Interesting Links for 12-02-2025

Feb. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 02-05-2024

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Interesting Links for 30-01-2024

Jan. 30th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. Dark Souls - Walking through memories (a video I bumped into, and want to be able to find again later)
(tags:games video memory )
2. The Illusionist: The Mind-Bending Installations of Artist Felice Varini
(tags:art optical_illusion )
3. Functional 16-bit CPU built and runs in Excel, 3Hz processor includes 128KB of RAM, 16-color display, and a custom assembly language | Tom's Hardware
(tags:excel computer impressive viaSwampers )
4. The Northern Irish government is fascinating and dysfunctional - the report here on how to reform it is very interesting (pages 33-42)
(tags:NorthernIreland politics government )
5. A fascinating and intriguing look behind the scenes of the audio version of Sandman
(tags:sandman audio neilgaiman )
6. A simple, cheap drug could prevent STIs. So why isn't the NHS providing it?
(tags:medicine sex infection disease NHS OhForFucksSake )
7. 'Tidal wave' of sex abuse in music industry, MPs told
(tags:abuse women UK music OhForFucksSake )
8. Patients say keto helps with their mental illness. Science is racing to understand why
(tags:diet health mentalhealth )
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Interesting Links for 14-09-2023

Sep. 14th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. London hospital becomes first in the UK to perform 10,000 operations using a robot
(tags:robots surgery uk london )
2. Human memories are unreliable because of our tendency for complete storylines
(tags:stories psychology memory )
3. Theresa May is telling a fairytale about her Brexit deal. This is the truth
(tags:uk europe lies Conservatives )
4. UK government will not block Scots drug room pilot
(tags:Scotland drugs GoodNews UK )
5. Unfortunate Starlink 2 Hour Outage Last Night Just As Ukraine Attacked Sevastapol
(tags:Ukraine Russia space ElonMusk OhForFucksSake )
6. ScotRail peak fares to be scrapped as ministers try to push return to trains
(tags:Scotland trains money )
7. There are a *lot* of underwater cables
(tags:Ocean internet maps viaDanielDWilliam )
8. Alan Moore's 1986 opinions on superhero (and hero) discourse, and how ahead of the time they were.
(tags:superheroes alanmoore society history batman )
9. Scotland's population grew to record high (driven by migration)
(tags:scotland population )
10. Edinburgh Filmhouse: Lease deal agreed to save cinema
(tags:scotland edinburgh movies cinema )
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Interesting Links for 08-04-2023

Apr. 8th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. Cat jumps on imam leading Ramadan prayers in Algeria
(tags:cats religion video music prayer islam viacmcmck )
2. Human memory is hugely unreliable - within seconds
(tags:memory epicfail humans psychology )
3. Extra pregnancy scan could slash number of breech births and risk to babies
(tags:pregnancy healthcare )
4. Suella Braverman and several other Conservatives to address a radical right-wing conference tied to Christian Nationalism and the US radical right.
(tags:religion racism fascism UK conservatives USA OhForFucksSake )
5. Why do refugees come to the UK
(tags:refugee UK video migration )
6. The longest straight line in Great Britain (without crossing a public road)
(tags:maps uk roads )
7. Costa Rica regrew its lost forest. Can the world learn from it?
(tags:SouthAmerica forests GoodNews )
8. Asking the EHRC about sex
(tags:rights UK bigotry OhForFucksSake transgender LGBT )
9. LGBT+ Lib Dems are very angry at the EHRC
(tags:LGBT transgender rights bigotry UK libdem )
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Interesting Links for 25-03-2023

Mar. 25th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. "Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong"
(tags:food italy history )
2. Utah demands parental permission for social media site usage - hands over childrens' private messages to parents.
(tags:children socialmedia usa privacy OhForFucksSake )
3. Russia is discovering that its friendship with China has limits
(tags:china russia trade diplomacy )
4. 50% of men and 20% of women think they could land a plane in an emergency. They are almost certainly wrong
(tags:airplanes confidence belief psychology )
5. Wyoming's abortion ban is blocked by a judge for the most hilarious reason
(tags:abortion obama USA law )
6. GPT-4 is great with coding problems it's seen before, terrible with novel ones
(tags:programming ai memory )
7. Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue
(tags:Florida OhForFucksSake art nudity )
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Interesting Links for 23-03-2023

