Interesting Links for 13-02-2023
Feb. 13th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Jews, bicycle riders and trans folk
- (tags:bigotry Jews lgbt transgender Russia )
- 2. Trove of spices from around the world found on sunken fifteenth-century Norse ship
- (tags:food history boats trade Sweden )
- 3. Protesters clash at Tate Britain during drag queen kids story-telling event held to mark LGBT+ History Month
- (tags:lgbt history UK art bigotry )
- 4. ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
- It's not clear that it's technically possible to retain the acceptable kind of blurriness while eliminating the unacceptable kind
(tags:ai knowledge text ) - 5. 84% of studies find that Adenovirus 36 causes people to put on weight
- (tags:Weight virus obesity )
- 6. What if Judaism advertised the way that Christianity does?
- (tags:religion judaism funny )
Interesting Links for 31-10-2021
Oct. 31st, 2021 12:00 pm- John Carmack issues some words of warning for Meta and its metaverse plans
- (tags:internet socialnetworking VirtualReality johncarmack )
- A few short examples of why Ringo Starr was a great drummer
- (tags:drums music Beatles )
- Activision Blizzard to Improve Diversity and Workplace Culture
- (tags:gaming women abuse GoodNews )
- Bored animals at empty zoos are entertained by each other (the second video is lovely)
- (tags:zoo video animals )
- Pain Doesn't Lie: On Elliott Page's Performance In Hard Candy
- (tags:LGBT transgender movies horror abuse rape )
- The US Embassy sample Scottish cuisine ahead of their trip to Glasgow
- (tags:USA Scotland food video )
- How to help a student get unstuck
- (tags:programming teaching knowledge )
- Tree Rings Show Modern Cyclones Are the Rainiest in Centuries
- (tags:weather history trees )
- This is the worldâs oldest image of a ghost
- (tags:supernatural history )
Interesting Links for 26-05-2021
May. 26th, 2021 12:00 pm- Scientists discover brain connection responsible for misophonia (feeling disgusted when you hear other people chew)
- (tags:eating sound brain )
- River Runner - drop a raindrop anywhere in the contiguous United States and see where it ends up
- (tags:rain USA visualisation rivers )
- Liz Truss: LGBT panel disbanded after trans self-ID row
- (tags:lgbt transgender conservatives bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- COVID cases after vaccination are still very rare—variants aren't changing that
- (tags:pandemic vaccination GoodNews )
- How your phone spies on you without listening to a word you've said
- (tags:surveillance advertising socialmedia phones viaDanielDWilliam )
- Talk to your local academics!
- (tags:knowledge academia university )
- Milky Way not unusual, astronomers find
- (tags:space astronomy )
- Google launches its third major operating system, Fuchsia
- (tags:Google operatingsystems )
Interesting Links for 07-02-2021
Feb. 7th, 2021 12:00 pm- Government plans to reverse Cameron NHS reforms - and reduce privatisation
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- Beat Saber, the best VR game, has sold 4 million copies
- (tags:games VirtualReality )
- Making steel without emissions
- (tags:electricity materials )
- Covid in Scotland: Vaccines exceeding expectations
- (tags:vaccination Scotland GoodNews )
- UK towns with more immigrants do much better economically
- (tags:immigration economics UK success )
- Jobs where workers have the highest risk of dying from Covid (line cook is the highest, top 5 are all manual labour)
- (tags:pandemic death )
- Don't fall for quantum hype (a video by a researcher in the area about why it's heavily oversold)
- (tags:physics quantum video hyperbole )
- Refusing furlough to working mothers shows gender equality is going backwards
- (tags:parenting pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- The Secret Bipartisan Campaign That Saved the 2020 US Election
- (tags:politics USA )
- Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons - but only once those girls become teenagers
- (tags:children parenting teenagers girls )
- Exports to the EU have plummeted by 68% since Brexit
- (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
- Some Arabic and Persian accounts of the export of tin from Cornwall to Egypt and Iran in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
- (tags:history Cornwall metal trade UK Iran )
- How Marvel Starts The Action Scenes From Movies Years Before Filming
- (tags:CGI movies marvel )
- We've known the earth was round for 2,500 years
- (tags:earth history knowledge )
Interesting Links for 08-12-2020
Dec. 8th, 2020 12:00 pm- Driverless taxi rides are rolling out slowly. Very slowly
- (tags:cars automation taxi )
- We still don't know that quantum physics "means". That may never change.
