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Interesting Links for 05-06-2025
Jun. 5th, 2025 12:00 pmTags:
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- drone,
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Interesting Links for 21-04-2025
Apr. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Scandal of Financial Nihilism
- (tags:life money philosophy )
- 2. As unions decline, inequality rises
- (tags:unions inequality )
- 3. Happy Easter! 'Chris is Risen'!
- (tags:spelling fail easter UK religion Christianity )
- 4. 'Biological reality': What genetics has taught us about race
- (tags:race racism genetics history politics USA )
Interesting Links for 09-04-2025
Apr. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Confusion surrounds ETA visa waiver process for some dual national Brits
- (tags:migration uk passport )
- 2. Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals
- (tags:Intelligence crows primates evolution )
- 3. No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
- (tags:ai Technology images )
- 4. Trump tariffs based on massive error (as well as being total nonsense)
- (tags:mathematics trade incompetence EpicStupidity politics usa )
- 5. Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy (current payback time for a solar panel in Pakistan is 2-3 years)
- (tags:pakistan solarpower GoodNews )
- 6. People conceived during colder months may end up with a lower body mass index and less fat around internal organs
- (tags:weather temperature fat )
- 7. What's going on with the announcements of "bringing dire wolves back from extinction"
- (tags:prehistory DNA animals wolves genetics viaPatrickHadfield )
- 8. Bracket City - a fun new daily puzzle!
- (tags:puzzle games )
- 9. Trade Will Move On Without the United States
- (tags:trade USA )
- 10. Great Moments in Peaceful Protest History
- (tags:protests funny satire comic )
- 11. Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws
- (tags:gender race research libraries USA censorship )
- 12. China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
- (tags:china materials USA trade doom )
- 13. How are Trump's supporters dealing with the tariff fallout?
- (tags:politics usa republicans )
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- republicans,
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- solarpower,
- technology,
- temperature,
- trade,
- uk,
- usa,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- weather,
- wolves
Interesting Links for 19-02-2025
Feb. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The people who can't develop Alzheimer's - but could be key to a cure
- (tags:alzheimers )
- 2. What's the state of public service reform in Scotland?
- (tags:scotland organisation government nhs )
- 3. Why estimating how long a task will take is hard
- (tags:time software estimating )
- 4. Cynthia Erivo To Play Jesus In 'Jesus Christ Superstar' At Hollywood Bowl
- (tags:religion theatre USA race gender )
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- time,
- usa
Interesting Links for 26-11-2024
Nov. 26th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Chemists create the world's thinnest spaghetti
- (tags:food science chemistry nanotech )
- 2. How Black autistic women and girls are excluded from conversations on resources and research
- (tags:race autism gender )
- 3. Most Brits are wrong about Die Hard
- (tags:movies Christmas polls )
- 4. The computer game my brother has been working on is now available in Alpha Test. Take a look!
- (tags:games video )
Interesting Links for 30-07-2024
Jul. 30th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Labour lost almost a third of its Black and Asian support during the election
- (tags:race politics UK Labour )
- 2. The Scale of Life
- (tags:life statistics )
- 3. Complex life forms may have originated 1.5 billion years earlier than thought, and then all died out
- (tags:life prehistory earth apocalypse )
- 4. Why many studies wrongly claim it's healthy to drink a little alcohol
- (tags:alcohol research epicfail health )
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- alcohol,
- apocalypse,
- earth,
- epicfail,
- health,
- labour,
- life,
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- politics,
- prehistory,
- race,
- research,
- statistics,
- uk
Interesting Links for 31-05-2023
May. 31st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. A Woman Won a Cheese Rolling Race . . . Despite Being Knocked Unconscious
- (tags:race cheese consciousness )
- 2. There can't be many actors who have played the same role for 38 years
- (tags:acting longevity TV UK )
- 3. The British Newspapers collude with each other to protect their journalists from consequences (in this case, sexual harrassment)
- (tags:uk media guardian sex harrassment journalism OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Regular reminder that Labour are a Brexit party
- (tags:labour uk europe OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Like Cinemas, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Others To Carry Anti-Tobacco Warnings in India
- (tags:India cigarettes streaming TV )
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- acting,
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- cigarettes,
- consciousness,
- europe,
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- labour,
- links,
- longevity,
- media,
- ohforfuckssake,
- race,
- sex,
- streaming,
- tv,
- uk
Interesting Links for 17-03-2023
Mar. 17th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Finally, the true meaning of the universe is revealed
- (tags:meaning StarWars comic funny )
- 2. The condemnation of Jess Phillips for honouring a trans teenager is a new low in our culture wars
- (tags:bigotry uk lgbt transgender )
- 3. National Academies: We can't define "race," so stop using it in science
- (tags:race racism science )
- 4. There's a hierarchy of racism under Starmer
- (tags:labour racism UK OhForFucksSake politics )
- 5. Against the idea of gender dysphoria as a mental illness
- (tags:gender mentalhealth transgender LGBT )
- 6. Silicon Valley Bank's collapse was spotted well in advance by everyone in the know - other than the regulators.
