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Interesting Links for 18-01-2024
Jan. 18th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. How is "scone" pronounced - a map
- (tags:language maps UK )
- 2. Who Are Western Europeans? New Study Reveals True Origins (three waves of colonisation)
- (tags:europe prehistory )
- 3. Drama with a social conscience is vital to get through to the public, but the BBC have stopped doing that
- (tags:bbc itv drama UK journalism politics )
- 4. Gravity Storage 101 Or Why Pumped Hydro Is The Only Remotely Real Gravity Storage
- (tags:physics gravity batteries storage )
Interesting Links for 31-12-2023
Dec. 31st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. For the Safety of Jews and Palestinians, Stop Weaponizing Antisemitism
- (tags:Jews Israel Palestine bigotry )
- 2. The British now basically blame Brexit for *everything*
- (tags:UK Europe polls )
- 3. Generative AI produces copyright infringements from the vaguest of prompts
- (tags:ai copyright )
- 4. China's Xi goes full Stalin with purge
- (tags:china politics authoritarianism )
- 5. New theory claims to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics
- (tags:gravity relativity physics quantum )
Interesting Links for 20-12-2023
Dec. 20th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to “hacks-for-hire” controversy.
- (tags:Technology hacking india censorship )
- 2. Animation vs. Physics
- (tags:physics animation video )
- 3. Baby It’s Cold Outside discourse is the same as Macbeth discourse.
- (tags:shakespeare funny )
- 4. NHS dentistry as we know it 'gone for good'
- (tags:UK NHS teeth OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Why MAs at Oxford had to swear an oath against a man who'd been dead for over 500 years.
- (tags:history university uk oxford murder viaPatrickHadfield )
- 6. New income tax band for people in Scotland earning over £75,000
- (tags:scotland income tax )
- 7. Teams are more creative when they're sitting next to each other
- (tags:creativity teams work psychology )
- 8. Iceland volcano erupts leaving 2.5-mile crack (with live video)
- (tags:iceland volcano )
- 9. Tom Bombadil and The Ring, a Christmas story
- (tags:Christmas lotr fanfic )
- 10. Lord of the Rings fan fiction writer tries to sue Amazon/Tolkien, gets countersued into a smoking crater
- (tags:copyright fanfic EpicStupidity lotr Tolkien )
- 11. A series of charts showing how awful the Conservatives are for the economy
- (tags:UK economy conservatives Labour )
- 12. Tory attempts to ban social transitioning in schools held up by lack of evidence showing it causes any problems
- (tags:LGBT law schools UK )
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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 07-09-2023
Sep. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Russia! Attacks! Romania! (accidentally)
- (tags:Russia Romania Ukraine war )
- 2. Why there won't be a boom in British onshore wind
- (tags:UK windpower conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Scientists grow whole model of human embryo from stem cells in lab
- (tags:babies stem_cells ArtificialLife )
- 4. Heating on prescription trial suggests fewer NHS visits
- (tags:NHS heating health )
- 5. Israel is enforcing apartheid in the West Bank, says former Mossad spy chief
- (tags:Israel Palestine apartheid )
- 6. Connected cars are a privacy nightmare
- (tags:cars privacy OhForFucksSake )
- 7. The room-temperature superconductor that wasn't
- (tags:superconductors materials science physics )
Interesting Links for 01-09-2023
Sep. 1st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Neil Gaiman almost inadvertently prevented Terry Pratchett's unfinished work from being steamrolled
- (tags:terrypratchett neilgaiman death writing )
- 2. Las leyes de la física son inquebrantables.
- (tags:physics funny video )
- 3. RSPB boss apologises after charity points out government lies
- (tags:lies conservatives charity UK politics )
- 4. Ukraine unveils 'terminator' land drones that can fire machine guns and cross minefields
- (tags:drone ukraine war Russia )
- 5. Comic Book Character Says "Bollocks" Every Once in a While so You Don't Forget He's English
- (tags:swearing english UK writing comics funny )
- 6. Patients treated by female surgeons are less likely to die
- (tags:surgery women death )
- 7. Bessie Watson, the incredible life story of the "Suffragette Piper Girl"
- (tags:Edinburgh history music women voting Scotland wwi viaDanielDWilliam )
Interesting Links for 01-08-2023
Aug. 1st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The BBC is now on Mastodon (a bit)
- (tags:bbc socialnetworking )
- 2. Good design remembers what it means to be human
- (tags:design )
- 3. Air force had early warning of pulsars
- (tags:space history viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. What's going on with the Room-Temperature Superconductor news?
