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Interesting Links for 11-09-2023

1. The Australian solar tech that may have found a low cost solution to storage
(tags:solarpower Australia )
2. Studios are bribing the critics used for Rotten Tomatoes scores
(tags:movies reviews bribery corruption )
3. Covid: What does the new normal look like?
(tags:Pandemic )
4. The Carrington Event of 1859 Disrupted Telegraph Lines. A "Miyake Event" Would Be Far Worse
(tags:sun doom electronics )
5. 'Sea Nomads' Are First Known Humans Genetically Adapted to Diving
(tags:asia diving genetics air )
6. The UK is going about reclaiming city streets the wrong way
(tags:uk transport cities design )
7. California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms, other psychedelics
(tags:decriminalization psychology psilocybin GoodNews )
8. Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter's profile after show criticising how Facebook works with Israel's intelligence agency
(tags:israel palestine facebook OhForFucksSake )
9. Coincidentally-identical waypoint names foxed UK air traffic control system
(tags:uk airplanes computers epicfail )
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1. When the Pope is clearly an end of level boss
(tags:games Pope funny )
2. Synthetic embryo with brain and beating heart grown from mouse cells for first time ever
(tags:mice biology organs )
3. Satellites have identified 21 Russian facilities that are forcibly detaining thousands of Ukrainians, as well as possible mass grave sites
(tags:russia ukraine murder war WarCrimes )
4. Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy dropped heavy drinking days amongst people with Alcohol Use Disorder from 23% to 9% (compared with placebo-assisted psychotherapy)
(tags:psilocybin hallucinogenics alcohol )
5. Music based on Scotrail announcements goes viral
(tags:music trains scotland )
6. Sweeteners can significantly impair glycemic responses
(tags:blood sugar insulin food taste )
7. A Florida Judge Who Denied A Teen Girl An Abortion Because Of Her Grades Was Voted Out Of Office
Do many countries appoint judges through voting?
(tags:USA law abortion )
8. Socialite, Widow, Jeweller, Spy: How a Russian Agent Charmed Her Way Into NATO Circles in Italy
(tags:Russia Italy spying NATO )
9. Sunak is trying to rewrite history on the Pandemic
(tags:Pandemic conservatives lies )
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The Americans Are Not Impressed By The UK’s Threat to Invoke Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol
(tags:uk usa trade doom politics )
The secret 1930s court case that led to transgender people losing their rights
(tags:law UK history transgender LGBT ViaDrCross )
Psilocybin trial finds psychedelic is effective in treating depression - but has side-effects
(tags:psilocybin depression research )
Remember, brave soldiers fought and died for your right to wear the remembrance thong
(tags:clothes war history wtf )
White House hails vaccine mandates as number of unvaccinated drops 40%
(tags:vaccination usa pandemic GoodNews )
How Are Kids Handling The Pandemic? We Asked Them.
(tags:children pandemic psychology )
North Carolina Republicans Passed A Heavily Skewed Congressional Map. How Will The Courts Respond?
(tags:voting bias usa republicans OhForFucksSake )
Brain Implant Translates Paralyzed Man's Thoughts Into Text With 94% Accuracy at 18 words per minute
(tags:brain neuroscience writing )
What Norwegians are learning as they pioneer autonomous ships
(tags:automation boats )
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Jeremy Hunt says Covid restrictions should stay until cases fall to 1,000 a day
(tags:pandemic UK )
"How King's College Hospital Cured My Depression" (psilocybin works!)
