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Interesting Links for 03-01-2025

1. 2025 Is Unlikely To Be A Year Of Harmony In Northern Irish Politics: (tags:NorthernIreland politics )
2. The perfect New Year's Eve comedy turns 30: (tags:movies comedy review CohenBrothers )
3. Fascinating stats about how the Church of England is doing: (tags:ChurchOfEngland UK demographics )
4. Study reveals how cannabis can trigger psychosis: (tags:marijuana mentalhealth )
5. Tintin, Now in Public Domain (in the US), Gets a Modern Day Reboot in The Big Lie: (tags:tintin copyright USA comics )
6. Inside Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts: (tags:history music materials business Turkey )
7. The Class Politics of Fine Dining: (tags:restaurant sociology inequality food viaPatrickHadfield )
8. UK investigation opens into a National Care Service - won't report back until 2028, just in time for the next election: (tags:care UK labour )
9. Camp for kids with HIV closes as there are so few kids who are born with HIV: (tags:hiv GoodNews children )
10. Spotify is paying artists to create music for it to use in its playlists so that they don't have to pay royalties on it: (tags:spotify music OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 24-05-2024

1. New pylons to be installed across the UK in National Grid's £30bn green upgrade: (tags:uk electricity infrastructure )
2. For whom Good Omens is being written: (tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett alzheimers TV writing )
3. Football Association resists government pressure to change its transgender inclusion policy: (tags:football UK transgender LGBT GoodNews sports )
4. The next food marketing blitz is aimed at people on new weight-loss drugs: (tags:food weight drugs )
5. Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking for first time in US: (tags:marijuana alcohol usa )
6. The Suit Died, but for Good Reasons: (tags:history clothing UK monarchy class USA )
7. Managers - what are they good for?: (tags:management engineering software )
8. Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue: (tags:Reddit Google ai OhForFucksSake safety advice headline epicfail )

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Interesting Links for 22-09-2023

1. Scottish Labour MSPs told to oppose employment law devolution motion - despite running on a platform to devolve it: (tags:scotland labour employment law OhForFucksSake )
2. Luxembourg legalises cultivation and consumption of cannabis at home: (tags:europe marijuana legalisation )
3. Amazingly, 5% of NFTs are still worth something: (tags:blockchain money epicfail )
4. How far back into pre-history can we push the earliest societies?: (tags:prehistory Intelligence society )
5. I hope that some day Samuel L Jackson will be hired to play me. And that it's at least as awesome as this ad for bread.: (tags:SamuelLJackson bread advertising video )
6. EU politicians say there is a 'whole pile' of post-Brexit problems to fix before a UK return: (tags:uk europe )
7. Spider silk is spun by silkworms for the first time, offering a green alternative to synthetic fibers: (tags:spiders silk worm materials )
8. Happy September 21st everyone!: (tags:video weird music )

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Interesting Links for 11-03-2023

1. Scientists complete first map of an insect brain: (tags:insects brain )
2. HP have updated their printers to outright ban 'non-HP' ink: (tags:printing OhForFucksSake )
3. Toy preferences between boys and girls is a classic example of societal debates relying on tiny scraps of data: (tags:research statistics gender toys psychology )
4. Jamie Lee Curtis launches campaign urging U2 and Bruce Springsteen to do matinee shows: (tags:music time )
5. Magnificent mosques of India: (tags:religion architecture Islam India viaDanielDWilliam )
6. Elephants have learned highway robbery: (tags:elephants crime video )
7. Long-Term Cannabis Use, Cognitive Decline, and the Hippocampus: (tags:Intelligence marijuana brain )
8. Full list of pundits boycotting BBC football shows over the Gary Lineker censorship: (tags:asylum censorship bbc football )
9. Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech: (tags:speech language brain ai )

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Catch-up Interesting Links for 2022-9-13

