Entries tagged with intelligence

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Interesting Links for 09-04-2025

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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Interesting Links for 04-04-2025

1. Russia escalates attacks on 'internal enemy' LGBT as it expands war in Ukraine: (tags:lgbt bigotry russia )
2. Why has Russia escaped Trump's tariffs?: (tags:Russia USA trade )
3. A revolutionary new understanding of autism in girls: (tags:gender autism )
4. How tarrifs really work (a peek into a deranged mind): (tags:economics funny satire )
5. An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip: (tags:intellectual_property ai )
6. Tariffs Are Driving Up Game Prices Now: (tags:games economics USA politics )
7. The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT due to over-reliance on AI: (tags:ai security thinking doom intelligence )
8. Largest ever UK pumped hydro scheme granted consent: (tags:UK hydroelectric Scotland )
9. Chickens are the true miracle animal!: (tags:comedy funny video chicken viaSwampers )
10. The "Naked Gun" Teaser Trailer actually made me giggle: (tags:police satire movies funny trailer video )

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Interesting Links for 06-02-2025

1. In-patient services at Edinburgh's Astley Ainslie hospital to be transferred to East Lothian: (tags:edinburgh nhs scotland )
2. The Curta Mechanical Calculator (I'd love to have one if they didn't cost so much): (tags:calculator mechanics impressive video viaSwampers )
3. AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU: (tags:ai europe regulation )
4. Scotland! Will! Not! Ban! Cats!: (tags:scotland cats wtf )
5. Time limit for child sex abuse claims to be removed in England and Wales: (tags:rape children abuse law uk GoodNews england )
6. The greatest families behind the greatest showmen - what it's like living life on the road, and how that affects the children: (tags:children family uk )
7. Probably the most sensible thing I've read about Neil Gaiman: (tags:neilgaiman )
8. Nurse who objected to transgender woman in changing room admits harassment: (tags:LGBT transgender NHS harassment )
9. Assaulted woman's divorce case was turned down by 116 Scottish legal aid lawyers: (tags:Scotland law austerity divorce assault )
10. Scientists explore how to make quantum bits with spinel gemstones: (tags:quantum materials )
11. CIA sent unclassified email with names of recent hires - at Whitehouse insistence.: (tags:usa Intelligence OhForFucksSake doom )
12. "I looked for dating advice online - and got sucked into the toxic manosphere": (tags:men relationships feminism patriarchy OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 11-03-2024

1. Children with lazy eyes at higher risk of developing diabetes, heart disease and other serious health conditions later in life: (tags:disease eyes heart )
2. Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques From Clogged Arteries (increases risk of strokes and heart attacks more than 4x): (tags:plastic heart stroke disease doom )
3. Really in-depth look at the past, present and future of Moore's Law: (tags:technology history thefuture cpu processor )
4. Princess of Wales: Kate image withdrawn by four news agencies amid manipulation concerns: (tags:monarchy UK fraud photo )
5. "This is just weird": BuzzFeed News' former royals reporter on Kate Middleton, Palace PR, and distrust in the media: (tags:journalism monarchy conspiracy UK )
6. "AI gives the news you need" (a short story): (tags:ai short_story scifi )
7. CaltonHillitus - this chronic condition affects hundreds of photographers.: (tags:photography photos edinburgh )
8. Lead in gasoline blunted IQ of half the U.S. population, study says: (tags:lead Intelligence usa )
9. LocaLSend - Share files to nearby devices. Free, open-source, cross-platform. (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android): (tags:sharing Technology )
10. One quarter of adult children estranged from a parent: (tags:children parents )
11. Single dose of LSD provides immediate, lasting anxiety relief: (tags:anxiety lsd )

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Interesting Links for 22-09-2023

1. Scottish Labour MSPs told to oppose employment law devolution motion - despite running on a platform to devolve it: (tags:scotland labour employment law OhForFucksSake )
2. Luxembourg legalises cultivation and consumption of cannabis at home: (tags:europe marijuana legalisation )
3. Amazingly, 5% of NFTs are still worth something: (tags:blockchain money epicfail )
4. How far back into pre-history can we push the earliest societies?: (tags:prehistory Intelligence society )
5. I hope that some day Samuel L Jackson will be hired to play me. And that it's at least as awesome as this ad for bread.: (tags:SamuelLJackson bread advertising video )
6. EU politicians say there is a 'whole pile' of post-Brexit problems to fix before a UK return: (tags:uk europe )
7. Spider silk is spun by silkworms for the first time, offering a green alternative to synthetic fibers: (tags:spiders silk worm materials )
8. Happy September 21st everyone!: (tags:video weird music )

