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Interesting Links for 16-12-2024
Dec. 16th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood
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- 2. CNN: Israel closes embassy in Ireland, blaming 'extreme anti-Israel policies'
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- 3. UK online safety regulation comes into force
- (tags:UK safety internet )
- 4. Why you won't see a Tory and Reform alliance
- (tags:conservatives politics UK )
- 5. People who are good at reading have different brains
- (tags:reading brain psychology neuroscience )
- 6. Starmer's Brexit reset risks failure without major concessions, because most EU countries are happy with how things are
- (tags:uk europe doom )
- 7. Ten years and 10,000 weddings: How same-sex marriage changed Scotland
- (tags:lgbt marriage scotland gay )
Interesting Links for 17-07-2024
Jul. 17th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. No, this isn't the wettest British summer ever
- (tags:UK weather )
- 2. Married Men Are Revealing The Hardest Parts Of Marriage
- (tags:men relationships marriage )
- 3. Elon Musk to move SpaceX and X HQ over gender-identity law
- (tags:ElonMusk bigotry transgender children California USA )
- 4. Why Return-to-Office Mandates Aren't Worth the Risks
- (tags:office work jobs )
- 5. Five big problems the government has to fix
- (tags:uk politics problems )
- 6. Fats from thin air: Making butter using CO2 and water
- (tags:food co2 water butter )
Interesting Links for 06-06-2024
Jun. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Scottish judges asked to overturn rape case rule barrier
- (tags:law rape scotland )
- 2. Tokyo government to launch dating app to boost birthrate (requiring you to confirm you want to get married and provide proof of income)
- (tags:Japan marriage relationships children viaSwampers )
- 3. Help challenge the ban on puberty blockers
- (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry law CrowdFunding UK )
- 4. Major cause of inflammatory bowel disease found
- (tags:disease inflammation genetics )
- 5. First human infection caused by avian Influenza A(H5N2) confirmed in Mexico
- (tags:Mexico flu birds doom humans )
- 6. Israel Secretly Targeted American Lawmakers With Gaza War Influence Campaign
- (tags:Israel propaganda socialnetworking USA politics )
- 7. "Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep" - trans edition
- (tags:death poetry transgender LGBT )
- 8. I cannot stand the parodies of Modern Major General
- (tags:music parody funny lyrics )
- 9. Flawed, scandalous trials tank FDA expert support for MDMA therapy
- (tags:research ecstasy regulation )
- 10. Australia wants to become a renewable energy superpower. Can it?
- (tags:australia renewables )
- 11. Russia's is acting provocatively on the Estonian border
- (tags:russia Estonia OhForFucksSake doom )
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Interesting Links for 16-02-2024
Feb. 16th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. All of the parties have shared their proposed budgets for Edinburgh
- (tags:edinburgh politics money )
- 2. UK MPs will be helped to spot conspiracy theories
- (tags:research conspiracy uk politics )
- 3. Neil Gaiman is in disagreement with half of his fans of the genre of Good Omens
- (tags:neilgaiman comedy TV genre funny )
- 4. The 2023 Hugo Fraud and Where We Go From Here
- (tags:Hugo awards scifi fraud )
- 5. What it takes to scam someone out of $50,000
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- 6. Service change from Sunday 24 March - Lothian Buses
- (tags:Edinburgh buses transport )
- 7. Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article
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- 8. Greece legalizes same-sex marriage in a first for an Orthodox Christian nation
- (tags:greece lgbt marriage christianity )
- 9. Solar & Battery Storage to Make Up 81% of New U.S. Electric-Generating Capacity in 2024
- (tags:solarpower GoodNews usa batteries )
- 10. The Fraud of Plastic Recycling (and the companies that have covered it up for 50 years)
- (tags:recycling plastic fraud doom )
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Interesting Links for 21-06-2023
Jun. 21st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Men: Try not being awful when a woman turns you down.
- (tags:relationships men OhForFucksSake gaming )
- 2. EV market share is growing because the vehicles keep getting better
- (tags:electricity cars Technology )
- 3. It's time for the law to recognise polyamorous relationships
- (tags:relationships marriage law polyamory )
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Interesting Links for 04-03-2023
Mar. 4th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Privileges Committee Believes Boris Johnson May Have Misled House On Partygate
- (tags:BorisJohnson lies fraud politics pandemic )
- 2. EU countries postpone vote on combustion engine ban (because Germany wants to be allowed to keep making them)
- (tags:politics europe cars pollution )
- 3. ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, And having it pretend to be one leads us in very difficult directions
- (tags:philosophy morality ai language )
- 4. There's a Good Reason Why So Many Terrorists Are Engineers
- (tags:terrorism engineering )
- 5. "Eat Out To Help Out" caused an increase in Covid cases. Matt Hancock covered it up.
