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Interesting Links for 01-05-2025
May. 1st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Port of Los Angeles sees shipping volume down 35% next week as tariffs bite
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- 2. Council Tax is broken - It's time to fix it
- (tags:politics tax uk )
- 3. A Criminal, Social, And Linguistic Rollercoaster (and a historical mugging in Glasgow)
- (tags:Scotland language crime funny Glasgow )
- 4. Solar panels on (nearly) all new UK homes by 2027 under new Labour plan
- (tags:solarpower housing GoodNews labour )
- 5. US judge rules Apple violated order to reform App Store
- (tags:apple law usa )
- 6. Ukraine agrees crucial minerals and economic investment deal with US
- (tags:usa ukraine trade mining )
- 7. Brexit led to 1,500 deaths a year as EU nurses left UK
- (tags:uk europe healthcare nhs death OhForFucksSake )
- 8. How Labour strategist Morgan McSweeney used 'any means necessary' to destroy Corbyn as leader and install Starmer.
- (tags:Labour corruption )
- 9. A robot that can fold laundry! (This is actually massive - handling flexible/floppy fabrics is incredibly hard)
- (tags:robots clothing video impressive )
Interesting Links for 10-10-2024
Oct. 10th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The future of mining is giant autonomous electric trucks
- (tags:automation mining australia viaElfy )
- 2. Consultation on the Visitor Levy (tourist tax) for Edinburgh
- (tags:edinburgh tourism tax )
- 3. Ants learned to farm fungi during a mass extinction
- (tags:extinction ants fungus )
- 4. Entirely New Ecosystem Discovered Beneath The Ocean Floor
- (tags:ocean lava life )
- 5. Elon Musk is piling onto all the hurricane disinformation, hampering relief efforts
- (tags:ElonMusk disinformation disaster OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Wealth distribution in the United States
- (tags:usa wealth inequality )
- 7. Cards Against Humanity Is Paying People To Come Out Against Trump
- (tags:games voting usa )
Interesting Links for 09-12-2022
Dec. 9th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh tram line extension to Musselburgh and 12-route Clyde Metro in new transport blueprint
- (tags:Scotland Edinburgh Glasgow transport trams )
- 2. UK coal mine approval: Is this the worst ever climate policy decision?
- (tags:UK globalwarming coal OhForFucksSake mining )
- 3. US campaign group sues Smithsonian over return of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
- (tags:Nigeria museums slavery usa theft history viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. UK debt advisors are being worked so hard they can't actually help anyone
- (tags:UK debt OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 29-10-2022
Oct. 29th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Mondrian hung upside-down for over 75 years
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- 2. Accounts reveal six years of 'major risk' concerns over Filmhouse and Edinburgh International Film Festival
- (tags:film festival edinburgh cinema epicfail )
- 3. How "Seal Rocks" charted the fall of the Baltic Sea
- (tags:sea science history viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. Sturgeon to attend Cop27 as Sunak focuses on 'depressing domestic challenges'
- (tags:UK politics globalwarming Scotland )
- 5. The environmental case for buying a coal mine
- (tags:mining environment viaDanielDWilliam )
- 6. Welcome to hell, Elon
- (tags:Twitter Doom epicfail ElonMusk viaPatrickHadfield )
- 7. If you were thinking of transferring from Bulb to Octopus then congrats, you don't need to any more!
- (tags:electricity UK business )
- 8. Elon Musk has put himself in an impossible situation at a critical time
- (tags:Twitter ElonMusk Doom Russia China propaganda )
- 9. Russia's elite begins to ponder a Putinless future
- (tags:Russia )
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Interesting Links for 05-04-2022
Apr. 5th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Russian state-owned media reveal their horrific plans for Ukraine
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- 2. The EHRC are producing transphobic guidance that is explicitly against what the law states
- (tags:LGBT transgender UK bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Seen from space, the world's longest conveyor belt is in Morocco (carrying phosphorus over 100km)
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- 4. I assume it's deliberate that the old-school music here is vastly more varied and interesting than the modern ones?
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- 5. Sisyphus: turtle edition
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- 6. Over 80 LGBT and HIV organizations pull out of UK government's LGBT conference over transphobia and conversion therapy
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- 7. Backyard approaching lighting at Adelaide Airport
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- 8. How did the Victorians Become a Reference Point for Joyless Prudery?
