Interesting Links for 04-03-2025

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Interesting Links for 07-11-2024

Nov. 7th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. America Defeats America - The Onion
(tags:USA politics satire )
2. South Korea is having social issues
(tags:society Korea women doom )
3. Because drama attracts more people I rarely see happy relationship things. It's delightful to see examples of couples being in deeply in love.
(tags:love happiness relationships )
4. Some positive results from the 2024 elections
(tags:USA elections GoodNews )
5. I tracked down the guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing for over 8,000 hours, and came away convinced he was right
(tags:games review )
6. New technology allows you to look like anyone, in video, in realtime.
(tags:video faces lighting Technology )
7. How are people reacting to the Trump election (broken down by age and gender)
(tags:polls usa politics )
8. Why some people only get mild Covid, flu and colds
(tags:pandemic disease inflammation immune_system colds flu )
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Interesting Links for 08-10-2024

Oct. 8th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. Why are absurd house-remodelling videos going viral?
(tags:housing video china weird )
2. We should have given Ukraine more weapons earlier, says ex-NATO chief
(tags:nato ukraine )
3. World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission
(tags:immune_system )
4. How much controversy was there over the introduction of car numberplates in the UK?
(tags:uk cars identity law history )
5. Here's the UK's head of Infection Prevention & Control giving frankly appalling answers to the UK's Covid inquiry
(tags:uk pandemic OhForFucksSake incompetence healthcare )
6. So, you want a movie that's *original* do you?
(tags:movies bodies trailer video )
7. Scotland's population rising at fastest rate since 1940s (mostly due to people moving here from the remainder of the UK and elsewhere)
(tags:scotland immigration )
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Interesting Links for 22-07-2024

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Interesting Links for 15-06-2024

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Interesting Links for 12-06-2024

Jun. 12th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. My other earworm of today is C-A-P-Y-B-A-R-A [an AI-generated song with an AI-generated video]
(tags:cute animals video music ai )
2. It's not the screen of your phone that stops you going to sleep, it's the distraction it causes.
(tags:screens Technology sleep )
3. Genes protective during the Black Death may now be increasing autoimmune disorders
(tags:disease immune_system history genetics )
4. Donuts, Uhauls, snuggly farm cats, and international law - what happens when a chunk of spacecraft falls on your property?
(tags:spaceflight Spacex law Canada USA viaPatrickHadfield )
5. Objective or Biased - On the questionable use of Artificial Intelligence for job applications
(tags:ai jobs bias )
6. On the Americanisation of Winnie The Pooh
(tags:WinnieThePooh USA )
7. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says the battle for America "can't be compromised," and that one political party will "win."
(tags:politics civilwar usa law )
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Interesting Links for 02-06-2024

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Interesting Links for 15-03-2024

Mar. 15th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. The financial burden of tackling climate change will fall disproportionately on Scotland
(tags:scotland globalwarming )
2. The Violence Of Relentless Positivity In The Workplace (or: "Negativity is an expensive signal of honesty")
(tags:work honesty complaints )
3. Why women are at greater risk of autoimmune disease
(tags:immune_system women disease )
4. The Small Company at the Center of 'Gamergate 2.0'
(tags:harassment games writing Diversity bigotry OhForFucksSake )
5. Review of "Who's Afraid of Gender?" by Judith Butler - An urgent counter to trans panic
(tags:gender society )
6. Urban humans have lost much of their ability to digest plants
(tags:humans microbiome plants food )
7. How Michael Sheen met Neil Gaiman, and the mystery they ate when they did
(tags:neilgaiman food )
8. Next-gen battery tech: Reimagining every aspect of batteries
(tags:batteries Technology thefuture research )
9. There is no EU cookie banner law
(tags:europe regulation privacy )
10. A Diversity of Novels with Transgender Protagonists
(tags:transgender lgbt fiction )
11. The Designer Who's Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge
(tags:water cities china design drought )
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Interesting Links for 07-02-2024

