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Interesting Links for 29-12-2021
Dec. 29th, 2021 12:00 pm- Brexit blow for disabled people as EU holiday destinations stop recognising UK blue badges
- (tags:disability UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
- For mammals, eating other animals can increase cancer risk
- (tags:Cancer mammals carnivorous meat )
- Stephen King does not like fat people (and particularly not fat women)
- (tags:fat stephen_king )
- Edinburgh council promise to examine accessibility in streets and buildings
- (tags:Edinburgh disability )
- Some counterintuitive facts about COVID-19
- (tags:viaSwampers virus Pandemic satire Doom )
- World's Largest Wind Farm Has Officially Started Producing Power
- (tags:windpower viaMyBrotherHugh UK )
- China upset about needing to dodge SpaceX Starlink satellites
- (tags:China space Spacex )
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Interesting Links for 13-12-2021
Dec. 13th, 2021 12:00 pm- Infrared antenna-like structures in mammalian fur
- (tags:mammals light heat )
- New roles on isolation in Scotland for household contacts
- (tags:Pandemic Scotland )
- A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope (what R2 was really up to - I've been meaning to save this link for ages)
- (tags:StarWars fanfic )
- Austria ends COVID-19 lockdown measures - so long as you're vaccinated
- (tags:vaccination Austria Pandemic )
- Visualizing Gravity With A Large Sheet Of Spandex
- (tags:gravity materials visualisation video )
- Boris Johnson is doing great work to bring about a United Ireland
- (tags:Ireland UK Europe BorisJohnson conservatives )
- Cultures Where Men and Women Don't Speak the Same Language
- (tags:language gender )
- Poorest families worse off under Boris Johnson while incomes of richest soar
- (tags:inequality Conservatives )
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Interesting Links for 16-05-2021
May. 16th, 2021 12:00 pm- Lavazza group are upset about a footballer defending Palestine
- (tags:Palestine coffee football )
- 'Pan-coronavirus' vaccine shows early promise in monkeys and mice
- (tags:mice disease virus vaccine )
- Rules for UK citizens visiting France
- (tags:UK France )
- Gender explains only about 1% of total brain variance
- (tags:gender brain neuroscience )
- Mammals Can Breathe Through Their Arse
- (tags:Oxygen mammals wtf )
- Israel-Palestinian conflict: False and misleading claims fact-checked
- (tags:Israel Palestine facts )
- UK Blood Donation is getting more inclusive
- (tags:blood UK )
- Interviewing people on the streets in Israel to see what they think about Palestinians
- (tags:Israel genocide OhForFucksSake video )
- Four King Maps (what 3 words, but with swearing)
- (tags:swearing maps )
Interesting Links for 07-01-2021
Jan. 7th, 2021 12:00 pm- Brexit trade deal 'very unstable' and can easily be brought crashing down, legal expert warns MPs
- (tags:Europe UK trade Doom )
- Denmark launches children's TV show about man with giant penis
- (tags:TV children penis )
- Inside the Covid ward
- (tags:pandemic healthcare awful UK )
- How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus
- (tags:virus gestation pregnancy mammals )
- Ten scary bodies of water
- (tags:water scary ViaDrCross )
- WhatsApp updates its Privacy Policy to mandate data-sharing with Facebook
- I use Signal as an alternative that's Facebook free.
(tags:im chat Facebook privacy ) - 45% of Republicans approve of the storming of the Capitol Building
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1347007675855302656.html
(tags:politics terrorism usa ) - London will be overwhelmed by covid in a fortnight says leaked NHS England briefing
- (tags:London UK pandemic Doom )
- An interesting/unfortunate side-effect of legalising same sex marriage
- (tags:LGBT marriage law USA Australia )
Interesting Links for 26-03-2020
Mar. 26th, 2020 12:00 pm- A head teacher on what parents should be doing with their kids at home
- (tags:children education pandemic )
- A message from The Doctor to worried people everywhere
- (tags:drwho pandemic video )
- The economics of the Coronavirus pandemic
- (tags:economics pandemic viaDanielDWilliam )
- On capitalism and the Conservative fear that if people didn't have to work they wouldn't
- (tags:work capitalism )
- Across mammals, females live 18% longer than males
- (tags:mammals age lifespan gender )
- There are two guards. One who lies and one who tells the truth. They are _very_ bored.
