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Interesting Links for 08-01-2025
Jan. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. All 105 large developments going on in Edinburgh in 2025, on Google Earth.
- (tags:google map construction edinburgh )
- 2. Edinburgh Development Summary 2025
- (tags:edinburgh construction )
- 3. Five key ways to tackle child sex abuse that still haven't been implemented
- (tags:children rape politics uk )
- 4. Cuts to England's bus network cost economy £2.6bn a year
- (tags:england economics buses transport )
- 5. Is *your* TV too high?
- (tags:tv height )
- 6. How a populist think tank is stoking Scotland's culture war
- (tags:hungary bigotry Scotland )
- 7. JK Rowling Slammed After Claiming That 'There Are No Trans Kids' In Hateful Rant
- (tags:jkrowling transgender bigotry children )
- 8. Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness'
- (tags:Facebook OhForFucksSake bigotry LGBT )
- 9. How do we know how Latin was pronounced, and how did the official church pronunciation come to be different to that?
- (tags:Latin history language )
- 10. Landlords to be banned from demanding several months' rent in advance
- (tags:rental England )
- 11. Stats for the Omni-Centre cycle lane in Edinburgh show that usage is up 40% in a year
- (tags:cycling edinburgh )
- 12. 'I realised I had autism when my children were diagnosed'
- (tags:autism scotland )
- 13. Trump threatens Nato, Hamas, Greenland, Panama, and Canada in press conference
- (tags:politics usa )
- 14. Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams in Classical Latin
- (tags:music video latin )
- 15. Six things you must know about how the grooming gangs scandal was handled
- (tags:rape children religion racism uk government )
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Interesting Links for 03-02-2023
Feb. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. James Gunn's plans for the DC Movie Universe look very sensible - and might actually be good!
- (tags:tv movies dc comics )
- 2. The topologist's world map
- (tags:topology map countries )
- 3. Timelapse of the future: A Journey to the End of Time
- (tags:thefuture visualisation video timelapse space awesome )
- 4. An Astonishing Regularity in Student Learning Rate (Students seem to get better at about the same speed as each other)
- (tags:Education speed psychology )
- 5. Squid skin inspires novel "liquid windows" for greater energy savings
- (tags:squid colour glass )
Interesting Links for 07-11-2020
Nov. 7th, 2020 12:00 pm- PlayStation 5 review (looks like I'll be waiting a couple of years)
- (tags:PlayStation consoles review )
- UK COVID-19 Map (click the button under the zoom to see which areas are getting worse/better)
- (tags:pandemic UK map )
- The weird genomes of the goldfish
- (tags:fish genetics )
- Special Counsel Confirms Hatch Act Investigation of Trump Campaign
- (tags:law USA politics )
- John Finnemore has just solved "the world's most difficult literary puzzle."
- (tags:puzzle books )
- We're no longer allowed to beat either of our children.
- (tags:children abuse law Scotland )
- BBC correspondent: 'Long Covid has left me exhausted for seven months'
- (tags:virus BBC Doom )
- 30-50% of prehistoric hunters in the Americas were female
- (tags:prehistory gender women )
- The unlikely link between TV show Supernatural and Georgia going Blue
- (tags:USA politics TV funny )
- Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders voted in record numbers
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1324894295644659712.html
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Interesting Links for 04-11-2020
Nov. 4th, 2020 12:00 pm- How presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline
- (tags:prehistory politics usa )
- I hadn't realised that Chris Evans basically *is* Captain America
- (tags:CaptainAmerica marvel movies impressive )
- Election Day, swing states, and ballot counting: when to expect election results.
- (tags:elections USA mess viaKalimac )
- A map of Scottish witches
- (tags:Scotland map viaDanielDWilliam witchcraft history )
- There's a really clear delineation between Scots and Gaelic in place names.
- (tags:map language Scotland viaDanielDWilliam )
- The 30 day map challenge hashtag is great
- (tags:maps viaDanielDWilliam )
- Who Gets to be Awesome in Games?
