Interesting Links for 24-08-2022
Aug. 24th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Our system of land ownership is an unjust anomaly
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(tags:land property housing history economics ) - 2. Do *you* need a philosophical consultant?
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- 3. Why the death of DVDs meant that movies changed
- (tags:movies business economics dvd media )
- 4. Edinburgh public transport action plan: new tramline, more bus lanes, possibly re-opening South Sub and potentially even a ferry to Fife
- (tags:trams buses transport edinburgh )
Interesting Links for 29-07-2022
Jul. 29th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. It's Not Just Loot Boxes: Predatory Monetization Is Everywhere in Gaming
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- 2. AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe
- (tags:biology protein ai )
- 3. Drought and disease exposure led to Europeans adapting to milk consumption
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- 4. The Fallout From Apple's Bizarre, Dogged Union-Busting Campaign
- (tags:apple unions OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Why Google Sued the Descendants of a Railroad Tycoon and a Civil War General (tiny plots of land in inconvenient places)
- (tags:google property law )
- 6. Typical UK families are £8,800 poorer than their counterparts in comparable countries
- (tags:inequality uk OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Keir Starmer has shown his true colours as a pound-shop Blair, reheating Tory dogma about unions
- (tags:unions labour politics uk OhForFucksSake )
- 8. Putin's occupation of Ukraine falters as bankers, doctors and metal workers boycott key jobs
- (tags:russia ukraine )
- 9. The French Data Protection Commission bans Google Analytics
- (tags:france dataprotection europe )
- 10. UK's only gender identity clinic for children is being replaced by eight of them
- (tags:LGBT transgender youth children healthcare )
- 11. Scientists reanimate dead spiders as robot gripping claws
- (tags:spiders death technology cyborg )
- 12. Edinburgh Council wants to know what you think about the licensing of short term rental accommodation
- (tags:Edinburgh housing rental viaDanielDWilliam )
- 13. A poem about science fiction authors by CS Lewis
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- 14. Upscaling and an Important Note About Photo "AI"
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Interesting Links for 23-06-2022
Jun. 23rd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The Western Balkans' want to join the EU. How's that going?
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- 2. Some thoughts on what makes a diversity culture
- (tags:Diversity work society )
- 3. Anyone want to buy a Scottish Island, complete with mansion?
- (tags:Scotland property viaMyBrotherHugh )
- 4. Covid cases increase by more than 30% in Scotland over the last week
- (tags:Pandemic Scotland )
- 5. Poliovirus may be spreading in London; virus detected in sewage for months
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- 6. The time Life and Death swapped jobs
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- 7. Six Brexit problems six years after the EU referendum
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- 8. The electricity in a lightning bolt is only about 5c worth
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Interesting Links for 10-12-2021
Dec. 10th, 2021 12:00 pm- This New Tech Cuts Through Rock Without Grinding Into It
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- 2 bed flat for sale in London - with ridiculously massive bunker
- (tags:property London wtf viaSwampers )
- Scots told to defer Christmas parties by national health authority
- (tags:Scotland Christmas Pandemic )
- New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy cigarettes - for life
- (tags:cigarette newzealand )
- How Biden Is Reshaping The Courts (I am regularly aghast at how the USA chooses judges)
- (tags:law usa viaDanielDWilliam )
- Real life horror movie scene
- (tags:light trains horror video )
- The furries are everywhere!
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- Student accommodation rents up by a third in three years
- (tags:students rent Scotland )
Interesting Links for 17-11-2021
Nov. 17th, 2021 12:00 pm- Racism Is Institutional In British Cricket
- (tags:UK cricket racism OhForFucksSake )
- Supersaurus: Scientists realise dinosaur might have been the longest ever after fixing fossil mix-up
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- Chile wants to export solar energy to Asia via 15,000km submarine cable (losses would be just under 50%)
- (tags:solarpower chile Asia )
- Joanna Cherry's popularity is not going up
- (tags:LGBT SNP transgender politics Scotland )
- Englandâs austerity-hit courts losing days of work to collapsing ceilings, broken lift and arctic conditions
- (tags:justice UK OhForFucksSake )
- There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada
- (tags:Canada transport roads weather )
- Remarkably accurate neurosurgery residency interview
- (tags:medicine USA surgery doctors funny satire video interview )
- Activision CEO Bobby Kotick told an employee he would have her killed. He kept an exec from being fired after a sexual harassment claim. He didn't tell his board of alleged rapes and other misconduct.