- (tags:Pandemic restaurant OhForFucksSake murder censorship )
- 6. Iowa: Republicans propose ban on same-sex marriage
- (tags:LGBT marriage USA republicans OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Happy Weird Pride Day!
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- 8. Food Timeline: food history research service
- (tags:food history )
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Interesting Links for 21-02-2023
Feb. 21st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Roald Dahl's publisher on updates to his books, October 1973
- (tags:books writing society publishing history )
- 2. Bigoted SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes said she would have voted against gay marriage
- (tags:LGBT marriage snp bigotry politics Scotland )
- 3. Sci-fi magazine Clarkesworld just closed to submissions because of AI-generated spam. Here's a post written last week about the scale of the situation
- (tags:ai scifi OhForFucksSake publishing spam )
- 4. Long-term bed rest study reveals profound dangers of inactivity on blood sugar levels
- (tags:exercise sugar blood biology )
Interesting Links for 21-01-2023
Jan. 21st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. How is life in the UK? (Top 1% have grabbed nearly â…” of all growth in the last 2 years)
- (tags:UK Doom OhForFucksSake economy )
- 2. AI is being used by students to produce essays and projects - how should the education system respond?
- (tags:education ai )
- 3. Total whiteout on Ben Macdui - what it's like climbing Scotland's second-highest mountain in snowy weather
- (tags:snow winter mountains Scotland video )
- 4. Church of England refuses to back marriage equality, declares that marriage is between "one man and one woman for life" (despite their Supreme Governor being divorced)
- (tags:marriage religion ChurchOfEngland LGBT OhForFucksSake uk )
- 5. How ironic are Ricky Gervais' views on transgender people?
- (tags:comedy RickyGervais transgender bigotry LGBT )
- 6. Driverless bus takes passengers across Forth Road Bridge in UK first
- (tags:Edinburgh automation driving buses transport Scotland )
- 7. The pianist with the bionic hands
- (tags:cyborg piano music history )
- 8. Could Ultrasound Replace the Stethoscope?
- (tags:ultrasound healthcare technology )
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Interesting Links for 14-12-2022
Dec. 14th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. New Zealand bans young people from buying cigarettes for life
- (tags:newzealand cigarettes )
- 2. Why nuclear fusion always seems to be "just around the corner"
- (tags:nuclearpower fusion money )
- 3. EU to levy carbon tax on imports (to match the existing internal one)
- (tags:co2 tax Europe GoodNews )
- 4. Scottish government wins legal case over definition of woman
- (tags:scotland gender lgbt transgender GoodNews )
- 5. Scottish Independence ahead for fourth poll in a row with 51 per cent support
- (tags:scotland independence polls )
- 6. Apple preparing for third-party app stores by 2024
- (tags:Apple apps regulation Europe GoodNews )
- 7. Biden signs Respect for Marriage Act, repealing 1996 anti-LGBT+ law
- (tags:marriage LGBT USA law politics )
- 8. Lots of cool computer/simulation toys. Some very neat stuff.
- (tags:Technology toys simulation )
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Interesting Links for 17-11-2022
Nov. 17th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Automatic braking can cut crashes over 40%
- (tags:cars driving safety speed automation )
- 2. Undetectable very-low frequency sound increases dancing at a live concert
- (tags:music sound dancing psychology )
- 3. I *really* don't want to work at Twitter
- (tags:Twitter jobs ElonMusk viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. Vaccine denial probably didn't play a role in Republican midterm losses
- (tags:politics vaccination death usa )
- 5. Bill to protect equal marriage clears hurdle in US Senate with support from a dozen Republicans
- (tags:USA marriage LGBT GoodNews )
- 6. Pubs refuse to show World Cup matches in protest over Qatar LGBTQ rights record
- (tags:LGBT football protest pubs UK Qatar bigotry )
- 7. The Stereotype of the Woke Teen Is 'Tárring' Art
- (tags:society TV writing )
- 8. Creating huasi ruyi filigree jewellery the old fashioned way
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- 9. Over 1,000 songs with human-mimicking AI vocals have been released by Tencent Music in China. One of them has 100m streams. (Sadly, I can't track any of them down.)