- (tags:games video design )
- DC votes to decriminalize hallucinogenic mushrooms
- (tags:USA hallucinogenics )
- Donald Trump Hasn't Won Anything Yet
- (tags:elections USA )
- AI can tell when you have coronavirus just by listening to your cough
- (tags:disease ai pandemic )
- Reminder that it's largely middle classes who shifted to Trump in 2016.
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1323904277111279618.html
(tags:class voting USA ) - Oregon decriminalizes possession of street drugs
- (tags:drugs law USA GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 16-06-2020
Jun. 16th, 2020 12:00 pm- U.S. Supreme Court bars discrimination against LGBT workers
- (tags:LGBT discrimination USA GoodNews )
- Doctors are having their insurance deferred because of COVID 19.
- (tags:virus insurance doctors pandemic )
- What People Really Look Like
- (tags:Humans bodies )
- There is no perfect diet that works for every metabolism or body type
- (tags:diet humans health )
- Beijing reinstated lockdown after 79 people infected
- (tags:pandemic china )
- The surface area of the solar system, stitched together into one huge map
- (tags:solarsystem map xkcd viaPatrickHadfield )
- Couples who spend more on weddings more likely to get divorced
- (tags:marriage wedding money viaFJM )
- How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses
- (tags:hacking security Nintendo consoles )
- 40% of school pupils are not in regular contact with teachers
- (tags:teaching doom pandemic )
- Five SFF Works Inspired by RPGs
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- Running the Imperial College simulation code for COVID-19
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Interesting Links for 22-03-2020
Mar. 22nd, 2020 12:00 pm- Tracking which businesses are treating their employees well and which aren't during the pandemic
- (tags:business viaSwampers )
- Comixology Unlimited Free Trial Extended to 60 Days
- (tags:comics free viaSwampers )
- This is Jane during self-isolation
- (tags:funny introversion comic pandemic )
- Extensive breakfasting is better than a large dinner for preventing obesity
- (tags:food time weight )
- Map of people's temperatures as detected by smart thermometers
- (tags:USA map disease pandemic )
- If you ever wondered how a bat pees, you're welcome
- (tags:urination bats video )
- Is hydrogen the solution to net-zero home heating? (probably not)
- (tags:hydrogen heating uk )
- Scottish government furious at people traveling to Highlands and Islands to isolate themselves
- (tags:Scotland pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- Radio interview with an NHS A&E consultant about what it's like doing a shift right now
- (tags:NHS pandemic doom radio interview )
- Doctor Who and The Unravelling Text
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Interesting Links for 07-04-2019
Apr. 7th, 2019 03:53 pm- "Modern Monetary Theory" doesn't appear to be an actual coherent theory
- (tags:economics money )
- What happens when you buy a bunch of different fish and then test them to see what they *really* are?
- (tags:fish fraud genetics )
- UK university removes reference to Taiwan as a country on map after Chinese student backlash
- (tags:china taiwan map UK academia )
- Deer faeces & 'spewing' referees - the wonderful world of Scotland's Highland League
- (tags:football Scotland viaDanielDWilliam )
- A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy
- (tags:doom infection disease thefuture )
- Britain's wartime generation are almost as pro-EU as millennials
- (tags:wwii europe polls demographics )
- You're The Worst creator Stephen Falk on the show's emotional finale
- (tags:tv writing comedy relationships )
- Divided by DNA: The uneasy relationship between archaeology and ancient genomics
- (tags:archeology genetics anthropology history prehistory )
- Islamic world abruptly stopped calling out China's Muslim persecution
- (tags:China islam OhForFucksSake )
- Just how harmful is porn? (And are the government's plans worse?)
- (tags:UK porn OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 10-12-2018
Dec. 10th, 2018 11:00 am- New ScotRail timetable to deliver faster journeys
- (tags: Scotland trains GoodNews )
- The distribution of letters in English words
- (tags: language visualisation )
- Secret Scottish-based office led infowars attack on Labour and Jeremy Corbyn
- (tags: politics wtf )
- How to self-rescue if you fall through ice
- (tags: ice advice video )
- Who wants science themed dresses with pockets?