- (tags:banking regulation OhForFucksSake )
- 7. 10 best D&D map makers for dungeons, cities and worlds
- (tags:maps dungeonsanddragons )
- 8. So, you've been challenged to a duel. What are the rules?
- (tags:duelling rules usa history )
- 9. Nebraska lawmaker 3 weeks into filibuster over trans bill
- (tags:LGBT USA transgender politics )
- 10. Northern Ireland rejects Irish unity by large margin (50% to 26%)
- (tags:NorthernIreland polls )
- 11. A Pro-Trump Social Network Wants to Corner the Anti-Vax Jizz Market
- (tags:fertility politics USA viaPatrickHadfield headline )
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Interesting Links for 01-02-2023
Feb. 1st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. What attracts marginalised people to Lovecraft?
- (tags:hplovecraft society LGBT race writing horror )
- 2. Intel Cuts Pay For Employees To Keep Their Quarterly Dividend (I can't think of a better way of getting rid of competent staff)
- (tags:Intel pay Doom )
- 3. Replacing workers with AI? Don't forget the retraining fees
- (tags:ai money )
- 4. New Edinburgh and Glasgow street layouts are still unsafe
- (tags:design roads edinburgh glasgow disability blindness )
- 5. Octopus Energy's Our approach to prepayment meters
- (tags:electricity support money uk )
Interesting Links for 05-01-2023
Jan. 5th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. How calculus was invented
- (tags:mathematics history video infinity )
- 2. Scientists discover first known organism thriving exclusively on diet of viruses
- (tags:virus food )
- 3. Surgical smart knife detects womb cancer in seconds
- (tags:cancer )
- 4. Me, when my code doesn't work
- (tags:funny babies anger video )
- 5. Scientists Revived 32,000-Year-Old Plant DNA From Siberian Permafrost
- (tags:plants prehistory Russia )
- 6. Over the last 40 years US food purchasing power has dropped by 85%
- (tags:USA food money Doom )
- 7. Facial Recognition Tech Used To Jail Black Man For Louisiana Theft - He's Never Been To Louisiana (and doesn't look like the criminal)
- (tags:racism faces technology OhForFucksSake )
- 8. The "People Of Color In Tech" website provides an interesting perspective if you're not one.
- (tags:race technology )
- 9. Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery
- Paper here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/an-upper-palaeolithic-protowriting-system-and-phenological-calendar/6F2AD8A705888F2226FE857840B4FE19
(tags:prehistory calendars art ) - 10. Arizona inducing labor of pregnant prisoners against their will
- (tags:usa prison labour childbirth OhForFucksSake )
- 11. Using AI to make all of your arrays infinite
- (tags:ai coding funny )
Interesting Links for 12-12-2022
Dec. 12th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The Five-Year Engineering Feat Germany Pulled Off in Months
- (tags:Germany engineering gas energy Russia impressive )
- 2. Countries that have banned spanking have lower rates of violence amongst children
- (tags:children violence spanking )
- 3. Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer
- (tags:Cancer genes GoodNews )
- 4. Where Do US Teaching Skeletons Come From?
- (tags:USA education bodies India )
- 5. Aspartame makes mice anxious. And their children. and their grandchildren
- (tags:food anxiety mice psychology )
- 6. If you're in London you should go see The Wolves in the Walls
- (tags:wolves theatre puppets video London neilgaiman )
- 7. On White Girls Wearing Braids as Cultural Appropriation
- (tags:cultural_appropriation hair race )
- 8. I object to headlines about Edinburgh Zoo penguins playing adorably in the snow when the video clearly shows them just standing about acting entirely normal!
- (tags:headline OhForFucksSake journalism video penguins )
- 9. This lizard is behaving exactly the same as our cat, Jim
- (tags:animals behaviour video )
- 10. What happens to your smartphone when it gets stolen?