- (tags:games rape abuse misogyny OhForFucksSake )
- John Carmack on Steve Jobs
- (tags:Doom games Apple stevejobs johncarmack history computers graphics opengl )
- Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in UK
- (tags:UK Amazon visa credit wtf )
- The students losing thousands in an Edinburgh rental scam
- (tags:edinburgh property fraud )
- âClear riskâ UK joining Pacific trade deal will raise drug prices for NHS
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- The FTC is moving to end âclick to subscribe, call to cancelâ
- (tags:business usa )
- Netflix has started publishing its top 10 watched movies and TV shows
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- Dogs! Being! Kissed!
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Interesting Links for 24-10-2021
Oct. 24th, 2021 12:00 pm- New Zealand trade deal is 'disgrace', says UK government climate adviser
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- White House delays release of JFK assassination files "to protect against identifiable harm"
- (tags:assassination USA president history )
- The UK's independent press standards organisation produced a report on trans people. The lead author is a transphobic bigot
- (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry newspapers UK OhForFucksSake )
- A prop master on how prop guns can lead to deadly accidents.
- (tags:movies stunts guns safety viaKalimac )
- 20Y study finds little evidence religiosity leads to greater life satisfaction
- (tags:religion happiness psychology )
- Royalty is not a huge tourism draw to England
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- UK teens are only getting one vaccination dose, making them unvaccinated as far as travel regulations go
- (tags:vaccination travel UK Europe teenagers OhForFucksSake )
- Long-term brain damage caused by Covid
- (tags:brain Pandemic Doom )
- Who owns Scotland? Mapping the land in our towns and citiea
- (tags:Scotland property housing ownership )
- Paris To Become 100% Cyclable City Within Four Years
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(tags:Paris France transport bicycles )
Interesting Links for 04-10-2021
Oct. 4th, 2021 12:00 pm- Cambridgeshire police officer allowed to return to work after using a spy pen to take "up-skirt" shots of children in Tesco
- (tags:police corruption abuse children OhForFucksSake )
- A personal history of writing computer games in the 80s
- (tags:games history viaMyBrotherHugh )
- If you are giving money to The Guardian then this is what you are supporting
- (tags:LGBT transgender Guardian OhForFucksSake bigotry )
- My mistake, The Guardian published *two* articles comparing trans women to murdering policemen
- (tags:guardian transgender LGBT OhForFucksSake )
- UK government says it is not responsible for preventing Christmas shortages
- (tags:UK Doom Christmas trade )
- Pandora Papers: Secret wealth and dealings of world leaders exposed
- (tags:wealth property )
- 'Some people find it very unusual that I speak Gaelic' - the Gaelic speakers of African and Caribbean descent
- (tags:Gaelic scotland race africa )
- Paracetamol use does not lead to ADHD (but mothers using it a lot is a sign that something else is up which *does* lead to ADHD)
- (tags:pain pregnancy drugs adhd )
- The value of in-house expertise
- (tags:software experience experts business )
Interesting Links for 24-08-2021
Aug. 24th, 2021 12:00 pm- Penises, it turns out, are like cats (3 parts - click next - totally not work safe)
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- What do we know about vaccine efficacy dropping over time?
- (tags:vaccine pandemic Doom )
- Evolution is now accepted by a majority of Americans
- (tags:USA evolution )
- In case you were wondering how impressive New Zealand's Covid approach is
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- Queues, reclining airplane seats, and the innate sense of ownership
- (tags:property psychology law )
- All hospital car parking charges in Scotland to be scrapped
- (tags:hospital cars Scotland )
- Huge Edinburgh fire breaks out on George IV bridge causing major road closures
- (tags:Edinburgh fire )
- There was nearly a sequel to A Game of You with Wanda in it.
- (tags:LGBT transgender comics sandman )
Interesting Links for 01-02-2021
Feb. 1st, 2021 12:00 pm- Black Bart - The Buried TV Sequel to Blazing Saddles
- (tags:TV movies racism comedy weird contracts cowboy )
- Drone flight captures Norfolk starlings murmuration
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- Nadhim Zahawi and Tory MPs attack Yorkshire Post - over a totally accurate story
- (tags:government UK media OhForFucksSake )
- Home Office put refugees in camps so they didn't look weak
- (tags:immigration OhForFucksSake asylum UK refugee )
- Transphobes target Scottish Government HQ and Bute House
- (tags:lgbt transgender Scotland )
- How to identify which European language you're reading
- (tags:language Europe visualisation flowchart )
- Here's the Nordic model making life awful for sex workers in Canada
- (tags:Canada sexwork OhForFucksSake )
- Brexit: How much disruption has there been so far?
