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Interesting Links for 13-05-2024

1. Terry Pratchett On Trans Folk: (tags:transgender terrypratchett )
2. What's the difference between the British and Finnish welfare systems?: (tags:welfare UK Finland )
3. Wes Streeting explains why Labour are fine with starving children: (tags:Labour children welfare poverty OhForFucksSake )
4. What happened to the Great Library of Alexandria?: (tags:library history )
5. 30,000 rare oysters being reintroduced to Firth of Forth: (tags:Scotland seafood nature )
6. Small nuclear reactors don't add up as a viable energy source: (tags:nuclearpower economics )
7. Internet use is linked to higher wellbeing: (tags:happiness internet )
8. Economic performance is stronger when Democrats hold the White House: (tags:economics usa republicans democrats politics )
9. The Aurora Borealis from Calton Hill, Edinburgh.: (tags:edinburgh auroraborealis photos )
10. Scientists document remarkable sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet': (tags:whales speech language )
11. Have no doubt: we are at war with Russia: (tags:russia war )

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Interesting Links for 12-01-2024

1. £2bn town planned near Edinburgh Airport: (tags:housing edinburgh )
2. Florida School District Bans Dictionaries Under DeSantis Law: (tags:USA censorship )
3. I love these appropriately damaged paintings: (tags:art video )
4. A collection of gorgeous play areas inside libraries: (tags:library play )
5. A great takedown of Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science": Which I am reading 21 years later, but still, handy to have about the place in case of arguments.
(tags:mathematics review )

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Interesting Links for 28-11-2022

1. The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books: (tags:library history women horses usa )
2. AI image generation is improving quickly: (tags:AI art )
3. America is a Christian Nationalist Hellhole, license plate edition: (tags:OhForFucksSake Christianity USA religion fascism driving )
4. One nice thing about Mastodon is that, for example, the EU can set up an instance and then you can trust every post on there is a verified EU institution/entity: (tags:Europe socialnetworking identity )
5. How supportive would Britons be of a family member coming out? (also compared to other countries): (tags:LGBT polls )
6. French man wins right to not be 'fun' at work in wrongful termination case: (tags:work France fun law )
7. Ineos in talks with Rolls-Royce to build mini nuclear reactor and power Scottish chemical refinery: (tags:scotland nuclearpower viaDanielDWilliam )
8. The High-Temperature Superconductivity Mystery Is Finally Solved: (tags:physics )
9. How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence: (tags:disgust terrorism violence bigotry )
10. Power grid boost as two Scottish firms net £14m to work on energy storage systems: (tags:storage electricity scotland )

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Interesting Links for 12-12-2019

China, where the library burns books if they are "improper": (tags:books library china censorship )
Lib Dem election candidate endorses Labour rival in his own seat out of 'concern for our country': (tags:libdem voting labour )
Denmark plans to build artificial islands for windfarms: (tags:Denmark windpower )
YouTube bans malicious insults and veiled threats: (tags:youtube abuse )
Just how racist are Labour and Conservative voters?: (tags:Jews Islam racism Labour conservatives OhForFucksSake UK )
UK's post-Brexit trade at risk as WTO's top court shuts down (because of Trump): (tags:trade usa uk europe OhForFucksSake )
Huge mobile crane will arrive at Edinburgh St James Centre site overnight to take down Europe's largest tower crane: (tags:Edinburgh construction )
The NHS robots performing major surgery: (tags:NHS healthcare surgery robots )
A self-driving truck delivered butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days: (tags:automation delivery driving transport )
Heatwaves on multiple continents linked by jet stream tendency: (tags:temperature climate weather )
Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea: (tags:voting technology video )
Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back: (tags:religion usa )
Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates: (tags:crows Intelligence )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3721280.html

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Interesting Links for 07-09-2018