- (tags:superconductors physics )
- 5. Sizewell C nuclear power plant: MPs question if it will offer value for money
- (tags:nuclearpower money uk )
- 6. 495 Uxbridge voters tip the whole UK climate policy into madness
- (tags:uk environment globalwarming doom politics )
- 7. When the Yogurt Took Over: A Short Story
- (tags:food ai scifi short_story )
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Interesting Links for 01-04-2023
Apr. 1st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
- (tags:ai Italy privacy Europe regulation )
- 2. Where Stands Scotland after the SNP Leadership Election?
- (tags:Scotland LGBT politics religion snp )
- 3. My cultural dimensions are most like the Netherlands. I can live with that
- I object to the "feminine" bit, by the way. At no point are you asked if you think if women are better. It's all about "Are women real people like men are?"
(tags:Netherlands society quiz ) - 4. Europe's first remotely operated underwater laboratory is taking shape 2.5 km under the sea
- (tags:research physics ocean Europe )
- 5. How Chaos Control Is Changing The World
- (tags:chaos control ai video viaNancyLebov )
- 6. This kind of abuse is what Keir Starmer wants for trans children
- (tags:LGBT school labour OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Energy Saving Road Lighting in Norway Dims To 20% When No Cars Are Nearby
- (tags:lighting energy roads Norway )
- 8. Coloring LGBT history
- (tags:lgbt history photos colour )
Interesting Links for 13-03-2023
Mar. 13th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. How Brexit has weakened the narratives of nationalist parties across the EU
- (tags:UK Europe nationalism )
- 2. Banning make-up, short skirts and toilet breaks is allowing misogyny to run rife in our schools
- (tags:school misogyny clothing girls )
- 3. Buried alive in elven armour - for art
- (tags:lotr archeology art death )
- 4. Brexit Britain doesn't even make the long list for new manufacturing investment
- (tags:UK Europe manufacturing investment Doom )
- 5. Neil Gaiman on what it was like writing with Terry Pratchett
- (tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett writing )
- 6. Pulsars sometimes speed up because they're slowing down, because of quantum mechanics
- (tags:astronomy stars quantum physics viaPatrickHadfield )
- 7. China's gay conversion camps: survivors tell of abuse, beatings, and electric shocks
- (tags:abuse LGBT China OhForFucksSake )
- 8. Catholic Group Spends Millions on Dating App Data to Out Gay Priests
- (tags:LGBT Catholic gay OhForFucksSake )
- 9. Believe it or not, the Amish are loving electric bikes
- (tags:electricity bicycles Amish technology )
- 10. Victorian Vampire slaying kit complete with wooden stake and holy water set to fetch thousands at auction
- (tags:history vampire auctions )
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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)
- (tags:USA assault tv )
- 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
- (tags:Edinburgh gas park )
- 5. Clearly the best console gaming setup ever
- (tags:gaming consoles video impressive )
- 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
- (tags:uk cooking myths )
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Interesting Links for 09-01-2023
Jan. 9th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The Oberkassel puppy is the oldest known domesticated dog
- (tags:dogs prehistory Germany )
- 2. The Westminster Accounts - The first fully searchable database of the money being used to lubricate the machinery of British politics
- (tags:money UK politics viaDanielDWilliam )
- 3. This is my favourite story about computers and bureaucracy
- (tags:computers history bureaucracy )
- 4. Stephen Hawking's most important contribution may have been a very interesting question about black holes
- (tags:physics space StephenHawking viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. Baby! And! Cat!
