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1. Work to begin immediately on £55m music centre vision for Edinburgh landmark (the old Royal High School on Calton Hill)
(tags:music school edinburgh )
2. Gary Lineker row: All the people employed or used in BBC programming who are outspoken on social media
(tags:bbc twitter socialnetworking )
3. The care worker recruitment crisis is even bigger than the NHS
(tags:jobs Doom care )
4. Why did 250,000 Britons die sooner than expected? (Austerity)
(tags:uk austerity death )
5. Silicon Valley Bank seem to have managed risk unusually badly
(tags:risk banking Technology epicfail )
6. Nabokov was not a fan of many people's interpretation of Lolita
(tags:abuse children rape writing )
7. Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Thing'
(tags:scifi funny music musicals )
8. The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man
(tags:Conservatives politics mistakes )
9. Trams! Invade Leith!
(tags:Edinburgh trams video transport )
10. What's Going On With Red Dwarf?
(tags:RedDwarf TV scifi )
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1. 2,500 pieces, measuring 30 metres and weighing 25 tonnes - This medieval sessel is world's largest 3D puzzle
(tags:history ship )
2. 7 steps to victory in Ukraine
(tags:ukraine russia war )
3. How the "smeariness" of CRT TVs made pixel art look so much better
(tags:Technology games video tv displays )
4. Brainfarts, a collection
(tags:brain language oops funny mistakes )
5. Dictionary biz finally infiltrates gaming as Merriam-Webster buys Quordle
(tags:dictionary words games )
6. These vaccine side effects look harrowing
(tags:vaccine funny dancing video )
7. Disfrustrating puzzles
(tags:funny xkcd )
8. Netflix's New Chapter - how did it get here and what does it need to do next?
(tags:streaming TV Netflix business )
9. Pet fish spend cash and expose Nintendo Switch owner's credit card during Pokemon live stream
(tags:Nintendo fish viaPatrickHadfield weird )
10. Why men are more likely to aggressively avoid tax than women
(tags:psychology tax gender )
11. New Scottish fox hunting bill to pass 20 years after ban
(tags:foxes scotland law )
12. Russia's energy blackmail fails as Europe switches to LNG and prices fall to pre-war levels
(tags:russia gas electricity europe economy )
13. Germany is failing Ukraine, leaving Nato allies no choice but to sideline it
(tags:germany ukraine war russia )
14. Chronic UTI patients are waiting up to 12 years for a diagnosis from the NHS
(tags:nhs urination disease uk OhForFucksSake )
15. Edinburgh Jenners fire: Shops and roads still closed after Princes Street fire, including M&S and TK Maxx
(tags:edinburgh fire shops )
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1. Our problems don't end with Boris Johnson, our political system needs an overhaul
(tags:politics uk reform )
2. Today's Robotic Surgery Turns Surgical Trainees Into Spectators - So They Don't Get To Make Mistakes (And Learn How To Recover From Them)
(tags:robots mistakes surgery healthcare )
3. Compared with standard care, a water birth significantly reduced the use of epidurals as well as pain and heavy bleeding after the birth
(tags:water childbirth )
4. Autonomous Drones Could Soon Monitor the UK's Energy Grid
(tags:drone electricity uk )
5. London sitcoms - on Google Maps
(tags:Google maps comedy viaPatrickHadfield )
6. Gender Critical Beliefs - Where the law stands following the decisions in Mackereth and Forstater v CGD
(tags:LGBT transgender law bigotry OhForFucksSake )
7. Undersea cable laid to link Shetland to UK energy grid
(tags:UK electricity Scotland )
8. How Do Dolphins Choose Their Name?
(tags:dolphins names )
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Interesting Links for 01-05-2018

Games no longer where actors careers go to die
(tags: acting games )
Take Your Tupperware To The Supermarket: Morrisons Unveils Plan Cut Plastic Waste
(tags: food recycling plastic environment )
White Male Workers Respond Poorly To Women And Racial Minorities In Power
(tags: business racism sexism )
How far can you travel in an hour in different European capitals
(tags: cities driving transport visualisation )
Parents may help prep kids for healthier, less violent relationships
(tags: relationships parenting )
Curious children do better in school
(tags: children school success )
A History of What We Do in the Dark
(tags: history darkness )
How a typo helped end World War Two...
