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Interesting Links for 03-05-2024
May. 3rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Farmers killed their normal food, forcing chimps to eat bat feces, filled with all sorts of horrible viruses
- (tags:disease bats chimpanzees farming )
- 2. Why UFO footage looks like that
- (tags:ufo photos )
- 3. Boris Johnson turned away from voting station after not bringing correct form of photo ID
- (tags:IDCards UK voting BorisJohnson )
- 4. Where Western Music Comes From
- (tags:music history society )
- 5. Object personification in autism: This paper will be very sad if you don't read it
- (tags:autism headline psychology personality )
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Interesting Links for 08-12-2023
Dec. 8th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Which Movies Are The Most Polarizing? A Statistical Analysis
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- 2. Israel declares safe zones in Gaza and then bombs them
- (tags:Israel Gaza Palestine OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Linux distros are about to get a killer Windows feature: The Blue Screen of Death
- (tags:windows Linux errors )
- 4. Object Personification in Autism (this paper will be very sad if you don't read it)
- (tags:autism psychology belief personality headline )
- 5. Hallmark movies are fascist propaganda
- (tags:society romance fascism movies propaganda )
- 6. So, you're using an online service. How screwed are you?
- (tags:business technology funny Doom )
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Interesting Links for 19-10-2023
Oct. 19th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. How Do Musicians Make Money? (And how much?)
- (tags:music business money )
- 2. Todd Klein on how comics lettering was done with pens
- (tags:pen comics )
- 3. I've switched from Google search to Kagi. This is why.
- (tags:google search )
- 4. Public corruption prosecutions rise where nonprofit news outlets flourish
- (tags:corruption journalism usa )
- 5. "I'm a sociopath who feels no remorse - it's just how my brain is wired"
- (tags:sociopath psychology personality )
- 6. Ruling could transform rape cases in Scottish courts
- (tags:rape law Scotland )
- 7. New pill helps COVID smell and taste loss fade quickly (mine hasn't recovered fully for nearly 18 months)
- (tags:Pandemic virus smell )
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Interesting Links for 10-07-2023
Jul. 10th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Meta-analytic relations between personality and cognitive ability
- (tags:personality intelligence psychology )
- 2. Web3 is Going Just Great (in case you were wondering what was going on with it)
- (tags:blockchain Doom fraud )
- 3. Westminster MPs know legalising drugs would save lives, but they're playing politics instead
- (tags:drugs legalisation politics UK OhForFucksSake )
- 4. The Complete, Surprising 8 Year History Of The LEGO Poop Piece
- (tags:Lego faeces )
- 5. '28 Days Later': The Oral History of Danny Boyle's Genre-Redefining Zombie Masterpiece
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- 6. Tyres produce lots of pollution
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Interesting Links for 06-06-2022
Jun. 6th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. What are Conservative MPs saying about Johnson when they call for him to go?
- (tags:Conservatives BorisJohnson )
- 2. Some advice about sex
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- 3. The Light That Shines When Things End
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- 4. Severe Covid cases more likely in places with high air pollution
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- 5. UK ivory ban comes into force today
- (tags:elephants uk law )
- 6. London's police are guilty of systemic sexism, racism and homophobia
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- 7. Your Personality, Explained by Your Annoying Household Habits
- (tags:tidiness personality funny psychology )
- 8. Excellent uses for a time machine: #5663
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- 9. This is what ignostic arguing looks like
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Interesting Links for 06-04-2022
Apr. 6th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Photographer Reunites People He First Spotted On The Streets 40 Years Ago
- (tags:history photos UK viaPatrickHadfield )
- 2. Why does the UK insist on everything going through middlemen?
- (tags:UK organisation business money )
- 3. Government's LGBT+ business adviser quits over U-turn on trans conversion therapy
- (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry UK conservatives )
- 4. Hollow knight x Dark souls 3 bosses
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- 5. What makes Generation X different?
- (tags:viaJennieRigg demographics )
- 6. UK government's 'Safe To Be Me' LGBT conference cancelled after boycott
- (tags:LGBT transgender UK conservatives bigotry )
- 7. End the Streaming Struggle - search across multiple services at once with Plex
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- 8. A tour of Place - Reddit's latest work of art
- (tags:art Reddit viaSwampers )
- 9. Here are the personality traits of the self-made millionaire
- (tags:money psychology personality )
Interesting Links for 21-01-2021
Jan. 21st, 2021 12:00 pm- 90% of Scottish care home residents now vaccinated, and 20% of over 80s. Can they now accelerate?