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- 9. Government's former ethics chief supplied karaoke machine for Downing Street party
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- 10. Europe's Biggest Lithium Mine Is Caught in a Political Maelstrom
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- 11. New Amazon Worker Chat App Would Ban Words Like "Union", "Plantation", and..."Restroom"
- (tags:Amazon work OhForFucksSake unions viaPatrickHadfield )
- 12. New picture shows highest resolution ever
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- 13. How Elden Ring Succeeds by Ignoring 20 Years of Open-World Design
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- 14. People in non-industrial societies spend a lot of time doing nothing
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Interesting Links for 28-02-2022
Feb. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm- Russians troops are disoriented, hungry, and don't understand why they're invading
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- EU Plans To Send Weapons To Ukraine After Putin Escalates Nuclear Threat
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- How Ikea gets you to buy more stuff
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- The salt-mining elephants of Africa
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- I would not have believed the levels of Russian incompetence if you'd told me last week
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- Words known better by men women, and vice versa
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- How Putin made the EU great again
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- Sid Meier warns the games industry about monetisation (30th anniversary of Civilization interview)
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- I love the Childline "Nobody is normal" video
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- UK pledge to take Ukrainian refugees with family in Britain excludes brothers, sisters, adult children and parents
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- Tumblr will now let you be the customer, rather than advertisers being the customer. I am *delighted* and wish Facebook/Twitter would do likewise
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- What do parents' houses really look like?
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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
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- Football linked to 2,000 Scottish Covid cases
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- 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!)
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- How Twitter can ruin a life: Isabel Fall's complicated story (she wrote the sci-fi story "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter"
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- What mRNA is Good For, And What It Maybe Isn't
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- Amazon allows people to hijack your reviews and product listings.
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- Methodist Church allows same-sex marriage
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- 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 03-10-2020
Oct. 3rd, 2020 12:00 pm- Why Australia's offshore asylum processing was so awful
- (tags:asylum australia OhForFucksSake )
- Users of the Covid trace app on iOS in Scotland (and Northern Ireland) can get confusing notifications. This explains which ones to ignore.
- (tags:pandemic iPhone apps OhForFucksSake )
- First new deep coalmine in UK for 30 years gets go ahead
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- Inside the World's Most Popular Vibrator
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Interesting Links for 22-08-2020
Aug. 22nd, 2020 12:00 pm- Anyone like medieval churches in the middle of nowhere?
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- Upside down bats look like a Goth club.
- (tags:goth bats video )
- 2020: an isolation odyssey (delightful remake of the final scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey)
- (tags:2001 movies video StanleyKubrick )
- Journey's end: last of England's open-cast coal mines begins final push
- (tags:coal mining UK )
- Pop-up gaming terrain. Why did nobody think of this before?
- (tags:gaming design video viaCavalorn )
- James Blunt Developed Scurvy After Adopting an All-Meat Diet To Assert His Masculinity
- This was, to be fair, a while ago.
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Interesting Links for 04-07-2019
Jul. 5th, 2019 09:26 am- The Withdrawal Act 2018 locks in the definition of 'hard border'. I can foresee a fight over this.
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- "The time I tried to ruin Halo 2"
- (tags:games ux design research opinion )
- What makes a good voting system?
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- With obese patients, too often doctors can't see past weight
- (tags:weight society viaFJM healthcare )
- US diplomats telling people that the president's view isn't official policy
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- Android Engineers take you on a deep dive of Android Q
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- Ever noticed that girls can like boy things, but boys aren't allowed to like girl things?
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- Ocean floor five times bigger than UK set to be industrially mined
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- 30,000 followers makes you an Internet "celebrity," says UK ad regulator
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- Conservative Party members being investigated for Islamophobia can vote for the next prime minister
- (tags:conservatives Islam bigotry )
- Five reasons why Cancer Research UK's obesity campaign is flawed
- (tags:obesity cancer UK society viaFJM )
- Brexit Party lodges official complaint after all EU commission jobs given to Europe-loving foreigners
- (tags:UK Europe satire funny )
- The problems with a bridge from Northern Ireland to Scotland
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- What is the female stress response and why is it interesting?
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Interesting Links for 31-12-2018
Dec. 31st, 2018 11:00 am- Why Microsoft Windows filesystem access is much slower than Unix.
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- Why you are all wrong about Susan Pevensie from The Chronicles of Narnia.
