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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
- (tags:Russia Ukraine genocide )
- 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)
- (tags:mining transport Morocco )
- 4. I assume it's deliberate that the old-school music here is vastly more varied and interesting than the modern ones?
- (tags:music video animation )
- 5. Sisyphus: turtle edition
- (tags:funny turtle video )
- 6. Over 80 LGBT and HIV organizations pull out of UK government's LGBT conference over transphobia and conversion therapy
- (tags:LGBT UK transgender bigotry conservatives )
- 7. Backyard approaching lighting at Adelaide Airport
- (tags:airport airplanes lighting )
- 8. How did the Victorians Become a Reference Point for Joyless Prudery?
- (tags:history society UK sex )
- 9. Government's former ethics chief supplied karaoke machine for Downing Street party
- (tags:ethics conservatives party Pandemic )
- 10. Europe's Biggest Lithium Mine Is Caught in a Political Maelstrom
- (tags:mining batteries Europe politics )
- 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
- (tags:sun photos space )
- 13. How Elden Ring Succeeds by Ignoring 20 Years of Open-World Design
- (tags:design games )
- 14. People in non-industrial societies spend a lot of time doing nothing
- (tags:society time )
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Interesting Links for 23-10-2021
Oct. 23rd, 2021 12:00 pm- Unite policy conference backs new voting system for UK general elections
- (tags:voting reform unions uk )
- If Clouds Are Made of Water, How Do They Stay in the Air?
- (tags:air physics water clouds heat )
- On holiday in sunny, sensible Portugal, I realised England is bad, actually
- (tags:uk portugal pandemic )
- How to plug the UK into desert sunshine
- (tags:Morocco solarpower viaDanielDWilliam UK )
- Pfizer boosters show 95.6% efficacy against Covid, compared to two shots
- (tags:vaccine Pandemic )
- How gun safety is supposed to work on movie sets
- (tags:guns movies safety )
- Resident Evil VR didn't test with any players with boobs
- (tags:breasts games VirtualReality OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 16-02-2019
Feb. 16th, 2019 01:43 pm- "I swallowed the Brexit lies. Now I regret telling curry house workers to vote leave"
- (tags:UK europe fraud restaurant )
- Solar Mini-Grids Give Nigeria a Power Boost
- (tags:nigeria solarpower )
- Should You Listen To Music While Doing Intellectual Work? It Depends On The Music, The Task, And Your Personality
- (tags:personality music concentration boredom psychology )
- How does the original What Women Want hold up two decades later?
- (tags:movies women history )
- How Brexit revealed four new political factions
- (tags:politics europe uk visualisation )
- Solar plant the size of San Francisco powers Morocco's sunlit ambitions
- (tags:solarpower Morocco )
- Porsche asks UK buyers to commit to 10% no-deal Brexit surcharge
- (tags:UK europe trade cars doom )
- School science textbooks make children more racially prejudiced
- (tags:racism children genetics Education )
- Domestication syndrome is *fascinating* (and may apply to humans)
- (tags:behaviour genetics animals humans civilization )
- This is an incredible display of fitness
- (tags:fitness video impressive )
- Synesthete paints what the music looks like
- (tags:music art synaesthesia )
- Mental health problems can be diagnosed using children's teeth
- (tags:teeth children psychology )
- Derry Girls Series 2 Trailer. Yaaaaaay!
- (tags:tv NorthernIreland funny trailer )
- Politics for children works remarkably similarly to politics for adults
- (tags:politics children school uk )
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Interesting Links for 19-09-2018
Sep. 19th, 2018 12:00 pm- BBC Scotland's full response to accusations of anti-independence bias
- (tags: bbc scotland )
- What are Scotland's P1 assessments really like?