The hidden, horrifying costs of being single: (tags: relationships money society uk )
Saudi Arabia declares online satire punishable with prison: (tags: saudiarabia satire OhForFucksSake freespeech )
The BBC are apparently now paying people to shout at introverts. How did they think this was ok?: (tags: phones bbc OhForFucksSake harassment )
Google warned: Your YouTube ads interfere with our elections, says Russia: (tags: russia google elections )
Brexit: No-deal grows more likely as UK refuses to table new plan for Northern Ireland border backstop: (tags: uk Europe NorthernIreland doom )
Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell on why we need libraries: (tags: neilgaiman library )
How to fart when sharing a bed: (tags: advice relationships comic )
I would happily watch a film based on this premise for Jack the Ripper: (tags: murder history writing )
How HTTPS works (a reasonably simple introduction to how security in the web works): I'd have made it clearer how private/public keys can be used in either direction, but it's still pretty good
(tags: encryption security web )
Medieval Fantasy City Generator: (tags: maps automation fantasy )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3720669.html

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Interesting Links for 04-09-2018

The SNP has the second largest membership in the whole uk: (tags: uk Scotland politics )
It is possible for American policing to not be awful: (tags: police usa )
Automated copyright filters are still a terrible idea.: (tags: copyright automation fail )
How (Not) To Be A Trainee Solicitor: (tags: law uk )
I want to believe that people can be converted to decency through rational discussion. But it seems awfully unlikely to work on more than a small percentage: (tags: politics debate usa )
I have a tendency to get trapped by this kind of thinking when I'm programming. it can be quite hard to step away from: (tags: programming )
Anne Lister: Plaque wording to change after 'lesbian' row: (tags: lesbians lgbt uk history )
Temperature Anomalies by Country 1880-2017: (tags: globalwarming visualisation )
Orkney Library has won Twitter: (tags: books library scotland )
A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes: (tags: sleep advice )
'Black Panther' Star Chadwick Boseman Fought Against Wakandan British Accents: (tags: language Africa comics movies marvel BlackPanther )
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, as imagined with tiny bicycles on unlikely slopes: (tags: music video )
Malaysia women caned for attempting to have lesbian sex: (tags: Malaysia lgbt lesbians OhForFucksSake )
3D printers connected to the internet - it's the start of a sci-fi movie!: (tags: 3dprinting security fail )
If your marketing team was made up of engineers: (tags: comic funny design advertising )
Notes on "A Philosophy of Software Design.": (tags: design software )
Dundee church tries to help hungry people, the local responses are frankly disgusting: (tags: poverty OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3675601.html

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Interesting Links for 05-04-2018

The mystery of the 7 in the library book: (tags: books mysteries numbers library )
The 3 most promising new methods of male birth control, explained: (tags: contraception men )
Steven Spielberg does not understand how names work: (tags: indianajones names Steven_Spielberg wtf )
The three legal paths to stop Brexit are blocked: (tags: uk europe )
Timing of stress-hormone pulses controls weight gain: (tags: stress weight )
The 4 genres of web comics: (tags: comics genre funny )
‘Describe Yourself Like a Male Author Would’ Is the Most Savage Twitter Thread in Ages: (tags: writing men women viaElfy )
Woman takes Ancestry.com DNA test, learns her real dad is her mom’s doctor: There's going to be an awful lot more of this kind of thing
(tags: genetics parents )
Young children pretending to talk on the phone are terribly cute: (tags: phones children cute )
Solar power’s greatest challenge was discovered 10 years ago. It looks like a duck.: (tags: solarpower )
Why Jewish History Is So Hard to Write: I highly recommend Schama's TV series.
(tags: Jews history )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3639481.html

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Interesting Links for 03-12-2017