(tags:psilocybin mentalhealth depression research )
The graph of unintelligible languages is acyclic
(tags:visualisation language )
Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders
(tags:cancer faeces immune_system )
Denmark to build world's first wind energy island in the North Sea to power millions of homes
(tags:Denmark windpower )
American Mothers, On the Brink (I assume British mothers are much the same)
(tags:work pandemic stress women mother children parenting )
Indyref2 case dismissed as 'hypothetical' by court
(tags:Scotland independence law )
iPhone's Adult Content Filter Blocks Anything 'Asian'
(tags:OhForFucksSake porn iPhone censorship epicfail )
On sport, endogenous testosterone, and transgender participation in sport
(tags:sports olympics testosterone transgender LGBT )
The sound that connects Stravinsky to Bruno Mars (and dominated the 80s)
(tags:video music history viaSwampers )
An eloquent takedown of people who try to hide their bullying behind "Only joking"
(tags:sexism video jokes humour bullying )
Cambridge Analytica psychologist advising Covid19 disinformation network
(tags:pandemic lies OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 05-11-2020

Students give female teaching assistants vastly worse reviews than men - even when they're the same person
(tags:psychology bias misogyny teaching )
Why the Post Office's Last-Minute Ballot Crisis Isn't as Dire as It Seems
(tags:voting USA mail )
Denmark to cull entire mink population after coronavirus mutation spreads to humans
(tags:animals Denmark pandemic aieeee! )
Boris Johnson: Lord of Misrule (a fascinating insight from an ex colleague)
(tags:BorisJohnson lies politics UK conservatives OhForFucksSake )
Scientists hail earwax test for checking stress hormone levels (and possibly other things)
(tags:stress hormones ears )
Why Latinx people vote for Trump
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1324083909404090374.html
(tags:SouthAmerica USA voting )
750M genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida
(tags:Florida USA mosquito genetics )
The alignment chart of kitchen corner cabinets
(tags:design alignment funny cooking storage )
New study finds psilocybin greatly and quickly relieves depression
(tags:depression psilocybin hallucinogenics )
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Interesting Links for 22-01-2020

There's a loophole in UK law which allows gender discrimination in some circumstances
(tags:discrimination women UK law fail )
Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing (in Edinburgh for the next few months)
(tags:LeonardoDaVinci art edinburgh )
"Greatness" - a brilliant short talk on giving up control to make your organisation run better
(tags:organisation video )
Sex and religious education to be compulsory in Wales
(tags:Wales Education GoodNews sex religion )
New twist on marshmallow test: Kids depend on each other for self control
(tags:self-control psychology children cooperation )
Belgian region of Wallonia vows to block another EU trade deal, in unsubtle Brexit foreshadowing
(tags:UK Europe SouthAmerica trade Doom thefuture )
The next general election will be a Conservative-facing one: some stats
(tags:elections UK )
Magic mushrooms and LSD give sustained boost in mood after recreational use
(tags:lsd psilocybin happiness psychology psychedelics )
Pushing SNES emulation to the edge of perfection
(tags:emulation Technology )
New 'transformational' code to protect children's privacy online
(tags:privacy children internet )
Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
(tags:apple encryption privacy )
The Crown Series 3 was up 40%. And nearly 1/3 as popular as The Witcher
(tags:tv netflix )
1969 Debut of the Sesame Street Song 'Manamana'
(tags:music SesameStreet muppets )
This is my basic problem with supervillain movies
(tags:movies comics superheroes )
I didn't know you could starve to death on a diet of rabbit
(tags:rabbits food viaSwampers )
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Details of Valve's unreleased Portal prequel revealed
(tags:games valve video )
Higher cow-milk fat intake is associated with lower childhood adiposity
(tags:fat weight children )
The many crimes of Macavity
(tags:crime cats musicals )
Ex-Google exec savages firm on human rights
(tags:rights China google )
80% of betting company money comes from 2% of customers
(tags:gambling )
Jimmy Savile and the BBC: the report's key sections
Yes, it's a couple of years old, but I just bumped into it.