- (tags:iphone crime viaPatrickHadfield )
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- genes,
- germany,
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- london,
- mice,
- neilgaiman,
- ohforfuckssake,
- penguins,
- psychology,
- puppets,
- race,
- russia,
- spanking,
- theatre,
- usa,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- video,
- violence,
- wolves
Interesting Links for 23-11-2022
Nov. 23rd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Nigel Farage Has Praised Keir Starmer's Speech On Immigration
- (tags:immigration labour UKIP OhForFucksSake )
- 2. The Return of James Cameron, Box Office King (and his movie, that will almost certainly not make a profit)
- (tags:movies jamescameron space )
- 3. Red panda eating grapes is terribly cute
- (tags:cute panda video )
- 4. Tesla builds Europe's largest battery near Dogger Bank offshore wind power landfall
- (tags:batteries UK windpower Tesla )
- 5. God of War: Ragnarok contains a tribute to the real life love, and death, of one of their developers
- (tags:death love games )
- 6. The Scottish government cannot hold an independence referendum without UK government's consent, the Supreme Court has ruled
- (tags:scotland independence uk law )
- 7. More relaxed immigration policies could win over UK swing voters
- (tags:immigration uk polls GoodNews )
- 8. Meta researchers create AI that masters Diplomacy, tricking human players
- (tags:games diplomacy ai )
- 9. Brain structure changes during pregnancy, returning to its original state a year after birth
- (tags:brain pregnancy )
- 10. Studies on "good" cholesterol only included white participants, the results don't seem to hold more generally
- (tags:race research health heart )
Catch-up links for 12/9/2022
Sep. 15th, 2022 09:01 am- 1. Even in death the Queen's taste in music is impeccable
- (tags:music Queen video funny )
- 2. Depluralising films
- (tags:language mathematics movies funny )
- 3. Persistent cardiac symptoms in individuals with mild initial COVID-19
- (tags:Pandemic heart Doom )
- 4. A collection of black girls seeing The Little Mermaid trailer
- (tags:Disney race children trailer video )
- 5. Arrested after asking "who elected him?" at the proclamation of King Charles
- (tags:democracy protests monarchy uk OhForFucksSake police )
- 6. This is now my favourite story about The Queen
- (tags:queen tourism video )
Interesting Links for 09-08-2022
Aug. 9th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range
- (tags:mountains prehistory )
- 2. Met Police strip-searching hundreds of children, mostly black boys
- (tags:racism children UK police OhForFucksSake )
- 3. The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends"
- (tags:trains children authoritarianism morality writing tv )
- 4. This slide down a waterslide is a *world* of nope from me.
- (tags:height water video aieeee! )
- 5. A Proposed African Superstate: the East African Federation
- (tags:africa trade politics )
- 6. What is Race?
- (tags:race ontology video )
- 7. One in five civil servants can't afford travel to work and a third skip meals due to cost of living crisis
- (tags:uk poverty )
- 8. Supermarkets to label 'green' foods from pesto to sausages as study finds vegan products 90% more eco-friendly
- (tags:environment food )
- 9. The plans for giant seaweed farms in European (and Scottish) waters
- (tags:scotland europe sea plants farming )
Interesting Links for 25-05-2022
May. 25th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Chimpanzees have their own language — and scientists just learned how they put "words" together
- (tags:viaNancyLebov chimpanzees language )
- 2. There are two proposals for minority-led Edinburgh councils, and everything depends on the Conservatives
- (tags:edinburgh politics snp labour green libdem )
- 3. Why would the government want to run ScotRail?
- (tags:trains scotland )
- 4. The Scottish/English dispute over gene-edited crops
- (tags:uk england genetics food )
- 5. Occlusion Grotesque - a font designed by a tree
- (tags:trees font )
- 6. Ricky Gervais now exists only to be bigoted
- (tags:bigotry LGBT transgender OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Cell Tower - a word puzzle game. Nicely tricky
- (tags:games language viaSwampers )
- 8. Someone Stole Seth Green's Bored Ape NFT (And Star Of His New NFT Show). I am very very amused
- (tags:funny blockchain TV )
- 9. How special effects used to be painted on to glass
- (tags:specialeffects history movies )
- 10. Misogynistic philosophers through the ages
- (tags:history philosophy misogyny )
- 11. Is it time to move on with safe drug consumption in Scotland? (well, obviously, if Westminster will let them)
- (tags:Scotland drugs health )
- 12. Gene-edited tomatoes could be a new source of vitamin D
- (tags:vitaminD food genetics )
- 13. Mercedes Lackey Apologizes
- (tags:race language scifi )
- 14. Invention For Destruction - a trailer for a gloriously hand-animated Czech movie from 1958
- (tags:animation Czechoslovakia movies history trailer )
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- bigotry,
- blockchain,
- chimpanzees,
- czechoslovakia,
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- genetics,
- green,
- health,
- history,
- labour,
- language,
- lgbt,
- libdem,
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- movies,
- ohforfuckssake,
- philosophy,
- politics,
- race,
- scifi,
- scotland,
- snp,
- specialeffects,
- trailer,
- trains,
- transgender,
- trees,
- tv,
- uk,
- vianancylebov,
- viaswampers,
- vitamind
Interesting Links for 11-05-2022
May. 11th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. In the dating market, people compete ferociously for mates with qualities that do not increase one's chances of romantic happiness.