- (tags:Scotland vaccination )
- Here's How Personality Changes In Young Adulthood Can Lead To Greater Career Satisfaction
- (tags:personality happiness success )
- On first day as president, Biden to issue 17 executive actions on COVID, climate change, immigration and more
- (tags:USA politics )
- When Extremists Stormed the Capitol and Got Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy (in 1954)
- (tags:history law USA viaDanielDWilliam )
- UK and EU in row over bloc's diplomatic status
- (tags:UK Europe diplomacy )
- Biden's Team And Priorities Show How The Democratic Party Changed In The Trump Era (Left of Obama in 2016, not as left as Warren now)
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Interesting Links for 24-11-2020
Nov. 24th, 2020 12:00 pm- The Uncanny Valley of Culture
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- Apple Silicon and losing our legacy
- (tags:apple history doom sad )
- Guatemala protesters torch Congress, set up guillotine, as simmering anger boils over
- (tags:guatemala riots corruption )
- Baby! Yoda! Cocktails!
- (tags:StarWars alcohol )
- People who absolutely love their lives, what's their story?
- (tags:happiness life advice personality )
- Coronavirus: why are Western countries like the US and Britain still not learning from Asia's success?
- (tags:pandemic uk usa epicfail china singapore korea )
- Fake people are created on Twitter and then the BBC shares their opinions as if they were real
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1330632499907661837.html
(tags:BBC fraud identity politics uk ) - The new war in Ethiopia. The first step towards peace is understanding the conflict.
- (tags:Ethiopia politics war history )
- How do the coronavirus vaccines compare so far?
- (tags:vaccine pandemic GoodNews )
- The BBC can fuck off, transphobic hate group edition
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1330758709140729856.html
(tags:lgbt transgender BBC OhForFucksSake ) - Trans boy takes NHS to court over delays to gender identity treatment
- (tags:LGBT UK transgender NHS )
- Scotland's national investment bank launches
- (tags:Scotland investment )
- Two-dimensional trees for fun and profit!
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- Trump accepts US presidency transition to Biden must begin
- (tags:usa politics ThankGoodnessForThat )
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Interesting Links for 17-10-2020
Oct. 17th, 2020 12:00 pm- What would it look like if the UK went for "herd immunity"?
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1317046902605729792.html
(tags:UK pandemic death ) - Babies' random choices become their preferences
- (tags:Choice preferences babies psychology )
- Elon Musk's Las Vegas Loop might only carry a fraction of the passengers it promised
- (tags:transport LasVegas ElonMusk fail )
- Zeptoseconds: New world record in short time measurement
- (tags:time physics light )
- "He Married a Sociopath: Me"
- (tags:psychology relationships sociopath personality )
- Overseas retailers selling to the UK will have to start collecting VAT. (which means a lot fewer small foreign stores will sell to UK customers)
- Example: https://twitter.com/WilliamShatner/status/1316887009198141441?s=19
(tags:UK trade tax OhForFucksSake ) - New Zealand's MMP electoral system: how does it work? (similarly to Scotland, Wales, and London)
- (tags:voting newzealand )
- Six of the best ways to cure an earworm
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- Self-driving company Cruise will soon hit San Francisco with no hands on the wheel
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Interesting Links for 04-09-2020
Sep. 4th, 2020 12:00 pm- Incredible new drone footage shows the scale of Edinburgh's St James Quarter as construction nears completion
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- Overall, being nice or nasty has no effect on how much power and influence you have
- (tags:psychology work power personality )
- How to Deal With the Anxiety of Uncertainty
- (tags:advice mentalhealth pandemic )
- Girl Guides: Enhanced photos need labels on social media
- (tags:women beauty photoshop )
- The brother-in-law and the truck full of rice, a saga of modern India.
