Interesting Links for 11-10-2024
Oct. 11th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Scientists put a face to the biggest bug to ever crawl the Earth
- (tags:insects aieeee! )
- 2. Biggest Supreme Court Cases To Watch
- (tags:law usa satire )
- 3. Inspired by Spider-Man, a Lab Recreates Web-Slinging Technology
- (tags:materials spiderman Technology )
- 4. The true cost of game piracy: 20 percent of revenue
- (tags:games piracy copyright Technology economics )
- 5. Would you like a card game based around horrible horrible therapy?
- (tags:therapy games )
Interesting Links for 02-04-2024
Apr. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Israel Created 'Kill Zones' in Gaza. Anyone Who Crosses Into Them Is Shot
- (tags:Israel Palestine murder )
- 2. Edinburgh's Cameron Toll roundabout to close 'in its entirety' for up to a month with bus diversions in place
- (tags:Edinburgh bridge roads buses )
- 3. Why Westminster can prevent Scotland from banning glue traps for mice, even though it's not a reserved matter
- (tags:Scotland UK law trade )
- 4. The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent is Now 20 Years Old
- (tags:copyright history piracy )
- 5. The Tale of Daniel (the oldest name in continuous use)
- (tags:names history Israel middle_east )
- 6. Ketogenic Diet Effects On Bipolar and Schizophrenia
- (tags:diet mentalhealth bipolar schizophrenia )
- 7. The Deodorant AI Woman Spokesmodel Is Real, Sort Of
- (tags:ai advertising )
Interesting Links for 20-09-2023
Sep. 20th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The Ancient Times of TV were weird
- (tags:tv weird history comic funny )
- 2. I'm pretty sure that this is where the search for consciousness is headed
- (tags:consciousness funny comic )
- 3. No evidence people have bank accounts closed due to political views, regulator says after Nigel Farage row
- (tags:politics banking )
- 4. Less than half of fresh produce sold globally makes any profit
- (tags:business food doom )
- 5. Right-wing ideologues can't work out who broke Britain, so let me explain
- (tags:uk Conservatives doom )
- 6. Humans Have Exceeded Six of the Nine Boundaries Keeping Earth Habitable
- (tags:earth environment doom )
- 7. Facebook is Blocking Canadians' Posts About the Assassination of a BC Sikh Leader. Their Posts Were Targeted by India's Government.
- (tags:india canada facebook censorship )
- 8. The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary
- (tags:birthday piracy piratebay copyright )
- 9. I was furious at the idea of a 'male menopause' but I was wrong
- (tags:men hormones age )
Interesting Links for 28-02-2023
Feb. 28th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh Labour councillor quits, says that Labour head office banning coalitions with Greens or SNP has caused a shambles
- (tags:labour scotland OhForFucksSake )
- 2. This is my favourite recent computer game review
- (tags:games review )
- 3. A Stroke Of The Pen: A Collection Of Rediscovered Short Stories By Terry Pratchett
- (tags:terrypratchett short_story )
- 4. I am actually pretty impressed at how much the UK managed to get in the new deal over Northern Ireland
- (tags:NorthernIreland trade Europe UK Ireland )
- 5. Rez on the PSVR 2 uses eye tracking for locking on!
- (tags:VirtualReality games eyes amazing )
- 6. Aurora Borealis. Edinburgh, 26 February 2023. (I couldn't see from where we live, but I do appreciate these photos)
- (tags:auroraborealis edinburgh scotland )
- 7. The Jewish influence on Good Omens
- (tags:judaism neilgaiman )
- 8. Elon Musk defends racist tirade by Dilbert creator Scott Adams
- (tags:racism dilbert ElonMusk )
- 9. TikTok's new face filters are very impressive, and make people feel awful about their real faces
- (tags:faces photoshop video )
- 10. Amazon Removes Books From Kindle Unlimited After They Appear on Pirate Sites
- (tags:copyright amazon piracy wtf publishing )
- 11. Physically Demanding Work Tied to Male Fertility
- (tags:exercise fertility men )
- 12. Eggs and margarine drive food inflation to record 17.1%
- (tags:food inflation economics uk eggs ukraine doom )
- 13. Two in three Britons want new political party to take on Tories and Labour
- (tags:politics UK )
- 14. Study finds video games are not harmful to children's brains
- (tags:videogames games brain children )
- 15. 25 years after the MMR vaccine autism fraud, we're still dealing with the consequences
- (tags:fraud autism mmr vaccination OhForFucksSake history )
Interesting Links for 20-08-2022
Aug. 20th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Want to make your own train announcement system? Now you have all of the pieces. (Who's making the hardcore techno remix?)
