to Thriller
- Dammit, now I really need to get a Wii U. (When I get caught up with my game backlog)
- Rabbits: The naming of the parts
- Bacteria from slim people could help treat obesity
- Spain raises age of consent from 13 to 16
- Finns, roamers, Nokia: So long, and thanks for all the phones
Interesting Links for 10-08-2013
Aug. 10th, 2013 12:00 pm- Nice review of the various changes in Android 4.3
- Online comment systems reveal multiple layers of social bias
- International Day Of The Female Orgasm Brings Pleasure To Brazilian Women
- The best Batman thing _ever_
- Or Grant Morrison's recent talk on Scotland and comics.
- When people offer "helpful" advice to people with invisible illnesses
Interesting Links for 06-09-2012
Sep. 6th, 2012 12:00 pm- FSA to crack down on incentives for sales staff at financial companies
- For some barking reason, Dredd is only being shown in 3D. (_I_ love 3D, but surely they know not everyone does?)
- The economics of bespoke suits ($4,000 to buy one, but hardly any profit)
- How King’s Cross Concourse Was Designed 12,000 Years Ago
- Coming Soon: Toilet Paper Priced Like Airline Tickets
- "And for your third wish?" - a delightful tiny short story.
- How Windows got its X-Mouse setting.
- Fact-checkers start in on the Democrats. Wouldn't it be nice if _someone_ told the truth?
- Panning for gold on the streets of New York City.
- Scientists debunk 'Junk DNA' theory to reveal vast majority of human genes perform a vital function
- How do we die, and how long do we live - a surprisingly informative infographic
- Game AI vs Traditional AI
- Researchers Hack Brainwaves to Reveal PINs, Other Personal Data
- People can be fat and fit at the same time. *gasp*
- How do male scientists balance work and family? (Hint: she's called a "wife")
- "It's not my fault you're pretty" - a terrifying encounter on the train home.
- How Much Money Do Bands Make From Streaming Music Services Like Spotify? (Seems like a fair amount)
- Stanford researchers' cooling glove massively improves exercise recovery. Fascinating
- One of a load of street harrassment stories I've seen recently. I wonder if society is finally turning...