Mar. 23rd, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. Here's the full analysis of newly uncovered genetic data on COVID's origins
(tags:pandemic virus animals genetics china )
2. How fast does spring travel? About 2mph
(tags:time uk weather viaSwampers )
3. GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question
(tags:ai memory exams )
4. Fungus! Attacks! America!
(tags:fungus usa doom )
5. One of history's most famous psychological experiments was probably fake (Sending well people into psychiatric hospitals)
(tags:psychology research history fraud OhForFucksSake )
6. Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic
(tags:computers history windows programming microsoft billgates )
7. Ethical AI art generation? Adobe Firefly may be the answer
(tags:ethics ai art )
8. Comparing the cost of living in the UK and Germany
(tags:UK Germany austerity society Doom )
9. Life hacks from the 90s
(tags:history advice funny )
10. Scientists can now separate sperm based on whether they carry X or Y chromosomes with 80% accuracy
(tags:gender children sperm )
11. Female Afghan judge living in fear of Taliban denied sanctuary in Britain
(tags:UK Afghanistan asylum OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 26-01-2023

Jan. 26th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. Justin Roiland: Rick and Morty creator and star dropped by Adult Swim (over assault charges)
(tags:USA assault tv )
2. Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots (what happens when you train an AI on all the text a person leaves behind)
(tags:ai writing communication death memory viaPatrickHadfield )
3. A lovely remembrance of a dying friend, and the last things he wanted to do.
(tags:archaeology death viaDanielDWilliam )
4. Edinburgh's iconic Granton gas holder to be transformed into new city park
(tags:Edinburgh gas park )
5. Clearly the best console gaming setup ever
(tags:gaming consoles video impressive )
6. Facebook follows Twitter in un-banning Donald Trump ahead of 2024 presidential bid, Nick Clegg confirms
(tags:Facebook politics USA )
7. What time is it on the moon?
(tags:time moon physics )
8. Christian decline UK: How it's measured and what it means
(tags:religion uk census demographics )
9. The UK's Biggest Cooking Myths
(tags:uk cooking myths )
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Interesting Links for 16-01-2023

Jan. 16th, 2023 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 02-11-2022

Nov. 2nd, 2022 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 14-06-2022

Jun. 14th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. What things tend to lead to happiness?
(tags:happiness psychology )
2. 1 in 5 US adults have Long Covid
(tags:pandemic health usa )
3. Why can't we remember being born or our first words?
(tags:language memory babies children )
4. Majority Of Northern Ireland Politicians Reject UK's Protocol Plan "In Strongest Possible Terms"
(tags:UK NorthernIreland trade Europe politics )
5. Whole bunch of homophobia in the adoption system
(tags:LGBT adoption children UK OhForFucksSake gay )
6. Europe's Plan to Quit Russian Fuel Plunges Pakistan Into Darkness
(tags:Europe Russia fuel oil Doom Pakistan Ukraine war viaDanielDWilliam )
7. Healthy human brains are hotter than previously thought, exceeding 40C in the core
(tags:brain temperature )
8. Europe is prepping for a trade war with the UK that no-one wants
(tags:europe uk trade doom NorthernIreland )
9. Neil Patrick Harris Boards Doctor Who
(tags:drwho )
10. BA.4, BA.5 rise in Europe; officials sound alarm of COVID-19 surge to come
(tags:pandemic doom )
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Interesting Links for 07-04-2022

Apr. 7th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. What leads people to believe they have been abducted by aliens?
(tags:aliens sleep psychology memory )
2. New part of the body found in the lungs
(tags:bodies humans air viaNancyLebov )
3. Boris Johnson's new nuclear plants expected to raise energy bills by over £80 a year - not be ready in time for anything useful
(tags:nuclearpower OhForFucksSake BorisJohnson electricity UK )
4. You all know about the millions of people in the Congo that Belgium killed and maimed to steal their resources, right?
(tags:Belgium Congo empire murder )
5. New 1,350 home village to be built in West Edinburgh
(tags:Edinburgh housing )
6. Five Swift Answers to The Problem of Baby-Eating Authors
(tags:satire behaviour authors writing jkrowling )
7. Fluoride in water in Scotland would save NHS a fortune
(tags:water teeth Scotland )
8. A new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.
(tags:ai art )
9. UK government: "No need for government Child Poverty Unit because we abolished child poverty targets"
(tags:UK poverty children conservatives OhForFucksSake )
10. Black households three times more likely to be food insecure than the national average
(tags:race poverty food uk )
11. The fashion capital of the prehistoric world has been revealed
(tags:art craft fashion prehistory Spain archeology )
12. Germany boosts renewables with biggest energy policy reform in decades
(tags:electricity Germany renewables )
13. Long Covid cases in UK reach 1.7 million in record high. ⅓ of whom have had it for a year
(tags:Pandemic health Doom )
14. Dunbar's number, optimal group sizes, and how speaking is 2.8x better than picking fleas
(tags:psychology groups communication business organisation friendship )
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Interesting Links for 16-03-2022