(tags:OhForFucksSake bbc children rape RapeCulture viaFJM )
The extensive problems with Keir Starmer's past
(tags:Labour politics crime OhForFucksSake rape )
The best way to make popcorn
(tags:food )
Duolingo sparks Gaelic boom as young Scots shrug off 'cringe' factor
(tags:Scotland language )
Psilocybin found safe for consumption in largest ever controlled study
(tags:psilocybin psychology depression research safety )
U-Haul to Implement Nicotine-Free Hiring Policy
(tags:nicotine smoking USA jobs OhForFucksSake )
U.S. kills top Iranian commander Soleimani in air strike
(tags:USA Iran iraq )
Epilepsy Foundation Was Targeted in Mass Strobe Cyberattack
Also: 30 times? Can someone help them with their security?
(tags:assault epilipsy OhForFucksSake hacking )
Words used in fanfic to describe genitals. Warning: may cause giggling
(tags:writing fanfic genitals funny )
Why killer whales—and humans—evolved menopause
(tags:grandparents whales menstruation fertility family )
Which emoji scissors close (I love the obsession you get with these)
(tags:emoji design )
Most illustrations of butterflies show dead ones
(tags:insects illustration death )
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Interesting Links for 27-11-2019

Birmingham anti-LGBT school protests: judge makes ban permanent
(tags:protest LGBT homophobia uk law )
New favourite political advert
(tags:advertising politics video )
Board games can protect thinking skills in older age
(tags:age thinking boardgames psychology viaJane )
No, Britain's Chief Rabbi is not the head of all Jews.
(tags:Jews uk )
Jeremy Corbyn's record on anti-Semitism
(tags:Jews labour history )
Psilocybin for Major Depression Granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA
(tags:depression psilocybin psychedelics )
air pollution causes changes in brain structure that resemble those of Alzheimer's disease.
(tags:pollution brain alzheimers )
Jeremy Corbyn refuses to apologise to Jewish community over Labour anti-semitism
(tags:Labour Jews OhForFucksSake )
Disney+'s The Mandalorian joins a long list of fake HDR content
(tags:TV fraud hdr )
Organising a union at Google? You're fired
(tags:Google unions OhForFucksSake )
Mental Mountains - a fascinating review of Unlocking The Emotional Brain
(tags:psychology thought thinking emotion rationality )
UK networks to join £1b mast sharing initiative to eliminate dead zones
(tags:UK mobile_phones )
Failure Is an Essential Prerequisite for Success
(tags:failure success )
Corbyn reveals secret documents that confirm Tory plot to sell off NHS in US trade talks with Trump
(tags:nhs Conservatives usa trade )
Boris Johnson said that Islamophobia is a natural reaction to Islam
(tags:Islam conservatives bigotry )
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Interesting Links for 07-11-2019

Revealed: Russian donors have stepped up Tory funding
(tags:conservatives Russia OhForFucksSake )
Transgender Laws in Transition: European Courts on Non-Binary Gender Recognition
(tags:law gender europe )
"Orbital Comics" of London to Stop Selling New Weekly Comics
(tags:comics doom UK )
The proposed ITV debate format is flawed. Other countries do it better.
(tags:uk debate politics tv )
A thread of rating every horse emoji
(tags:horses emoji )
Help me ask "Why you didn't just…?"
(tags:advice questions etiquette )
If You Like to Complain About 'Decimate'...
(tags:language rome English )
Evidence That the Clitoris Is Important for Reproduction
(tags:women orgasm reproduction )
Lib Dems, Greens and Plaid agree 60-seat 'Remain alliance' election pact
(tags:politics hope UK Europe )
Former Twitter employees charged with spying on users for Saudis
(tags:saudiarabia spying twitter )
October was hottest in Earth's recorded history
(tags:globalwarming doom )
A Study of Meditation Under the Influence of Psilocybin
(tags:psilocybin meditation psychology )
The Tories are having a _terrible_ start to their election campaign. Do not be reassured by this.