- (tags:trains audio viaPatrickHadfield )
- 2. My Year of Grief and Cancellation (By the person behind Your Fave Is Problematic)
- (tags:Tumblr society celebrity )
- 3. South West Water boss trebles pay with huge bonus as beaches are shut due to raw sewage pumped into sea
- (tags:water money )
- 4. Edinburgh council warns condition of city's roads will get worse over the rest of this decade
- (tags:roads Edinburgh fail Doom )
- 5. Canada's euthanasia laws go too far
- (tags:disability euthanasia Canada )
- 6. Piracy is preservation, reflections on the HBO animation cull
- (tags:animation HBO piracy TV )
Interesting Links for 16-07-2022
Jul. 16th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The cost of renewables keeps on dropping
- (tags:renewables viaDanielDWilliam GoodNews economics )
- 2. Extreme Right-Wing Terrorism Is On An Upward Trajectory in the UK
- (tags:uk terrorism )
- 3. A summary of the Publishers Vs Internet Archive case
- (tags:law copyright libraries USA books piracy publishing )
- 4. "How Princess Mononoke Was Born" - a documentary. The video quality is *terrible* but the content is fascinating
- (tags:movies ghibli princess video documentary )
Interesting Links for 09-03-2022
Mar. 9th, 2022 12:00 pm- Replace saturated fats with unsaturated ones, not with carbs and sugars
- (tags:fat heart health diet carbohydrates sugar )
- The most complete family tree of all of humanity has been created
- (tags:humans family genetics )
- Gender pay gap bot lets you know how hypocritical employers are on International Women's Day
- (tags:women pay inequality viaSwampers bots )
- Some polling on whether Russians support the Ukraine invasion
- (tags:Ukraine Russia polls war )
- Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic
- (tags:antarctic history ship )
- 'Genius' Twitter 'bot' reveals gender pay gaps of brands celebrating International Women's Day
- (tags:gender pay inequality funny )
- To understand Russia, you need to understand that it's a Mafia-run economy
- (tags:russia crime mafia economy viaDanielDWilliam )
- EU Buried Its Own $400,000 Study Showing Unauthorized Downloads Have Almost No Effect On Sales (2017)
- (tags:europe piracy copyright business )
- Scientists reverse ageing in elderly mice by rejuvenating their tissues
- (tags:age mice )
- Mouse born from unfertilised egg - without sperm - survives to adulthood, gives birth to healthy pups
- (tags:childbirth biology mice )
Interesting Links for 04-09-2021
Sep. 4th, 2021 12:00 pm- Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Language (Good luck to them, but I shall be rather sceptical)
- (tags:wikipedia language )
- JCVI Says Covid-19 Vaccines For 12-15 Year Olds Not Recommended, But the Health Secretary Disagrees
- (tags:pandemic vaccination children UK )
- Software Piracy Triggers Innovation
- (tags:software piracy innovation )
- Christopher Lloyd plays Rick Sanchez in new Rick and Morty promo
- (tags:TV funny )
Interesting Links for 13-12-2020
Dec. 13th, 2020 12:00 pm- 2021 Will Launch the Platinum Age of Piracy
- (tags:piracy Disney streaming TV )
- When you suddenly remember it's a video meeting
- (tags:funny video )
- A magical story of bringing a little light and happiness during the pandemic
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1337598289080770561.html
(tags:happiness fairytale children pandemic ) - Republicans are trying to restart the civil war.
- (tags:USA civilwar republicans OhForFucksSake )
- Zodiac Killer: Code-breakers solve San Francisco killer's cipher
- (tags:cryptography murder history USA )
- Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can
- (tags:art photography timelapse )
- I rather liked this fan edit of The Hobbit movies.
