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Interesting Links for 01-02-2024
Feb. 1st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Reports Suggest Tencent Wants to Buy Dungeons and Dragons from Hasbro
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- 2. America seems to be very close to an actual civil war right now
- (tags:USA immigration civilwar Texas )
- 3. Adrian Carton de Wiart - a life so unlikely that if it was fiction you would think it had gone too far
- (tags:history UK Poland Italy Belgium wwi wwii biography military )
- 4. Study: Closing toilet lid while flushing doesn't stop spread of airborne bacteria (for that you need disinfectant)
- (tags:toilets disease )
- 5. Some context for Edinburgh's circulation plan
- (tags:edinburgh transport cities design )
- 6. Photos of the giant Marchmont storm drain containment tanks being built on Edinburgh's Meadows
- (tags:park water edinburgh photos )
- 7. A livestreamed D&D one shot will take place inside the vagina of the game's biggest monster, and it's for a good cause—science and education
- (tags:vagina dungeonsanddragons wtf )
- 8. Marlon Brando Was a Secret Tech Geek and Photoshop Ace
- (tags:actors Technology )
Interesting Links for 28-09-2023
Sep. 28th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The Plot of All Objects in the Universe
- (tags:physics visualisation )
- 2. There are no good carbon offset schemes. (78% of are worthless.16% are problematic. The remaining 6% don't publish enough data to tell.)
- (tags:co2 globalwarming fraud )
- 3. How common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children
- (tags:children infection mentalhealth immune_system )
- 4. A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy
- (tags:babies injury health )
- 5. Donald Trump defrauded banks for years by exaggerating his net worth
- (tags:fraud usa politics republicans )
- 6. Trying out the first legal level 3 automated driving system in the US
- (tags:automation driving usa )
- 7. Strategic Plan for Holyrood Park (your chance to comment)
- (tags:park Edinburgh transport survey )
- 8. What Is a Woman? (a response)
- (tags:women LGBT transgender society viaPatrickHadfield )
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Interesting Links for 26-01-2023
Jan. 26th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Justin Roiland: Rick and Morty creator and star dropped by Adult Swim (over assault charges)
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- 2. Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots (what happens when you train an AI on all the text a person leaves behind)
- (tags:ai writing communication death memory viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. A lovely remembrance of a dying friend, and the last things he wanted to do.
- (tags:archaeology death viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. Edinburgh's iconic Granton gas holder to be transformed into new city park
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- 5. Clearly the best console gaming setup ever
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- 6. Facebook follows Twitter in un-banning Donald Trump ahead of 2024 presidential bid, Nick Clegg confirms
- (tags:Facebook politics USA )
- 7. What time is it on the moon?
- (tags:time moon physics )
- 8. Christian decline UK: How it's measured and what it means
- (tags:religion uk census demographics )
- 9. The UK's Biggest Cooking Myths
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Interesting Links for 02-02-2022
Feb. 2nd, 2022 12:00 pm- UK replacement for EU regional funding cuts payments by billions
- (tags:uk europe money OhForFucksSake )
- The England/Wales consultation on banning conversion therapy is live for another couple of days. Take it now
- (tags:lgbt uk consultation )
- Slightly disconcerting and over the top alphabet
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- AI-generated science fiction convention panels
- (tags:ai conventions funny scifi )
- Nearly 1,000 mysterious magnetic strands revealed in Milky Way's center
- (tags:space magnets weird )
- Calls to allow people to return to Edinburgh's Radical Road
- (tags:edinburgh history park safety )
- Ask for help face-to-face, not via phone or email, if you want results
- (tags:advice psychology communication )
- Gas stoves (and boilers) appear to hugely increase susceptibility to asthma
- (tags:asthma gas cooking heating )
- I also find social deduction games really stressful, but this looks like fun!
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Interesting Links for 18-12-2020
Dec. 18th, 2020 12:00 pm- The media lies about what women say
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- Sony removes Cyberpunk from the PlayStation store, refunds everyone's money
- (tags:Sony Playstation games )
- City Of Paris Is Fined 90,000 Euros For Naming Too Many Women To Senior Positions
- (tags:inequality gender France Paris )
- Electric cars will leave hole in tax revenues
- (tags:tax cars UK fuel )
- People Take Better Care Of Public Parks If They Feel A Greater Sense Of Ownership Over Them
- (tags:psychology park economics )
- Anti-maskers in Indonesia punished with gravedigging for Covid-19 victims
- (tags:death pandemic crime Indonesia )
Interesting Links for 05-03-2019
Mar. 5th, 2019 01:13 pm- Keith Flint death: Prodigy front man dies aged 49
- (tags:music UK death )
- The World Wide Fund for Nature Funds Guards Who Have Tortured And Killed People
- (tags:nature charity OhForFucksSake )
- Ministers halt discussion of tax transparency bill - because it was going to impose transparency on Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man
- (tags:tax uk )
- Tobacco giants say getting rid of packaging pictures of diseased organs will cost them millions after Brexit
- (tags:uk europe cigarettes viaSwampers )
- This is the best memorial to Keith Flint.
- (tags:childbirth music death )
- Virgin Atlantic removes make-up requirement from cabin crew
- (tags:airlines makeup work women GoodNews )
- UK government doesn't understand how EU works, says its former ambassador to Brussels
- (tags:europe uk doom )
- Artists Become Famous through Their Friends, Not the Originality of Their Work
- (tags:art Fame socialnetworking )
- Incredible shift in immigration attitudes in the UK: 64% were negative in 2011, now down to 26%.