- (tags:relationships happiness psychology dating )
- 2. What issues do competitors to Dark Matter need to overcome?
- (tags:physics space )
- 3. How Neal Adams demanded a black Green Lantern
- (tags:comics race history dc )
- 4. Covid study shows death risk doubles for diabetes patients with uncontrolled blood sugar levels
- (tags:diabetes Pandemic death )
- 5. Cow House!
- (tags:cows housing UK )
- 6. Inside the battle on the Eastern Front
- (tags:Ukraine Russia war )
- 7. Psychopaths are more likely to have larger striatum region in the brain
- (tags:psychology brains psychopath )
- 8. How to fix social media
- (tags:socialmedia socialnetworking regulation )
- 9. What is the point of a protest?
- (tags:protests violence )
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- brains,
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- dating,
- dc,
- death,
- diabetes,
- happiness,
- history,
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- pandemic,
- physics,
- protests,
- psychology,
- psychopath,
- race,
- regulation,
- relationships,
- russia,
- socialmedia,
- socialnetworking,
- space,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- violence,
- war
Interesting Links for 28-04-2022
Apr. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Misogyny in Scotland - QC reports to the Scottish government
- (tags:Scotland misogyny )
- 2. Covid: Discharging hospital patients to care homes 'unlawful'
- (tags:UK Pandemic OldAge death )
- 3. Russia Is Being Hacked at an Unprecedented Scale
- (tags:hacking Russia Ukraine )
- 4. A puzzling phenomenon: Patients report a rebound of COVID-19 symptoms after taking the antiviral Paxlovid (still better than not taking it though)
- (tags:Pandemic virus treatment )
- 5. Behold: The Sign War!
- (tags:sign funny )
- 6. A deep dive into the cases of hepatitis amongst kids in the UK
- (tags:children disease Pandemic uk )
- 7. The untold story of Britain's first black school teacher
- (tags:Scotland race school history )
- 8. "I Animated My Watercolors"
- (tags:animation painting art viaClare )
- 9. Opinions divided over reintroduction of lynx to Scotland
- (tags:cats wildlife Scotland )
- 10. Central African Republic Adopts Bitcoin as Legal Tender
- (tags:Africa bitcoin )
- 11. Pupils boost memory and fitness from fifteen minutes of daily activity
- (tags:exercise )
- 12. Why we should sanction Putin's favourite conductor
- (tags:music corruption Russia Ukraine war )
- 13. Making rope by hand from hemp looks like a lot of hard work
- (tags:manufacturing video )
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Interesting Links for 07-04-2022
Apr. 7th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. What leads people to believe they have been abducted by aliens?
- (tags:aliens sleep psychology memory )
- 2. New part of the body found in the lungs
- (tags:bodies humans air viaNancyLebov )
- 3. Boris Johnson's new nuclear plants expected to raise energy bills by over £80 a year - not be ready in time for anything useful
- (tags:nuclearpower OhForFucksSake BorisJohnson electricity UK )
- 4. You all know about the millions of people in the Congo that Belgium killed and maimed to steal their resources, right?
- (tags:Belgium Congo empire murder )
- 5. New 1,350 home village to be built in West Edinburgh
- (tags:Edinburgh housing )
- 6. Five Swift Answers to The Problem of Baby-Eating Authors
- (tags:satire behaviour authors writing jkrowling )
- 7. Fluoride in water in Scotland would save NHS a fortune
- (tags:water teeth Scotland )
- 8. A new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.
- (tags:ai art )
- 9. UK government: "No need for government Child Poverty Unit because we abolished child poverty targets"
- (tags:UK poverty children conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- 10. Black households three times more likely to be food insecure than the national average
- (tags:race poverty food uk )
- 11. The fashion capital of the prehistoric world has been revealed
- (tags:art craft fashion prehistory Spain archeology )
- 12. Germany boosts renewables with biggest energy policy reform in decades
- (tags:electricity Germany renewables )
- 13. Long Covid cases in UK reach 1.7 million in record high. ⅓ of whom have had it for a year
- (tags:Pandemic health Doom )
- 14. Dunbar's number, optimal group sizes, and how speaking is 2.8x better than picking fleas
- (tags:psychology groups communication business organisation friendship )
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