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Catchup links for 30-12-2025
Jan. 1st, 2026 10:48 am- 1. Santa prepares public statement following accusations that ‘he clearly prefers rich kids’
- (tags:inequality funny Christmas )
- 2. "I Am the Very Model of a Miniature Tyrannosaur" (clearly the best way to publicise new dinosaur knowledge)
- (tags:dinosaurs video music viaSwampers )
- 3. Tiny! Cute! Bat! (Second attempt)
- (tags:bats cute video )
- 4. O Generous One! -(The Origin of "Carol of the Bells")
- (tags:christmas ukraine history music video translation )
- 5. The deep ocean has a missing link between deep and surface food webs - and scientists finally found it
- (tags:ocean food nature )
- 6. The complicated life of Francesca Albanese: A rising figure in Italy but barred from every bank by Trump’s sanctions
- (tags:usa italy palestine israel banking OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI
- (tags:ai libraries books OhForFucksSake )
- 8. Delay to post-Brexit deal costs UK £100m a week
- (tags:uk europe trade )
Just noticed these didn't post on the day!
Interesting Links for 09-04-2025
Apr. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 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 04-04-2024
Apr. 4th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Looks like nearly 60% of Scots no longer identify with any religion
- (tags:religion scotland demographics )
- 2. Did you know that Edinburgh has a Board Game Library?
- (tags:libraries boardgames edinburgh )
- 3. Traditional Chinese printing process
- (tags:video china printing history )
- 4. Behind the lurid headlines: What the Scottish hate crime legislation actually says
- (tags:scotland bigotry law )
- 5. 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spree in Gaza (with a 10% error rate)
- (tags:ai palestine israel war )
- 6. One third of Thames Water sewage sensors are faulty
- (tags:water uk pollution OhForFucksSake )
- 7. 60% of time spent playing computer games in 2023 went to games at least 6 years old. Only 8% went on new, non-annual titles (like Baldurs Gate III)
- (tags:games business )
Interesting Links for 13-03-2024
Mar. 13th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh Future Libraries Strategy 2024 - 2029 - have your say!
- (tags:Edinburgh libraries consultation )
- 2. Some absolutely amazing dancing (to "Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye)
- (tags:dancing video impressive )
- 3. The viral dance by CDK to "Somebody That I Used To Know) - performed live!
- (tags:dance video music )
- 4. If you want to live in a Friendly Neighborhood this house looks Amazing (particularly photo 45)
- (tags:house spiderman )
- 5. The ocean that humans carry inside of us
- (tags:humans ocean evolution blood )
- 6. Keir Starmer pledges landmark assisted dying vote in parliament
- (tags:euthanasia UK politics labour )
Interesting Links for 08-10-2023
Oct. 8th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Did the Good Law Project just kill carried interest?
- (tags:law tax UK )
- 2. Scientists have discovered a sixth basic taste detected by the tongue
- (tags:taste )
- 3. Scottish Public Library Annual Survey 2023
- (tags:libraries Scotland survey )
- 4. Finland has no fee-paying schools - and its pupils perform better than British children
- (tags:school Finland business )
Interesting Links for 31-07-2023
Jul. 31st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. China Launches First 700 TEU Electric Containership - with swappable batteries to keep it on the move
- (tags:electricity shipping China )
- 2. "The Tragedy of the Commons" is nonsense written by a racist
- (tags:economics psychology wrong )
- 3. 'No one I know has a bank account that stays open for long': The rise of sex industry workers being de-banked
- (tags:Banking sexwork OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Why non-Jews being cast as Jews in Oppenheimer really isn't a problem
- (tags:jewish movies society )
- 5. UK public libraries return six times their investment, generating billions of pounds worth of value
- (tags:libraries economics UK )
- 6. Regular use of vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases
- (tags:vitaminD cancer )
- 7. Government cuts cost of polluting in Britain in latest anti-green move
- (tags:Conservatives pollution OhForFucksSake uk )
- 8. How should you pronounce the name of the company that was Twitter?