- (tags: Narnia women religion )
- Trump issues executive order cancelling 2% federal workers' pay raise
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- Mining company says first autonomous freight train network is fully operational
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- Asking God about the fundamental forces of the universe
- (tags: physics religion comic )
- No-deal Brexit ferry company owns no ships and has never run Channel service
- (tags: UK europe doom transport )
- ‘For 30 years I’ve been obsessed by why children get leukaemia. Now we have an answer’
- (tags: cancer children inflammation immune_system microbiome )
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Interesting Links for 30-12-2018
Dec. 30th, 2018 11:00 am- A History of Flavoring Food With Beaver Butt Juice
- (tags: food history beavers )
- George R. R. Martin Didn't Work on 'Nightflyers.' It Shows
- (tags: tv GeorgeRRMartin review )
- The particle physics desert
- (tags: physics )
- "Baby, It's Cold Outside" and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism
- (tags: music usa culture Islam terrorism history wtf )
- Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology to produce compensated hypogonadism
- (tags: men pain medication testosterone )
- The CIA cover operation which sparked real life deep sea mining (with possibly appalling environmental results)
- (tags: ocean mining viaDanielDWilliam environment history cia )
- Catholic Church Used Bankruptcy for Sexual-Assault Cases. Now Others Are Following Suit.
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- Indian doctors were carrying out cataract surgery in 600BC
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Interesting Links for 15-05-2018
May. 15th, 2018 12:00 pm- EEA+CU is the least bad version of Brexit. It is however still an extremely poor option.
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- There's A Cheap And Effective Way To Reduce Gun Violence. Why Aren't More States Doing It?
- (tags: guns usa viaAmaebi )
- D&D adventure premises inspired by stupid bear puns
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- Are you a terrorist? Would you like an easy way to get through security without being checked closely?
- (tags: islam security OhForFucksSake )
- Ninja cat runs the gauntlet.
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- Waterstones accused of breaking pledge not to take on independents
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- Do You Know Where Your Healing Crystals Come From?
- (tags: mining children OhForFucksSake )
- Cause of polycystic ovary syndrome discovered at last (in mice)
- (tags: fertility women health testosterone mice viaSwampers )
- Brexit: No significant progress made on any issue in negotiations since March, says EU
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- John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories
- (tags: games Apple history doom stevejobs )
- Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system
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- May’s Brexit meeting to end in ‘long grass’ and ‘fudge’ amid standoff over customs
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- Stop talking about "fighting" cancer
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Interesting Links for 29-03-2018
Mar. 29th, 2018 12:00 pm- Scientist think they found a new human organ—a fluid-filled “shock absorber”
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- Pirahã is the weirdest language
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- AI generated nude portraits are surreal and horrifying
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- Superbug That Killed A Nevada Woman Resisted 26 Antibiotics
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- "London has numbed me to everything and I have lost all sense of wonder"
- I'm very glad to live a long way from London
(tags: London ) - No, I’m not angry with Jeremy Corbyn because I want him to lose
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- Labour will probably vote for Theresa May's final Brexit deal
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- Sean Penn The Novelist Must Be Stopped
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- Corbyn supporters targeting Labour MPs who went to antisemitism protest
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- Man has 'world's worst' super-gonorrhoea
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- In a first, a new UK coal mine is rejected on climate change grounds
- (tags: coal uk globalwarming GoodNews environment mining )
- Calling for a Land Value Tax “to shape society and economy in fair and just way”
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- Fleet of automated electric taxis could deliver environmental and energy benefits
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- Why fanfic is important
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- Cot death risk increased by rare genetic mutation
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- Parental conflict can do lasting damage to children's ability to read emotions
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- Call to restore historic footbridge over Waverley Station roof
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- A good, nuanced, look at sexy costumes on female superheroes. I particularly liked the line about tuxedos
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- Tesla is trying to overautomate their production line
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- Intervention increases in socio-emotional and socio-cognitive abilities in autistic adults
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- Scientists discover promising off-switch for inflammation (in mice)
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- 80% of rubber ducks are infested with bacteria
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- Finally, a use for literature
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Interesting Links for 25-03-2017
Mar. 25th, 2017 12:00 pm- If you want to avoid kids believing in stereotypes avoid generalizing
- (tags: stereotypes children viaLizzieCassMaran )
- The tech turning skyscrapers into adverts
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- Wife of 39 years fails in divorce refusal appeal
- (tags: divorce relationships england law viaDanielDWilliam )
- White Pride Marchers In Edinburgh This Weekend "Can Fuck Off", Says SNP MP
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- World's First Deep-Sea Mining Venture to Launch in 2019
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Interesting Links for 11-02-2016
Feb. 11th, 2016 12:00 pm- Microsoft's Cortana has no time for sexist bullshit
- Someone has proposed a Monument Valley Lego set
- Twitter puts video ads at top of users' timeline feeds
- Common gene variant may lead girls to make healthy or unhealthy food choices -- depending on their early socioeconomic environment
- The "Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year" photos are understandably gorgeous
- 54% of Scots would back independence if the UK leaves the EU
- Here are the breakdowns: https://www.ipsos-mori.com/Assets/Docs/Scotland/scottish-monitor-feb-2016-tables.pdf
- If you win at something, you're more likely to cheat.