(tags:elections Conservatives politics uk )
Craigslist's 'erotic services' alone reduced the murder of women in the US by 10-17%. (almost 500 women per year)
(tags:women murder USA sexwork )
The Vampire Apocalypse Calculator
(tags:vampires visualisation )
People have strange internalised rules about money and food
(tags:food money psychology behaviour )
It's Time to Take Down the Mona Lisa
(tags:art history )
"I was an astrologer - here's how it really works, and why I had to stop"
(tags:astrology fraud )
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Interesting Links for 27-09-2018

Science Says Toxic Masculinity — More Than Alcohol — Leads To Sexual Assault
(tags: rape society psychology )
Walmart Requires Lettuce, Spinach Suppliers to Join Blockchain
(tags: blockchain Technology vegetables business tracking shopping )
Tackling the problem of 'noisy' electricity
(tags: electricity )
Jeremy Corbyn offers Brexit truce with Theresa May if her final deal is sensible
(tags: uk europe labour )
EU steps up plans for no-deal Brexit as Labour stance alarms capitals
(tags: Europe UK Labour doom )
Skripal suspect 'real name' revealed as Anatoliy Chepiga
(tags: Russia assassination identity )
From Russia With Blood: 14 Suspected Hits On British Soil That The Government Ignored
(tags: uk russia assassination government wtf )
UK appoints food supplies minister amid fears of no-deal Brexit
(tags: UK Europe food doom )
Nobody can say that social media isn't a book to society
(tags: funny genitals cards twitter )
Jeremy Corbyn to meet with EU chief Brexit negotiator
(tags: Labour UK europe )
Limiting children's screen time to two hours and making sure they get tons of sleep linked to better cognition
(tags: sleep children computers achievement )
After century of removing appendixes, docs find antibiotics can be enough
(tags: disease antibiotics surgery )
Reclassification recommendations for drug in magic mushrooms
(tags: psilocybin magic_mushrooms medicine psychedelics )
Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information
(tags: facebook surveillance privacy advertising )
No-deal Brexit could lead to NI electricity blackouts
No wonder reunification polls are hitting 58%!
(tags: uk europe NorthernIreland )
Emmanuel Macron says Britain could stay in the EU ‘for sure’ if it changes its mind on Brexit
(tags: europe uk france )
Customs union: What is it, what would leaving it mean and what post-Brexit alternatives are there?
(tags: uk europe trade doom )
How to look generous and get more, in one simple step
(tags: behaviour psychology )
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Brexit: EU relocates Galileo satellite system installation from UK to Spain
(tags: uk Europe spain )
Workers dismantling old North Sea oil and gas rigs will be paid less than the minimum wage
(tags: uk pay oil )
Airbnb plans for 90-day restriction in Edinburgh
(tags: edinburgh housing )
HIV positive man can become a commercial pilot
(tags: flight hiv )
Drugs sounds be legalised, not decriminalised
(tags: Drugs legalisation )
North Korea’s fabric made of stone
(tags: NorthKorea materials clothing )
The 29 Stages Of A Twitterstorm In 2018 (Astoundingly accurate. How did we get here?)
(tags: Twitter life OhForFucksSake society )
42 percent of Republicans believe accurate — but negative — stories qualify as 'fake news'
(tags: fraud news media OhForFucksSake )
3,265 women travelled from the Republic of Ireland to the UK for abortions in 2016
(tags: abortion Ireland uk )
Venezuelan Hyperinflation Explodes, Soaring Over 440,000 Percent
(tags: Venezuela inflation economy OhForFucksSake )
Finally, someone brings the sciences and humanities together
(tags: scifi humanities science comic )
Life is hard when you're a wolf who just wants to eat their apple
(tags: apple wolves video )
Why Walkable Streets Are More Economically Productive
(tags: cities economics )
Moses Farrow Speaks Out (on Mia Farrow and Woody Allen)
(tags: abuse family )
Paleo diet healthier for overweight women
(tags: women food )
Why you don't want artificial intelligence designing your life
(tags: ai life )
I suspect we're going to get a lot more of these stories of entitled men behaving awfully on dates
(tags: relationships men OhForFucksSake )
The cost of computer games (fascinating, and covering their whole history)
(tags: games money )
From PFI to privatisation, our national accounting rules encourage daft decisions.