- (tags:twitter names greece )
- 9. The evidence on low-traffic neighbourhoods and what fewer cars means for pollution and street safety
- (tags:traffic uk evidence )
- 10. The looming battle over pylons across Scotland for green energy
- (tags:scotland electricity infrastructure windpower nature )
- 11. Mindfulness reduces psychological distress
- (tags:mindfulness psychic anxiety depression )
- 12. r/law bans Twitter submissions over child sex abuse material
- (tags:twitter reddit )
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Interesting Links for 10-10-2022
Oct. 10th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Note that the Tories aren't suggesting cheaper childcare or more child benefit. They're suggesting tax cuts. Tells you who they want to have kids
- (tags:children conservatives OhForFucksSake tax )
- 2. Cool bird time lapse
- (tags:birds timelapse viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Tala the nonbinary alien, and how I got my library to go easy on gender
- (tags:gender children libraries )
- 4. 10l of water, 40g of powder, and Sophia is having "The best day ever!" in a slime bath
- Half an hour later and I just had to help the most slippery 4 year old ever out of the bath to go to the toilet, while her feet had no friction whatsoever.
And then I had to wash slime off of *everything*, including the hair trap in the shower, which was full of very slimy hair!
She's currently showering off the last of the slime, and has already told me she's looking forward to next time...
(tags:baths fun ) - 5. Juggling seen from above
- (tags:juggling video )
- 6. A Drum Machine With Congenital Heart Disease
- (tags:heart art children health )
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Interesting Links for 16-07-2022
Jul. 16th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The cost of renewables keeps on dropping
- (tags:renewables viaDanielDWilliam GoodNews economics )
- 2. Extreme Right-Wing Terrorism Is On An Upward Trajectory in the UK
- (tags:uk terrorism )
- 3. A summary of the Publishers Vs Internet Archive case
- (tags:law copyright libraries USA books piracy publishing )
- 4. "How Princess Mononoke Was Born" - a documentary. The video quality is *terrible* but the content is fascinating
- (tags:movies ghibli princess video documentary )
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- books,
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- documentary,
- economics,
- ghibli,
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- piracy,
- princess,
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- renewables,
- terrorism,
- uk,
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- viadanieldwilliam,
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Interesting Links for 05-05-2021
May. 5th, 2021 12:00 pm- The world's biggest jeweller, Pandora, says it will no longer sell mined diamonds and will switch to exclusively laboratory-made diamonds
- (tags:diamonds GoodNews )
- Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border
- (tags:borders france belgium farming )
- Efficiency Is the Enemy - to be effective you need slack
- (tags:efficiency organisation )
- Nose size indicates maximum penile length
- (tags:noses penis )
- The Unlikely Success of Fish Fingers (sticks in the USA)
- (tags:fish food )
- The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer
- (tags:ai food bread cancer viaMyBrotherHugh )
- Louisiana Anti-Trans Bill Dropped After Overwhelming Opposition
- (tags:transgender GoodNews lgbt )
- Fishing row triggers French threat of Jersey power cut
- (tags:UK France fish Doom )
- China's falling rocket: What happens if out-of-control Long March 5B hits the Earth?
- (tags:China space fail viaDanielDWilliam )
- New study maps out Earth's global atmospheric rivers
- (tags:air pollution maps )
- The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think
- (tags:emoji design race )
- Why student libraries never have enough eBooks
- (tags:books libraries technology OhForFucksSake )
- Germany Will Return Benin Bronzes to Nigeria in 2022
- (tags:archeology nigeria GoodNews art history )
- Autistic people are better at detecting lack of interest in further conversation than non-autistic people are
- (tags:psychology conversation autism )
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Interesting Links for 28-05-2019
May. 28th, 2019 11:54 am- A Harrowing Journey Up the World's Fifth Highest Mountain (with some amazing photos)
- (tags:photos mountains climbing tibet nepal )
- Where the Conservative and Labor voters went to.
- (tags:voting conservatives Labour europe )
- Why people voted for each of the major parties in the Euro elections
- (tags:UK politics )
- It's 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning
- (tags:genetics thefuture inequality Intelligence )
- Facebook facing most probes by Irish data regulator
- (tags:ireland Facebook dataprotection )
- Why Every Vehicle Should Have An Electric Motor, Even If It Doesn't Have A Plug
- (tags:electricity cars )
- Eating Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy
- (tags:Japan diet history disease )
- Why you shouldn't trust your food cravings
- (tags:food society )
- University libraries around the world are seeing precipitous declines in the use of the books on their shelves.