- (tags:TheHobbit remix )
- Highlights from life as a flight attendant
- (tags:flying jobs )
- Autism spectrum — Large study supports discarding the term 'high-functioning autism'
- (tags:autism )
- New UK police speed gun can read license plates from half a mile away at night
- (tags:speed safety driving cameras )
- Any port in a perfect storm: UK container trade is grinding to a halt
- (tags:trade UK Doom )
Interesting Links for 04-03-2019
Mar. 4th, 2019 12:06 pm- Brexit: Michael Gove admits farmers may never recover from no-deal
- (tags:UK europe farming doom )
- Honda reveals it had plans to make electric cars in Swindon before plant closure
- (tags:UK europe Honda doom cars )
- Momo challenge: The anatomy of a hoax
- (tags:fake news journalism police children )
- Herbalist Who Told Diabetic Boy To Use Lavender Oil Instead Of Insulin Is Jailed For His Death
- (tags:diabetes death usa OhForFucksSake fraud )
- Women hit back at archaic and damaging views on transgender rights in scathing open letter
- (tags:lgbt transgender scotland women )
- Women call ambulance for husbands with heart attacks but not for themselves
- (tags:women health heart society OhForFucksSake )
- China's Ambitious Plan to Build the World's Biggest Supergrid
- (tags:electricity china )
- The Birthday Paradox, and why hashing algorithms need such a huge number space to avoid collisions
- (tags:mathematics birthday )
- What's the worst wedding you've been at?
- (tags:wedding fail )
- Mixing different measurement scales, for fun and, well, more fun
- (tags:measurement funny )
- Humans don't actually make very good teachers
- (tags:teaching psychology attention )
- How ebook piracy can destroy the chances of you seeing a sequel to a book you loved
- (tags:books piracy business publishing )
Interesting Links for 03-10-2018
Oct. 3rd, 2018 12:00 pm- DUP 's Arlene Foster says Good Friday Agreement not 'sacrosanct'
- (tags: uk NorthernIreland Ireland doom )
- U.S. to partners of U.N. LGBTQ staff: Get married, or get out
- (tags: marriage lgbt OhForFucksSake usa )
- Brexit: DUP threatens to pull plug on Theresa May's government
- (tags: uk Europe NorthernIreland DUP )
- Immune system's balancing act keeps bowel disease in check
- (tags: IBS inflammation genetics )
- Nurseries may trump informal or childminder care for kids' psychological development
- (tags: mentalhealth children childcare psychology )
- Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before she got a wikipedia page
- (tags: Wikipedia physics women OhForFucksSake )
- As a proportion of the population, the UK has less millionaire households than many other European countries
- (tags: wealth europe )
- An Italian mayor rejuvenated his town's economy by accepting thousands of migrants – now he's been arrested for it
- (tags: immigration Italy OhForFucksSake )
- How do I embarrass 18 year olds in 2018? - NoStupidQuestions
- (tags: teenagers funny culture )
- The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy
- (tags: copyright piracy streaming Choice tv movies )
- Is the UK heading for disastrous Brexit just because it’s easiest?
- (tags: uk europe doom )
- Unite to hold ballot on Edinburgh Trams industrial action
- (tags: edinburgh trams unions )
Interesting Links for 14-08-2018
Aug. 14th, 2018 12:00 pm- How piracy protects our culture
- (tags: history culture copyright piracy )
- Julian Assange Went After a Former Ally. It Backfired Epically.
- (tags: JulianAssange OhForFucksSake )
- France approves 720MW of solar as price falls another 5%
- (tags: solarpower france )
- Portugal Dared to Cast Aside Austerity. It’s Having a Major Revival.
- (tags: economics Portugal austerity GoodNews )
- The Future of Nine Worlds
- (tags: conventions )
- Jeremy Corbyn admits being present at wreath-laying for Munich terrorists but denies paying tribute himself
- (tags: labour terrorism israel )
- The Handmaid's Tale highlights the difference between the demands of novels and TV
- Do you tell a coherent story with a beginning, middle, and end, or do you just keep going on as long as the viewers will last?
(tags: tv writing books margaretatwood ) - Sainsbury's supermarket goes 'till-free'
- (tags: technology shopping )
- Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the USA: a population-based disease burden and cost analysis
- (tags: iq endocrine usa doom )
- Edinburgh council debating new plaque on monument of former colonial secretary Henry Dundas (who delayed Britain's exit from the slave trade by fifteen years)
- (tags: Scotland slavery OhForFucksSake video history )
- Link between herpes virus and cardiovascular damage
- (tags: herpes heart health age )
- ‘Undruggable’ cancers treated by slowing growth could be 'holy grail', researchers say
- (tags: cancer research )
- Premier League: 10 of 20 clubs could have made profits in 2016-17 without fans at games
- (tags: football money business tv )
- Why some computer viruses refuse to die
- (tags: virus history computers )
- Jacob Rees-Mogg prepares to announce a rival to the Chequers plan
- (tags: Conservatives europe uk trade )
Interesting Links for 09-08-2018
Aug. 9th, 2018 12:00 pm- Yes, the SNP’s dithering is making me angry! (An immigrant speaks)
- (tags: immigration Scotland snp independence )
- UK refuses visas for a dozen Edinburgh book festival authors
- (tags: OhForFucksSake Edinburgh immigration uk books festival )
- Theresa May has 'no clear sense' of how to handle no deal Brexit
- Head firmly in the sand
(tags: UK Europe Scotland doom ) - Salisbury Spy Poisoning: US Says Russia Was Behind Nerve Agent Attack In UK, And Will Impose Sanctions
- (tags: usa Russia uk nerve poison )
- We recently moved to Octopus energy, who have excellent customer service, are cheap, and I have 100% renewable electricity. Save £50 by signing up with this referral link
- (tags: electricity uk )
- Voters in region critical to Tory election victory swing against Brexit
- (tags: polls uk Europe )
- Georgia defends voting system despite 243-percent turnout in one precinct
- No voting system which can't be manually verified should ever be used.
