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Interesting Links for 28-02-2024

1. Beautiful Edinburgh garden many locals don't know about named most peaceful spot in UK (I'd lived here twenty years before I knew it was there): (tags:Edinburgh gardens nature )
2. If you're wondering why there's a worldwide shortage of ADHD drugs, blame the USA: (tags:USA adhd OhForFucksSake regulation manufacturing )
3. Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users' Data to Train AI Tools: (tags:ai Tumblr wordpress OhForFucksSake )
4. Texas will add more grid batteries than any other state this year, more than doubling its capacity: (tags:Texas batteries GoodNews )
5. The reason why Tory MPs won't use the word 'Islamophobia': (tags:islam UK politics )
6. Small steps forward in understanding the links between DNA damage and aging: (tags:genetics aging )
7. How the gender pay gap in the UK compares to other nations: (tags:gender wages pay UK )
8. Atmospheric rivers mapped by scientists in California: (tags:rain weather )
9. Botanical gardens can cool city air by an average of 5 °C (and other green spaces are also effective, if less so): (tags:gardens cities temperature )

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4057560.html

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Interesting Links for 05-07-2021

When "Ma'am" and "Sir" Just Don't Work (Gender Neutral and Nonbinary-Exclusive Language; A Small Guide): (tags:language gender )
This thread is a delightful little spooky short story: (tags:short_story horror Twitter )
In Thailand, blood sacrifice is out. Strawberry Fanta is in.: (tags:religion Thailand food colour )
How can Christian fundamentalists be anti-Semitic and Pro-Israel at the same time?: (tags:christianity Jews OhForFucksSake Israel )
St James Quarter floods as heavy rainfall batters Edinburgh during storm: (tags:Edinburgh weather rain shopping )
World's largest ever four day week trial in Iceland 'overwhelming success': (tags:work working_hours Iceland )
Brian Blessed's Tarzan story is delightful: (tags:movies Disney voice )
Ships! Cats! In! Tiny! Hammocks!: (tags:cats navy history photos viaSwampers )
City streets need trees: (tags:trees cities temperature )
Transmission of Covid between 2 people who used the same bathroom 40 minutes apart: (tags:toilet pandemic Doom Epidemiology )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4040847.html

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Interesting Links for 26-05-2021

Scientists discover brain connection responsible for misophonia (feeling disgusted when you hear other people chew): (tags:eating sound brain )
River Runner - drop a raindrop anywhere in the contiguous United States and see where it ends up: (tags:rain USA visualisation rivers )
Liz Truss: LGBT panel disbanded after trans self-ID row: (tags:lgbt transgender conservatives bigotry OhForFucksSake )
COVID cases after vaccination are still very rare—variants aren't changing that: (tags:pandemic vaccination GoodNews )
How your phone spies on you without listening to a word you've said: (tags:surveillance advertising socialmedia phones viaDanielDWilliam )
Talk to your local academics!: (tags:knowledge academia university )
Milky Way not unusual, astronomers find: (tags:space astronomy )
Google launches its third major operating system, Fuchsia: (tags:Google operatingsystems )

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Interesting Links for 12-06-2020

UPnP flaw exposes millions of network devices to attacks over the Internet: (tags:security internet epicfail )
Turns out that if you get rid of the police you get warlords: (tags:USA violence police )
The AskHistorians subreddit banned Holocaust deniers, and Facebook should too.: (tags:Holocaust debate censorship )
JK Rowling and The Reasonable-Sounding Bigotry: (tags:bigotry jkrowling LGBT transgender uk )
There's a vacuum at the heart of the British government, and that's not good for anyone.: (tags:UK Europe Doom )
If you're good enough at conspiracy theories you can turn anything into one: (tags:conspiracy pandemic viaSwampers )
Plastic Rain Is the New Acid Rain (hundreds of millions of tons of it): (tags:plastic rain environment pollution )
The Right Wing's Favourite 'Crazy Scientist' - Professor Karol Sikora: (tags:healthcare OhForFucksSake pandemic doctors )
Autism, Gender, and Queerness - We're here. We're weird. Get used to it.: (tags:LGBT autism )
"Being comfortable in my body" - on gender presentation and being non-binary: (tags:LGBT gender clothing )
Generation X and Trans Lives: (tags:age demographics transgender LGBT )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2950215.html

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Interesting Links for 26-07-2013

Rivers in the air could boost flooding
(tags: uk globalwarming meteorology rain )
I changed my mind. _This_ is the cutest penguin-related thing _ever_
(tags: penguins cute video )
The official campaign to get a sequel to Dredd made.
(tags: JudgeDredd )
This is what happens when you attempt to take video of police in Sweden.
(tags: sweden viaJamesNicoll police video )
We've identified how the immune system reacts to cats. I hope they find a cure.
(tags: cats allergies )
The truth about cats: REVEALED
(tags: cats )
Scientists can implant false memories into mice
(tags: mice memory )
Apple Prohibits Training App From Teaching Android Lessons
And this is why I won't buy a phone that won't let me install whatever software I like.
(tags: android censorship apple )
EA made more money on Apple’s App Store than through Origin (or Steam)
(tags: games money )
When the UKIP think you're too anti-immigrant YOU HAVE GONE TOO FAR.
Of course, I'm a big liberal softie, so what would I know?
(tags: politics uk immigration Conservatives ukip )
The director of Hardware/Dust Devil is making HP Lovecraft's The Colour Out Of Space
(tags: hplovecraft movies viajohnbobshaun )
I got to Level 8 and completed "You Can't Write Proper English Under Pressure"! Bet you can't.
(tags: games language english )
Tell people off for being fat and they get fatter.
(tags: weight )
How to Future-proof your data model
(tags: computers design )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2915699.html

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Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2816099.html

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Interesting Links for 13-11-2012

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2791898.html

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Interesting Links for 24-09-2012

No one cares about your garage band (a guide for Wikipedia editors)
(tags: funny music wikipedia )
The Guardian is facing major challenges to its financial viability
(tags: business newspapers media guardian )
Al Quaeda largely seem to be good at doing things that are bad for Al Quaeda
(tags: EpicFail alquaeda terrorism islam )
Celebrity Pussy. Your finest source for photos of famous people with their cats.
(tags: photos celebrities cats )
What if a rainstorm dropped all of its water in a single giant drop?
What if a rainstorm dropped all of its water in a single giant drop?
(tags: rain physics )
Lack of transparency is allowing trivially fixed errors in hospitals to kill us.
(tags: hospital healthcare usa )