These are the most popular baby names right now: (tags: names satire babies funny )
The Amazon HQ search is, frankly, an attack on democracy: (tags: amazon usa democracy OhForFucksSake )
Sexual Assault Apology Mad-Libs!: (tags: assault abuse apology comic funny )
Alphabet of the obsolete: (tags: obsolescence funnny )
Marvel's New Editor-in-Chief Just Admitted That He Used a Pseudonym Years Ago to Pretend to Be Japanese: (tags: japan marvel comics )
Star Wars: The Last Jedi | Behind The Scenes Training Featurette (Looks amazing. So excited!): (tags: StarWars video )
Justice League Action - the one where Mark Hammil has slept with the entire cast: (tags: dc animation comics video funny )
Why Kinkshaming Ruins Christmas: (tags: abuse fetish sex kink society )
A Last Airbender writer and Uncharted director are building a new game and show: (tags: airbender tv games )
Why Hollywood's Abandonment Of Terry Crews Is Unacceptable: (tags: tv abuse hollywood OhForFucksSake race gender )
Vader's final scene in Rogue One, but with Gimme More by Britney Spears. (I cannot explain why this made me giggle): (tags: video StarWars BritneySpears )
The rare book library at Yale University is an incredible piece of architecture (with no windows).: (tags: architecture library )
Former police chief condemns retired officers who leaked Damian Green computer pornography allegations: (tags: police privacy politics )
Woman With Transplanted Uterus Gives Birth, the First in the U.S.: (tags: birth organs pregnancy )
Egyptian lawyer jailed for saying women in ripped jeans should be raped: (tags: egypt rape crime )
UK government's entire social mobility team quit citing lack of political leadership: No, I didn't know they had a social mobility team either!
(tags: inequality uk society politics OhForFucksSake )
Batman Ninja looks like the kind of ridiculous fun I want out of Batman: (tags: batman japan anime video trailer ninjas )
40,000 children trapped in ‘zombie’ academy schools: (tags: school UK OhForFucksSake )
Cute! Pictures! Of! Bats!: (tags: bats cute )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3543356.html

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Interesting Links for 12-01-2017

Come back when he shags a dead pig, says jaded Britain: (tags: sex usa UK politics funny )
A climate scientists answeres questions about the large slab of ice breaking off an Antarctic glacier: (tags: antarctic snow globalwarming )
America’s Fastest-Growing Loans Has Echoes of Subprime Crisis: (tags: loans economics OhForFucksSake )
Each year, half a million horseshoe crabs are captured and bled alive to create an unparalleled biomedical technology.: (tags: crabs medicine ocean )
'It's a financial cliff edge': how Britain fell back in love with credit cards: (tags: credit debt uk )
Librarians in Florida went rogue to save 2,361 books from an algorithm: (tags: books library fraud )
Superhero culture magnifies aggressive, not defending behaviors: (tags: superheroes aggression children behaviour psychology )
10 Discworld Quotes You'll Desperately Need for the Next Four Years: (tags: pratchett quotes )
Quick brown fox jumps over lazy dog: (tags: fox dogs )
Tidal lagoon: £1.3bn Swansea Bay project to be backed: (tags: power ocean wales uk )
Are WiFi users a boon or bane of coffee shops?: (tags: work wifi coffee shopping )
Spinning spider silk is now possible: (tags: spiders Technology )
Stop treating life as a series of moral parables: (tags: life statistics predictions advice )
Africa is witnessing birth of a new ocean: (tags: africa ocean )
'Puppy talk' - why do we use it and do dogs respond?: (tags: dogs language speech viaSwampers )
Taiwan's smog-eating twisting tower: (tags: taiwan architecture pollution )
Conservatives prefer nouns, liberals prefer adjectives: (tags: language politics )
Some interesting diet research. Anyone know anything more about this?: (tags: diet health )
Playful people are at an advantage: (tags: psychology )
Our senses can't learn under stress: (tags: stress learning )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3502175.html

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Interesting Links for 26-08-2016

Diets avoiding dry-cooked foods can protect against diabetes: (tags: cooking food diabetes )
Housebuilding slows despite growing shortage of homes: (tags: housing uk )
Microsoft Excel blamed for gene study errors: (tags: genetics research OhForFucksSake )
Stupid Questions Asked by Journalists #1: What won't Meat Loaf do for love?: (tags: music journalism fail )
Librarians show off their elite sorting skills in 'synchronised shelving' video: (tags: viaSwampers library funny olympics video )
We need to talk about why Kevin can't get a girlfriend: (tags: OhForFucksSake conspiracy relationships mentalhealth )
The brain uses backward instant replays to remember important travel routes (in rats): (tags: travel brain rats )
Rudy Van Gelder, Audio Engineer Who Helped Define Sound of Jazz on Record, Dies at 91: (tags: music history )
Dexmo exoskeleton glove lets you touch and feel in VR: (tags: VirtualReality Technology )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3375082.html

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Interesting Links for 04-12-2015

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Interesting Links for 29-11-2015