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Interesting Links for 27-04-2022

1. Edinburgh strip club dancer speaks about what it's really like to work as an exotic dancer
(tags:sexwork edinburgh )
2. Brexit has devastated UK exports to smaller EU countries, study says
(tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
3. Moviedle is a Wordle-like that condenses a movie down to a single second
(tags:games movies timelapse )
4. People naturally gravitate to the food which provides the vitamins and minerals they need
(tags:food psychology vitamins health )
5. Brexit has caused UK food prices to rise 6%
(tags:economics trade UK Europe )
6. 75% of US children have now had COVID, up from 44% due to omicron
(tags:Pandemic children USA )
7. Multiple sclerosis 'breakthrough' as scientists 'reverse symptoms' with cells transplant
(tags:ms immune_system disease )
8. Would you like to see a comparison of objects in the solar system spinning?
(tags:space solarsystem video planets )
9. No, you can't save £30 per year by switching off your "standby" devices
(tags:electricity fraud )
10. This is the sequel The Batman deserves!
(tags:batman )
11. Film productions in Edinburgh, including Good Omens and Outlander, generated £13.9 million for local economy
(tags:TV movies economy Edinburgh Scotland )
12. Turns out most dads like being involved with their young kids
(tags:children fatherhood parenting )
13. Background music can make us less cautious
(tags:music psychology )
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2021-07-11 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 11-07-2021

Quest for "green" cement draws big name investors to $300B industry
Extra info https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27795416
(tags:materials co2 cement )
Off-Patent Osteoporosis Drug Also Found to Extend Lifespan
(tags:lifespan viaDanielDWilliam )
The Planets with the Giant Diamonds Inside (inside two fascinating planets you don't hear much about)
(tags:space planets history astronomy )
Why Do Gamers Love Speedrunning So Much Anyway?
(tags:games speed )
Government's Mass Infection Plan pushed by Great Barrington Declaration Lobbying Effort to End COVID Protections
(tags:conspiracy vaccine pandemic UK government OhForFucksSake )
Not wearing a mask is associated with antisocial traits
(tags:psychology pandemic )
Boris Johnson's £11.6bn climate fund to be swiped from aid budget
(tags:UK globalwarming aid OhForFucksSake )
What is "The child-annihilating zipline"? (with bonus terrible kitchen redesign)
(tags:death children engineering )
No bids for over 70% of Indian coal mines up for auction
(tags:coal India )
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Nicolas Cage: ‘If I don’t have a job to do, I can be very self-destructive’
(tags: acting movies )
Postman Pat and… the law of merchandise
(tags: merchandising law contracts )
NHS to suffer £2.7bn cuts after government miscalculation of public sector pension costs
(tags: nhs pensions Conservatives OhForFucksSake )
Edinburgh Council reveal city-wide electric vehicle plan
(tags: edinburgh electricity cars scotland )
The Financial Times 404 Error Page is brilliant
(tags: web errors 404 funny economics )
Sex worker stall at Brighton university freshers' fairs sparks row
(tags: sexwork university )
Magic Leap Review Part 1 – The Terrible View Through Diffraction Gratings
(tags: augmentedreality fail )
Ruth Davidson doesn't understand what democracy is
(tags: democracy Conservatives Scotland UK europe )
UK will enforce hard border in Ireland if there is no Brexit deal
(tags: uk Ireland Europe NorthernIreland doom )
The Conservatives think Blockchain may resolve Irish border Brexit problem. *sigh*
(tags: ConservatIves technology bitcoin OhForFucksSake uk europe NorthernIreland Ireland )
Cern physicist suspended over 'highly offensive' presentation on sexism in science
(tags: gender physics )
'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Was Targeted by Russian Trolls
(tags: StarWars russia )
We won't compromise our principles to rescue the Tory party from Brexit, Guy Verhofstadt warns Theresa May
(tags: uk Europe doom )
Traditional societal markers of age aren't applying to millennials, and this is hard for everyone.
(tags: age society )
Artificial sweeteners have toxic effects on gut microbes
(tags: microbiome food )
‘Goblin’ world found orbiting at the edges of the Solar System
(tags: planets space solarsystem )
Why Can a Machine Beat Mario but not Pokemon?
(tags: ai pokemon Mario games )
Civil partnerships: Law to be changed for mixed-sex couples (in England and Wales. Scotland investigating)
(tags: law relationships marriage uk )
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Interesting Links for 11-04-2018

How does a colour get from a description in code to your eyeball? (A fascinating journey)
(tags: eyes colour computers light )
The closest exoplanet to Earth just got doused with deadly flares
(tags: space planets death )
Australian English (unintentionally) promotes gender equality by offering informal gender-neutral names for jobs that have traditional '-man' endings.
(tags: Australia language gender )
A simple change in the law could open up online access to the BBC's archives
(tags: BBC law uk )
How to have one of everything in the universe
(tags: funny categorisation )
Thirty years after I first saw it in a French book shop, the comic version of The Forever War is finally available in an English collection
(tags: comic scifi war )
US revenge porn victim gets $6.4m damage award
(tags: abuse internet crime )
Nick Griffin declares his support for Jeremy Corbyn
(tags: bnp Labour politics syria )
Movie about crack mayor Rob Ford to star mediocre male reporter instead of brilliant woman one who investigated him
(tags: movies gender OhForFucksSake journalism )
People with one sugar craving gene have less body fat overall
(tags: genetics sugar fat )
Why SQLite Does Not Use Git
(tags: git versioncontrol development )
How to lose a million euros outsourcing development
(tags: outsourcing india development )
Brexiters keep insisting that The Commonwealth can replace the EU for trade. This is complete nonsense
(tags: uk history trade europe )
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2017-07-19 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 19-07-2017

How Google Glass became a success
(tags: google glass Technology )
Openreach mulls full fibre rollout for 10 million in UK
Gosh. That took a whole four months from being made separate from BT.
(tags: internet uk )
Every Place We Used to Think Was a Planet (Until We Knew Better)
(tags: planets space language )
It’s always windy somewhere: Balancing renewable energy in Europe
(tags: Europe windpower renewables )
The Dark Side of the Moon lands at Dynamic Earth
I really want to see this. Anyone else in Edinburgh fancy joining me?
(tags: music edinburgh festival )
Fusion energy pushed back beyond 2050
(tags: fusion nuclearpower )
I'm really cheered by the responses to this rant about the evils of a female Doctor
(tags: drwho women )
All charges for paying by card to be banned
A quick dig discovered that banks are only allowed to charge 0.2% fees to process the charge, so making the businesses just include that in their prices seems reasonable.
(tags: payment money uk )
Rick And Morty Creators On Season 3, Delays, And The April Fools' Premiere
(tags: tv animation )
For one week these women recorded all the times they were objectified sexually
(tags: psychology research women society sex )
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