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1301521850552315904.html
(tags:India rice funny viaDanielDWilliam ) - COVID-19 Can Wreck Your Heart, Even if You Haven't Had Any Symptoms
- (tags:pandemic heart virus )
- HS2: construction of £106bn high-speed rail line officially starts
- (tags:hs2 GoodNews )
- 'War on plastic' could strand oil industry's £300bn investment
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Interesting Links for 24-08-2020
Aug. 24th, 2020 12:00 pm- Bill & Ted Face the Music is only coming to cinemas in the UK - and thus will not be getting my money
- (tags:movies cinema pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- UK 'strengthening' Belarus dictatorship's army with military training
- (tags:UK military dictators belarus )
- How our perception of the Iguanodon had changed over the years!
- (tags:dinosaurs time video )
- What it's like to have a Cluster B personality disorder
- (tags:personality mentalhealth empathy )
- The mystery of 'Dolphins,' the fake Avril Lavigne song on every internet lyrics site
- (tags:music lyrics fraud weird mysteries )
- Very cute little pieces of art sculpted from leaves
- (tags:trees art )
- Streaming Is Laying Bare How Big ISPs, Big Tech, and Big Media Work Together Against American Users
- (tags:USA internet streaming OhForFucksSake )
- young people felt less anxious and more connected to school during lockdown
- (tags:school mentalhealth pandemic children )
Interesting Links for 01-07-2020
Jul. 1st, 2020 12:00 pm- Listen to Wikipedia
- (tags:Wikipedia sounds )
- Humans forced to hide from sex addicted monkeys who set up HQ in disused cinema
- (tags:headline monkeys sex cinema )
- Nuclear 'Power Balls' May Make Meltdowns a Thing of the Past
- (tags:nuclearpower technology thefuture )
- Boris Johnson's 'build, build, build' speech: What he said and what he really meant
- (tags:politics UK )
- Here's How Our Personality Changes As We Age
- (tags:personality age psychology )
- Boris Johnson: Economy speech fact-checked
- (tags:conservatives money government )
- Trump Administration Authorizes 'Cyanide Bombs' to Kill Predators Again, Months After Backlash
- (tags:USA poison animals nature republicans )
- Germany far right: Elite KSK commando force 'to be partially disbanded'
- (tags:germany nazis military )
- Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws, oaths remained on the bench
- (tags:USA law OhForFucksSake )
- Did you know about Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who invented rock and roll?
- (tags:music history LGBT racism USA )
- Petrol sold to Nigeria from Europe is 200 times worse than EU pollution limits
- (tags:oil nigeria europe OhForFucksSake pollution )
- Ministers urged to 'look beyond the numbers' as report reveals 39% rise in deep poverty since 2000
- (tags:uk poverty )
- The robots that can cook and serve your food (Interesting video. Looks like it's very close to the mainstream)
- (tags:food robots )
- One-time treatment generates new neurons, eliminates Parkinson's disease in mice
- (tags:mice genetics disease )
- California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste
- (tags:India bigotry jobs USA )
- 'Extraordinary' amber fossils reveal how ancient insects used colour for camouflage
- (tags:colour insects fossils )
- The EU are being really clear on the UK finance sector, and how much trouble it's going to be in in January.
- (tags:uk europe finance doom )
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Interesting Links for 19-02-2020
Feb. 19th, 2020 12:00 pm- Sabisky isn't the problem. Cummings is.
- (tags:fascism UK politics )
- 7000-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered
- (tags:prehistory wood archeology )
- An optical illusion to make your brain ache
- (tags:illusion )
- The UK cash economy close to collapse
- (tags:cash money banking UK payments )
- Sexist Ideologies May Help Cultivate The "Dark Triad" Of Personality Traits
- (tags:personality sexism patriarchy )
- On the power of names, and the invoking of entities on social media
- (tags:names technology socialnetworking )
- The books of your life
- (tags:life comic funny )
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Interesting Links for 16-12-2019
Dec. 16th, 2019 01:42 pm- Without Section 30, the law won't help Scottish independence
- (tags:Scotland independence law UK )
- Cache of Crypto-Jewish Recipes Dating to Inquisition Found in Miami Kitchen
- (tags:USA food history Jews recipe )
- Taking Sex Differences in Personality Seriously
- (tags:sex personality psychology research )
- Against "the chosen one"
- (tags:writing fantasy society )
- On Having Kids
- (tags:children )
- "I'm a 37-Year-Old Mom & I Spent Seven Days Online as an 11-Year-Old Girl. Here's What I Learned."