- (tags:music ai china viaPatrickHadfield )
- 10. Appreciating the history of chainmail armour
- (tags:armour rome history viaDanielDWilliam )
- 11. 'Florida man makes announcement': Murdoch twists the knife on Trump with New York Post frontpage
- (tags:RupertMurdoch politics journalism usa )
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Interesting Links for 20-09-2022
Sep. 20th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Married men earn a lot more than single men or women (married or unmarried)
- (tags:marriage men women inequality gender )
- 2. The high-speed railway that's uncoupling the Baltic states from Russia and their Soviet past
- (tags:Russia Europe transport trains )
- 3. An Estonian politician on Russia and Ukraine
- (tags:Russia Ukraine Estonia war politics )
- 4. How racists suck all the fun out of The Rings Of Power and The Little Mermaid
- (tags:racism tv movies Disney lotr )
- 5. How having kids changes your brain
- (tags:brain children )
Interesting Links Catchup from 18-08-2022
Aug. 19th, 2022 09:09 am- 1. Judge who approved Trump search warrant attacked for synagogue involvement
- (tags:law USA Jews politics OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Not mature enough to have an abortion? Then you'll have to have a baby instead!
- (tags:abortion usa OhForFucksSake children )
- 3. What if Rob Liefeld had drawn Watchmen?
- (tags:comics history art funny )
- 4. These Are Not Photos: Beautiful Landscapes Created by New AI
- (tags:photos ai mountains nature )
- 5. Single Moms: Less Housework, More Leisure Than Married Moms
- (tags:housework gender parenting work marriage relationships OhForFucksSake )
- 6. The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas
- (tags:USA wtf )
- 7. When it takes doctors 6 days to recognise your stroke (and multiple hospital visits)
- (tags:stroke brain healthcare )
- 8. Edinburgh bin strike: Here's what to do with your waste while workers are on strike
- (tags:Edinburgh waste unions strike )
- 9. The "Wednesday Addams" trailer looks great
- (tags:trailer TV Goth )
- 10. Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars
- (tags:cars ui efficiency safety design )
- 11. Black and Asian people are more likely to have been handed Covid fines
- (tags:racism uk pandemic )
- 12. Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers
- (tags:computers music history )
- 13. Babies don't belong at comedy shows, which is why we set one up for new parents and their screaming kids
- (tags:babies comedy )
- 14. Accumulation of glutamate in brain is why thinking hard is tiring
- (tags:thinking brain )
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Interesting Links for 16-08-2022
Aug. 16th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Under Marxism, which will be the correct way to eat?
- (tags:food cooking communism funny restaurant )
- 2. New Omicron jab to be rolled out within weeks after UK becomes first country to approve it
- (tags:UK Pandemic vaccine )
- 3. On The Society Of Authors and transphobia
- (tags:LGBT authors UK transgender )
- 4. Estonian government will remove Soviet Union war monuments
- (tags:Russia war statue Estonia )
- 5. Home solar panels will now pay for themselves in just four years as energy bills soar
- (tags:solarpower electricity money )
- 6. The majority of babies born in the UK have unmarried parents
- (tags:marriage babies uk )
- 7. Saving Lake Windermere
- (tags:UK water Doom )
Interesting Links for 24-05-2022
May. 24th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. UBI can be Achievable and Affordable
- (tags:GuaranteedIncome libdem )
- 2. Church of Scotland approves same-sex religious service marriages
- (tags:religion scotland lgbt marriage )
- 3. "They told us to tell you hello" (a short story about one of humanity's impulses)
- (tags:robots short_story humans )
- 4. Running proofs of God in reverse
- (tags:religion logic philosophy funny comic )
- 5. Pakistan hits 120°F (49°C) as climate trends drive spring heatwave
- (tags:globalwarming pakistan doom )
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Interesting Links for 28-01-2022
Jan. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm- You know Britain's current gas shortage that's pushing up prices dramatically? Turns out we've been exporting huge amounts overseas during that.
- (tags:trade gas UK economics )
- The world invested $755Bn last year on energy transition
- (tags:electricity environment investment viaDanielDWilliam )
- Why Can't You Reverse A String Containing a Flag Emoji?