- (tags:physics knowledge philosophy failure )
- The Secret To The Success Of Bastion, Pyre, And Hades: No Forced Crunch, Yes Forced Vacations
- (tags:work working_hours games )
- A classic SF short story about the future of vat grown food
- (tags:food scifi ArthurCClarke )
- Unidentified illness hospitalizes more than 300 people in India
- (tags:India disease )
- The trailer for the Colonel Sanders movie is just amazing
- (tags:movies chicken trailer kfc wtf )
- So you want a career in computer games tournaments?
- Did you know the computer games business is bigger than film, TV and music combined?
(tags:games education ) - British celebrity chefs as Greek gods
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1335584701965332481.html
- Cyberpunk 2077 is basically designed to trigger epilepsy
- (tags:games brain disability OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 12-09-2019
Sep. 12th, 2019 01:44 pm- If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can't Read?
- (tags:knowledge ai Technology reading )
- The Iconic Electric Eel Is Actually Three Species (None of which are eels)
- (tags:electricity fish )
- Do psychedelics relax your belief system?
- (tags:belief psychedelics lsd )
- Those with autism make good social psychologists
- (tags:autism psychology )
- Our political system is to blame for what's happening in Parliament
- (tags:politics uk )
- New Edinburgh children's hospital delayed until autumn next year
- (tags:hospital conference Edinburgh fail )
- Brexit Disaster Capitalism: £8 Billion Bet on No Deal Crash-Out by Boris Johnson's Leave Backers
- (tags:UK Europe finance OhForFucksSake )
- In-game spending should be regulated by gambling laws and so-called loot boxes banned entirely for children, MPs say.
- (tags:games money children uk )
- Lots Of People Going Around With Mild Hallucinations All The Time
- (tags:hallucinations perception psychology psychedelics )
- Poll: 51% of Northern Ireland voters back united Ireland
- (tags:NorthernIreland polls ireland )
- José Vs. Joe: Who Gets A Job?
- (tags:names jobs video racism )
- Boris Johnson denies lying to the Queen over suspension of parliament (I _totally_ believe him)
- (tags:BorisJohnson lies queen )
Interesting Links for 08-05-2019
May. 8th, 2019 12:57 pm- European election analysis: Open-closed divide means voters can switch parties more easily
- (tags:politics europe uk )
- Arrival's Ted Chiang returns with the awe-inducing Exhalation
- (tags:short_story scifi )
- Wherein I have an interesting discussion about religion and emotional knowledge
- (tags:religion emotion knowledge )
- Tactical voting for Remainers in the European Elections
- (tags:europe voting advice )
- Disney announces a ton of Star Wars and Marvel movies
- (tags:Disney StarWars marvel movies )
- The Great Solicited Dick Pic Experiment
- (tags:penis twitter bodies men sex )
- Stone mosaics will not be returned to Rose Street in Edinburgh
- (tags:edinburgh )
- Elon Musk Was Right: Cheap Cameras Could Replace Lidar on Self-Driving Cars
- (tags:vision cars automation )
- Where different breeds of dogs come from
- (tags:funny dogs comic )
Interesting Links for 07-01-2019
Jan. 7th, 2019 11:00 am- Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand?
