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Interesting Links for 24-12-2021
Dec. 24th, 2021 12:00 pm- Ancient mass migration transformed Britons' DNA
- (tags:genetics UK prehistory language )
- Omicron needs to be 90% less severe to avoid large wave in hospital admissions
- (tags:NHS Doom Pandemic virus )
- People With Omicron Are 50-70% Less Likely To Be Hospitalised Than Other Covid Cases
- (tags:NHS Pandemic Doom UK )
- The consolidation of the games industry continues apace
- (tags:games business )
- New muscle layer in human jaw discovered
- (tags:biology humans teeth )
- Did dinosaurs have a similar pre-hatching posture to modern birds?
- (tags:dinosaurs eggs birds fossils )
- Drone shows are really impressive nowadays!
- (tags:drone pretty viaSwampers )
- From apanthropy to zwodder, an A-Z of Christmas
- (tags:Christmas language viaDanielDWilliam )
- Precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelength lasers
- (tags:food 3dprinting lasers )
- Watching A Lecture Twice At Double Speed Can Benefit Learning Better Than Watching It Once At Normal Speed
- (tags:speed teaching videos education psychology )
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Interesting Links for 22-04-2021
Apr. 22nd, 2021 12:00 pm- James Bond: The Flowchart
- (tags:JamesBond flowchart charlesstross )
- How to make Disappointment a positive force in your life
- (tags:advice philosophy happiness self-improvement life )
- The majority of people in the UK think that transphobia is a problem. Including almost twice as many women as don't.
- (tags:bigotry UK LGBT transgender polls )
- Manhattan to stop prosecuting prostitution, dismissing cases dating back decades
- (tags:prostitution USA GoodNews )
- The Super League Was The Wrong Solution To A Real Problem
- (tags:money football business )
- Ousted No 10 aide complains of class bias in Westminster
- (tags:class uk CivilService government )
- 'An uncomfortable chair' - why the international trade secretary wrongly believes trade deals are quick and easy, and why this false belief matters
- (tags:trade uk doom )
- Sleep deprivation impairs molecular clearance from the human brain
- (tags:sleep brain )
- Don't ask artists to share your kinks.
- (tags:art fetish )
- AmIUnique - checking if your computer can be uniquely idenfitied by its browser details
- (tags:surveillance browser viaNathan )
- Scotland set for hybrid-electric plane trial
- (tags:electricity planes scotland )
- Ferrofluid display cell bluetooth speaker
- (tags:pretty video music metal )
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Interesting Links for 26-11-2020
Nov. 26th, 2020 12:00 pm- Can a neutral network recognise your doodles?
- (tags:art ai )
- The Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine Data Isn't Up to Snuff
- (tags:uk vaccination pandemic oxford )
- Andromeda over Patagonia
- (tags:space photo pretty )
- KFC deploys autonomous 5G food trucks in China
- (tags:food delivery automation )
- The first artist with a Criminal Behaviour Order affecting the type of music he can put out
- (tags:music UK crime viaDanielDWilliam )
- You'll feel like you've got the flu for a couple of days after your first Covid vaccine shot. You must get the second one anyway
- (tags:vaccine pandemic )
- How Dutch Plant Breeders Bred The Badness Out Of Brussels Sprouts
- (tags:food genetics )
- Explaining Jewish holidays
- (tags:Jews judaism religion )
- How the Once Elusive Dream of Laser Weapons Suddenly Became a Reality
- (tags:lasers weaponry technology )
- 6 Essential Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Programming
- (tags:programming advice )
- Olivia Colman, Jameela Jamil and Paloma Faith condemn 'violence and hostility' against trans women in open letter
- (tags:LGBT transgender )
Interesting Links for 14-08-2020
Aug. 14th, 2020 12:00 pm- In the 1850s people thought there were 23 planets in the solar system
- (tags:solarsystem space history )
- Anger at 193 week waiting list for trans patients to see a doctor on NHS (target is 18 weeks)
- (tags:LGBT healthcare UK )
- Storm leaves 30m hole in Union Canal, knocking out the Edinburgh-Glasgow rail line.
