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Interesting Links for 30-04-2023
Apr. 30th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh: New statistics reveal detailed picture of the ever-changing city and how it compares across the UK
- (tags:Edinburgh city UK Scotland )
- 2. I'm not sure I'll be able to see the Wood Between The Worlds without thinking about bomb craters again
- (tags:narnia wwi )
- 3. Edinburgh council's use of toxic weed killer reaches record levels despite pledge to reduce it
- (tags:environment plants poison Edinburgh OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 24-12-2022
Dec. 24th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Britain's winter of discontent is the inevitable result of austerity
- (tags:austerity UK NHS infrastructure Doom )
- 2. In the long term, if we want to keep the global temperature down, then our electricity generation has to be entirely generated from renewables
- (tags:renewables globalwarming )
- 3. Stardust is inspired by The Voyage of The Dawn Treader
- (tags:narnia neilgaiman )
- 4. Fans Can Now Sue Movie Studios For Deceptive Trailers
- (tags:trailers law fraud viaMyBrotherHugh )
- 5. Both versions of "Riddles in the Dark" (the Gollum chapter of The Hobbit, changed when Lord of The Rings came out)
- (tags:lotr TheHobbit Tolkien )
- 6. Finally, a believable explanation of why Elon Musk bought Twitter!
- (tags:ElonMusk Twitter comic funny )
- 7. Elon Musk orders removal of Twitter suicide prevention feature
- (tags:Twitter suicide OhForFucksSake ElonMusk )
- 8. Brexit means no British manufacturer able to build ministerial cars
- (tags:UK cars manufacturing Europe Doom )
- 9. The 10 best films of 2022
- (tags:movies reviews )
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Interesting Links for 12-04-2021
Apr. 12th, 2021 12:00 pm- The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme
- (tags:meme computers wtf )
- French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights
- (tags:France flights globalwarming GoodNews transport )
- "Technologies I Thought My Son Would Never Use"
- (tags:technology history thefuture predictions )
- There is no good argument for modern sex-negativity
- (tags:sex argument society )
- When I was a kid the insult "div" was quite common. To say its etymology is unclear would be an understatement.
- (tags:language slang viaSarah )
- The story of a man who transitioned, and what happened to his family who didn't
- (tags:family lgbt transgender )
- On firebombs in Northern Ireland and homophobia in Scotland
- (tags:lgbt homophobia Scotland NorthernIreland bigotry sectarianism Europe UK )
- What the Dufflepuds tell us about how CS Lewis thought
- (tags:narnia consent )
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- transgender,
- transport,
- uk,
- viasarah,
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Interesting Links for 22-10-2019
Oct. 22nd, 2019 01:17 pm- The reality behind the myth of Oxford's imposter syndrome
- (tags:Oxford academia mentalhealth )
- This is why you should never comment negatively on a friend's weight
- (tags:weight mentalhealth )
- Scientists Discover The Root Of Autoimmune Diseases - And How We Can Treat Them (in mice)
- (tags:immune_system microbiome mice viaMyBrotherHugh )
- Northern Ireland firms will have to complete export forms when sending goods to the mainland UK
- (tags:NorthernIreland UK trade OhForFucksSake )
- Spotlight reveals IRA plan to hit south east England's power supply
- (tags:ira electricity UK History viaDanielDWilliam )
- Late attempt to halt decriminalization of abortion in N. Ireland fails`
- (tags:abortion NorthernIreland GoodNews )
- Questions Jews have about Christmas
- (tags:Christmas Jews funny )
- There's this superhero, right? And *everyone* knows their secret identity. But why?
- (tags:identity superhero secrets )
- On Narnia and the EU
- (tags:Europe narnia comic )
- How comics first started on the road to academic respectability
- (tags:comics academia history uk )
- Persistent non-symbolic experience - what enlightenment feels like
- (tags:psychology experience religion )
- Brexit legislation: This is a mandate for another year of no-deal chaos
- (tags:UK Europe doom )
- Brexit delay depends on which way Commons votes today, says EU
- (tags:Europe UK politics )
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Interesting Links for 02-10-2019
Oct. 2nd, 2019 01:32 pm- How do you Solve a Problem like Susan Pevensie?
- (tags:narnia )
- Can Queen Elizabeth sack Boris Johnson?
- (tags:politics queen uk )
- Are oysters vegan?
- (tags:morality vegan food )
- Your reminder that it would be illegal, under UK law, for us to put up border posts along the Irish border
- (tags:UK NorthernIreland Ireland borders )
- Email signature ruling cost seller £25,000
- (tags:contracts email )
Interesting Links for 31-12-2018
Dec. 31st, 2018 11:00 am- Why Microsoft Windows filesystem access is much slower than Unix.
- (tags: windows linux unix speed )
- 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
- (tags: pay usa republicans )
- Mining company says first autonomous freight train network is fully operational
- (tags: mining automation trains )
- 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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- physics,
- religion,
- republicans,
- speed,
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- uk,
- unix,
- usa,
- windows,
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Interesting Links for 26-02-2018
Feb. 26th, 2018 12:00 pm- If you work at a university, here's why you should join the strike
- (tags: UK university strike pensions )
- Cognitive decline sets in at 45. (Ban old people from voting!)
- (tags: age Intelligence )
- Please, please stop saying that "Autistic people lack empathy"
- (tags: autism empathy OhForFucksSake )
- For 1300 years Europeans thought that Queen Bees were Kings. Here's how that changed
- (tags: science gender bees history society patriarchy )
- ‘Black Panther': choose your weapons.