- (tags: physics knowledge viaFanf )
- Lasers vs. Microwaves: A Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic Storage
- (tags: lasers harddrive storage microwave Technology )
- Four foreign elections should should pay attention to in 2019, and none are American
- (tags: viaDanielDWilliam politics Germany Europe india australia )
- How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation
- (tags: psychology happiness work usa burnout )
- The concrete sound mirrors that once protected Britain
- (tags: history sound uk airplanes )
- The Hand Licking Incident (or how to work with your children to solve their problems)
- (tags: children advice )
Interesting Links for 27-04-2018
Apr. 27th, 2018 12:00 pm- Facebook Doesn’t Plan to be GDPR Compliant
- (tags: Facebook Europe surveillance privacy )
- Secretly Taped Audio Reveals Democratic Leadership Pressuring Progressive to Leave Race
- (tags: politics democrats usa )
- High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up for University
- (tags: usa trade jobs Education )
- Genealogy websites identify rape suspect who eluded police for 40 years
- (tags: genetics rape )
- How little do lawyers get for prosecuting a crime?
- (tags: law money crime uk )
- How to win at Question Time
- This, by the way, is why I don't watch this kind of tv.
(tags: politics tv uk ) - The last man who knew everything
- (tags: knowledge writing history )
- Sinclair Spectrum designer Rick Dickinson dies
- (tags: death computers history uk )
Interesting Links for 20-11-2017
Nov. 20th, 2017 12:05 pm- But when is International Women's Day?
- (tags: men mentalhealth health society )
- How childhood gender-stereotyping damages boys
- (tags: children boys stereotypes toys society men OhForFucksSake )
- Fact checking the "half of all trans prisoners are sex offenders" reporting
- (tags: transgender media OhForFucksSake )
- Morrissey Defends Kevin Spacey And Harvey Weinstein, Saying Victims Should’ve Known What Could Happen
- (tags: abuse OhForFucksSake )
- Morrissey was never in The Smiths, say fans
- (tags: funny music bigotry uk satire viaSwampers )
- The UK government doesn't understand The Good Friday Agreement
- (tags: uk Ireland NorthernIreland OhForFucksSake )
- Why decentralised social networks aren't catching on
- (tags: decentralisation socialnetworking )
- I found the best post on Tumblr!
- (tags: squirrel funny comic )
- How George Washington tried to get back his escaped slave
- (tags: usa history slavery )
- As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops
- (tags: money pay gender patriarchy )
- A message from the Chair of LGBT+ Liberal Democrats
- (tags: lgbt libdem )
- Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat
- (tags: Wikipedia knowledge )
- A quarter of people actively feel pain when they see others in pain
- I do get a sense of nausea when I see some kind of injuries being inflicted on people. Fascinating how different people's reactions can be.
(tags: pain psychology ) - Were there camels in Roman Britain?
- (tags: rome camels history uk )
- FactCheck: how many bankers were jailed for their part in the financial crisis?
- (tags: banking crime uk usa )
- Meet The Spreadsheet That Can Solve NYC Transit (and the Man Who Made It)
- (tags: transport newyork spreadsheet viaSwampers usa )
Interesting Links for 30-09-2016
Sep. 30th, 2016 12:00 pm- Sadiq Khan confirms plans for 'London work permits' to stop post-Brexit exodus
- Someone should definitely tell Nicola Sturgeon.
(tags: london immigration uk europe ) - German minister offers to fly to London and explain Europe to him
- (tags: europe politics uk funny )
- Congress rejects Obama veto, Saudi September 11 bill becomes law
- (tags: usa saudiarabia obama )
- No Man's Sky investigated over misleading adverts
- (tags: advertising fraud uk games )
- Do you know your Trotskyists from your anarcho-syndicalists?
- (tags: politics names history )
- On Being Surprised Three Time By Energy Markets in One Week
- (tags: energy renewables )
- Civilization VI Brings The Series Back To Its Best
- (tags: games review )
- J.J. Abrams: A Portal Movie Announcement is Coming Soon
- (tags: movies games )
- Curious molecule that makes mice smart sets off a whirlwind
- (tags: Intelligence brains mice )
- Shares on sale for Edinburgh solar project
- (tags: solarpower edinburgh viaDanieldDWilliam )
- Helsinki CompuCafe video from 1995 (The first internet cafe!)
- (tags: internet history video )
- If you're in Edinburgh and would like to help out at Samhain (and have a great view) then we need you...