- (tags:trains canal Scotland )
- Germany: 120,000 hectares stripped bare by field mice
- (tags:mice food farming Germany Doom )
- Israel and UAE reach historic peace deal
- (tags:Israel middle_east GoodNews )
- Nearly 300 workers test positive at M&S sandwich supplier in Northampton
- (tags:pandemic food )
- Why 'Lovecraft Country' book, HBO series are named for a racist
- (tags:racism history hplovecraft tv )
- Hands up who wants to zip line in to the mouth of Godzilla?
- (tags:Godzilla awesome )
- Young children would rather explore than get rewards
- (tags:psychology children reward )
- The Mesmerizing Geometry of Malaysia's Most Complex Cakes
- (tags:Malaysia cake pretty )
- It's Time to Demystify the Serial Killer.
- (tags:murder )
- Transparent TVs are pretty darned impressive
- (tags:Technology television impressive video )
- "Discourses of Delay" - the 12 arguments that global warming deniers have moved to.
- (tags:globalwarming argument discussion )
- Ongoing EU-China deal casts a long shadow over Brexit talks
- (tags:europe china uk trade )
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Interesting Links for 09-06-2019
Jun. 9th, 2019 01:43 pm- California Considering a Ban on Realtime Police Body Camera Facial Recognition
- (tags:faces police California usa )
- Charlie Stross on The Millenial Joker Origin Story
- (tags:batman jobs comics origins )
- Torture Should Not Work in Dungeons & Dragons
- (tags:torture games dungeonsanddragons viaSupergee )
- The trailer for "Ophelia" looks awesome
- (tags:shakespeare women hamlet trailer )
- A third of people are sensitive to artificial fragrances. 9% of us have had to take time off (or lose a job) in the last year because of it
- (tags:smell jobs health )
- Commons committee finds UK welfare approach counterproductive and pointlessly cruel. Government ignores it.
- (tags:welfare uk OhForFucksSake )
- ASCII fluid dynamics
- (tags:ascii text video fluid physics )
- An open letter to pretty much every linguistic Voynich theorist ever
- (tags:language epicfail )
- The Kelly Criterion - how should you bet in a given situation?
- (tags:gambling )
- Have a bunch of pretty images (pulled from Reddit)
- (tags:photos reddit pretty )
- Michael Sheen Inspired By Good Omens Fanfic For Aziraphale's Love Of Crowley
- (tags:books tv neilgaiman terrypratchett fanfic )
- NYC Burger King has been passing off beef as (vegan) Impossible Whoppers
- (tags:meat food OhForFucksSake )
- Clearing Up Some Misconceptions about Neurodiversity
- (tags:neurodiversity )
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Interesting Links for 09-08-2017
Aug. 9th, 2017 12:00 pm- Death as a social privilege?
- (tags: death euthanasia race )
- Computer says no: Irish vet fails oral English test needed to stay in Australia
- (tags: OhForFucksSake ireland language accents australia )
- Unlearning the myth of American innocence
- (tags: usa history )
- Adorable Black Metal Comics That’ll Satisfy Your Dark Side
- (tags: music funny metal )
- Rare 'pink rainbow' spotted in sky over Bristol
- (tags: pretty sky )
- How a children’s cartoon ignited a debate about skin color in Roman Britain, and what it has to do with genetics
- (tags: genetics Rome UK history )
- The Broken US Economy, in One Simple Chart
- (tags: usa inequality )
- Edinburgh tram decision in September, with line due in 2022
- (tags: Edinburgh trams )
- The Most Common Error in Coverage of the Google Memo
- (tags: google diversity journalism )
- Keep them busy and poor
- (tags: unions politics students )
- How does biology explain the low numbers of women in computer science
- (tags: biology gender mathematics programming )
- Researchers are studying psychopathic chimps to better understand the human variety
- (tags: monkey psychology psychopath )
- Second whole-class failure of Inverness College media exam
- I would love to know how this happens. Do the teachers not understand what the exam boards want? Is there total incompetence on the part of the college?