- I suspect that this is because "stopping winning" feels like moving backwards, and people feel much worse about it than if they hadn't won in the first place. I suspect this is also the reason why people defend their privileges...
- Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
- A Mammal’s Brain Has Been Cryonically Preserved and Recovered
- Coco bonds: what are they and why have they hit bank shares?
- Bacterial spores may be effective treatment for recurrent C. difficile (And restore microbiome)
- Android app helps Iranians avoid morality police checkpoints
- How the movie Airplane! is like Gilbert and Sullivan
- A movie producer tweets descriptions of women from the scripts he's sent
- Beliefs about all-knowing gods fosters co-operation
- The Problem with Time & Timezones
- The Russian Cosmonaut Who Crashed To Earth 'Crying In Rage'
- Please do read the story linked at the top, which adds corrections from other historians.
- Why you shouldn't believe the government health advice on the dangers of drinking
- Although you also shouldn't believe the person criticizing them either: http://www.tobaccotactics.org/index.php/Christopher_Snowdon
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Interesting Links for 20-11-2015
Nov. 20th, 2015 12:00 pm- Visiting every pub in Dublin (The travelling drunkard problem?)
- Reuters bans submission of RAW photos
- Peter Jackson: 'I didn’t know what the hell I was doing' when I made The Hobbit
- Transgender woman Vicky Thompson found dead at in men's prison
- First photo of planet in making captured
- 'Healthy' foods differ by individual
- The amphetamines fueling Syria’s war
- Scientists now think that being (somewhat) overweight can protect your health
- Maybe, in that case, it isn't actually overweight....
- Can You Teach a Coal Miner to Code?
- Forget paleo, go mid-Victorian: it’s the healthiest diet you’ve never heard of
- The UK government is trying to remove ‘feminism’ from the A Level Politics syllabus
- Facebook tests 'break-up' tools
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Interesting Links for 08-06-2015
Jun. 8th, 2015 12:00 pm- Some Gluten-free products recalled by Asda, Sainsbury's and Waitrose
- A guide to actor who appear in borh Game of Thrones and Doctor Who
- The Independent’s anti-vaccine scaremongering
- The Sad Puppies in Their Own Words
- What's really going on with allergies and cleanliness?
- UK and US main barriers to addressing climate change, survey finds
- e-Book piracy: a moral dilemma
- 'Queen bee syndrome' among women at work is a myth
- Haunting chalkboard drawings, frozen in time for 100 years, discovered in Oklahoma school
- Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World
- When Your Neighbor Is A Responsible Kinky Person...
- They don't know what to make of us at Westminister says new city MP
- Why did men stop wearing high heels?
- MRI study shows meditation literally rebuilds the brain’s grey matter in 8 weeks
- Tony Awards: ‘Fun Home’ Wins Best Musical and ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ Best Play
- I didn't even realise Fun Home had been turned into a musical!
- How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10 (for a darn good reason)
- How the Bee Gees went from the world's biggest band to nowhere in three years (a fascinating slice of pop history)
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Interesting Links for 06-06-2014
Jun. 6th, 2014 12:00 pm- Kinder Surprise smuggling ring: Three women arrested after tunnel filled with chocolate eggs is discovered in Canada
- Exhaustion of cheap mineral resources is terraforming Earth - and may not last much longer
- Lego makes female scientist figures
- Now we have running trams, we get a tram inquiry to go with them!
- Nick Clegg agrees with criticism of his Recall Bill
- World of Darkness - the inside story on the death of a game. (Fucked up by incompetent management, you'll be surprised to hear)
- 21% of people planning to vote Yes have received abuse or death threats. 9% of No voters, likewise.
- Why Santa is Evil and Wrong
- Baby tech: Will new gadgets result in paranoid parents?