- (tags: performance edinburgh )
- How do you feel when politicians criticise your employer?
- (tags: work politics )
- Assad, Appeasement, Aleppo and the Collapse of International Law
- (tags: syria epicfail )
- Tax authorities in Denmark buy ′Panama Papers′ evidence
- (tags: tax denmark )
- Government plans to tell people where to buy huge delicious desserts
- (tags: food government wtf )
- How Much More Can We Learn About the Universe?
- (tags: knowledge philosophy physics space )
- Scientists Trace Society's Myths to Primordial Origins
- (tags: myths stories history prehistory culture )
Interesting Links for 23-05-2016
May. 23rd, 2016 12:00 pm- BBC Scotland's levels of disrespect for Scottish people are frankly, ridiculous
- (tags: scotland comedy bbc OhForFucksSake )
- This is pretty-much how I feel about sex-talk
- (tags: sex conversation comic funny )
- Five Signs Your Story Is Sexist – Against Men
- (tags: men sexism patriarchy viaTheFerrett )
- Lion dancers have amazing skills
- (tags: dancing martialarts video )
- Workers will have to save much more or stay in their jobs longer if they want a decent pension
- (tags: pension money thefuture )
- Elijah Wood: 'Hollywood in the grip of child abuse scandal similar to Jimmy Savile'
- (tags: abuse movies usa )
- Britain has an ethnic problem: the English
- (tags: UK racism UKIP politics Education immigration )
- Jeremy Corbyn still prepared to call for war crimes investigation into Tony Blair
- (tags: war tonyblair law uk )
- Official advice on low-fat diet and cholesterol is wrong, says health charity
- (tags: diet fat health advice uk )
- Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson to marry
- (tags: Conservatives lgbt scotland marriage )
- Wild animals at UK homes include lions, zebras and crocodiles
- (tags: animals uk )
- By Grabthar's Hammer! Who can suggest sci-fi quotes that are more essential than these eight?
- (tags: quotes scifi viaSwampers )
- The Busy Beaver Game, and the limits between the knowable and the unknowable
- (tags: mathematics computing knowledge )
Interesting Links for 23-08-2015
Aug. 23rd, 2015 12:00 pm- Watchmen - made with newspaper comic-strip characters
- The Washington Post shares photos of the TSA master keys...
- There have only been 70 years where you could consider locks completely trustworthy
- Mother wondering if she is to blame for Edinburgh Fringe show
- 6 Links Jeremy Corbyn Doesn’t Want You to Know About (Oh dear, this doesn't look good)
- Why Does Tap Water Go Stale Overnight?
- The Fundamental Limits Of Knowledge About The Start Of The Universe
- 40 leading economists point out that Jeremy Corbyn's policies are not actually extreme
- The Interleaving Effect: Mixing It Up Boosts Learning
- What the alternate Hugo Ballot would likely have been
- More and more women are identifying as bisexual and 'no label' rather than lesbian
- A footsoldier's equipment, from 1066 to the modern day
Interesting Links for 21-12-2014
Dec. 21st, 2014 11:00 am- Code of Conduct as a moral User Interface
- Proof of understanding through recursive grandmothers
- Early exposure to antidepressants affects adult anxiety, serotonin transmission (in mice)
- Health at every size - some useful data and research, written up very clearly
- Facebook blocks Russian page supporting Navalny, Putin's biggest critic
- Bug report: Page load fail makes it difficult to cook cornbread in the woodstove
- The Triumphant Rise of the Shitpic
Interesting Links for 23-11-2014
Nov. 23rd, 2014 11:00 am- Why Ukip’s rivals are fighting the wrong battle
- An explanation for why today's Legend of Korra was a clips episode (albeit the best I've ever seen)
- Bogus Journal Accepts Profanity-Laced Anti-Spam Paper
- 9-year-old lists the worst things about being a boy (I'd go with most of these)
- Huzzah for the homeopaths, who are working very hard to heal the oceans!