- (tags:libraries books research viaSwampers )
- What Republicans And Democrats Are Doing In The States Where They Have Total Power
- (tags:politics usa )
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Interesting Links for 17-05-2019
May. 17th, 2019 02:36 pm- Fundamental design principles for non-designers
- (tags:design advice )
- The old Edinburgh police station that became a very odd Armenian restaurant
- (tags:edinburgh restaurant history )
- Kids Are More Motivated To "Do Science" Than "Be A Scientist"
- (tags:science children )
- Joy is Avengers fans imagining the other 14 million Endgame endings Doctor Strange saw
- (tags:marvel fanfic )
- The 3.5% rule: a threshold of success for non-violent protest.
- (tags:protests violence peace viaFanf )
- Study Finds Ultra-Processed Foods Drive Weight Gain
- (tags:food weight diet )
- How Godzilla: King Of The Monsters is like a Rembrandt painting (minor spoilers)
- (tags:Godzilla art movies design )
- Things you learn as a librarian
- (tags:librarian libraries )
- Lib Dems now beating Labour in MEP polling.
- (tags:polls europe )
- The polls are clear - Labour's Brexit tactics are failing spectacularly
- (tags:labour UK europe epicfail )
- 6 Angry Reactions to the Casting of Michael Keaton as Batman
- (tags:batman movies acting actors fandom )
- This is what a toxic friendship is like
- (tags:friendship toxic )
- The Customs Union and the Single Market - what do they really mean?
- (tags:UK europe trade )
- Smart, Qualified People Behind The Scenes Keeping America Safe: 'We Don't Exist'
- (tags:satire government competency )
- Brexit talks between Tories and Labour collapse
- (tags:UK europe )
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Interesting Links for 29-10-2015
Oct. 29th, 2015 12:00 pm- What it's like deep in the bowels of the British Library
- UK living standards are back to pre-recession levels (if you're retired)
- Singing is a bonding behaviour that lets adults make friends more easily
- Cancer-fighting viruses win approval
- Everything Doesn't Happen For A Reason
- Seriously, if anyone had told me that Julie's cancer "Happened for a reason" I would have been at least this angry with them.
- How many weeks will eating processed meat knock off your life?
- Herpes affects two-thirds of people under 50
- Four things learned since uber's arrival in glasgow
- Four UK bird species including puffins face extinction
- Dear White House, Can We Have a Unified Microbiome Initiative?
- Want to succeed at something? Measure your progress regularly
- Why are drugs illegal?
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- bacteria,
- belief,
- birds,
- cancer,
- disease,
- drugs,
- economy,
- extinction,
- friendship,
- glasgow,
- history,
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- libraries,
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- measurement,
- meat,
- microbiome,
- music,
- pain,
- psychology,
- research,
- singing,
- socialisation,
- success,
- support,
- taxi,
- uk,
- usa,
- viaswampers,
- virus
Interesting Links for 03-08-2015
Aug. 3rd, 2015 12:05 pm- Shockingly, a Porno Featuring Hijabis and Niqabis Is Not Very Sensitive Toward Islam
- International Rights, Streaming, and why Hannibal wasn't cancelled, but may not come back
- How to destroy special collections (of historical works) with social media
- The Bestseller Book That Didn't Exist
- Beautiful stop-motion engine rebuild (great choice of music too!)
- The UK: Charging Towards Fascism
- The Milky Way Over Yellowstone is Impossibly Beautiful
- Some tax credits recipients will keep only 7p of every extra pound earned
- How I feel when people are proud of how many hours they work
- 10 myths about the UK's 'migrant crisis', debunked
- How Sexism Affects Women’s Health Every Day
- Interested in Infinity? Want to have your brain broken? Watch this awesome video about The Banach–Tarski Paradox
- On Labour being taken over by Lefties
- 11% support the current House of Lords. 76% want elected members
- New study shows Spain’s “Google tax” on news sharing has been a disaster for publishers
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- beauty,
- books,
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- debunking,
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- medicine,
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- politics,
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- religion,
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- sharing,
- space,
- spain,
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- stopmotion,
- streaming,
- tv,
- uk,
- vianwhyte,
- video,
- welfare,
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Interesting Links for 16-10-2013
Oct. 16th, 2013 12:00 pm- Native Speed on the Web - what's going on with making browsers _fast_?