Feb. 7th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. Can anyone explain to me why Edinburgh is Scotland's worst-funded local authority?
(tags:Scotland Edinburgh money )
2. The UK government is running a consultation on their terrible trans children guidance for schools. Please take the time to comment on it
(tags:lgbt transgender uk england school )
3. Bluesky social network drops invite-only sign ups
(tags:socialnetworking )
4. No matter the law juries will not fine people for feeding the homeless
(tags:homelessness law GoodNews USA OhForFucksSake )
5. Elevated body temperature is associated with depressive symptoms
(tags:heat depression psychology )
6. New paper explains why females are more prone to autoimmune diseases
(tags:gender immune_system disease )
7. First 3D-printed functional human brain tissue grows like the real thing
(tags:brain 3dprinting )
8. UK pylons minister reshuffled after … campaigning against local pylons
(tags:uk electricity infrastructure )
9. 'We feel castrated': the young British men embracing right-wing, misogynistic politics
(tags:politics men feminism uk )
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Interesting Links for 28-09-2023

Sep. 28th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. The Plot of All Objects in the Universe
(tags:physics visualisation )
2. There are no good carbon offset schemes. (78% of are worthless.16% are problematic. The remaining 6% don't publish enough data to tell.)
(tags:co2 globalwarming fraud )
3. How common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children
(tags:children infection mentalhealth immune_system )
4. A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy
(tags:babies injury health )
5. Donald Trump defrauded banks for years by exaggerating his net worth
(tags:fraud usa politics republicans )
6. Trying out the first legal level 3 automated driving system in the US
(tags:automation driving usa )
7. Strategic Plan for Holyrood Park (your chance to comment)
(tags:park Edinburgh transport survey )
8. What Is a Woman? (a response)
(tags:women LGBT transgender society viaPatrickHadfield )
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Interesting Links for 10-04-2023

Apr. 10th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. The risk of various autoimmune diseases is substantially higher in people who have had Covid
(tags:Pandemic immune_system doom )
2. Woman swims with family of Orcas and makes global headlines
(tags:newzealand aieeee! dolphins swimming )
3. Tories and Labour face off in rush to the bottom for 'law and order' (and they can both fuck off)
(tags:law authoritarianism labour conservatives politics UK OhForFucksSake )
4. Hear the words of the final Nuremberg prosecutor to die
(tags:Holocaust law history video )
5. The billionaires you've never heard of bankrolling America's far right
(tags:USA fascism wealth politics )
6. Could Keir Starmer stop visiting bigoted churches?
(tags:LGBT bigotry labour OhForFucksSake )
7. What were the defining characteristics of the 2010s?
(tags:history )
8. It is amazing how simple a tiny cheap device can make security violations
(tags:security technology )
9. ChatGPT's inconsistent moral advice corrupts its users' judgment
(tags:morality ai Doom viaPatrickHadfield )
10. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) won't give its reasons for failing to release annual assessments of the safety of nuclear weapons in Scotland so as not to "prejudice relations between the UK and Scottish governments".
(tags:nuclearweapons Scotland OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 05-04-2023

Apr. 5th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. There's no evidence that any ethnic group is responsible for child sexual exploitation, but that won't stop the Tories from blaming Pakistanis
(tags:racism Conservatives children abuse )
2. Raising an autistic child for 12 years has shown me all the ways neurotypical people are flawed
(tags:autism children society )
3. Conservatives continue to agree that housing in the UK is broken. And then not do anything about it.
(tags:Conservatives housing uk epicfail )
4. Frequently shouting at, isolating, and physically punishing young children made it 1.5 times more likely that a child would be at high risk of developing poor mental health by age nine
(tags:children mentalhealth parenting abuse )
5. People Are More Prone to Believe in God than Identify as Religious. Western Europe is the least-religious part of the world
(tags:religion belief polls )
6. Grooming gangs and ethnicity: What does the evidence say?
(tags:ethnicity children rape abuse uk )
7. Driverless bus service goes live in Scotland in world first (will still have a safety driver aboard, and someone to assist people).
(tags:scotland buses driving automation )
8. Catan creator, board game pioneer Klaus Teuber dead at 70
(tags:games SettlersOfCatan obituary )
9. People who live beyond 100 have a better immune system than average
(tags:immune_system age )
10. A Toxic Time Bomb Is Ticking in the Arctic
(tags:environment pollution arctic doom )
11. Conflict in Israel and Gaza: What do Jews in the UK think?
(tags:israel Jews uk )
12. Very! Bad! Volume! Controls!
(tags:design ux music funny )
13. Key lessons from the quest design of The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077
(tags:design games )
14. Why people sometimes feel a 'presence' in an empty room
(tags:psychology hallucinations )
15. The Rule of Three - how organisations change as they grow
(tags:business organisation psychology )
16. Apparently the EHRC doesn't understand how book clubs work
(tags:books bigotry gender UK wtf )
17. Using AI to describe logos and then recreate them from that yields some lovely results (I think Twitter is my favourite)
(tags:logo ai design )
18. More games should use "Overkill"
(tags:games death design )
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Interesting Links for 30-12-2022