- (tags: school testing )
- SpaceX reveals identity of the world's first lunar space tourist
- (tags: tourism moon Spacex space )
- Thinking beyond yourself can make you more open to healthy lifestyle choices
- (tags: health exercise diet psychology )
- A Day in the Life of a Female Incel
- (tags: satire celibacy gender murder sex relationships )
- Germany launches world's first hydrogen-powered train
- (tags: hydrogen trains transport environment )
- Two-thirds of secondaries can’t find maths teachers
- (tags: teaching fail jobs uk mathematics )
- NASA isn’t going to pay for the BFR, so Musk charts a new course
- (tags: Spacex space )
- Twitter will soon let you switch between chronological and ranked feeds
- (tags: Twitter GoodNews )
- The Captain Marvel Trailer looks like a lot of fun
- (tags: comics marvel movies trailer )
- Construction to begin on 36 megawatt Moroccan wind farm for Bitcoin mining
- (tags: electricity Morocco bitcoin solarpower )
- Bicycle Speed Record Broken - Denise Mueller-Korenek Bikes at 183.93 MPH
- (tags: speed bicycles )
- Can attachment theory help explain the relationship some people have with their “anorexia voice”?
- (tags: anorexia eatingdisorders psychology )
- Sugar content of most supermarket yogurts well above recommended threshold: Organic products, perceived as healthier options, among some of the worst offenders
- (tags: sugar food )
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Interesting Links for 20-01-2018
Jan. 20th, 2018 12:00 pm- How accurate is your mental map of the world?
- (tags: maps quiz )
- What ambitions do children have for their future careers?
- (tags: work children society )
- Corbyn being briefed on the situation in Syria by Assad apologist and conspiracy theorist
- (tags: Labour Syria OhForFucksSake )
- There *is* gold at the end of the rainbow
- (tags: physics gold rainbow comic )
- Redesigned Picardy Place to have more public areas
- (tags: edinburgh transport roads )
- List of oldest companies (dating back to 578!)
- (tags: business history )
- While we laugh at Boris Johnson our fate is being decided in Europe
- (tags: euuros uk trade thefuture )
- Hugely important European court ruling on Western Sahara
- (tags: Morocco europe )
- How to change: your duvet cover
- Alternate, black magic, method: https://youtu.be/c1IzS2oBBN0
(tags: fairytale advice story )
Interesting Links for 26-10-2015
Oct. 26th, 2015 12:00 pm- Things Not To Do In Bed
- The cost of replacing Trident is really £167bn, new figures suggest
- I am now officially terrified of Mississippi
- I agree with this review of Crimson Peak (Good, pretty, could have been so much better)
- MIT discovers the location of memories: Individual neurons
- You have almost certainly not seen 2001 the way it was meant to be seen
- I mean, I don't even like the movie, but now I'd like to see it this way. Unlikely to get the chance, sadly.
- Morocco poised to become a solar superpower with launch of desert mega-project
- Write Like You Talk
- What's actually going on in Portugal
- The surprising truth about which personality traits do and don't correlate with computer programming skills
- Fed up with serving food on nice flat plates? Here's some handy alternatives!
- The Lords and tax credits: fact and myth (excellent, detailed, analysis)
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Interesting Links for 16-08-2012
Aug. 16th, 2012 12:00 pm- R.I.P. Harry Harrison, creator of the Stainless Steel Rat, Bill the Galactic Hero, and Soylent Green
- 16-year-old Amina Filali Who Was Forced To Marry Her Rapist, Commits Suicide
- Scotland is one of the most genetically diverse nations on the planet (And porridge played a big part in its history)
- America is now officially made of pi
- How To Create A Liberal America
- See (and buy) 27 concept images for never-made Gaiman Sandman movie
- The C-Word - a follow-up on the "creeper" posts from a few days ago.
- Factcheck: Are health and safety laws a "nonsense"?
- Cats, shockingly, do not cope well with a lack of gravity
- Broadband speeds rise 20% - have doubled in the last three years
Of course, my parents still have less than 1.5MBit, but eventually even they will join the 21st century.
- Revel in the wisdom of philosophy dog
- Wow. Unbreakable glass is _really_ unbreakable.
- Why Sexy A-Levels are shutting down
- Streaming music revenues up 40% globally, physical media down 12% - tipping point set for 2015
At which point it's streaming media versus downloads - and which one can offer more convenience and choice.
- Mutilating girls is not "harm": the extreme relativist strand in anthropology
- You are allowed to run a "Company X ruined my life" site - but possibly only if you don't put advertising on it
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