- (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
- Silver surges as Reddit army turns to commodities
- (tags:metal trade investment Reddit wtf )
- Covid in Scotland: Vaccinations move to next category (over 70s)
- (tags:Scotland vaccination pandemic )
- Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions
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- The seamstress who conserves brutality
- (tags:genocide materials clothing history museums )
- Men: Do not hold a grudge for decades and use it to kill people in TV shows called Jessica
- (tags:names death TV OhForFucksSake )
- I wish I'd had a teacher this awesome
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- A list of landlords who are in elected positions in the UK.
- (tags:property politics UK housing )
- Coronavirus: Up to one fifth of staff in some care home groups refusing vaccine
- (tags:pandemic vaccination OhForFucksSake UK )
- The Apple app store has a scam problem
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1356011069395755009.html
(tags:Apple scam fraud apps ) - What is transphobia? (mostly so I can find this again later)
- (tags:lgbt transgender bigotry )
- Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester
- (tags:3d visualisation Manchester electricity history )
- Normal life will not return 'until 2024' if virus does not disappear globally
- (tags:pandemic )
- Rescued Ben Nevis climbers fined
- (tags:mountains Scotland pandemic )
Interesting Links for 22-06-2020
Jun. 22nd, 2020 12:00 pm- Why the earliest sign of civilisation is a healed femur
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- Last of Us Part II: Is this the most accessible game ever?
- (tags:games disability accessibility )
- Scottish property worth billions held in tax havens
- (tags:tax Scotland property )
- Coronavirus: Germany's R number rockets again - from 1.79 to 2.88
- (tags:pandemic Germany Doom )
- This auditory illusion is very impressive
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- One-fifth of Earth's ocean floor is now mapped
- (tags:Ocean maps )
- From panic buying to food banks: how Britain fed itself in the first phase of coronavirus
- (tags:UK food pandemic viaFJM )
Interesting Links for 16-01-2020
Jan. 16th, 2020 12:00 pm- Are you really at your most miserable at 47.2 years old?
- November 1st last year for me. It was a good day.
(tags:happiness psychology ) - Here is a trailer for a really stereotypical Manic Pixie Dream Girl movie. Are there any examples of this with the genders reversed? (And I don't mean "and then she meets a prince", I mean the same trope)
- (tags:tropes movies trailer gender )
- What is the name for this type of man?
- (tags:men UK )
- The terrible effects of Drop Bears
- (tags:jokes military australia )
- Why Japan is so successful at returning lost property
- (tags:Japan society property )
- Sex Abuse Crisis in Amish Country
- (tags:rape Amish viaSwampers )
- An ant colony has memories that its individual members don't have
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Interesting Links for 23-12-2019
Dec. 23rd, 2019 12:20 pm- Girl, six, finds plea from Chinese prison slaves inside Tesco kitten Christmas cards
- (tags:Christmas slavery China Tesco uk )
- The problem with people but understanding how frosted glass works. This causes problematic behaviour
- (tags:glass physics )
- Giant surveillance balloons are lurking at the edge of space
- (tags:surveillance balloon stratosphere )
- Israel set to be investigated for war crimes in Palestinian Territories, ICC announces
- (tags:crime war Israel Palestine )
- Medieval! Cannibal! Babies!