- (tags:babies cats video cute )
- 6. Why Conan is freed - a look at a pivotal moment in the movie
- (tags:Conan movies writing )
- 7. The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene
- (tags:genetics sports fat bodies research )
- 8. Countries as villains (as created by an AI)
- (tags:ai evil countries art )
- 9. Killings by US police reach record high
- (tags:USA police death )
- 10. Bolsonaro weighs next steps with input from Trump aides Bannon, Miller (from November, just a reminder that this is all linked)
- (tags:USA SouthAmerica coup Brazil )
- 11. On the Russian soul, imperialism and moral obligations (and how Russians lie to themselves about their colonial past)
- (tags:russia )
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Interesting Links for 06-01-2023
Jan. 6th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Facebook Wanted Out of Politics. It Was Messier Than Anyone Expected.
- (tags:Facebook politics )
- 2. Reminder that most of the velocity imparted to a rocket to get it into orbit is *sideways*
- (tags:physics space rockets )
- 3. In the annals of weird cover versions this one of "Hurt" is definitely one of them
- (tags:music video weird )
- 4. Dungeons & Dragons' New License Tightens Its Grip on Competition
- (tags:licensing dungeonsanddragons intellectual_property business )
- 5. Warhammer 40k Reimagined As A 1980's Sci Fi Movie (probably by AI)
- (tags:warhammer movies ai video viaMyBrotherMike )
Interesting Links for 02-01-2023
Jan. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. After nearly 30 years, there's finally a new issue of Miracleman by Neil Gaiman
- (tags:comics Miracleman history )
- 2. I've found my New Year's Resolution!
- (tags:resolutions grammar funny )
- 3. Terraria's Steam success is the fruit of unmatched long-term support
- (tags:games )
- 4. Maintenance of FORM, the 1980s software that's used for the particle physics' hardest calculations, rests almost entirely with one septuagenarian physicist.
- (tags:physics software Doom )
- 5. Yesterday was the 40th birthday of the internet!
- (tags:internet history )
- 6. Andrew Tate fuelling misogyny in UK schools, teachers warn
- (tags:misogyny homophobia LGBT bigotry OhForFucksSake school children )
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Interesting Links for 13-12-2022
Dec. 13th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Researchers thought weight and education had shared genetic roots - turns out that educated people tended to marry thin people
- (tags:education weight genetics family )
- 2. How many times does Hidetaka Miyazaki have to tell an interviewer that Armored Core 6 isn't a Soulsborne game?
- (tags:games interview mecha )
- 3. Reminder that "Eskimo" is a slur.
- (tags:Inuit language abuse )
- 4. The 10 Most Promising Breakthrough Innovations of 2022
- (tags:science viaDanielDWilliam )
- 5. Renewables are set to triple over the next three years, and overtake coal to be the largest source worldwide
- (tags:renewables GoodNews viaBenWerdmuller )
- 6. Probably the geekiest drinking game of all time
- (tags:games alcohol geekery Windows )
- 7. When your nose gets cold it loses its ability to fight infections
- (tags:disease cold temperature noses )
- 8. Disney now hiding LGBT content from kids, irrespective of age rating
- (tags:LGBT children Disney )
- 9. Independent blockchain news site turns out to be funded by fradulent crypto company
- (tags:fraud journalism blockchain )
- 10. The amusement park rides in The Centrifuge Brain Project deeply unsettled me
- (tags:video gravity physics movie documentary )
- 11. It is very hard to keep a straight face while an elephant is fondling it
- (tags:elephants cute video funny )
- 12. I'm not sure if my advice would be to never interview the Muppets live, or always interview the Muppets live.
- (tags:muppets interview funny video )
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Interesting Links for 08-12-2022
Dec. 8th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Support for Independence hits 56%, 51% of people to vote SNP (53% if it's a defacto referendum)
- (tags:scotland independence polls )
- 2. Transphobes are now attacking...The Samaritans.
- (tags:lgbt transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake suicide )
- 3. BBC plans to switch off broadcast TV and move to internet-only programmes
- (tags:bbc thefuture streaming broadcasting )
- 4. Discovery of world's oldest DNA breaks record by one million years
- (tags:genetics dna prehistory )
- 5. The Art Game and the Money Game and how the ending of Minecraft was set free
- (tags:games art money copyright Microsoft contracts )
- 6. Sats: MPs and peers fail tests for 11-year-olds as campaign groups call for overhaul of 'high-stakes' exams
- (tags:exams children politics )
- 7. First UK coal mine in decades approved
- (tags:UK coal environment globalwarming )
- 8. Europe First: Brussels gets ready to dump its free trade ideals (because the USA and China both already have)
- (tags:Europe China USA trade )
- 9. Two inhaled covid vaccines have been approved. Here's what you need to know.