- (tags:funny satire philosophy puzzles audio )
- Coronavirus: U.K. Says 3.5 Million Antibody Tests Coming in Days
- (tags:pandemic virus testing )
- What It's Like to Self-Quarantine With a Michelin-Starred Chef
- (tags:restaurant pandemic cooking viaSwampers )
- If you're bored at home you can help needed to rescue UK's old rainfall records
- (tags:weather history UK )
- An Exhaustive Analysis of 300 Winning Dishes on 'Come Dine With Me'
- (tags:TV food viaPatrickHadfield )
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- tv,
- uk,
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- viapatrickhadfield,
- viaswampers,
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- virus,
- weather,
- work
Interesting Links for 20-04-2018
Apr. 20th, 2018 12:00 pm- Do not ready activated charcoal foods if you're on birth control (Or taking any medication)
- (tags: food contraception OhForFucksSake )
- Map: Final designs for top of Leith Walk revealed
- (tags: edinburgh design transport )
- Senior MPs to force (non-binding) customs union vote
- Yay, more things for Theresa May to ignore!
(tags: Europe UK politics ) - The UK Refused To Raid A Company Suspected Of Money Laundering, Citing Its Tory Donations
- (tags: UK conservatives crime )
- Amazon Prime passes 100m subscribers mark
- (tags: amazon )
- Finland to end basic income experiment
- (tags: GuaranteedIncome finland )
- Everspace dev paid thousands to influencers who were "shit at playing the game"
- (tags: advertising games video )
- What day, night and the shape of the terminator would look like on Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Map
- (tags: sun time maps video )
- Some thoughts on autism
- (tags: autism disability )
- Land by latitude and longitude, or, a pile of continents (makes it clear how small Europe is)
- (tags: maps earth viaDanielDWilliam )
- Mammals are smaller than they used to be, and it’s our fault
- (tags: mammals prehistory humans death )
- Robot Conquers One of the Hardest Human Tasks: Assembling Ikea Furniture
- Although I actually enjoy assembling Ikea furniture, and rarely find it hard
(tags: furniture ikea robots ) - Why is insect protein more expensive than pork chops?
- (tags: insects food money )
- The Eurovision Song Contest...In Spaaaaaaaaace!
- (tags: review music scifi )
- Male contraceptive compound stops sperm without affecting hormones (in monkeys)
- (tags: contraceptive sperm monkey men )
- Dear Prince Charles, do you think my brown skin makes me unBritish?
- (tags: royalty uk racism )
- Taxi firms face claims over drivers' rights in wake of Uber case
- (tags: jobs law taxi )
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Interesting Links for 05-03-2014
Mar. 5th, 2014 11:00 am- Jonathan Ross vs The Hugos (Best writeup I've seen)
- Texting while walking results in more injuries per mile than texting while driving...
- 50% of women out for a drink report experiencing either unwanted sexual contact or unwanted persistence
- Ovulation motivates women to outdo other women
- Instant Date Prank
- When May I Shoot a Student? (A lecturer asks)
- Important questions about fairy tales
- I hadn't realised quite how much humans dominated the ecosphere of land mammals
- Immigration impact report withheld by Downing Street (because it shows costs are lower than they hoped)
- FactCheck: Crimea myth and reality
- Putin appears to be getting ready to backoff Crimea because it is playing badly within Russia
- Science: Beef Good, Bacon Not So Bad
- LSD, Reconsidered for Therapy
- If the Moon Was Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system
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Interesting Links for 2-11-2011
Nov. 2nd, 2011 11:00 am- A new phylogeny of the mammals. Nice diagram.
- Half of Britain now owns a smartphone.
- From April people in the UK will be able to opt-out from junk mail through a single website.
- Revolutions and the Internet.
- The price of Greek democracy
- India plans safer nuclear plant powered by thorium
- Google tells you why it's serving you specific ads.
- The dangers of bedtime reading
- After UNESCO Palestine vote, could US defund nuclear watchdog IAEA, too?
- Jason Segel, Unlikely Hero Behind the New Muppet Movie (I've loved him for years)
- Hormone in birth control shot linked to memory loss
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- thorium,
- uk,
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