- (tags:history religion babies cannibalism )
- Edinburgh's Hogmanay organisers are trying to make people apply for access to their own homes
- (tags:Edinburgh party OhForFucksSake viaDanielDWilliam property )
- Jamal Khashoggi death: Saudi court sentences five to death
- (tags:murder journalism saudiarabia )
Interesting Links for 21-10-2019
Oct. 22nd, 2019 10:25 am- Labour to officially back bid for second Brexit referendum on Boris Johnson's deal
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- "38 People are looking at this post right now" is a lie
- (tags:lies fraud sales web )
- Facebook deletes oldest Palestinian news site's page, which had more than 5 million fans
- (tags:Palestine Facebook censorship )
- Your Home Made Perfect - behind the scenes of the property show that uses VR to show people what their home could look like
- (tags:VirtualReality property design architecture )
- In Kashmir, Freedom at a Price: Go Back to Jail if You Speak or Comment on Article 370
- (tags:India censorship freespeech politics OhForFucksSake Kashmir )
Interesting Links for 23-06-2018
Jun. 23rd, 2018 12:00 pm- SNP anger over ‘shady cash grab’ at Edinburgh’s Fort Kinnaird
- (tags: Scotland uk property )
- "When his mum found our sex blog"
- (tags: parenting sex bdsm blogging )
- The best way to solve problems is to wait for a century or four
- (tags: economics maths thefuture )
- Are you gonna play the victim all life long? - "My experience as a woman in board gaming"
- (tags: gaming women patriarchy viaSwampers )
- Edinburgh council has announced plans to work toward regular, vehicle-free days in the capital’s city centre.
- (tags: Edinburgh cars )
- Siemens UK boss (employing 15,000 people) says no-deal Brexit does not look good
- (tags: uk europe business )
- BCG vaccine can reverse Type 1 diabetes to almost undetectable levels
- (tags: diabetes GoodNews )
- Lobsters and aging is fascinating
- (tags: lobsters age )
- UK recruiting Head of Aviation EU Exit Negotiations -Prior knowledge of airspace and the aviation sector not necessary
- (tags: UK Europe airplanes OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 06-04-2018
Apr. 6th, 2018 01:00 pm- Unlike rats, humans don't produce new neurons in adulthood
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- South Korean university boycotted over 'killer robots'
- (tags: ai weaponry robots )
- Outsourcing your IT continues to be a terrible idea
- (tags: outsourcing software )
- Giving toddlers a version of the classic Marshmallow Test
- (tags: self-control children )
- How to Get the Comics Backstory for Avengers: Infinity War for Less Than $20
- (tags: comics marvel )
- I have totally tried to get this reaction out of Loki. But without this notch success so far.
- (tags: babies pregnancy video funny )
- Renewable energy generated 104% of Portugal's electricity consumption in March (Scotland lagging at 68%)
- (tags: renewables portugal )
- Fifty (or Sixty) Years of Processor Development…for This?
- (tags: hardware processor history computers )
- How Belgium is defeating the gender pay gap
- (tags: Belgium pay inequality )
- Teen buys every cupcake in shop after customer fat-shames her
- (tags: funny fat food )
- Humans produce new brain cells throughout their lives
- (tags: brains neurons neuroscience viaPatrickHadfield )
- Men overestimate their own intelligence and credentials, underestimate the abilities of female colleagues, making women doubt their own abilities
- (tags: men women science education OhForFucksSake Intelligence )
- Seven-year follow-up shows lasting cognitive gains from meditation
- (tags: meditation attention psychology )
- The chip credit card transition in the US has been a disaster
- Because the USA hates actually regulating things, each part of the system made their own decision, leading to the worst of all possible worlds
(tags: USA banking technology fail OhForFucksSake ) - How mice moms' brains are hard-wired to gather young
- (tags: brain mother parenting mice )
- 1,500 UK firms miss deadline to report gender pay gap
- (tags: pay gender business UK OhForFucksSake )
- PubGrub: Next-Generation Version Solving
- This is the kind of math/logic puzzle solving which I find fascinating while also getting a headache from it.
(tags: software algorithms ) - Class clowns: Playful boys viewed more negatively than playful girls
- (tags: gender school behaviour )
- 221b Baker Street and the president of Kazakhstan's daughter - London's secret web of property ownership
- (tags: London secrecy property money uk )
- New Scottish income tax system comes into force
- (tags: tax scotland )
- Negative life events make men's brains age faster
- (tags: aging brain stress )
Interesting Links for 13-02-2018
Feb. 13th, 2018 12:00 pm- I’m Just a Misunderstood Marbled Crayfish (Overlord) Who is Certainly Not Planning World Domination
- (tags: funny animals viaSwampers cloning dna evil )
- No shared leave for shared leave minister
- (tags: paternity parenting uk parliament OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
- Marmite maker Unilever threatens to pull ads from Facebook and Google
- (tags: facebook google advertising )
- Where Old, Unreadable Documents Go to Be Understood
- (tags: history writing )
- German workers win right to 28-hour week following industrial action
- (tags: work germany working_hours )
- Brain scans show why people get aggressive after a drink or two
- (tags: alcohol aggression brain behaviour psychology )
- Do the Freemasons’ claims stack up?