- (tags:vaccines pandemic )
- 10. AI learns to precisely manipulate individual atoms
- (tags:ai atom physics research )
- 11. How Many Fundamental Constants Does It Take To Explain The Universe? (26, at the moment)
- (tags:physics )
- 12. People expect identical twins to be *really* identical
- (tags:twins genetics statistics )
- 13. Humans are surprisingly poor at picking up cues of aggression in dogs
- (tags:dogs behaviour psychology )
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Interesting Links for 30-11-2022
Nov. 30th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Lion statues Edinburgh: Pride of 24 lions arrive in The Meadows
- (tags:lions statue edinburgh )
- 2. Less than half of England and Wales population Christian, Census 2021 shows (46% to be precise, down 13% in a decade)
- (tags:religion Christianity UK )
- 3. Inside the Proton, the 'Most Complicated Thing' Imaginable
- (tags:physics viaNancyLebov )
- 4. You've almost certainly seen photos of Nazis burning books. But do you know which books they were?
- (tags:Nazis books LGBT transgender history censorship )
- 5. Labour refuses to follow recommendations for an independent disciplinary process
- (tags:labour OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Movetodon: Find your Twitter Friends on Mastodon
- (tags:mastodon twitter viaSwampers )
- 7. Every object in Conway's Game of Life that can be constructed at all, now has a fixed cost of 15 gliders. Here's how.
- (tags:life computers impressive )
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Interesting Links for 28-11-2022
Nov. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books
- (tags:library history women horses usa )
- 2. AI image generation is improving quickly
- (tags:AI art )
- 3. America is a Christian Nationalist Hellhole, license plate edition
- (tags:OhForFucksSake Christianity USA religion fascism driving )
- 4. One nice thing about Mastodon is that, for example, the EU can set up an instance and then you can trust every post on there is a verified EU institution/entity
- (tags:Europe socialnetworking identity )
- 5. How supportive would Britons be of a family member coming out? (also compared to other countries)
- (tags:LGBT polls )
- 6. French man wins right to not be 'fun' at work in wrongful termination case
- (tags:work France fun law )
- 7. Ineos in talks with Rolls-Royce to build mini nuclear reactor and power Scottish chemical refinery
- (tags:scotland nuclearpower viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. The High-Temperature Superconductivity Mystery Is Finally Solved
- (tags:physics )
- 9. How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence
- (tags:disgust terrorism violence bigotry )
- 10. Power grid boost as two Scottish firms net £14m to work on energy storage systems
- (tags:storage electricity scotland )
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Interesting Links for 25-11-2022
Nov. 25th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Anyone I know fancy a plush sphinx?
- (tags:toys )
- 2. Google is changing how it provides its services so it can track you better
- (tags:viaSwampers Google web surveillance )
- 3. Want your car to accelerate faster? Then you'll need to pay a monthly fee
- (tags:OhForFucksSake cars business )
- 4. DragonForce - My Heart Will Go On
- (tags:music Titanic cover )
- 5. LessWrong/Effective Altruism as racists
- (tags:racism )
- 6. 10 years after stalking was made illegal, victims feel abandoned by the law
- (tags:UK stalking law fail OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Oxford scientists crack case of why ketchup splatters from near-empty bottle
- (tags:food physics )
Interesting Links for 15-11-2022
Nov. 15th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. AI can now generate video snippets from text descriptions
- (tags:ai video text impressive google )
- 2. Are you an architecture nerd? Or biology? Or astronomy? Or politics? Then here are some awesome gifts for you...
- (tags:presents geekery politics philosophy psychology architecture physics biology medicine mathematics )
- 3. A strapon inspired by the facehugger from Alien! Who wouldn't want one?
- (tags:alien sextoys )
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