(tags: accounting uk economics government )
Top tip: Murderers, don't tag yourself in photos with the victim and the murder weapon!
(tags: murder facebook fail )
Two doses of psilocybin and some meditation brings about lasting, positive changes to altruism, gratitude, forgiveness and closeness
(tags: psilocybin magic_mushrooms psychology happiness )
Blood test found for 8 common forms of cancer.
(tags: cancer blood )
Reality has a surprising amount of detail (some vital advice if you want to be good at something)
(tags: experience life advice )
The difficult life of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette - the first female French novelist to have a state funeral
(tags: women history writing france )
TV, retail, advertising and cascading collapses
(tags: business internet )
Moore and Williams III's Promethea Comes to Justice League of America
I can hear Alan Moore exploding from here...
(tags: comics alanmoore )
How does "Mrs Brown’s Boys" divide Britain?
(tags: polls tv demographics comedy uk )
‘Superheroes don’t work 90-hour weeks’
(tags: working_hours )
Call to curb disruption caused by holiday lets like Airbnb
(tags: housing rental holidays regulation )
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Stop Calling It a 'Vagina'
(tags: genitals women vagina language )
Conservatives’ free school breakfast pledge costed at just 7p per meal
(tags: Conservatives food money OhForFucksSake )
Have a list of marketing tricks to avoid falling for
(tags: marketing psychology viaSwampers )
Researchers find dozens of genes (mildly) associated with measures of intelligence
(tags: Intelligence genetics )
Terrorism is mass murder with a media strategy; it’s long past time to disrupt it.
(tags: terrorism media )
Laffer curve: Everything Trump and Republicans get wrong about trickle-down economics
(tags: economics tax politics usa history )
What It's Like to Carry Your Nobel Prize through Airport Security
(tags: awards science physics security viaSwampers )
China Reaches the Moon Snapping Incredible, Never-Before-Seen High-Definition Images
(tags: moon china space photos viaDrJon )
Google starts tracking what you buy at stores in person
(tags: Google shopping surveillance )
A true, real, and accurate definition of the term "fanfiction"
(tags: fanfiction funny writing )
No, ‘The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct’ Hoax Doesn’t Prove Gender Studies Is Garbage
(tags: academia fraud fail viaSupergee )
Dog sits on the editorial boards of seven international medical journals
(tags: academia dogs fraud )
Study indicates mushrooms may be the safest recreational drug
(tags: psilocybin drugs safety )
Britain stops sharing Manchester attack intelligence with US after leaks continue
(tags: usa spying OhForFucksSake )
I am terrible with names, and would totally do this
(tags: names funny comic )
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Original 'Iron Man 3' Female Villain Nixed Due To Toy Fears
(tags: OhForFucksSake women toys movies IronMan marvel )
Is Hyperloop the future of travel?
(tags: transport Technology )
London Rental Opportunity of the Week: A Completely Tiled, Wipe-Down Hellscape in Walthamstow
Wherever you live, you can be glad it's not here.
(tags: uk london housing design aieeee! )
Moleskine has a bunch of Star Wars merchandise. Guess which gender isn't represented
(tags: gender StarWars OhForFucksSake )
The soldiers who liberated Dachau were...Japanese
(tags: japan Holocaust Jews wwii history )
Interesting and unusual photos
(tags: photos interesting )
“Flying Scotsman” Crossing The Forth Bridge. May 2016.
(tags: trains scotland edinburgh )
Magic mushrooms lift severe depression in clinical trial
(tags: psychedelics depression psilocybin )
Sirens move into the modern age
(tags: funny myths men comic )
Free wifi set to hit Edinburgh’s city centre
(tags: wifi edinburgh )
Why do so many people dislike the word "moist"?
(tags: language emotion psychology )
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