- (tags: charity law discrimination secrecy uk )
- The diabolical genius of the baby advice industry
- (tags: babies advice marketing OhForFucksSake )
- The terrifying robot dogs can open doors now
- (tags: video robots terrifying )
- Just a Joke: Where Alt-Right Guys Get Their Start
- (tags: school fascism society bullying OhForFucksSake comic )
- Firms on Caribbean island chain own 23,000 UK properties
- (tags: tax property uk )
Interesting Links for 30-10-2017
Oct. 30th, 2017 11:00 am- No-deal Brexit: Tory donors warn Theresa May she must be prepared to walk away
- (tags: UK Europe Conservatives )
- Universal credit penalises the self-employed
- (tags: welfare UK employment )
- UK pensions among the worst in the developed world
- (tags: pension uk OhForFucksSake )
- Nestlé, Hershey and Mars are breaking promises over palm oil use
- Forests being illegally destroyed for your chocolate bars
(tags: chocolate forests OhForFucksSake ) - A lot of the alt-right movement is built on really messed up attitudes to women
- (tags: Nazis patriarchy men OhForFucksSake )
- Actor Anthony Rapp: Kevin Spacey Made A Sexual Advance Toward Me When I Was 14
- (tags: abuse hollywood children )
- Hollywood’s Other ‘Open Secret’ : Preying on Young Boys
- (tags: abuse children hollywood )
- Rail Energy Storage Harnesses the Power of Gravity (80% efficiency!)
- (tags: power trains storage )
- Record surge in atmospheric CO2 seen in 2016
- (tags: co2 globalwarming OhForFucksSake )
- The UK doesn't tax foreign corporations on UK property sales, costing us £8 Billion every year
- (tags: tax uk property )
Interesting Links for 05-07-2016
Jul. 5th, 2016 12:00 pm- Why Scotland is different
- (tags: politics scotland )
- Leadership fight puts fortunes of Scots Tories on a knife edge
- (tags: Conservatives scotland )
- If the next election was "Leave" vs "Remain" then Leave would win by 421 seats to 229.
- Yay for FPTP!
(tags: politics voting uk europe ) - Referendum panic causes 5% drop in property fund valuations, some funds to suspend trading
- (tags: property uk europe )
- I am still not convinced I would enjoy Skyrim
- (tags: games review )
- Newsflash: "Follow your dreams" is still the worst advice ever
- (tags: advice life )
- The latest Labour leadership polling
- (tags: labour politics polls )
- British Social Attitudes Towards Politics - the latest figures
- (tags: politics voting reform uk demographics )
- Fascinating polling on people's opinions about Brexit, elections, and immigration
- (tags: politics europe uk elections )
- Tories divided over guarantee that EU citizens will not be deported
- (tags: europe uk Conservatives )
- Study investigates whether it is safe for GPs to prescribe fewer antibiotics
- (tags: antibiotics health safety )
- Stephen Crabb: Gay cure lie 'spread by opponents' (Anyone got a direct quote/footage?)
- (tags: lgbt Conservatives )
- Christian Mingle must let LGBT singles use dating site after losing court battle
- (tags: religion christianity dating lgbt )
- Venezuela Refuses to Default. Few People Seem to Understand Why.
- (tags: venezuela economics epicfail )
- Students of today are more afraid of growing up than in previous generations
- (tags: age students psychology fear )
- Let’s make sure the numbers are right when indyref2 comes
- (tags: scotland independence referendum currency )
- Meal portion guide reveals 80% of parents overfeed their children
- (tags: children food )
Interesting Links for 23-06-2015
Jun. 23rd, 2015 12:00 pm- Wooden combination lock
- Marvel launches mixed race Spider-Man
- How the welfare budget is spent and options for savings
- Counting crows’ neurons work just like yours
- Bank of England staff look at the effect that driverless cars will have on the economy
- UK to reject EU plans to harmonise corporation tax
- Cameron has created a socialist utopia for pensioners
- 'Radical' Scottish land reform plan unveiled
- All drugs should be decriminalised, say the Liberal Democrats
- Are You Concerned Your 4 Year Old Isn’t In a Cool Band?
- Conservatives demonstrate more self control than liberals -- and belief in free will plays key role