(tags: Education fail )
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Interesting Links for 21-06-2017
Jun. 21st, 2017 12:00 pm- Edinburgh's Ross Bandstand designs shortlisted
- (tags: design music edinburgh )
- A Neural Network Turned a Book of Flowers Into Gorgeous Dinosaur Art
- (tags: dinosaurs plants ai pretty )
- Amazon Prime Wardrobe lets you try on and return clothes free
- (tags: Amazon clothing )
- Older fathers have geekier sons
- (tags: geek age fatherhood children )
- Sherlock's Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat to get their teeth into Dracula
- (tags: Dracula tv StevenMoffat bbc )
- The story of music is the story of humans
- Are there any other animals that dance? Because "song" seems reasonably common in some senses, but rhythm seems specific to humans
(tags: music humans prehistory ) - I had never heard of deck prisms. Ingenious idea.
- And copied cheaply in poor areas nowadays using a plastic bottle full of water
(tags: lighting history glass Technology ) - Gangs of aggressive killer whales are shaking down Alaska fishing boats for their fish
- (tags: fish sharks usa )
- The Philosophy Force Five vs the Scientismists
- (tags: comic science philosophy funny )
- Maze converted to Spanning Tree (nice visualisation/animation)
- (tags: visualisation animation trees )
- She May Be The Most Unstoppable Scientist In The World
- (tags: yemen women science war )
- If people can see an immediate payoff they'll take it, even if it means they make less in the long term
- (tags: money psychology games information )
- It's reading posts like this that make me feel much more secure in my competence as a programmer
- I remember a job interview where the interviewer handed me a page of printout from halfway through a program, and asked me to explain it.
I said "Well, this is a loop, and it's doing something with a 'salary' variable, and calculating tax in some way, but it's calling off to a function that's not on this page, so I'm not sure what. I'm sorry, I can't tell much more than that, what am I missing?"
And they said "You're the fourth person I've interviewed for this coding job, and the first one who wasn't lying about being able to program."
(tags: programming fail OhForFucksSake ) - Man sent home from work for wearing shorts in over 30°C heat comes back in a dress
- (tags: clothing gender heat )
- The world's oldest still-used bridge
- (tags: architecture history bridge greece )
- US Supreme Court Says You Can't Ban People From The Internet, No Matter What They've Done
- (tags: usa law freespeech internet )
- Queen's Speech summary: Bill-by-bill at a glance
- (tags: politics uk Conservatives )
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Interesting Links for 10-06-2017
Jun. 10th, 2017 12:00 pm- May hoping for ‘constructive relationship’ with creationist homophobes who think Pope is Satan
- (tags: politics religion NorthernIreland Conservatives )
- A two hour rant on the evils of Sherlock (and Steven Moffat's recent work in general)
- (tags: StevenMoffat writing tv video fail drwho )
- What connects Brexit, the DUP, dark money and a Saudi prince?
- (tags: saudiarabia NorthernIreland politics wtf )
- "As a Protestant Unionist about to marry an Irish Catholic, here's the Amnesty Pride lecture I gave in Belfast"
- (tags: lgbt Conservatives scotland religion marriage relationships NorthernIreland )
- "What do you SWEAR you saw, but don't have any proof of?"
- (tags: stories life interesting )
- What does the DUP want?
- (tags: politics NorthernIreland )
- I hadn't realised that Amazon lent money to sellers on its platform
- (tags: Amazon loans )
- Malabar giant squirrel. Gorgeous!
- (tags: squirrel india pretty viaElfy )
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Interesting Links for 04-05-2017
May. 4th, 2017 12:54 pm- HIV in animals cured for the first time
- (tags: hiv genetics )
- I translated *that* German article concerning the May-Juncker dinner everyone’s been talking about.
