Interesting Links for 07-03-2023
Mar. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Did you know there were two types of boomers?
- (tags:generation demographics usa history )
- 2. Reconstructing visual experiences from human brain activity
- (tags:vision mri brain neuroscience ai )
- 3. Slow motion adverts make people think the produce is more luxurious
- (tags:luxury advertising slowmotion video psychology )
- 4. How you phrase questions really really strongly affects the answers you get
- (tags:polls language bias )
- 5. Edinburgh's Lothian Buses announce revised fares from Sunday 2 April
- (tags:edinburgh buses transport money )
- 6. Neil Gaiman on whether CGI is replacing physical movie making
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- 7. SimCity 2013 launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series
- (tags:simcity games epicfail )
Interesting Links for 10-02-2022
Feb. 10th, 2022 12:00 pm- What do autistic women look like?
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- Downing Street Refuses To Confirm If Picture Of Boris Johnson With Prosecco And Tinsel Was A Party
- (tags:party pandemic BorisJohnson )
- Pupils shouldn't be allowed to criticise Dear Leader in class, says education secretary
- (tags:BorisJohnson politics conservatives school UK )
- Scottish estate licence restricted over golden eagle poisoning
- (tags:Scotland poison birds animals crime )
- Scottish Covid powers to be extended by six months
- (tags:Scotland Pandemic law )
- British renewables auctions to be held annually in green energy push
- (tags:UK renewables GoodNews )
- Boomer mathematics: why older generations can't understand the millennial struggle to buy a house
- (tags:age economics generation inflation luxury )
- Post-natal depression affects 10% of men, but there's no support for it.
- (tags:depression men childbirth )
- This AI beat the world's best Gran Turismo players
- (tags:games ai driving )
- Ebola virus can lurk in the brain and re-emerge years after recovery to cause fatal disease
- (tags:disease brain )
- London's smallest flat is up for sale for just £50k
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- They're finally building on the ex-petrol station opposite The Regent Bar near where I used to live!
- (tags:edinburgh housing students )
Interesting Links for 20-09-2017
Sep. 20th, 2017 12:00 pm- HMRC will focus on mass market schemes after successful first anti-avoidance panel ruling
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- Before You Spend $2 Billion on Your Own Submarine, Read This
- And if you were wondering what to get me for Christmas...
(tags: transport submarine ocean luxury ) - Brontosaurus raised from dead, as scientists rule dinosaur did exist
- (tags: dinosaurs zombies )
- Sex, aggression controlled separately in female brains, but overlap in male brains (in mice)
- (tags: aggression sex mice brain )
- Red squirrels winning battle with greys in Aberdeen woods
- (tags: Scotland squirrel nature GoodNews )
- Take the impossible “literacy” test Louisiana used to give black voters.
- (tags: racism voting usa viaSwampers )
- A Proterra electric bus just drove 1,100 miles on a single charge
- (tags: bus transport electricity )
- Stirling, the university that broke the mould, turns 50
- (tags: Scotland University history )
- Scotland's rental rules are changing from December
- (tags: Scotland rental law )
- Neo-Nazi site finds home in Iceland
- (tags: Iceland web nazis freespeech )
- Feeling bad about failure is part of how we learn to do better
- I know too many people for whom this reaction is clearly extreme.
(tags: failure psychology emotion ) - On punching Nazis
- (tags: nazis freespeech violence )
- Are all space-capitalists Jewish?
- (tags: Jews stereotypes scifi )
- Edinburgh’s unbuilt Inner Ring Road
- (tags: Edinburgh transport history scotland )