Dec. 30th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. On Columbo and ADHD
(tags:adhd tv )
2. Why Chuck Tingle writes like that
(tags:writing autism stress )
3. Support for Scottish independence has risen, but why?
(tags:Scotland independence polls )
4. The Royal Mint are releasing a coin celebrating JRR Tolkien
(tags:Tolkien money uk viaSwampers )
5. Immune cells in brain and spinal fluid connected to cognitive impairment/Alzheimers
(tags:immune_system brain )
6. Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics
(tags:Intelligence genetics society school )
7. Nitrites in meat cause massive increase in bowel cancer in mice
(tags:meat cancer mice )
8. A massively long and detailed look at the research into sleep training for babies
(tags:babies sleep psychology )
9. No more airplane mode? EU to allow calls on flights
(tags:airplanes phones Europe )
10. Privacy Is Good
(tags:privacy communication cryptography )
11. Top scientists recreate the exact moment that The Titanic crashed into an iceberg
(tags:titanic funny video )
12. ISO 3103 - the international standard for tea brewing
(tags:tea standards )
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Interesting Links for 06-12-2022

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Interesting Links for 16-11-2022

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Interesting Links for 07-10-2022

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Interesting Links for 12-05-2022

May. 12th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. Pediatric Acute Liver Failure Due to Type 2 Autoimmune Hepatitis Associated With SARS-CoV-2 Infection
(tags:Pandemic liver immune_system children )
2. Ethan Hawke is right about movie genres and what makes the best kind of movies
(tags:movies culture video )
3. Brits versus American people
(tags:UK USA video sports )
4. Remote Scottish islands to get post by drone
(tags:drone mail royalmail Scotland )
5. One of the amazing things about modern life is getting you see updates from Ukrainian troops on the front line
(tags:Twitter war Russia Ukraine )
6. I wish people demonising formula milk would understand how many babies used to die for lack of it
(tags:food babies breastfeeding history )
7. Inflammatory response to acute pain protects against the development of chronic pain (in mice)
(tags:pain inflammation mice )
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Interesting Links for 27-04-2022

Apr. 27th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. Edinburgh strip club dancer speaks about what it's really like to work as an exotic dancer
(tags:sexwork edinburgh )
2. Brexit has devastated UK exports to smaller EU countries, study says
(tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
3. Moviedle is a Wordle-like that condenses a movie down to a single second
(tags:games movies timelapse )
4. People naturally gravitate to the food which provides the vitamins and minerals they need
(tags:food psychology vitamins health )
5. Brexit has caused UK food prices to rise 6%
(tags:economics trade UK Europe )
6. 75% of US children have now had COVID, up from 44% due to omicron
(tags:Pandemic children USA )
7. Multiple sclerosis 'breakthrough' as scientists 'reverse symptoms' with cells transplant
(tags:ms immune_system disease )
8. Would you like to see a comparison of objects in the solar system spinning?
(tags:space solarsystem video planets )
9. No, you can't save £30 per year by switching off your "standby" devices
(tags:electricity fraud )
10. This is the sequel The Batman deserves!
(tags:batman )
11. Film productions in Edinburgh, including Good Omens and Outlander, generated £13.9 million for local economy
(tags:TV movies economy Edinburgh Scotland )
12. Turns out most dads like being involved with their young kids
(tags:children fatherhood parenting )
13. Background music can make us less cautious
(tags:music psychology )
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