- (tags:immigration polls uk )
- UK patient free of HIV after stem cell treatment
- (tags:aids GoodNews stem_cells )
- The BBC is running a positive transgender story. I do hope this is part of a change in the awful media approach that's been going on
- (tags:lgbt transgender bbc uk )
- Mozilla fears DarkMatter misuse of browser certificates for hacking
- (tags:security browser firefox )
- Star Wars, edited into five minutes. (been making the rounds this week, well worth a look)
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- Winter - a touching poem. Somewhat about poo.
- (tags:faeces poetry relationships )
- Plans for Edinburgh's biggest new park in over a century revealed
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Interesting Links for 12-02-2019
Feb. 12th, 2019 12:05 pm- Fox News host: 'Germs are not a real thing -- I can't see them'
- (tags:bacteria wtf ignorance news FoxNews usa )
- Universal credit to blame for soaring food bank use, government admits after years of denial
- (tags:UK welfare food OhForFucksSake )
- Laziness does not exist, but unseen barriers do.
- (tags:psychology productivity )
- Newspaper quietly retracts claim that Ian Huntley is transgender
- (tags:lgbt transgender OhForFucksSake murder )
- Drone swarm squadrons to be deployed by British military
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- Why A No-Deal Brexit Is Now May's Fallback Plan To Save Her Party ??? And Herself
- (tags:UK europe doom Conservatives )
- Edinburgh Airbnb hosts using key-storing padlocks in city parks to avoid legal issues
- (tags:Edinburgh housing rental park )
- The Most Famous Image in the Early History of Computing (1839)
- (tags:history computers technology craftwork art viaFanf )
- It turns out autistic people aren't robots
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- A Smartphone Exploded at St Pancras (gloriously written article)
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- Some gorgeous pieces of product design
- (tags:design furniture video )
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Interesting Links for 07-09-2015
Sep. 7th, 2015 12:02 pm- The best-earning humanities degree is....philosophy
- How to tell the difference between period pain and appendicitis
- Bloom County - The Backstories
- Cow Magnets (I learned something today!)
- The corpse of Elmer McCurdy, and how it ended up in a Long Beach fun park spookhouse
- Hans Rosling does a great job of pointing out how much ignorance the media spread about the state of the world
- Another person leaving academia because they believe academic research is completely broken
- Academics are being hoodwinked into writing books nobody can buy
- Debunking the idea that transitioning doesn't help trans people
- Striking workers may have to identify themselves to police, carry a letter of authorisation and wear an armband under proposed reforms
- Machines replace migrants as Maine blueberry harvest booms
- A celebration of the Liberal Democrats who made the Borders railway possible
- Changing the language historians use to describe Slavery and the Civil War
- 'Archaeology on steroids': huge ritual arena discovered near Stonehenge
- Yes Scotland board ‘wanted alternative to pound’
- And a good thing too.
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Interesting Links for 02-10-2014
Oct. 2nd, 2014 12:00 pm- Learning How To Learn
- A fantastic explanation of how you can tell when your cemetery is full of plague victims
- Armed police U-Turn vindicates Lib Dem campaign
- Instructions for your local park
- If Films Were Reviewed Like Video Games
- Facebook apologizes to LGBTQ users, plans “substantive changes”
- UK legalises music, film and e-book back-ups
- The Worst Cat
- There is absolutely no relationship between the amount of homework kids do and their final grades
- The USSR used a nuclear bomb to stop a gas well blowout
- This is what it's like when a leopard _really_ likes you
- Why Saturday Morning Cartoons Died
- The Mythology of Dog Years
- Creepy guys inspire Seattle women to make a new dating app
- When should you start a startup?
- Amazon "We have free-marketed our way to making tools of great interest to a totalitarian state"
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Interesting Links for 03-04-2013
Apr. 3rd, 2013 12:00 pm- Airline to charge passengers by the kilo.
- Edinburgh to get first new park in 10 years
- A longer life for lithium-sulfur batteries (twice the power/weight ratio of Li-ion)
- The is pretty much how I felt about Saturday's Dr Who.
- To forgive is to give up all hope of a better past.
- The OAuth Bible (mostly bookmarked for me to read later)
- The UK has seven social classes. Which are you? (I'm Established Middle Class, unsurprisingly)
- Scotland has a major skills gap in Computing. Get yerself retrained!
- Banking experts say Scotland should have its own currency (and I agree)
- Strange rock used as a ham press turns out to be $5M meteorite
- The most powerful backbencher in the House of Commons
- Nuclear power has saved 1.84million lives from air pollution
- Haymarket is finally getting redeveloped.
- A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still gets no respect.
- Reading is for the love, not just for predetermined info gathering
- If Richard Littlejohn didn’t exist, you’d have to make him up
- How to deal with fat people
- Iain Banks has cancer, and less than a year to live.
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- uk,
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- viafanf,
- weight,
- zen
Interesting Links for 14-11-2011
Nov. 14th, 2011 11:00 am- Lord of the Rings: an allegory of the PhD?
- Drug Shows Promise in Fighting Obesity - knocks 11% off of body weight in 4 weeks, improved insulin processing
- Android Face Unlock feature will unlock when it sees a photo of your face.
- How Google gives away its services to make more money.
- UK law change means that credit unions can properly compete with banks. I hope they spread.
- Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements. Nice visualisation
- Smog-eating material breaking into the big time
- What writers can learn from First Person Shooter games.
- A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain (hint: you are also all of your senses)
- Now that's _got_ to hurt.
- Building a park _underneath_ New York.
- Without consent: how drugs companies exploit Indian 'guinea pigs'.
- Remembrance Sunday and Germans
- Move over, Frank Miller: or why the Occupy Wall Street kids are better than #$%! Spartans
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