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1. Did you know there was an old rifle range under Edinburgh's Waverley Station? (6 minutes in to this video)
(tags:guns edinburgh history trains )
2. What's been going on with Boeing? (they seem to have forgotten that making planes requires attention to detail)
(tags:airplanes safety epicfail OhForFucksSake engineering manufacturing )
3. A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major internet platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.
(tags:internet abuse crime )
4. Giant redwoods: The world's largest trees are thriving in the UK. (Except for not reproducing)
(tags:trees UK )
5. The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets
(tags:food business economics )
6. The Existential Relief of Having Children
(tags:philosophy anxiety stress parenting children life )
7. The Abyss 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray UK release | The BBFC comments on its cancellation
(tags:rats abuse animals movies jamescameron BluRay )
8. Do your pets help you make food? You ain't seen nothing yet!
(tags:food cows video funny )
9. LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6% (and dramatically higher in Gen Z)
(tags:demographics LGBT USA )
10. AI reveals prostate cancer has two distinct subtypes
(tags:ai cancer prostate )
11. The full version of Tenacious D's - ...Baby One More Time cover is out. And even more awesome than you'd expect
(tags:music video BritneySpears awesome panda )
12. Yes, the Tories are outrageously racist and sexist - but Labour is guilty too (writes Diane Abbott)
(tags:politics racism UK Labour conservatives )
13. Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town
(tags:sand heat battery finland )
14. The only other mammals to go through the menopause live longer because of it
(tags:menstruation whales longevity )
15. New ONS figures show how Edinburgh's share of short term lets is massive by comparison to practically everywhere else in the UK
(tags:edinburgh rental holidays housing tourism )
16. New extremism definition unveiled by British government. Is very vague.
(tags:uk government language )
17. I see that J.K. Rowling is now engaging in anti-trans Holocaust denial
(tags:transgender Holocaust jkrowling OhForFucksSake bigotry lgbt )
18. Assisted dying in Canada is accepted - but the UK should tread carefully
(tags:euthanasia canada )
19. I was getting bored of running - then I found joggling
(tags:juggling running jogging exercise edinburgh )
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Interesting Links for 05-12-2023

1. Scottish Greens vote to ban 'Behaviour Modification' practices for disabled people
(tags:Scotland disability autism abuse GreenParty )
2. Edinburgh council statement on their house emergency
(tags:edinburgh housing homelessness )
3. Harvard Gutted Initial Team Examining Facebook Files Following $500 Million Donation from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
(tags:Facebook corruption USA research academia )
4. Possibly the worst customer service of all time (cancelled plane edition)
(tags:airplanes kenya epicfail )
5. Liz Truss to propose law banning biological males from single-sex spaces
(tags:lgbt bigotry OhForFucksSake conservatives UK )
6. Did you know that the *Real* version of the Muppet Christmas Carol is on Disney+ (hidden in a submenu)
(tags:Muppets Christmas Disney )
7. Happy Clair Cameron Patterson day! He did a lot more than most to improve the world (by fighting to remove lead from so many things)
(tags:lead health )
8. Neurons in your eye help keep your view stable
(tags:neuroscience eyes humans )
9. UK police are using AI data analysis to spot crimes. And they want to start predicting them.
(tags:ai data predictions crime police uk )
10. Bye bye to the Edinburgh Zoo pandas
(tags:edinburgh zoo panda )
11. "My $500M Mars Rover Mistake: A Failure Story"
(tags:mars space epicfail )
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2022-11-23 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 23-11-2022

1. Nigel Farage Has Praised Keir Starmer's Speech On Immigration
(tags:immigration labour UKIP OhForFucksSake )
2. The Return of James Cameron, Box Office King (and his movie, that will almost certainly not make a profit)
(tags:movies jamescameron space )
3. Red panda eating grapes is terribly cute
(tags:cute panda video )
4. Tesla builds Europe's largest battery near Dogger Bank offshore wind power landfall
(tags:batteries UK windpower Tesla )
5. God of War: Ragnarok contains a tribute to the real life love, and death, of one of their developers
(tags:death love games )
6. The Scottish government cannot hold an independence referendum without UK government's consent, the Supreme Court has ruled
(tags:scotland independence uk law )
7. More relaxed immigration policies could win over UK swing voters
(tags:immigration uk polls GoodNews )
8. Meta researchers create AI that masters Diplomacy, tricking human players
(tags:games diplomacy ai )
9. Brain structure changes during pregnancy, returning to its original state a year after birth
(tags:brain pregnancy )
10. Studies on "good" cholesterol only included white participants, the results don't seem to hold more generally
(tags:race research health heart )
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Interesting Links for 15-06-2019

Conservative Muslim chair to quit if Johnson wins leadership race
(tags:Conservatives islam )
Scotland plants 22 million trees to tackle climate crisis while England falls 7 million short of target
(tags:scotland uk tree co2 globalwarming )
Government removes £1,000 limit on Cycle To Work scheme - will allow ebikes
(tags:uk cycling GoodNews )
The Widows of the Plaza Hotel
(tags:history newyork USA viaJane )
Tories sink to fourth place in humiliating election poll as MPs bicker over leadership contest (Labour in third)
(tags:politics polls uk )
UK's first 100% vegan hotel opens in the Highlands
(tags:vegan scotland )
The Giant Panda Is a Closet Carnivore (and very well adapted to its role)

(tags:Panda diet viaSKington )
An Expert on Concentration Camps Says That's Exactly What the U.S. Is Running at the Border
(tags:USA migration OhForFucksSake )
Anti-vaxxers defeated: NY bans non-medical exemptions as doctors vote to step up fight
(tags:vaccination usa )
A shocking failure in accuracy in the Captain Marvel movie
(tags:marvel movies Windows history fail )
"You saw me covered in blood on a bus. But do you get outraged about all homophobia?"
(tags:lgbt )
Possibly the finest Twitter account of all time
(tags:comics music TV wikipedia )
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Interesting Links for 08-07-2017

Shout out to the the social media intern at Church of England who just accidentally restarted a 500 year old sectarian conflict.
(tags: religion history Catholic UK funny )
What’s the best way to cross the Thames in London? We’ve ranked all 63 options
(tags: London transport viaPatrickHadfield )
Panda power! China is building the world's cutest solar station
Although, to be honest, I'm not convinced that any of those images are photos rather than mockups.
(tags: panda solarpower china )
Fires at tower blocks in Scotland fall to an eight-year low
(tags: fire scotland )
Dinner lady suspended after Manchester attack demonstration
(tags: politics uk )
Forget flying cars or humanoid robots, the most disruptive inventions are often cheap, simple and easy to overlook
(tags: Technology thefuture )
Zoos weigh up the costs of China's 'pandanomics'
(tags: zoo animals china panda viaSteer )
Drone dropped tools enabling inmate to escape, prison officials say | Ars Technica
(tags: drone prison usa )
Learning to program when you don't speak English
(tags: programming language english )
Volvo admits its self-driving cars are confused by kangaroos
(tags: animals driving automation cars )
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