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Interesting Links for 08-10-2019
Oct. 8th, 2019 02:43 pm- Patrick Troughton's Doctor, in colour
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- Not long ago, the center of the Milky Way exploded
- (tags:space explosions )
- Brexit: Voters turning against no-deal as deadline approaches
- (tags:uk europe polls )
- A fascinating discussion of how big you can build a building out of wood, and why
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- Unilever pledges to halve use of new plastics
- (tags:plastic recycling )
- Pedestrian detection systems don't work very well
- (tags:cars safety fail )
- UK already up to £66bn poorer because of Brexit vote
- (tags:UK economy doom )
- Red tape bill for UK-EU trade under no-deal Brexit set to hit £15bn a year
- (tags:bureaucracy UK Europe business Doom )
- Animated history map shows the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire.
- (tags:history maps visualisation empire )
- The last laugh: behind the multimillion-dollar deals to buy old sitcoms
- (tags:TV business )
- Artificial blood developed for patients of any blood type (so far only tested on rabbits)
- (tags:blood )
- Whatever Happened to the Tech Bubble?
- (tags:Technology business economy )
- The 128 chilling words in the Scottish case on the Benn Act
- (tags:uk europe law scotland )
- Brexit: Ex-Cabinet minister Amber Rudd ready to back second referendum as she attacks 'desperate' Boris Johnson
- (tags:uk europe referendum )
- Boris Johnson's Brexit plan in tatters as Angela Merkel personally rejects it
- (tags:uk europe )
- What is the nobile officium?
- (tags:law uk scotland )
- The storms of Henry Darger - how one man's obsessions led to one of the longest, and strangest books
- (tags:books wtf obsession )
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Interesting Links for 30-11-2018
Nov. 30th, 2018 11:00 am- Children who start school a year early more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD
- (tags: adhd diagnosis fail children school )
- Stuck in a loop of wrongness: Brain study shows roots of OCD
- (tags: obsession psychology brain neuroscience )
- May and Corbyn clash over what kind of economic collapse they would inflict on the country
- (tags: UK europe politics satire )
- Free ice skating for anyone called Andrew to mark St Andrew's Day in Edinburgh
- (tags: names edinburgh winter )
- Adult Swim, Crunchyroll announce first-ever co-production: A Blade Runner anime
- (tags: bladerunner anime )
- Strange seismic waves that rippled around world leave scientists bewildered
- (tags: earthquake weird )
- Physicists finally calculated where the proton’s mass comes from
- (tags: physics )
Interesting Links for 06-08-2017
Aug. 6th, 2017 12:00 pm- Who was that mysterious middle-aged bald guy that appeared in like EVERY early ‘80s MTV video?
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- Probably the finest URL of all time
- (tags: internet web music funny video viaSwampers )
- “Why Can’t I Write About __________?”
- (tags: writing advice )
- “Alpha Males” - Still Not a Real Thing
- (tags: society behaviour video )
- The Evolution of Trust (Totally worth spending ten minutes playing with)
- Really highlights the importance of being willing to forgive people for occasional mistakes, without being a total walkover.
(tags: evolution games behaviour viaSwampers ) - London planners will inspect a new nightclub regularly, to make sure it's gay enough
- (tags: lgbt london uk )
- The pattern behind color names around the world
- (tags: video colour perception language psychology )
- The Man Who Simply Wanted to Be Alone (for 27 years)
- (tags: life people loneliness )
- Medicine's Women Problem
- (tags: women healthcare medicine fail )
- Now Hiring: Not You
- (tags: jobs satire funny )
- Perfectionism versus Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- (tags: psychology obsession )
Interesting Links for 29-12-2015
Dec. 29th, 2015 12:00 pm- A Softer Avenger - A Softer World + MCU = Awesome
- UK government rejected flood risk warnings from climate advisers
- That’s No Moon: The models and miniatures of the original ‘Star Wars’ trilogy
- William Gibson: how I wrote Neuromancer
- In praise of Scrooge
- 48 Things Men Hear In A Lifetime (That Are Bad For Everyone)
- The real reason software updates happen
- 37 things changed during the production of "The Force Awakens"
- Here’s What Sex Looks Like From inside The Vagina
- "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" review by Adam Roberts (entertaining, even if you don't agree with it)
- Common payment processing protocols found to be full of flaws
- Federal judge: Drinking tea, shopping at a gardening store is probable cause for a SWAT raid on your home
- The True Story of Roland the Farter, and How the Internet Killed Professional Flatulence
- Parenting is a lot like sysadminning...
- We Need To Stop Devaluing Femininity
- Pretty animation showing the spread of Christianity (and Islam) over the last 2000 years
- When Depeche Mode were a Minimal Synth group called Composition of Sound (Listen to the unreleased demo tapes)
- I Know What’s Best For The Health of My Family, And It’s Magical Thinking
- Half-hangit Maggie - a tale from Edinburgh's history
- Neil Gaiman's Lemmy story.
- The Force Awakens: What if everyone in The Resistance hates Poe?
- Self-talk to help end obsessions
- So, Benedict Cumberbatch looks pretty awesome as Dr Strange...
- A night on Earth – Amazing photos from space, with their terrain height enhanced digitally
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Interesting Links for 19-09-2015
Sep. 19th, 2015 12:00 pm- Remember when Republicans were in favour of women having access to healthcare?
- Inuit Study Adds Twist to Omega-3 Fatty Acids’ Health Story
- Volkswagen Is Told to Recall Nearly 500,000 Vehicles Over Emissions Software That Deliberately Cheated The Tests
- Some people's heads should go on fucking spikes over this one.
- This Belgian church was designed to look different from all angles
- High numbers of students experience drunken harrassment, feel universities won't help.
- An excellent analysis of why Labour lost the last election (detailed, and backed up by stats)
- Winds Of Change (A look at what Dyson are up to)
- How to survive a helicopter crash followed by two days on ice with three polar bears
- 'Tree of life' for 2.3 million species released
- British government authorised use of torture methods in NI in early 1970s
- Nostalgia, rape culture, thick texts and obsession: a look at the Rocky Horror Picture Show
- The incest realisation of Han Solo (made even funnier by flashbacks)
- Meet the Scandinavians responsible for the entire American pop scene
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Interesting Links for 18-09-2012
Sep. 18th, 2012 12:00 pm- 5 Revolutionary Announcements Apple Could Have Made
- Internet ‘will be full by Friday’
- I might be an arsehole, but at least I'm not wrong...
- A letter from an actress in "Innocence of Muslims"
- A porn version of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. Not safe for work. Or worth watching more than 90 seconds of.
- My dog: the paradox (I WANT A DOG SO MUCH!)
- On having your life built around something both awesome and rubbish (Dr Who in this case)
- Comedy Ensues as Twitter Users Hijack Newsweek's #MuslimRage Hashtag
- You can now get a 7" tablet in China for $45