(tags: wwii history mistakes )
Cancer researchers need phones to process data
(tags: data cancer phones )
Brexit Breach: Labour Data Was Shared With Leave EU And Cambridge Analytica
(tags: labour data europe )
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2018-02-06 12:00 pm
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Four week deadline to use Scottish paper money
(tags: Scotland money paper )
Humans (Like P!nk) Have Nipples And People Are Apparently Traumatised By This
(tags: breasts women bodies OhForFucksSake society )
Men with higher testosterone levels are less into classical music and opera
(tags: music men testosterone )
Smartglasses that project your notifications onto your retina using lasers. I want some so much!
(tags: lasers Technology glasses )
How and Why To Write a Rude Q&A
(tags: advice questions discussion work )
The Problem With Authority Parenting
(tags: parenting children )
Is Brexit the maddest thing England has ever done? Not quite
(tags: UK England France history war )
How to deal with children
(tags: children advice )
The boy who slept next to a bear
(tags: bears )
The true story of Milli Vanilli
(tags: music fraud OhForFucksSake )
When brains go (amusingly) wrong
(tags: funny life brain mistakes )
The UK Wants To Remain In The EU’s Trade Deals During The Transition Phase After Brexit
(tags: UK Europe trade )
Congestion in Edinburgh down by 10% (still rubbish)
(tags: transport edinburgh )
UK built half of Europe's offshore wind power in 2017 (turbines nearly as tall as The Shard!)
(tags: windpower UK GoodNews )
The Forgotten Renewable: Geothermal Energy Production Heats Up
(tags: heat power earth )
Irish Supreme court refuses man's extradition because of Brexit
(tags: Ireland Europe uk rights crime )
Lactation hormone cues birds to be good parents
(tags: birds hormones behaviour parenting )
Why the UK government shouldn't pardon the suffragettes.
(tags: women voting politics government uk history )
No one is making a “Lady Dorito."
(tags: women food OhForFucksSake marketing gender viaSwampers )
In London, Sri Lanka's Defence Attache stood opposite peaceful protesters and repeatedly ran his finger across his throat when looking at them.
(tags: OhForFucksSake protests )
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Interesting Links for 06-10-2016

Failed replication shows literary fiction doesn't boost social cognition
(tags: writing psychology fiction )
Exercise releases hormone that helps shed, prevent fat
(tags: exercise hormones fat weight )
Cannabis users are less aware of their mistakes, and not good at creative thinking
(tags: marijuana drugs creativity mistakes )
Police use-of-force data is finally coming to light
(tags: usa police data violence )
It feels as though we learn better via our preferred learning style, but we don’t
(tags: learning psychology )
Is globalization bad for the global poor? This study ran an experiment to find out.
(tags: globalization research economics )
Big decision ahead? Just roll the dice
(tags: decisions advice )
Squad devs blast Kerbal Space Program studio for high crunch and low pay
(tags: games pay business OhForFucksSake )
The post-truth future is departing ever further from reality
(tags: russia politics lies propaganda usa viaPatrickHadfield )
When the eye of a hurricane goes directly over a weather buoy
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Thailand's "Failed" Drug Policy Is Full Of Lessons For The Philippines
(tags: politics drugs )
The 13 things making me very angry right now
(tags: politics uk )
11 Ideas Philosophers REFUSE To Take Seriously (#8 is my favorite)
(tags: lists funny philosophy satire feminism )
What is the Conservative Party actually for?
(tags: Conservatives politics uk )
RBS, NatWest and SEB banks employ virtual staff
(tags: automation customerservice banking )
'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' worse than expected
(tags: ocean waste )
Pleasant family leisure at home may satisfy families more than fun together elsewhere
(tags: family psychology relationships )
Being kind to others does make you slightly happier
(tags: psychology happiness )
Understanding of norms: Children overeagerly seeking social rules
(tags: society rules children psychology )
Replacing the Sacred, Spherical Cows of Physics
(tags: physics )
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