- (tags: science clothing viaFanf )
- O2 poised to receive millions from Ericsson over software failure
- (tags: phones technology epicfail )
- Nobody Lives Here
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- UK can cancel Brexit decision, top EU court rules
- (tags: europe uk GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 25-06-2018
Jun. 25th, 2018 12:00 pm- Republican bill would force teachers to report children if they do not conform to the manner of their biological sex
- (tags: children Republicans usa lgbt OhForFucksSake )
- Why Hitchcock's Kaleidoscope was too shocking to be made
- (tags: movies history )
- Clearly the best playlist for having sex to
- (tags: sex owls funny music )
- More than 50 Tory MPs prepared to defy Theresa May to stop no-deal Brexit
- The dance continues...
(tags: UK Europe Conservatives ) - Tips from the WW2 resistance
- (tags: history wwii advice )
- All of the Roads in Ireland on OpenStreetMap Over Time (hypnotic video)
- (tags: timelapse roads Ireland OpenStreetMap viaSwampers map )
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Interesting Links for 26-05-2018
May. 26th, 2018 12:00 pm- Facebook and Google hit with $8.8 billion in GDPR lawsuits on day one
- (tags: privacy Google facebook )
- Breast-feeding and alcohol: It’s fine to drink while nursing.
- (tags: breastfeeding alcohol )
- How Britain let Russia hide its dirty money
- (tags: uk Russia corruption money politics )
- Broke Millennials Are Bonding Over the "By Age 35” Meme
- (tags: age achievement satire funny )
- Transgender brains are more like their identified gender from an early age
- (tags: transgender brain )
- A brilliant use of LED fans to recreate Dr Strange spell
- (tags: technology comics movies cosplay )
- This is how shit advertising makes using the web
- (tags: web advertising OhForFucksSake )
- People are complaining that it's unrealistic to have women characters in a WW2 game. So here's some awesome women from then.
- (tags: women history wwii ViaDrCross )
- A map of Glasgow and West Scotland. With no Gaelic, Celtic or other foreign Mumbo-Jumbo
- (tags: map Scotland language ViaDrCross )
- The Story of Luke and Rapunzel, and why the Grand Gesture is Bullshit.
- (tags: men women society fairytale relationships )
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Interesting Links for 09-06-2017
Jun. 9th, 2017 12:00 pm- A history of mathematics
- (tags: mathematics history )
- A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire of ca. 125 AD
- (tags: rome history map tube visualisation viaSwampers )
- "Here’s some truth for you about the Comey hearings."
- (tags: politics usa )
- Setting stretch goals can undermine organizational performance
- (tags: work psychology achievement )
- Alan Cumming Reveals He Was Offered Role Of 'Doctor Who'. Twice.
- (tags: drwho wales )
- What do AI researchers think about the future of AI?
- (tags: ai thefuture )
- Pakistani Musicians Play an Enchanting Version of Dave Brubeck’s Jazz Classic, “Take Five”
- Also, a nice version of Eleanor Rigby. And over on Spotify I found their Pink Panther Theme and that was awesome.
(tags: music pakistan viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 26-02-2017
Feb. 26th, 2017 12:00 pm- Why Ever Stop Playing Video Games
- (tags: games )
- Check Out An Interactive Map Of Every Dinosaur Fossil Found On Earth
- (tags: dinosaurs map viaPatrickHadfield )
- Why Millennials Are Lonely
- (tags: loneliness psychology viaSwampers )
- The One Crucial Thing to Do When Your Partner Is Upset
- (tags: happiness psychology emotion relationships viaSwampers )
- Some very cute little animations
- (tags: animation art viaSwampers )
- 10+ Animals That Look Like They’re About To Drop The Hottest Albums Of The Year
- (tags: animals music funny )
- Fox News' fake news over Sweden gets worse as they invent a National Security Advisor
- (tags: sweden fraud usa fox news )
- Brilliant post on how relevant Judge Dredd is to the modern day
- (tags: politics 2000AD fiction democracy comics )
- Groot's oldest friend, a comic
- (tags: comics marvel trees friendship )
- 34% of straight women don't have regular orgasms. 30% of men think intercourse will give them one. *sigh*
- (tags: orgasm sex fail )
- If RBS Lost £58 Billion Then Why The Heck Did We Rescue It? Because It Lost £58 Billion
- (tags: banking debt )
- Fantastic in-depth piece on where we are with the automation of farming
- (tags: automaton farming )
- Who wants a pair of computers in their ears?