- (tags:letter flags computers unicode )
- Humanist marriage: MPs call for legal recognition of ceremonies
- (tags:UK marriage law religion )
- The apocalyptic mindset that explains a lot about American right wing Christian thinking
- (tags:USA religion apocalypse christianity )
- Scotland's work from home guidance to be relaxed next week
- (tags:Scotland Pandemic work )
- Met Police seeks limits to Sue Gray No 10 parties report
- (tags:police party pandemic BorisJohnson Conservatives )
- Highway Code: 'Dutch reach' rule change to Highway Code comes in to force
- (tags:bicycles cars uk )
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Interesting Links for 27-10-2021
Oct. 27th, 2021 12:16 pm- On dealing with corruption on the Chicago police
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- European energy crisis proves the lie of 'stable' fossil fuels
- (tags:electricity fossils viaDanielDWilliam renewables )
- Under GDPR you *must* be allowed to spell your name correctly. Even if your bank doesn't support accents on characters
- (tags:spelling dataprotection computers )
- Europe's next rule of law problem: Angela Merkel
- (tags:Europe Poland Germany Hungary OhForFucksSake fascism )
- Making a greenscreen dress - because why have one fabric color when you can have ANY fabric color
- (tags:technology clothing video )
- Jobs that Marry Together the Most
- (tags:jobs marriage )
- The 'Dune' Screenplay Was Written in an MS-DOS app
- (tags:writing history scifi movies )
- Please sign this open letter to the BBC regarding a transphobic article published by Catherine Lowbridge
- (tags:LGBT transgender BBC bigotry )
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Interesting Links for 01-07-2021
Jul. 1st, 2021 12:00 pm- 7-8% of children who get Covid still have symptoms three months later
- (tags:pandemic children Doom )
- Football linked to 2,000 Scottish Covid cases
- (tags:football pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- Deep sea mining could start in two years, triggering terrible loss of biodiversity
- (tags:ocean mining viaDanielDWilliam )
- Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021: Shortlist revealed (and it's gorgeous!)
- (tags:photos space viacmcmck )
- How Twitter can ruin a life: Isabel Fall's complicated story (she wrote the sci-fi story "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter"
- (tags:twitter society transgender lgbt scifi )
- What mRNA is Good For, And What It Maybe Isn't
- (tags:genetics immune_system vaccine )
- Amazon allows people to hijack your reviews and product listings.
- (tags:Amazon fraud OhForFucksSake )
- Methodist Church allows same-sex marriage
- (tags:UK religion marriage Christianity )
- Why doesn't *my* bus stop have a life size Totoro at it?
- (tags:buses Japan ghibli viaSwampers )
- Nissan announces major UK electric car expansion
- (tags:UK Japan electricity cars manufacturing Europe )
- Wet Bulb Temperature - what is it, and how is it making parts of the planet uninhabitable?
- (tags:globalwarming doom )
- Ever wondered what Australian Sign Language for "startled naked by a deer" was? (SFW link)
- (tags:nudity video sign viaLilysea )
- Triggering Password-Recovery Questions
- (tags:funny passwords trauma viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 30-06-2021
Jun. 30th, 2021 12:00 pm- Google is still not the all-knowing, almighty search engine as 15 percent of queries are 'never seen before' by tech giant
- I want to know what they're for!
(tags:Google viaSwampers ) - Good Omens season 2 is coming (co-written with John Finnemore!)
- (tags:tv neilgaiman terrypratchett scifi viaMyBrotherHugh )
- IKEA Loveseats Inspired By Pride Flags
- (tags:LGBT IKEA furniture )
- Northern Ireland voters evenly split over post-Brexit protocol
- (tags:NorthernIreland UK Europe polls trade )
- Windows 11 will leave millions of PCs behind
- (tags:Windows Microsoft security obsolescence )
- Civil partnerships in Scotland extended to mixed-sex couples
- (tags:marriage Scotland )
- Civil partnership may not be recognised abroad
- (tags:UK marriage law international )
- The dynamics of oil droplets are beautiful and fascinating
- (tags:oil patterns video )
- Troll Bridge (The only TV/movie of Pratchett that has ever felt like the books to me)
- (tags:terrypratchett video troll fantasy )
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Interesting Links for 12-06-2021
Jun. 12th, 2021 12:00 pm- Sperm DNA methylation epimutation biomarker for paternal offspring autism susceptibility
- (tags:autism epigenetics genetics )
- The Connecticut deli that won't let you discuss mathematics in the line
- (tags:mathematics food sign viaNancyLebov )
- Sea eagles at Loch Lomond for first time in 100 years
- (tags:eagle nature scotland )
- Human chromosomes are much heavier than they should be and nobody knows why
- (tags:genetics )
- Government backs call to raise legal age of marriage in England and Wales to 18
- (tags:marriage age children UK )
- Young people are deserting Labour for the Greens
- (tags:GreenParty labour politics uk )
- 'Nothing is negotiable': France threatens to veto any changes to Brexit deal
- (tags:France UK Europe Doom )
- Reflections on an Irish Wake
- (tags:death Ireland emotion video viaSwampers )
- Keep out or be fined: Edinburgh city centre ban on older vehicles
- (tags:transport cars pollution Edinburgh Scotland )
