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1. Did you know there was an old rifle range under Edinburgh's Waverley Station? (6 minutes in to this video): (tags:guns edinburgh history trains )
2. What's been going on with Boeing? (they seem to have forgotten that making planes requires attention to detail): (tags:airplanes safety epicfail OhForFucksSake engineering manufacturing )
3. A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major internet platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.: (tags:internet abuse crime )
4. Giant redwoods: The world's largest trees are thriving in the UK. (Except for not reproducing): (tags:trees UK )
5. The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets: (tags:food business economics )
6. The Existential Relief of Having Children: (tags:philosophy anxiety stress parenting children life )
7. The Abyss 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray UK release | The BBFC comments on its cancellation: (tags:rats abuse animals movies jamescameron BluRay )
8. Do your pets help you make food? You ain't seen nothing yet!: (tags:food cows video funny )
9. LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6% (and dramatically higher in Gen Z): (tags:demographics LGBT USA )
10. AI reveals prostate cancer has two distinct subtypes: (tags:ai cancer prostate )
11. The full version of Tenacious D's - ...Baby One More Time cover is out. And even more awesome than you'd expect: (tags:music video BritneySpears awesome panda )
12. Yes, the Tories are outrageously racist and sexist - but Labour is guilty too (writes Diane Abbott): (tags:politics racism UK Labour conservatives )
13. Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town: (tags:sand heat battery finland )
14. The only other mammals to go through the menopause live longer because of it: (tags:menstruation whales longevity )
15. New ONS figures show how Edinburgh's share of short term lets is massive by comparison to practically everywhere else in the UK: (tags:edinburgh rental holidays housing tourism )
16. New extremism definition unveiled by British government. Is very vague.: (tags:uk government language )
17. I see that J.K. Rowling is now engaging in anti-trans Holocaust denial: (tags:transgender Holocaust jkrowling OhForFucksSake bigotry lgbt )
18. Assisted dying in Canada is accepted - but the UK should tread carefully: (tags:euthanasia canada )
19. I was getting bored of running - then I found joggling: (tags:juggling running jogging exercise edinburgh )

1. All of the parties have shared their proposed budgets for Edinburgh: (tags:edinburgh politics money )
2. UK MPs will be helped to spot conspiracy theories: (tags:research conspiracy uk politics )
3. Neil Gaiman is in disagreement with half of his fans of the genre of Good Omens: (tags:neilgaiman comedy TV genre funny )
4. The 2023 Hugo Fraud and Where We Go From Here: (tags:Hugo awards scifi fraud )
5. What it takes to scam someone out of $50,000: (tags:money fraud )
6. Service change from Sunday 24 March - Lothian Buses: (tags:Edinburgh buses transport )
7. Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article: (tags:ai rats genitals penis wtf )
8. Greece legalizes same-sex marriage in a first for an Orthodox Christian nation: (tags:greece lgbt marriage christianity )
9. Solar & Battery Storage to Make Up 81% of New U.S. Electric-Generating Capacity in 2024: (tags:solarpower GoodNews usa batteries )
10. The Fraud of Plastic Recycling (and the companies that have covered it up for 50 years): (tags:recycling plastic fraud doom )

1. Give rats stomach bugs from a human with Alzheimer's and their memories become impaired: (tags:brain alzheimers microbiome rats )

Toddlers understand counting years before they say numbers: (tags:numbers babies psychology )
Not 'Eureka', but 'That's funnyâ€¦': (tags:science humour comedy )
Why almost every terminal in the world is 80Ã—25: (tags:history computers viaFanf )
Boris Johnson Raised The Issue Of Export Forms In Northern Ireland With Jean-Claude Juncker. And Then Agreed To Them.: (tags:UK Europe NorthernIreland )
Rethinking Encryption (the former counsel for the FBI on why the US government should support encryption): (tags:encryption politics law usa fbi )
Rainbow Six cheat maker faces Ubisoft lawsuit after BBC appearance: (tags:games cheating law )
Labour to support election if no deal is 'off the table': (tags:UK Europe elections )
Westminster should hand over tax-raising powers to councils. We would all benefit: (tags:tax UK decentralisation )
Earliest known draft of part of the King James Bible discovered: (tags:Bible history religion Christianity )
Scientists have trained rats to drive tiny cars: (tags:rats cars driving )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3835248.html