- The Knowledge, London's Legendary Taxi-Driver Test, Puts Up a Fight in the Age of GPS
- Security services accused of aiding Westminster paedophilia cover-up
- US government admits it's been shielding big banks from criminal prosecution
- Doubling Saturated Fat in the Diet Does Not Increase Saturated Fat in Blood (but increasing carbs does)
Interesting Links for 08-05-2014
May. 8th, 2014 12:00 pm- Mink Is A 3D Printer For Makeup
- The Story Behind the Worst Movie on IMDb
- Avril Lavigne has shown up meet-and-greets for the sham they are
- Software:The Province of Eternal Crisis
- Free Speech and the Means of Communication
- Superheroes and male body image: Hollywood workout programs are impossible for normal people.
- Surgeons use flourescent dye to see inside you - so robots can remove your gall bladder
- New 'magnifying glass' helps spot delinquency risks in youth
- Psilocybin inhibits the processing of negative emotions in the brain
- I am not surprised that educated Christians are aghast at the ignorance of their co-religionists
Excellent comment policy too!
- You can stop searching, I've found the ultimate musical instrument
- A size chart of Middle Earth dragons
- When I am king, this is how dog-racing will be done
- 42% of Europe’s banking crisis paid by Ireland (Thanks, Ireland!)
- Surgeons in Devon trial smart glasses in theatre
- London police to use wearable video cameras in public interactions
- Simulation shows that dark energy and matter can reproduce the Universe
- The Man Who Literally Built Star Wars
- Where’s All The Animal Vagina Research?
Interesting Links for 07-04-2014
Apr. 7th, 2014 12:00 pm- British army should consider giving women close-combat roles, says general
- E-cigarettes can save lives
- After Pando shows clear evidence of fraud, Indiegogo responds by… deleting anti-fraud guarantee
- Why hasn't Westeros had an industrial revolution?
- Is it Homophobic to oppose Same Sex Marriage?
- Stop and Search is up by 500% in parts of Scotland. And not for any good reasons
- The differences between the trailer for Desolation of Smaug and the final version show much effort went into it.
- Brits do like a bottle of vino, but not enough to pay more than £6
- Blind man gains sight through cyborg technology, loses it again when surgeon dies. (Something odd about this story)
- Gay conversion therapy should have no place in NHS, says health minister
- How many minutes do you get to the page when filming a book?
- Toilet Sarlacc. Allow me to repeat myself. SARLACC TOILET!!!
- A Child's Guide to Anarchy
- What if the Moon was a Disco Ball?
- Suspicious Minds: Why no one trusts people in authority
- Finally! A modern replacement for Comic Sans!
Interesting Links for 02-02-2014
Feb. 2nd, 2014 11:00 am- A great explanation of how Angular's $watch, $apply, and $digest work
- There is a deadline for saving knowledge
- Dear America, I Saw You Naked And yes, we were laughing. Confessions of an ex-TSA agent.
- The small world is very, very different to the one we're used to.
- Names are fascinating. (And I hadn't realised they change so much)
- Anarchists ruin _everything_
- Six month treatment limits problems with peanut allergies
- The ridiculous reasons why we still don't have a male pill (Will someone please crowdfund this?)
- Kick Failure - mercilessly picking on the worst projects on Kickstarter
- The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield
- Apparently startups can't find developers because they're appallingly run, badly paid cliques.
Interesting Links for 21-10-2013
Oct. 21st, 2013 12:00 pm- @NoIn2014 is a work of genius
- What is the Doctor running from? (Nice theory about the 50th anniversary)
- Life is all about killing the magic
- 13 Nutrition Lies That Made The World Sick And Fat
- Sweden Becomes First Western Nation to Reject Low-fat Diet Dogma in Favor of Low-carb High-fat Nutrition
- Radiohead songs graphed by genre
- Stephen King’s Family Business
- UK nuclear power plant gets go-ahead
- The Roots of the Government Shutdown (The Primary systems lead to idealogues)
- Enough of the Scottish subsidy myth
Are there any _impartial_ costings?