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Interesting Links for 09-01-2022

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Interesting Links for 08-01-2022

Jan. 8th, 2022 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 11-12-2021

Dec. 11th, 2021 12:00 pm
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"10 years late, I have fallen in love with Dark Souls, and you can too"
(tags:games )
Brutal review of Michelin-starred restaurant Bros' goes viral
(tags:restaurant review funny )
New Zealand unanimously passes gender self-ID law in trans rights win
(tags:LGBT transgender newzealand )
Which early hominid are you? (I got homo sapiens sapiens, which delighted me)
(tags:neanderthal prehistory quiz ViaDrCross )
The TikTok Couch Guy on what it's like to be investigated on the internet.
(tags:privacy internet socialmedia OhForFucksSake )
"The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience" makes it clear how impressive modern games can look
(tags:games graphics matrix )
Computers revolutionized chess - Magnus Carlsen wins by being human
(tags:chess games AI humans )
What it's like when your brain starts working properly for the first time
(tags:adhd brain )
How do you do on the digit span memory test? (I top out at 8, and seem to use auditory memory to hold them)
(tags:memory numbers )
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Interesting Links for 13-11-2021

Nov. 13th, 2021 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 01-08-2021

Aug. 1st, 2021 12:00 pm
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FactCheck: What's behind the UK vaccination slowdown?
(tags:UK vaccination )
China is building nuclear weapons. Here's why.

(tags:nuclearweapons China )
Electric cars have much lower life cycle emissions
(tags:co2 cars manufacturing )
How transphobes read Pratchett as being on their side
(tags:LGBT transgender terrypratchett )
Google encouraged employees who experienced harassment/assault to use their mental health benefits, then pressured counselors to provide records of their sessions to use in court when those employees filed lawsuits
(tags:Google assault harassment OhForFucksSake )
Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. Some were actively unhelpful
(tags:ai pandemic epicfail )
IOC admits guidelines for transgender athletes are not fit for purpose
(tags:LGBT transgender olympics )
Amanda Knox: Who Owns My Name?
(tags:murder corruption lies media TV movies OhForFucksSake )
The Winged Labrys - a pin designed for inclusive sapphic people
(tags:LGBT transgender lesbian design )
Tory chairman Ben Elliot sold access to his uncle Prince Charles
(tags:conservatives royalty money corruption UK )
10 iconic logos. 156 Americans. 80 hours of drawing from memory.
(tags:marketing design memory viaElfy )
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Interesting Links for 13-06-2021

Jun. 13th, 2021 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 19-04-2021

Apr. 19th, 2021 12:00 pm
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Nil-by-mouth foodie: The chef who will never eat again
(tags:food cooking illness healthcare fail )
When my friends have supported me in getting out of a terrible relationship and then...
(tags:funny video sheep decisions fail )
Is Scotland heading for Catalonia-style meltdown?
(tags:Scotland independence uk )
How Cashless Restaurants Reinforce Systemic Racism
(tags:inequality cash technology )
Elmo and Robin Williams (blooper reel) - made me giggle a lot
(tags:SesameStreet TV funny fail )
An MP with this YouTube viewing list is a bit disturbing
(tags:belief aliens YouTube government )
US police kill twice as many people as die in mass shootings
(tags:USA police murder )
Mice Fed Fast Food Get More Anxious, Worse Memory
(tags:memory anxiety food )
The looming software kill-switch lurking in aging PlayStation hardware
(tags:sony games time )
This is what Doom looks like on a holographic display.
(tags:Holograms doom video )
United Nations experts says race report "repackages racist tropes and stereotypes into fact"
(tags:racism uk )
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