Arron Banks and other Brexit campaigners referred to National Crime Agency over suspected criminal offences during referendum: (tags: uk europe referendum fraud )
Quantum Physicists Found a New, Safer Way to Navigate: (tags: quantum magnets navigation )
Israel silent as Iran hit by computer virus more violent than Stuxnet: (tags: israel iran virus hacking )
UK proposes plastic packaging tax: (tags: plastic recycling uk )
Everyone please enjoy being outraged about the outrage over Jacob Rees-Mogg’s best mate, the fired Waitrose mag editor: (tags: freespeech food vegan uk )
Medical cannabis treatments in UK to be limited over doctors' fears and lack of regulation despite new law: (tags: law doctors marijuana OhForFucksSake uk )
'Hologram' lecturers to teach students at Imperial College London: (tags: university Holograms Technology )
Mobile phone cancer stories are a trend that never goes out of fashion: (tags: cancer phones rats )
More interesting thoughts on the Waitrose Vegan kerfuffle.: (tags: politics society freespeech marketing vegan )
The greatest squirrel feeder ever!: (tags: squirrel video horror funny viaSwampers )
Major upgrade plan for Edinburgh's botanic garden: (tags: Edinburgh gardens environment )
Why the “circumcision solution” to the AIDS epidemic in Africa may increase it: (tags: circumcision aids Africa research )
Your native language affects what you can and can’t see: (tags: language perception colour psychology )
Colours in Irish: (tags: ireland colour language )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3737541.html

A Labour councillor has quit the party over an anti-Semitic post on social media claiming Jews drink blood and sexually abuse children.: Good that they've gotten rid of him. I suspect there are a few more to go...
(tags: Labour Jews )
The Daily Mail are racist liars (Paris edition): (tags: DailyMail France fraud racism )
New Picard-centric Star Trek series announced: (tags: StarTrek )
DARPA wants to speed up computers by over 1000 times while using less power: (tags: computers thefuture )
A thread about being a women game developer in Japan in the 90s: (tags: games history women OhForFucksSake )
Guns, technology, and law: the problem the USA has, and how it night fix it.: (tags: guns law technology usa viaTheFerrett )
It is worth reading the whole of this report on the Venezuelan "drone attack": (tags: drone assassination Venezuela )
What is the best kind of life?: (tags: life rats comic )
Reclaiming "queer": (tags: lgbt language history )
Amusing stoner confessions: (tags: marijuana funny )
The tiniest choreographer: (tags: dancing babies video )
Why the Mona Lisa cannot be restored: (tags: art history LeonardoDaVinci )
Amazing Star Wars model explosions: (tags: explosions StarWars models )
Today's best mispronounciation: (tags: funny )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3712159.html

Listen and weep: Audiobooks outdo films in emotional engagement: (tags: books emotion tv movies )
How bad could Brexit be, really?: (tags: Europe UK doom )
Famous gorilla Koko who could do sign language has died at the age of 46: (tags: gorillas sign language )
Why Rank-And-File Evangelicals Aren’t Likely To Turn On Trump Over Family Separation - For Now.: (tags: religion usa immigration racism society )
First physiological test for autism has 88% accuracy in second trial: (tags: autism )
The day after: Tory MPs look at the cliff-edge: (tags: politics UK Europe )
Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant: (tags: food automaton )
Immigrant children have been forcibly injected with powerful psychiatric drugs at one of the U.S. government "shelters": (tags: drugs usa children immigration OhForFucksSake )
Roseanne officially going on without the titular character: (tags: tv funny )
Airbus warns no-deal Brexit could see it leave UK - taking 14,000 jobs with it: (tags: airplanes uk europe jobs business doom )
Guys, guys, I found the very definition of entitlement: (tags: StarWars OhForFucksSake )
Edinburgh trams profits more than £1m above forecast: Considering that it's only half of the line, I'm amazed it's making a profit at all.
(tags: trams edinburgh )
Investigating The Mysterious ‘Jumping Gene’ That Appears 500k Times in Human DNA: (tags: genetics )
Air Force certifies Falcon Heavy, orders satellite launch for 2020: (tags: Spacex )
Eurozone agrees deal to bring Greece out of financial crisis: (tags: Greece debt Europe economy )
Psychiatric disorders share an underlying genetic basis: (tags: genetics mentalhealth )
A mechanism behind choosing alcohol over healthy rewards is found (in rats, but probably also humans): (tags: alcohol brain genetics addiction rats )
Turns out Stephen King is responsible for Donald Trump: (tags: usa politics horror funny stephen_king )
The great irony of Brexit is that it is teaching the UK that it already had the best model: EU membership: (tags: europe uk )
The three legal ways by which Brexit may not take place on 29 March 2019: (tags: uk europe law )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3697254.html