- Netflix have the best customer service _ever_
- Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming
- 4 Things No One Tells You About Having OCD
- Math Gifs (explaining mathematical ideas through simple animations)
- UK must remain part of EU and lead drive for reform focusing on economic benefits, says manufacturing industry
- Very impressive augmented reality/virtual reality system
- A game theoretic approach to the toilet seat problem
- 60% of Americans want a third political party
- British citizens sent threatening ‘get out’ texts by Home Office
- The first-ever hashtag, @-reply and retweet, as Twitter users invented them
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- augmentedreality,
- books,
- computers,
- customerservice,
- epicwtf,
- europe,
- fiction,
- funny,
- history,
- imagination,
- immigration,
- javascript,
- libraries,
- links,
- manufacturing,
- mathematics,
- mentalhealth,
- neilgaiman,
- netflix,
- politics,
- reading,
- technology,
- toilets,
- twitter,
- uk,
- usa,
- viahugh,
- virtualreality,
- visualisation,
- voting,
- web
Interesting Links for 23-09-2013
Sep. 23rd, 2013 12:00 pm- What are people searching for on Google right now?
- Photographer Captures Incredible Photos of Planes in Front of the Sun and Moon
- I wear the niqab, let me speak on my own behalf
- By normalising the veil, we are playing into the hands of Islamists
- 'Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos' Is An Event Comic Done Right
- Children today are cossetted and pressured in equal measure. Without the freedom to play they will never truly grow up
- 50 Years Of Space Exploration Explained In One Visualization
- Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID
- Sex-selective abortion: Gendercide in the Caucasus
- Actors Reprised their Most Iconic Roles for Empire's 20th
- Killer Whales: Badasses of the sea.
- Library advertising, the Old Spice way
- Logic gates as Venn diagrams
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- abortion,
- advertising,
- animals,
- biometrics,
- children,
- clothing,
- comics,
- computers,
- education,
- fingerprints,
- funny,
- gender,
- google,
- iphone,
- islam,
- judgedredd,
- libraries,
- links,
- logic,
- moon,
- movies,
- ocean,
- photos,
- play,
- society,
- space,
- sun,
- uk,
- viajohncoxon,
- vianeilrodger,
- video,
- visualization,
- women
Interesting Links for 09-09-2013
Sep. 9th, 2013 12:00 pm- Why women still have to use pen names in science fiction (and comics)
- E-cigarettes more effective than nicotine patches
- Top tip: If you wave at the bears then they will wave back.
- Understanding Sex Work in an Open Society
- Dubstep: The Musical (Awwwww)
- Why there is no Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers
- Doing Good in the Addiction Economy
- The company working to make tests more accurate, less painful—and at a fraction of the current price.
- Turns out dogs are good at yoga
- E-Books Strain Relations Between Libraries, Publishing Houses
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- addiction,
- bears,
- blood,
- cigarettes,
- comics,
- diagnosis,
- dogs,
- dubstep,
- ebooks,
- education,
- entertainment,
- funny,
- games,
- health,
- healthcare,
- libraries,
- links,
- mathematics,
- musicals,
- nicotine,
- programming,
- publishing,
- scifi,
- sexwork,
- society,
- viafanf,
- viasupergee,
- video,
- women,
- yoga
Interesting Links for 28-08-2012
Aug. 28th, 2012 12:00 pm- A third runway, Boris Island, better rail? Please, just decide
- Who inherits your iTunes library?
- All the Spammers in the World May Only Make $200 Million a Year (and cost $20Billion to clean up)
- If people cared more about computer games, this is the election campaign you'd see...
- Look at yourself objectively
- Ask A Writer: How Do I Write What The Audience Wants To Read?
- Adolescent pot use leaves lasting mental deficits
- What it's like being a Birthday Party Princess
- So if Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, who did win them?
- Our image of Africa is hopelessly obsolete
- Staring at bright screens in bed will make it harder for you to sleep. Shocking, I know.
- The reviews of a "For Her" ballpoint pen are hilarious.