- (tags: europe uk politics )
- Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn face being empty chaired by ITV in leaders debate
- (tags: politics uk tv )
- "Disco Tits" Are Music Festival Season's Sparkly New Alternative to Wearing a Shirt (nsfw)
- (tags: makeup pretty nsfw )
- The DVLA insists on printing women’s titles but not men’s on licences
- (tags: names bureaucracy sexism )
- California will lose enough solar energy to power Los Angeles during the eclipse on Aug. 21
- (tags: solarpower sun )
- Phthalates increase the risk of allergies among children
- (tags: pthalates plastic allergies children )
- Who wants to see a seal having its tummy scratched?
- Underwater puppies are awesome
(tags: cute water video ) - How do you decide who to vote for when they're all THIS rubbish?
- (tags: politics advice )
Interesting Links for 09-08-2016
Aug. 9th, 2016 12:00 pm- Terminally ill actor Brian Rix calls for assisted dying law change
- (tags: death law uk )
- A third of all customers cheat at self-service checkouts
- (tags: shopping crime Technology psychology )
- You Won’t Believe Which Of Your Favorite Websites Are Running On JavaScript
- (tags: javascript web funny satire )
- One Player’s Nine-Year Journey to Open a Locked, Secret Door
- (tags: mmorpg games )
- Kung Fu Motion Visualization Video
- (tags: video Technology pretty )
- Google Maps Removes Palestine In Favor Of Israel
- (tags: maps israel palestine )
Interesting Links for 11-09-2015
Sep. 11th, 2015 12:00 pm- Most voters would welcome a more radical, socialist Labour party, new poll finds
- How the Iran Deal Affects Ordinary People’s Lives in Iran
- Blimey, things have changed for queer people in Britain.
- People continue to be surprised that people are people
- You should judge other people as much as possible
- I Love 2012. So I Decided To Live In It.
- DragonCon had a lot of awesome Mad Max cosplay
- The age demographics of Tumblr
- Bitcoin users are DDOSing Bitcoin
- The hormonal factor FGF21, present in breast milk, plays a key role in regulating newborn metabolism
- xkcd: could care less about grammar
- Sea slugs are really, really pretty
- An anatomical representation of what periods feel like (with dinosaur)
- Gut bacteria correlated with body weight, fat and good cholesterol levels
- A brief history of British Immigration - from 1066 to the present day
- The US Marines tested all-male squads against mixed-gender ones, and the results were pretty bleak (I hope they improve)
- The British Library Puts Over 1,000,000 Images in the Public Domain
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Interesting Links for 14-08-2015
Aug. 14th, 2015 12:00 pm- Jeremy Corbyn replies to Blair warning: I don't do personal, I don't do abuse
- Livejournal PSA: How to switch between /friends page and /feed page
- Neil Gaiman on His Return to Miracleman (22 years later!)
- How have things changed, 100 days into a Conservative government?
- Liquid magnets may be the lava lamps of the 21st century.
- Why paleontologists shouldn't play computer games...
- The Emerging Fetish of Laying Alien Eggs Inside Yourself
- What ‘Game of Thrones’ Does to Your Heart Rate
- Why are Scottish Muslims better integrated than English ones?
- Blairism is magical thinking
- Edinburgh's Half-A-Tram-Line loses less than expected
- What movie was #1 (in the US) the day you were born? (Deliverance!)
- Woman ends twenty year attempt to like jazz
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Interesting Links for 06-03-2015
Mar. 6th, 2015 12:00 pm- The dangers of intermediate targets: IQ, cholesterol, and 99%-ile latency
- Do different kinds of groups have different natural limits on their sizes?
- Psychedelics not linked to mental health problems or suicidal behavior
- Magnificent Faucet Swirls Water into Elegant Patterns
- I will not be doing this 22 hour Avengers marathon at the cinema.
- Fifty Shades of Grey schoolboy causes stir at school
- When someone steals your identity to carry out online relationships.
- A Note on Call-Out Culture
- Could a 'citizen's income' work?
- Brain pathway linking anxiety and obesity discovered.