- (tags: sound Technology )
- A Holocaust Historian Explains Why Holocaust Denial Shouldn't Be a Crime
- (tags: Holocaust freespeech )
- 'Butter: A Rich History' Tells The Epic Backstory Of A Beloved Spread
- (tags: food history )
- A seal with its furry seal toy
- (tags: cute )
- Awful Fantasy’s Awfulest Tweets of 2015
- (tags: fantasy funny )
- Self-Driving Cars Have a Bicycle Problem
- (tags: cars automation bicycles )
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Interesting Links for 13-09-2016
Sep. 13th, 2016 12:00 pm- Humanists' legal challenge to school religious observance in Scotland
- (tags: scotland religion school )
- The 50-Year Mission reveals the egomania and idealism that built Star Trek
- (tags: StarTrek history )
- What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?
- (tags: mathematics viaFanf )
- How to make the single market more inclusive after Brexit
- (tags: viaFanf welfare economics europe )
- Inside The Violent, Geeky World Of Hardcore International Medieval Combat
- (tags: fighting history swords )
- Chemistry says Moon is proto-Earth’s mantle, relocated
- (tags: moon prehistory space )
- How The World’s Most Beautiful Typeface Was Nearly Lost Forever
- (tags: font history )
- How not to convert the measurements in your science-fiction novel
- (tags: funny scifi writing )
- A map of underground sex-slave bars in the U.S.
- (tags: usa slavery rape map )
- A timeline of Earth's average temperature since the last ice age
- (tags: globalwarming climatechange prehistory history comic xkcd )
- Sugar industry bought off scientists, skewed dietary guidelines for decades
- (tags: sugar diet health fraud bribes usa )
- All songbirds originated in Australia
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- MPs call for medical cannabis to be made legal
- (tags: marijuana law uk )
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Interesting Links for 10-03-2016
Mar. 10th, 2016 12:00 pm- Nobody Knows the Identity of the 150 People Killed by U.S. in Somalia, but Most Are Certain They Deserved It
- (tags: usa terrorism death military drone OhForFucksSake somalia )
- Global weather map
- (tags: weather map )
- Why two spaces after a period isn’t wrong (or, the lies typographers tell about history)
- (tags: typography design history facts )
- Tram-trains for Edinburgh’s South Suburban line backed by rail chief
- (tags: trams trains edinburgh transport )
- An Economist's Wet and Wild Bitcoin Weekend On Richard Branson's Island Refuge
- (tags: bitcoin virgin Technology money )
- The Sexist News
- (tags: news sexism media uk )
- Staggered by a stag - the story behind THAT photo
- (tags: photographs scotland )
- Why Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine is Actually Way Better Than The 2016 Deadpool
- (tags: comics movies marvel viaLProven )
- "Nothing Really Offends Me" Says Walking Embodiment of White Privilege
- (tags: privilege offensive funny satire )
- When companies go off the electricity grid it makes it more expensive for everyone else.
- (tags: renewables electricity usa solarpower viaTheFerrett )
- ADHD is vastly overdiagnosed and many children are just immature
- (tags: adhd children age psychology )
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Interesting Links for 01-04-2013
Apr. 1st, 2013 12:00 pm- Innate immune system can kill HIV when a viral gene is deactivated
- A gay ex-footballer on the impossibility of coming out while he was still playing.
- Tearable cloth in Javascript
- The Saddest Map In America (where people _almost_ found love)
- We have to talk about why some people agree with benefit cuts
- Six Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person
- Scientists find the 'missing heat' of global warming 700 meters below the sea
- How the amazing UK cover for Rapture of the Nerds came to be
- Epic Building Defrost: Inside the meat-storage building that wasn't defrosted for 90 years.