- (tags:children abuse OhForFucksSake )
- In England, Coroners Decide What Is Treasure and What Is Not
- (tags:history wealth death uk )
- Red hair, it turns out, isn't a recessive gene!
- (tags:hair colour genetics viaEatSoylentGreen )
- These chickens are *beautiful*
- (tags:chicken birds photos beauty )
Interesting Links for 08-07-2019
Jul. 8th, 2019 12:59 pm- Are you really the 'real' you? (a lovely story about the narratives we tell ourselves)
- (tags:personality psychology identity )
- Don't ask forgiveness, radiate intent
- (tags:advice work )
- A collection of work debunking the "Irish slaves" meme
- (tags:slavery ireland history )
- Finally an image of X-37B/OTV-5, US Air Force's secretive space plane, in orbit
- (tags:space military )
- King's College London breached GDPR sharing list of activist students with cops
- (tags:police protests university privacy uk OhForFucksSake )
- African leaders launch landmark 55-nation trade zone
- (tags:Africa trade )
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Interesting Links for 21-06-2019
Jun. 21st, 2019 12:07 pm- "Remain" is more acceptable than either "No Deal" or any kind of softer Brexit. Just about.
- (tags:uk europe polls )
- When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet
- (tags:China censorship internet psychology news viaSwampers )
- Scottish transgender reforms put on hold
- (tags:LGBT transgender OhForFucksSake scotland )
- British politics summed up in a GIF
- (tags:politics UK funny )
- Lothian Bus bosses make buggy space pledge for new 'superbuses' after row
- (tags:transport buses babies disability Scotland edinburgh )
- 'Clean electricity' will dominate UK power supply by the end of the year
- (tags:UK electricity renewables coal nuclearpower viaDanielDWilliam )
- Why the age of electric flight is finally upon us
- (tags:electricity airplanes Technology )
- Eastern European states block bid for EU climate change 2050 decarbonisation target
- (tags:globalwarming europe doom )
- Decades-long surveys suggest that smoking changes your personality
- (tags:smoking personality )
- Corsica's 'cat-fox': On the trail of what may be a new species
- (tags:cats )
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Interesting Links for 23-03-2019
Mar. 23rd, 2019 04:16 pm- #RevokeArticle50 is now Lib Dem policy
- (tags:libdem uk europe )
- The Light Triad - exploring the saintlier side of human personality
- (tags:personality psychology good )
- The Secret Jehovah's Witness Database of Child Molesters
- (tags:religion children abuse rape )
- Daniel M'Naghten - the Scottish killer who helped define the law on the insanity defense
- (tags:law mentalhealth history viaDanielDWilliam )
- Brexit: DUP kills off Theresa May's hopes it will rescue her deal - 'nothing has changed'
- (tags:politics uk europe NorthernIreland DUP hope )
- Demonstrating the first fully automated tool to store data in DNA
- (tags:data dna Microsoft storage )
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Interesting Links for 19-03-2019
Mar. 19th, 2019 05:04 pm- "Safe When Alone, Yet Lost In Their Aloneness" - What It's Like To Live With Avoidant Personality Disorder
- (tags:psychology personality )
- Foods from agricultural lifestyles may have made it easier to form some sounds
- (tags:humans food prehistory language speech )
- Council revises its EU list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions - adding ten countries
- (tags:tax europe )
- Interesting discussion on children and presents
- (tags:children creativity presents )
- A "Bar Chart Race" animation showing the changing ranks of the 10 biggest cities in the world since 1500.
- (tags:history cities )
- An excellent range on the appalling behaviour of MPs
- (tags:politics uk )
- Vladimir Putin signs sweeping Internet-censorship bills
- (tags:Russia censorship internet )
- Your brain does not finish "growing up" until you are in your 30s
- (tags:adult development brain psychology )
- Inflammation links heart disease and depression
- (tags:inflammation heart depression )
- 'Inflamm-aging' causes loss of bone healing ability in the elderly
- (tags:age inflammation )
- Fertility app 'Dot' found to be as effective as other family planning methods
- (tags:contraception apps )
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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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