- (tags: weapons marvel movies )
- If you look at the economics, it's completely reasonable for university lecturers to strike over pension changes
- (tags: pensions regulation academia uk strike )
- Genetic contribution to neuroticism associated with affluence, health, longevity
- (tags: genetics emotion psychology success health money )
- A 19th-century painting of Narnia - or as close as we can get
- (tags: narnia CSLewis art history oxford uk )
- i agree with Nigel Farage
- (tags: politics borders nationalism )
- Starlings Obscure Sky Over Rome in Dystopic Viral Photo
- (tags: birds Rome italy )
- What is the evolutionary purpose of having periods?
- (tags: menstruation evolution humans )
- How poverty changes your mind-set
- (tags: poverty psychology )
- What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures
- (tags: globalwarming OhForFucksSake arctic ice )
- How Gun Laws Could Change Even If Republicans Don’t Embrace Restrictions
- (tags: usa guns )
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Interesting Links for 22-06-2016
Jun. 22nd, 2016 12:00 pm- Less than a quarter of people buy CDs, and most of those are over 40
- (tags: music Technology streaming uk )
- A report on e-voting in Estonia shows how dangerous the whole idea is
- (tags: Technology security voting )
- Is the EU really run by unelected bureaucrats?
- (tags: europe democracy )
- Krugman on Brexit
- (tags: economics europe uk referendum )
- Pumping bike tires up doesn't make them go faster
- (tags: bicycles viaFanf research )
- The Warcraft movie: one of the most successful stinkers of all time
- (tags: WarCraft WorldOfWarcraft movies money china )
- Insulin-sensitive fat leads to obesity
- (tags: obesity fat insulin genetics )
- How to get upgraded from "Schroedinger's Rapist" to "Probably Rapist"
- (tags: rape consent men )
- Not the Nine O'Clock News sums up the reactions to the death of Jo Cox
- (tags: viaJennieRigg death politics funny video )
- When two people from Northern Ireland meet, the conversation goes a little like this...
- (tags: comic NorthernIreland funny )
- Fairyography does photoshoots where little girls dress as fairies. Here she does big beardy men instead...
- (tags: beards funny photography viaElfy )
- The Problem of Susan
- (tags: narnia )
- There is now really no excuse for not using two-factor authentication on your Google account.
- (tags: google security )
- For men, the importance of safe sex depends on how hot their partner is
- (tags: beauty sex safety men OhForFucksSake )
- England has one of the world's highest rates of tornadoes, relative to its size
- (tags: uk england wind )
- What's the EU doing about intra-country tax-avoidance?
- (tags: tax europe )
- Watch A Japanese Dance Troupe Perform With Drones
- (tags: drone dance video )
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- warcraft,
- wind,
- worldofwarcraft
Interesting Links for 27-03-2016
Mar. 27th, 2016 01:00 pm- Great Moments in Peaceful Protest History
- (tags: society history comic satire )
- A Crash Course in Brazil's Corruption Crisis
- (tags: corruption brazil video )
- This nicely illustrates why I'm uncomfortable about the "sealioning" meme
- (tags: conversation discussion comic )
- Regions that expelled the Jews have lower GDP than those that didn't (Daily Mail)
- (tags: Jews history economics )
- Bosses admit they would discriminate against women not wearing makeup
- (tags: women makeup OhForFucksSake )
- Good advice for next time you don't feel effective.
- (tags: advice )
- With No Inkling of the Contents: Viewing Narnia Through a Hindu Lens
- (tags: CSLewis writing india religion narnia )
- When Did Porn Become Sex Ed?
- (tags: sex Education porn )
- Easter Goodies vs. Hydraulic Press
- I think it's the laugh that makes this for me. That and the squishination, of course.
(tags: video fun chocolate ) - Apparently Edinburgh is having a surge of burglaries at the moment
- (tags: crime police edinburgh )
- On Gender - and not caring about things that mean a lot to other people
- (tags: gender society video )
Interesting Links for 25-01-2015
Jan. 25th, 2015 11:00 am- The Solution of Susan
- What Your Favourite Doctor Who Companion ACTUALLY says about you
- Lucid dreamers have a larger anterior prefrontal cortex
- Micromotors Take Their First Swim In The (Mouse) Body
- New York from 7,500 feet is _gorgeous_
- Queen Elizabeth II once terrorized King Abdullah — by driving him around
- This is what happens if you strap a high-speed camera to the side of a train coming in to a platform
Interesting Links for 07-12-2013
Dec. 7th, 2013 11:00 am- A Brief History Of The Next Ten Billion Years
- How to stay monogamous, in six easy steps
- Women MPs face sexist gestures in the Commons
- Humans tried and failed to colonise Britain seven times
- Britain's poor will die before they retire if pension reforms aren't matched by health improvements
- The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Silver Chair gets Life of Pi writer David Magee
- How the Bitcoin protocol actually works (really nice,clear, writeup)
- Supermarkets selling chicken that is nearly a fifth water
- What east London could have looked like if Thames Barrier was not closed
- 25 readers' designs for a new union flag
- Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system
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Interesting Links for 15-09-2012
Sep. 15th, 2012 12:00 pm- Laser injection less painful than needles. Everything's better with lasers!
That really ought to be the title of a song.
- RIPE NCC Begins to Allocate IPv4 Address Space From the Last /8
Gosh, I hope my ISP has plenty of addresses left. More likely, I'm behind a huge NAT.
- Disorder of neuronal circuits in autism is reversible, new study suggests
- A Narnian fic about Susan that captures something that I'd never thought of.
- Romney defines “middle income” as $200,000-$250,000 - This deserves to be a meme.
- The best thing James Doohan ever did.
- Comparing Map Projections and how much distortion they produce
- Brain Implant Improves Thinking in Monkeys
- New rape prevention campaign launched to raise awareness of changes in rape law in Scotland.
- No One Murdered Because Of This Image
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