Screaming dinosaurs and pop music. What's not to like?: (tags: music dinosaurs video )
Bitcoin’s energy consumption, explained: (tags: bitcoin electricity )
Sad poop emoji gets flushed after row: (tags: emoji faeces )
Person of the Year: Time honours abuse 'silence breakers': (tags: abuse media )
Theresa May "I have a method for avoiding a hard Irish border, but it is too large to fit in this margin": (tags: Ireland NorthernIreland UK europe politics OhForFucksSake )
Autistic social problems partially down to neurotypicals shunning them: (tags: autism communication social psychology viaJennieRigg )
Genetically mutated rats could be released in Britain to solve rodent problem: (tags: rats genetics uk )
The impossible heterosexuality of losing weight.: (tags: lgbt desire weight society viaLizzieCassMaran )
Extinct kangaroo-like lion discovered in Australia: (tags: Australia animals )
China's debt levels pose stability risk, says IMF: (tags: China debt )
What is the secret to being more assertive? Having self respect: (tags: psychology self-esteem respect )
Australian stock exchange to move to blockchain: (tags: database stocks Technology )
The Big Vitamin D Mistake: (tags: vitaminD )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3640729.html

Florida power company exchanging nuclear plans for solar plans, cutting rates: (tags: usa solarpower nuclearpower )
Hot New ‘Anonymous’ Chat App Sarahah Hijacks Millions of Contact Data: (tags: privacy identity data )
Experimentally Reducing Racist Harassment (Being told off by high-status white males makes racists stop): (tags: racism twitter psychology )
How Programming Languages Differ Between Wealthy and Developing Countries: (tags: demographics programming language viaSwampers money )
How vanishing debt costs helped the UK forget about a never-ending deficit: a) We should be investing _heavily_ in better infrastructure right now. Heck, we should have been for a few years, considering how cheaply we can borrow. b) Look at how worried people are about the stock market lining up for a crash. I wonder if a big-enough one could cause us to abort Brexit.
(tags: uk economics viaSwampers )
Lenovo’s first augmented reality glasses are a Star Wars exclusive: (tags: StarWars augmentedreality )
Possibly the oddest spam I've ever had: (tags: illuminati spam weird )
50% of men and 40% of women are unable to identify the vagina on a diagram: I'd like to see the diagram myself, to be honest.
(tags: vagina Education health OhForFucksSake )
The problem with how men perceive rape (and consent in general): (tags: consent rape sex society patriarchy viaJane )
Tory peer says Brexit is good because young people will be able to work longer hours: (tags: UK europe working_hours OhForFucksSake Conservatives )
The story of the Jewish codebreakers who helped win WWII: (tags: wwii encryption history Jews )
How should white people feel about privilege: (tags: privilege race society viaTheFerrett )
Tanzania becomes the latest country to use drones for medical deliveries: (tags: drone healthcare )
Here's the first recorded instance of the F-word in English: (tags: language history swearing )
Learned kinkiness - or how they trained rats to love lingerie: (tags: rats clothing sex psychology )
You can be your own therapist - if you’re up to the job: (tags: psychology mentalhealth )
The new 7,541-piece Lego Millennium Falcon is the biggest and most expensive set ever: (tags: lego StarWars )
Scottish tidal power station breaks world record for electricity generation: (tags: water power scotland )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3612548.html