1. Deaths Months After Covid Point to Pandemic?s Grim Aftermath: (tags:pandemic death doom )
2. The AI revolution is now open source: (tags:ai opensource )
3. Why Republicans Keep Failing To Pass Abortion Bans: (tags:abortion usa politics republicans )
4. UK homes among very worst in Europe for energy efficiency: (tags:uk efficiency heating homes epicfail )
5. The mathematical inspiration behind the opening sequence of Rings Of Power: (tags:lotr music TV mathematics )
6. Labour refusing to comply with legally-required disclosure relating to data affected by criminal breach: (tags:labour dataprotection law OhForFucksSake )
7. Russia is facing defeat in Putin?s gas war against the European Union: (tags:Europe oil gas Russia GoodNews )
8. An interesting quirk of English language history: (tags:English language history )
9. Prince Harry explaining very clearly the effect that the UK tabloids had on his wife: (tags:UK newspapers OhForFucksSake monarchy racism mentalhealth )
10. Rich to get twice as much cost-of-living support: (tags:uk heating inequality OhForFucksSake Conservatives )
11. 12 pictures as thousands queue overnight in Edinburgh to pay respects to Queen: (tags:queen edinburgh death photos )
12. Why King Charles will pay zero inheritance tax on the Queen?s private fortune: (tags:uk monarchy tax )
13. Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as the 'Not My King' tag grows: (tags:monarchy uk protests law OhForFucksSake )
14. Prenatal cannabis exposure associated with mental disorders in children that persist into early adolescence: (tags:marijuana children gestation mentalhealth )

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Interesting Links for 08-09-2022

1. What next for art in a post-AI world?: (tags:art ai comics comic )
2. Supreme Court allows SNP to intervene in indyref2 court case: (tags:snp law uk independence scotland )
3. New technique shows old temperatures were much hotter than thought: (tags:co2 prehistory globalwarming ocean )
4. Turns out that going woke does not inevitably lead to going broke: (tags:money niceness )
5. Liz Truss plunged into constitutional crisis on day one as UK blocks Bermuda from legalising cannabis: (tags:marijuana legalisation UK law constitution )
6. Scottish government to make £500m in spending cuts: (tags:Scotland money )
7. Poland's Demand for German Damages Includes Crimes Committed Against Jews by Poles: (tags:Poland Germany Holocaust Jews money wtf )
8. Liz Truss Is Trying to Block Scotland's Trans Reforms: (tags:conservatives bigotry UK Scotland law LGBT transgender )
9. Leaked list of US anti government extremist Oath Keepers includes hundreds of cops, dozens of elected officials: (tags:USA terrorism corruption terrifying police government )
10. Scientists Have Made a Human Microbiome From Scratch: (tags:microbiome )
11. Edinburgh's South Sub railway: Here's why forgotten railway closed 60 years ago today: (tags:edinburgh trains transport history )
12. Four Sisters. Forty Years. Forty Portraits.: (tags:photos history )

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Interesting Links for 02-07-2022

1. Edinburgh's 2030 Festival City Vision: (tags:Edinburgh thefuture festival viaPatrickHadfield )
2. Universal Credit has increased crime rate by 6.5%: (tags:welfare uk crime OhForFucksSake )
3. How flowers are 'put to sleep' for long sea voyages: (tags:trade flowers sea )
4. Germany seeks ′safety first′ approach to legalizing cannabis: (tags:marijuana legalisation germany )
5. Yes, part of the UK constitution is (or was) a letter written to the Times under a pseudonym: (tags:uk monarchy politics constitution history )
6. Major chords are happy and minor chords are sad? Only if society has trained you that way!: (tags:music psychology emotion )
7. Germany unveils plans for simpler gender change process: (tags:LGBT transgender Germany GoodNews )
8. UK's export support agency stops investing in new fossil fuel projects: (tags:globalwarming investment UK GoodNews )
9. Giraffes eat acacia trees from downwind, because otherwise they warn each other to taste bitter!: (tags:trees self-defence )
10. Boris Johnson wants multi-generational mortgages so parents can pass on debt to children: (tags:mortgages conservatives BorisJohnson )
11. Melatonin peaks in teenagers at 7am. Waking them then is like waking an adult at 4am: (tags:sleep teenagers )

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Interesting Links for 19-05-2022

1. There's a plan for 200 homes and green offices at Edinburgh's old Scottish Widows HQ: (tags:Edinburgh housing )
2. There are only 10 types of movies.: (tags:movies posters viaSwampers )
3. DS9 series suggestion: Quark's: (tags:StarTrek TV )
4. Transphobes are the ones making up new definitions: (tags:language transgender LGBT bigotry )
5. Four countries pledge tenfold rise in EU offshore wind power capacity: (tags:windpower europe )
6. Edinburgh Zoo penguin Mrs Wolowitz is thought to be the oldest of her species in the world: (tags:penguins age edinburgh zoo )
7. A galactic collision strips dark matter, starts star formation: (tags:darkness physics space )
8. Weed legalisation linked to drop in alcohol, tobacco consumption: (tags:marijuana legalisation alcohol tobacco cigarettes )
9. Girls see physics as for white men only, MPs told: (tags:racism sexism society uk science physics Education )
10. Two thirds of Edinburgh residents would cycle if there were more separated cycle lanes: (tags:edinburgh cycling polls )
11. "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting," Ten Years On: (tags:society lgbt racism sexism history patriarchy kyriarchy )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4125056.html