- April Fools' Day 2013: A round-up of the best jokes and hoaxes
- How will driverless cars affect our cities?
- The Romantic Economist: A Story Of Love And Market Forces
- Special Lib Dem Conference announced - to say "Sorry"
- How much gold is there in the world?
- By building “fairy circles,” termites engineer their own ecosystem
- There's been a wave of terrorist attacks in the US. But it's ok, the terrorists were white.
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Interesting Links for 27-09-2012
Sep. 27th, 2012 12:00 pm- Today we celebrate Petrov Day - the man who decided not to destroy the world (No, really)
- 10 most overused opening sentences in personal statements for university applications
- London's surnames overlaid on a map. (Useful for finding all the Cohens)
- A High Resolution Desktop 3D Printer for $2500. Damned impressive stuff.
- Obamacare Raises Taxes on Highest Earning American by $114 Million
- How the mere presence of a mobile phone harms face-to-face conversations
- Italy upholds rendition convictions for 23 Americans
- Manufacturers know their drugs don't work, but they hide it from doctors and patients
- If every person on Earth aimed a laser pointer at the Moon at the same time, would it change color?
- Can Etsy Go Pro Without Losing Its Soul?
- IQ correlated with happiness
- Researchers uncover biochemical chain of events needed to maintain an erection
- I Know That Feel, Bro: comic/cartoon characters empathise with each other. Terribly cute/sad.
- Buy a christmas present for someone who's taken refuge from abuse.
- A Conversation With Randall Munroe, the Creator of XKCD
- Douchebag attempts to shame woman, gets put in his place _and learns from it_.
- Buddhist ‘Iron Man’ found by Nazis is from space
Headline of the day!
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Interesting Links for 20-09-2012
Sep. 20th, 2012 12:00 pm- Today's XKCD as a zoomable map.
- Slow-motion dog on a trampoline. I like to think this is why the internet was invented.
- Why British police don’t have guns
- The Top 10 Relationship Words That Aren't Translatable Into English
- 11 Images of Nature You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
- Australian represenatives vote against legalising equal marriage despite public being in favour.
- The 10 Doctors (I started reading this, and now I'm addicted)
- Ken Clarke argues that secret courts are liberal. I, of course, massively disagree.
- The Myth of the European Court of Human Rights' "War on Britain"
Interesting Links for 12-09-2012
Sep. 12th, 2012 12:00 pm- How Daleks scare their young.
- Nick Clegg calls bigots bigots, sadly then retracts statement.
- Four Years of Edits 2008-2011 on Open Streetmap. I wonder if it will ever take over.
- Playing "Find the Lady" with transparent cups. Damned impressive sleight of hand.
- The world’s shiniest living thing is an African fruit that looks like a pointillist bauble
- A fascinating explanation of what "Life Expectancy" means, and why improvements don't mean we're going to live to 120 any time soon.
- Valve's "Big Picture" mode may well make consoles obsolete.
- brad does acid and livetweets it.
- UK looks to redefine divorce for the 21st century.
- Facebook Is Basically Forcing Its Employees To Use Android Phones Because Its Android App Is Just Awful
- A London Underground map that's also a working radio circuit.
- Magic: the Gathering is Turing Complete
- Sweden is running out of rubbish to burn for energy (their recycling is too efficient!)
- Focus on the Family is Giving Up on Reaching Out to Millennials
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- computing,
- consoles,
- daleks,
- death,
- divorce,
- drwho,
- electronics,
- energy,
- epicwin,
- facebook,
- fruit,
- funny,
- games,
- history,
- illusion,
- law,
- lgbt,
- lifeexpectancy,
- lifespan,
- links,
- london,
- lsd,
- magic,
- map,
- maps,
- marriage,
- mortality,
- nickclegg,
- radio,
- recycling,
- relationships,
- science,
- sweden,
- tube,
- tv,
- twitter,
- uk,
- usa,
- valve,
- vegetables,
- viafanf,
- video,
- visualization,
- waste