Diets avoiding dry-cooked foods can protect against diabetes: (tags: cooking food diabetes )
Housebuilding slows despite growing shortage of homes: (tags: housing uk )
Microsoft Excel blamed for gene study errors: (tags: genetics research OhForFucksSake )
Stupid Questions Asked by Journalists #1: What won't Meat Loaf do for love?: (tags: music journalism fail )
Librarians show off their elite sorting skills in 'synchronised shelving' video: (tags: viaSwampers library funny olympics video )
We need to talk about why Kevin can't get a girlfriend: (tags: OhForFucksSake conspiracy relationships mentalhealth )
The brain uses backward instant replays to remember important travel routes (in rats): (tags: travel brain rats )
Rudy Van Gelder, Audio Engineer Who Helped Define Sound of Jazz on Record, Dies at 91: (tags: music history )
Dexmo exoskeleton glove lets you touch and feel in VR: (tags: VirtualReality Technology )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3497785.html

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3459194.html

1 Million People use Facebook over Tor: (tags: facebook privacy )
I don't think most people know how Londoners deal with adversity: (tags: london history )
The four modern horsemen of the apocalypse: (tags: Technology apocalypse funny )
Fructose alters hundreds of brain genes,but omega-3 fatty acids can reverse the damage (in rats): (tags: rats brain fruit sugar )
An excerpt from Andy Akiho's Ping Pong Concerto: You can see the complete thing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6RwAhUiApA
(tags: sport video music )
Aphantasia: How It Feels To Be Blind In Your Mind: (I'm at least 90% of the way there. And my art also looks like his)
(tags: brains psychology image art pictures fantasy )
Massively! Multiplayer! Snake!: (tags: mmorpg games )
The first debate on the morality of sexbots was in the 17th century: (tags: judaism sex debate history funny )
A hitchhiker’s accidental tour into the heart of the Islamic State’s oil smuggling economy: (tags: war oil terrorism syria )
A very old/early review of the Sisters of Mercy: (tags: music review )
The feminist critique is in the air now.: (tags: writing feminism )
Divorce rate at lowest level in 40 years after cohabitation revolution: (tags: divorce relationships marriage )
Wives become less stressed after their husbands die: (tags: women stress relationships marriage death )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3443377.html

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3396071.html

How industrialisation broke bread, and the people trying to fix it.
- (tags: food bread industrial technology history USA viaHugh )
This new 'sexual consent and tea' video from Thames Valley Police is brilliant
- (tags: tea consent video )
So you want to abolish time zones
- (tags: time viafanf )
Study of self-driving cars shows other drivers are good at hitting them
- (tags: cars robots safety )
Male/female brain differences? Big data says not so much
- (tags: gender brain )
Poor white boys get a worse start in life says equality report
- (tags: success uk poverty education race )
EU rules UK's porn filters are illegal (Can't be opt-out, must be opt-in)
- (tags: porn censorship uk Europe )
Why the EU's "Human Brain" project is a waste of money
- (tags: brain simulation Europe fail )
A new species combining wolf, coyote, and dog emerges in eastern North America
- (tags: dogs wolves coyote usa )
We've found the mechanism which causes the body to return to a "set weight" (in rats)
- (tags: weight biology bodies rats research )
Lynx UK Trust, conservationists working to reintroduce Eurasian lynx to the British Isles
- So Cute!
- (tags: cats uk )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3360491.html

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3342967.html

Bisexual Privilege, Bisexual Erasure
- (tags: LGBT )
I should be less surprised how annoying passport rules are
- (tags: travel passport )
There's now a training course on "How to talk to the SNP"
- (tags: snp Scotland OhForFucksSake )
Women are keeping their names after marriage in greater numbers.
- (tags: names women marriage )
Watch CNN Confuse a Bunch of Dildos and Buttplugs for an ISIS Flag
- (tags: sextoys terrorism reporting OhForFucksSake )
Doctor Who Online, Sebastian J. Brook, and the Defrauding of a Community
- (tags: drwho fraud advertising )
Greek bailout extension refused: a panel of leading economists give their verdict
- (tags: economics Greece Europe )
My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to use on the site
- (tags: Facebook names )
Can the Bacteria in Your Gut Explain Your Mood?
- (tags: emotion microbiome bacteria )
Rats Dream About the Places They Want to Explore
- (tags: rats dreams brain )
A Music-Sharing Network for the Unconnected
- (tags: Africa music phones )
Man shoots downs neighbor’s hexacopter drone
- (tags: drone guns USA )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3305174.html

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