(tags: voting fail ) - Inducing labour one week before due date cuts childbirth complications, ‘game changing’ study finds
- (tags: babies health childbirth pregnancy )
- She’s the world’s top empathy researcher. But colleagues say she bullied and intimidated them
- (tags: bullying research academia )
- Turns out you can't just copy other people's photos you find on the internet. Who knew copyright existed?
- (tags: copyright europe germany law )
- 'Elitist': angry book pirates hit back after author campaign sinks website
- (tags: books copyright piracy )
- How Magic Leap's AR goggles went from a metre across to fitting on your head.
- (tags: design Technology augmentedreality )
- The EU Spent a Bundle to Unify the Continent. It’s Not Working.
- (tags: europe money )
- After almost a decade and billions in outside investment, Magic Leap's first product is finally on sale for $2,295. Here's what it's like.
- (tags: augmentedreality review )
Interesting Links for 11-07-2018
Jul. 11th, 2018 12:00 pm- India breastfeeding magazine cover ignites debate
- (tags: breastfeeding india )
- Theresa May will be PM til after Brexit
- (tags: Conservatives uk politics )
- PETA wants staffies added to the Dangerous Dogs Act
- (tags: dogs PETA OhForFucksSake )
- Picky Refugee Just Expects To Be Reunited With Exact Same Family As Before
- (tags: immigration satire )
- The U.S. Abortion Debate Isn’t As Partisan As Politicians Make It Seem
- (tags: usa abortion )
- EU negotiator Michel Barnier says 80% of Brexit deal is agreed
- (tags: uk europe thefuture )
- Why Russia is far less threatening than it seems
- (tags: Russia economics thefuture )
- Please don't pirate books before they've even been released!
- (tags: books publishing piracy OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
- Psychology, Numeracy and Biases in Brexit Voters
- (tags: referendum Europe UK psychology personality )
- What If Trump Has Been a Russian Asset Since 1987?
- (tags: Russia politics usa republicans conspiracy )
- Netflix's The Dragon Prince: A New Animated Series From Avatar: The Last Airbender's Head Writer Announced
- (tags: Netflix animation )
- How peopleare misreading the end of Return of the Jedi
- (tags: StarWars )
- Brits are a _lot_ more in favour of immigratns than they were five years ago
- (tags: immigration polls uk GoodNews )
- These Bizarre Glasses Promise to Cure Your Motion Sickness
- (tags: sick vision glasses )
- Turns out you can fight corruption by informing the populace of their rights
- (tags: corruption fraud GoodNews food )
- Performing meaningless rituals boosts our self-control through making us feel more self-disciplined
- (tags: self-control psychology )
- Lesbians have better sex than straight women
- (tags: sex lesbians lgbt )
Interesting Links for 01-11-2017
Nov. 1st, 2017 12:00 pm- We’re surprisingly unaware of when our own beliefs change
- (tags: belief psychology memory )
- Why isn’t the media publishing the full list of allegations against Tory MPs?