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Interesting Links for 08-06-2023

1. Labour comes out against Tory 'war on woke' bigotry: (tags:lgbt labour GoodNews )
2. Why ADHD people have so many unfinished projects, and how to reframe that: (tags:adhd )
3. Stack Overflow has made its moderators very very angry: (tags:forum ai communication volunteers doom )
4. Delays to new bus tracker system costs Edinburgh council over £1.5million: (tags:buses edinburgh location )
5. The trailer for John Finnemore's new TV show (Good Omens Season 2) is out!: (tags:TV trailer neilgaiman video davidtennant )
6. The dangerous power of cross examination: (tags:law viaDanielDWilliam psychology )
7. We have hit the great oil plateau: (tags:oil viaDanielDWilliam economics )
8. No, breastfeeding doesn't make kids smarter: (tags:intelligence breastfeeding )
9. The Dutch government wants to automatically gain permission to target victims of hackers: (tags:netherlands hacking law )
10. A detailed explanation of the government's judicial review of the Covid Inquiry - and why this judicial review is so significant: (tags:law pandemic )
11. Australian government set to introduce national ban on Nazi symbols: (tags:australia nazis censorship )
12. Why we shouldn't hold referendums: (tags:referendum )

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Interesting Links for 07-06-2023

1. Scotland's first electric HGV starts making trips: (tags:scotland transport electricity )
2. Photoshop's new "Generative Fill" feature is really impressive.: (tags:ai photoshop )
3. The science around babies and sleep is, frankly terrible. (And the article assumes you'll be doing sleep training at all): (tags:research babies sleep )
4. Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People: (tags:Intelligence ai society )
5. The cultural bias of "ultra-processed food": (tags:food society )
6. Edinburgh tram time-lapse shows route extension (opening today!): (tags:Edinburgh trams timelapse video )
7. UK government ignored that major drinks companies, retailers, and trade bodies, as well as the Environment Agency wanted glass to be included in the deposit return scheme.: (tags:uk recycling OhForFucksSake glass )
8. Your Reminder that "AI" Will Just Flat-Out Make Things Up: (tags:ai fraud )
9. Who wants to eat a giant isopod from the depths of the ocean?: (tags:animals food weird taiwan )

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Interesting Links for 11-03-2023

1. Scientists complete first map of an insect brain: (tags:insects brain )
2. HP have updated their printers to outright ban 'non-HP' ink: (tags:printing OhForFucksSake )
3. Toy preferences between boys and girls is a classic example of societal debates relying on tiny scraps of data: (tags:research statistics gender toys psychology )
4. Jamie Lee Curtis launches campaign urging U2 and Bruce Springsteen to do matinee shows: (tags:music time )
5. Magnificent mosques of India: (tags:religion architecture Islam India viaDanielDWilliam )
6. Elephants have learned highway robbery: (tags:elephants crime video )
7. Long-Term Cannabis Use, Cognitive Decline, and the Hippocampus: (tags:Intelligence marijuana brain )
8. Full list of pundits boycotting BBC football shows over the Gary Lineker censorship: (tags:asylum censorship bbc football )
9. Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech: (tags:speech language brain ai )

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Interesting Links for 30-12-2022

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 13-06-2022

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Interesting Links for 26-02-2022

Hard truths about the gender pay gap: (tags:gender gender_equality pay )
Air Pollution Stops Insects From Smelling Flowers: (tags:pollution flowers insects doom bees )
I highly recommend the exhibition of Audubon's Birds of America at the National Museum Of Scotland (fascinating combination of art, science, and history): (tags:art birds museum scotland )
Magpies have outwitted scientists by helping each other remove tracking devices: (tags:crows birds altruism Intelligence tracking )
What It Would Take to Bring the ISS Back to Earth in One Piece?: (tags:iss space )
Behind Pornhub's decade-old moderation problems: (tags:porn web business )
Playing Wordle to lose as badly as possible: (tags:games words loss )
Why The UK Wants To Block Russia From SWIFT Payment System While The EU Is Resistant: (tags:uk europe banking russia ukraine )
Understanding the War in Ukraine (a great overview by a military historian): (tags:Ukraine Russia NATO viaDanielDWilliam )
The Beginner's Guide to Elden Ring (a most informative video): (tags:games advice video )
This is clearly the best of all possible burgers: (tags:food video )