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Interesting Links for 15-12-2021

The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol - Here's Why!: (tags:muppets christmas viaMarrog )
Peter Molyneux's next game is a Blockchain pyramid scheme: (tags:games blockchain OhForFucksSake PeterMolyneux )
Scottish bottle return scheme will not start until 2023: (tags:Scotland recycling )
Omicron has an R over 5 and a doubling time of 2 days: (tags:Pandemic Doom )
Van Gogh Alive Comes to Edinburgh: (tags:VincentVanGogh Edinburgh art Scotland )
Testing disruption leaves UK 'flying blind' over scale of omicron wave: (tags:UK Pandemic testing Doom )
About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated: (tags:religion usa )
Star Wars: Imperial March x Carol of The Bells: (tags:StarWars viaConuly music christmas video )
The Depression Treatment That Is Turning Lives Around in Five Days (I'd love to know how long it lasts): (tags:depression neuroscience fmri )
Omicron symptoms differ from other Covid strains: (tags:pandemic virus )
HTTP/3 is Fast: (tags:web http )
Why battery costs have plunged 89 percent since 2010: (tags:batteries economics )
UK Hospitals likely to be overwhelmed by omicron: (tags:uk nhs doom )
What it's like making friends with men: (tags:men friendship comic funny )
Malta becomes first EU nation to legalise cannabis: (tags:malta marijuana legalisation )
'Harvey Weinstein would threaten to get Tarantino to direct': An oral history of The Lord of the Rings at 20: (tags:lotr history movies )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4117012.html

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4055164.html

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Interesting Links for 29-06-2021

Third dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine generates strong immune boost: (tags:vaccine GoodNews pandemic )
The Race to Put Silk in Nearly Everything: (tags:materials silk spiders Goats history manufacturing )
Funding for Additional Support Need pupils falls by £1,000 per child (but doubles overall, as 30% of children now have ASN): (tags:children scotland money )
UK is the poorest nation in northwest Europe, per person: (tags:UK epicfail Europe gdp economy )
AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines can be safely mixed to generate high Covid protection: (tags:Pandemic vaccine GoodNews )
The Cambridge autonomous bus is... not impressive: (tags:automation driving transport bus )
Amazon is using (rubbish) algorithms with little human intervention to fire Flex workers: (tags:Amazon automation business HumanResources OhForFucksSake )
Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines Likely to Produce Lasting Immunity: (tags:vaccine GoodNews )
China's CoronaVac jab safe and effective in children as young as three: (tags:children vaccine GoodNews pandemic China )
Mexico's Supreme Court has decriminalised the private use of cannabis by adults: (tags:marijuana Mexico law GoodNews )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4045085.html

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Interesting Links for 03-06-2021

I recommend you do not do this to your penis: (tags:penis injury wtf )
Guess how many objects are in Low Earth Orbit - then click on this link.: (tags:space visualisation viaSwampers )
Trans *and* not skinny? The NHS wants you to fuck off and pay for surgery yourself.: (tags:nhs transgender OhForFucksSake )
NFL pledges to stop assuming that black people are less intelligent: (tags:racism football USA WTF )
"I painstakingly built my own analog drum machine": (tags:drums music technology )
Covid precautions may have killed off one strain of Flu: (tags:pandemic flu viaDanielDWilliam )
"Xbox Co-pilot mode changed my disabled sister's life": (tags:xbox disability amazing games consoles )
The Loaf Guardians: Parsing the Early History of the Anglo-Saxons: (tags:UK history )
Scotland's largest council pension fund backs climate change move: (tags:globalwarming pensions scotland glasgow )
Amazon Won't Test Job Seekers For Marijuana Use, Backs Legalisation: (tags:marijuana amazon legalisation )
Mass scale manipulation of Twitter Trends discovered: (tags:twitter fraud )