- (tags: media libel Conservatives )
- On compromise and the American Civil War
- (tags: usa slavery history war civilwar )
- Philip Pullman's swearwords are a useful lesson for children
- (tags: swearing children language )
- The effect of piracy on book sales
- (tags: sales publishing books piracy )
- Why putting the clocks back is bonkers
- (tags: time sun UK )
Interesting Links for 27-09-2017
Sep. 27th, 2017 12:00 pm- Rise in household waste being recycled in Scotland
- (tags: scotland recycling GoodNews )
- Over 2,500 products have shrunk in size over the last five years. Now including Jaffa cakes
- (tags: food inflation uk viaSwampers )
- Game of Thrones’ first Assistant Director on the challenges of Eastwatch, and how Jon Snow almost ‘turned into a human kite’
- (tags: gameofthrones tv )
- EU study finds piracy doesn’t hurt game sales, may actually help (hurts films and books though)
- (tags: piracy business games music movies books money )
- Saudi Arabia driving ban on women to be lifted
- (tags: GoodNews saudiarabia women cars driving )
- Twitter is giving you more characters to express yourself
- (tags: twitter )
- People think Rick is a really cool guy
- (tags: intelligence emotion tv )
- Eric Reid: Why Colin Kaepernick and I Decided to Take a Knee (rather than sit in protest)
- (tags: usa racism protests sports )
- Ireland to hold abortion referendum in 2018
- (tags: ireland abortion referendum )
- EasyJet puts its weight behind plans for electric planes
- (tags: airplanes electricity thefuture )
- How US kids’ problems with fractions reveal the fascinating link between language and maths
- (tags: mathematics numbers language Education )
- GM is selling a tiny electric car with 100mile range for £4,000 (in China)
- (tags: china electricity cars )
Interesting Links for 22-09-2017
Sep. 22nd, 2017 12:00 pm- This is what happens when you ask Twitter to buy the drinks
- (tags: birthday Twitter alcohol funny )
- Acclaimed French chef asks to be stripped of three Michelin stars
- (tags: food reviews france stress )
- Why Is Payroll Software Hard
- (tags: software design money tax law )
- IBM contract cost for failure-plagued Phoenix payroll system jumped to total $185M
- (tags: computers money ibm epicfail )
- Council agrees business case for extending Edinburgh tram to Leith
- (tags: Edinburgh trams )
- Another problem with “we’ll just hire the best.”
- (tags: diversity psychology work )
- EU paid for report that failed to prove piracy is harmful– and tried to hide findings
- (tags: Europe piracy copyright OhForFucksSake )
- Individualized diets for irritable bowel syndrome better than placebo
- (tags: food IBS )
- Babies learn benefits of hard work by witnessing parents persevering with difficult tasks
- (tags: psychology behaviour children parenting )
- In favour of an opt-out organ donation system
- (tags: organdonor law UK )
- Why Wages Aren’t Growing
- (tags: economics wages )
- Weather forecasting is better than it’s ever been.
- (tags: viaFanf weather )
- When Amazon recommendations and dodgy journalism lead to a moral panic
- (tags: Amazon journalism panic OhForFucksSake )
- Uber London licence not renewed
- (tags: London taxi )
- Female film casting same as 100 years ago
- (tags: movies women UK viaSwampers )
- What do American college students think about the First Amendment?
- (tags: usa freespeech university polls )
- More details on Uber losing its license
- (tags: London taxi regulation )
Interesting Links for 18-07-2017
Jul. 18th, 2017 12:00 pm- A List Of Times Doctor Who Was Ruined Forever
- (tags: drwho funny )
- Scientists marvel at creatures' precise body clock
- (tags: time genes life )
- Taiwan woman divorces husband who ignored her messages
- (tags: communication relationships divorce marriage )
- Is Love Racist? The TV show laying our biases bare
- (tags: love relationships viaSwampers race uk )
- Custos startup uses bitcoin bounties to make pirates rat on one another
- (tags: piracy copyright bitcoin )
- UK students should not try to pay off loans early
- (tags: tax students uk )
- Pay-per-mile road tax plan wins £250,000 Wolfson economics prize
- (tags: tax cars transport economics viaSwampers )
- Humans hardwired to lean to the right while kissing the world over
- (tags: psychology romance kissing )
- Manchester’s bike-share scheme isn't working – because people don't know how to share
- (tags: sharing society bicycles UK manchester )
- Flow battery developer ViZn Energy says it can pair solar and storage for 4¢/kWh
- (tags: solarpower batteries electricity )
- Generating random English place names
- (tags: geography names AI England )
- Doctor Who: We regret to inform you that you are still legally a man
- (tags: drwho law lgbt transgender uk )
- “Board game of the year” goes to Kingdomino (my copy arrives today!)
- (tags: games )
- A brain implant turns “loser” mice into aggressive fighters
- (tags: mice brain aggression personality cyborg )
- Programmers discuss "What's the worst thing your code has done?"
- (tags: fail programming )
- Smoking in the UK now down to 15%, government aims for 12%
- (tags: smoking uk )
- Advertising watchdog to get tough on gender stereotypes
- (tags: advertising stereotypes gender uk )