- The greatest program ever written
- Ferguson police report: Most shocking parts
- Next up for Edinburgh's ongoing transformation: Regent Road
- A new OECD study challenges stereotypes about children, gender, and academic ability
- Why Software Maker Fog Creek Is Helping Its Competitors Hire Women
- If Programming Languages Were Harry Potter Characters
- North Korea's creeping economic reforms show signs of paying off
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Interesting Links for 27-12-2014
Dec. 27th, 2014 11:00 am- Crowley’s Law
- We got my dad a done for Christmas. It will probably end up like this.
- More flexible hours for working women could save the UK £700m a year
- The 20 best games of 2014
- Some fascinating background on the Christmas Truce of WWI
- Twelve new genetic causes of developmental disorders - increasing the proportion of diagnosable diseases by 10%
- First scientific report shows police body-cameras can prevent unacceptable use-of-force
- The Shawshank Residuals
- The same pathways that help with physical pain seem to moderate existential distress.
- Why Do American Jews Eat Chinese Food on Christmas?
- The Ten Myths of Innovation
- Scientists use skin cells to create artificial sperm and eggs
- The Sunsets of 2014
- White people become less racist just by moving to more diverse areas
- This Is Maker Faire’s Secret Wall of Animatronic, 3D-Printed Dicks
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Interesting Links for 17-02-2014
Feb. 17th, 2014 11:00 am- In Germany, House Prices Keep Falling -- Because That's What House Prices Are Supposed To Do
- BBC accused of political bias – on the right, not the left
- Incredible 3D-looking GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect
- Thinking about money makes parenting less meaningful
- What do women want? It depends on time of month
- Fathers drinking: Also responsible for fetal disorders?
- Putting China's Space Program in Perspective
- A strategy that narrows academic achievement gap by 63 percent
- The people behind Candy Crush grow ever more disgusting
- Who Was the Snuggliest Dinosaur of All?
- Kinetic Sculpture: Machines at work make pretty patterns
- Debunking the myth of Kitty Genovese
- I just learned something new about the computer game "Lemmings"
- Crystal Head Vodka Forensic Facial Reconstruction
- The Man Who Built Catan
- This App Lets You Crowdsource Dating Advice... While You're On Dates
- Nanomotors Are Controlled, for the First Time, Inside Living Cells
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Interesting Links for 25-07-2013
Jul. 25th, 2013 12:00 pm- Say Goodbye to the Tech Sounds You'll Never Hear Again (although at least two of these are wrong)
- You can now make a living playing video games on YouTube
Well, a few people can. I suspect it's a very small niche.
- What Happens When People in Pakistan Start Taking MIT Classes?
- 10 jargon phrases used for my autistic son
- Porn-blocking season is here again - pointing out the wilful stupidity behind the Government's latest push.
- Methane meltdown: The $60trn arctic timebomb
- Putting a price on life - why the meningitis B vaccine isn't being taken up by the NHS
- 21 Awesome Pictures Of "Bunny Island"
- Nice post on bisexuality. (I find it barking that it's still an issue for anyone.)
- The cutest penguin-related thing _ever_
- Moss Graffiti looks awesome
- 5 Thoughts From A Month With The Oculus Rift
- Facebook: 700million users every day, $333million profit last quarter.
- Mystery in Motion, Beauty in Battle - Helicopter+sand = pretty!
- How to Train Your Spouse Like an Animal (See also: Children & coworkers)
- Psychopaths have an empathy switch - they only understand how you feel when they want to.
- What DNA Proves about the ancestry of the people of Ireland
- Bot wars - The arms race of restaurant reservations in San Francisco
- Why the UK Government website doesn't have FAQs
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Interesting Links for 08-02-2012
Feb. 8th, 2012 11:00 am- Abu Qatada: out on bail, and rightfully so.
- How to stop Facebook or Google knowing too much about you.
- Breastfeeding women protest outside Facebook offices
- Fracture Putty can heal a broken bone in days
- Reason #37 I'm glad I haven't bought Skyrim yet looks damn pretty.
- Kitten tries to steal dog's tongue. Made of cuteness. More cute by same dog owner too.
- Why willpower matters – and how to get it
- So what’s up with ACTA?
- Why cancer is taking so long to cure, and what's being done about it now.
