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Interesting Links for 07-02-2023
Feb. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Star Wars, The Osmonds, and Twincest Predictions
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- 2. Scientists suggest way to help children get desensitised to peanut allergy (effective for 80% of them)
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- 3. Call of the Void: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370?
- (tags:airplanes crash Malaysia )
- 4. How damaging is the trans prisoners row for the SNP?
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- 5. The kindest way to break up with a friend is to ghost them
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- 6. What actually helps reduce bullying?
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- 7. LGBTQ: Plan to make it easier to change gender in Wales
- (tags:lgbt wales transgender GoodNews )
- 8. I have regularly thought that more computing education should be as apprenticeships. I suspect the same is true of many other jobs.
- (tags:apprentices Education uk )
- 9. China is building a staggering amount of solar power, here's how
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Interesting Links for 28-09-2020
Sep. 28th, 2020 12:00 pm- Fuck the BBC and their "balance"
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1310145602039287809.html
(tags:bigotry BBC LGBT transgender ) - Nanotherapy reduces plaque buildup in mouse arteries
- (tags:mice nanotech heart GoodNews )
- Covid cases at UK food factories could be over 30 times higher than reported
- (tags:Pandemic food UK OhForFucksSake )
- The forced labour that supports the palm oil industry
- (tags:work OhForFucksSake slavery Malaysia food )
- Covid: New guidance issued for Scottish students wanting to go home
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- Trump's Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance
- (tags:taxes USA politics )
- If Labour really cares about left-behind communities, it'll push to reform our drug laws
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Interesting Links for 14-08-2020
Aug. 14th, 2020 12:00 pm- In the 1850s people thought there were 23 planets in the solar system
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- Anger at 193 week waiting list for trans patients to see a doctor on NHS (target is 18 weeks)
- (tags:LGBT healthcare UK )
- Storm leaves 30m hole in Union Canal, knocking out the Edinburgh-Glasgow rail line.
- (tags:trains canal Scotland )
- Germany: 120,000 hectares stripped bare by field mice
- (tags:mice food farming Germany Doom )
- Israel and UAE reach historic peace deal
- (tags:Israel middle_east GoodNews )
- Nearly 300 workers test positive at M&S sandwich supplier in Northampton
- (tags:pandemic food )
- Why 'Lovecraft Country' book, HBO series are named for a racist
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- Hands up who wants to zip line in to the mouth of Godzilla?
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- Young children would rather explore than get rewards
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- The Mesmerizing Geometry of Malaysia's Most Complex Cakes
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- It's Time to Demystify the Serial Killer.
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- Transparent TVs are pretty darned impressive
- (tags:Technology television impressive video )
- "Discourses of Delay" - the 12 arguments that global warming deniers have moved to.
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- Ongoing EU-China deal casts a long shadow over Brexit talks
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Interesting Links for 02-09-2019
Sep. 2nd, 2019 12:13 pm- The truth about science fiction
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- Seeking Good Het or Poly Romantic Films
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- Republicans continue to roll back the rules put in place after the last financial crash
- (tags:economics regulation republicans )
- They're not all called 'haka' — the differences between Pacific war dances
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- A threat to cut family tax benefits for Australians who did not vaccinate their children has resulted in an increase of 174,000 children being immunised over the last year.
- (tags:australia money vaccination )
- Mortal Engines: A baffling movie marketing case study
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- "Why I turned down exclusivity deal from the Epic Store"
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- What really happened in the UK blackouts?
- (tags:electricity fail analysis UK viaFanf )
- Cannabis is 12,600 times stronger than it was in the 50s
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- Rebel Tory MPs told they will be deselected if they vote to block no-deal Brexit
- (tags:UK Europe politics Doom conservatives )
- Fast and Furious 9: Full list of all 52 Edinburgh road closures for filming in September
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- Why the only real artistic failure is to not make something
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- When the Australian military lost the war against the emus
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- Mat Dan: 'I became an accidental celebrity 6,000 miles from home'
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- Scientists find drought-resistance gene that could help barley survive climate change
- (tags:globalwarming farming genetics agriculture alcohol )
- You'll be as shocked as I am to learn that all alternatives to the Irish backstop are unworkable.
- (tags:NorthernIreland UK Europe ireland borders )
- Ceramics enter a new era with laser-welded joints
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- Brexit: Boris Johnson wants to lose to rebels as excuse to purge moderate Conservatives and stage a snap election
- (tags:uk europe politics Conservatives )
- Drug death capital: What will it take for politicians to admit the need for decriminalisation?
- (tags:uk drugs OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 18-06-2019
Jun. 18th, 2019 12:54 pm- Why Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles
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- Millions at risk of retiring on incomes below living wage
- (tags:pensions uk doom )
- Domino's will start robot pizza deliveries in Houston this year
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- China is harvesting organs from prisoners
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- Extinction Rebellion protesters tied together to block Edinburgh streets (outside my office!)
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- Boris Johnson: Bar Scottish people from being prime minister
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- Inspirational Fitness Quotes Over Pictures of People Taking a Dump
- (tags:toilet inspiration funny satire viaSkreidle )
- Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Where Is It?
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- Dogs evolved 'puppy dog eyes' to help them get on with humans
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- UK firms overcharging loyal customers could soon face instant fines
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- Lack of eating disorder training causing preventable deaths as patients feel they have to be dangerously underweight to get help
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- There's no such thing as a tree
- (tags:trees evolution plants names ViaDrCross )
- Austerity: The issue no-one talks about is still ruining lives
- (tags:austerity uk OhForFucksSake )
- Ireland to ban new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030
- (tags:ireland globalwarming cars )
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Interesting Links for 04-09-2018
Sep. 4th, 2018 12:00 pm- The SNP has the second largest membership in the whole uk
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- It is possible for American policing to not be awful
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- Automated copyright filters are still a terrible idea.
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- How (Not) To Be A Trainee Solicitor
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- 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
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- Anne Lister: Plaque wording to change after 'lesbian' row
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- Temperature Anomalies by Country 1880-2017
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- Orkney Library has won Twitter
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- A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes
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- '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
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- Malaysia women caned for attempting to have lesbian sex
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- 3D printers connected to the internet - it's the start of a sci-fi movie!
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- If your marketing team was made up of engineers
- (tags: comic funny design advertising )
- Notes on "A Philosophy of Software Design."
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- Dundee church tries to help hungry people, the local responses are frankly disgusting
- (tags: poverty OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 09-05-2018
May. 9th, 2018 12:00 pm- The world's oldest recorded music is 3,400 years old, and from Syria
- (tags: syria music history )
- New evidence that infants track others' mental states
- (tags: children empathy psychology )
- Anyone know of Paris Orly airport is still running Windows 3.1
- (tags: Windows airport france OhForFucksSake )
- Don't offer your child help with homework, offer them time to do it in
- (tags: school children parenting )
- British government warned not to back EU palm oil ban so it can keep selling arms to Malaysia
- (tags: weaponry business environment government UK Malaysia )
- The Ocado robot swarms that pack your shopping
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- EU tells Trump he doesn’t have the power to unilaterally scrap the Iran nuclear deal
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