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Interesting Links for 29-01-2026
Jan. 29th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The last 6 years has seen a very large drop in church-going in the UK (from 12% of the population to 9%)
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- 2. Starmer faces fury as promise to clamp down on damp and mouldy homes pushed back to 2035
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- 3. Trump administration secretly loosens nuclear safety rules
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- 4. Vitamin D & Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
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Interesting Links for 04-07-2025
Jul. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Five baby beavers born at Cairngorms National Park in Scottish Highlands spotted for first time
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- 2. Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate implications
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- 3. Deafness reversed: Single injection brings hearing back within weeks | ScienceDaily
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- 4. High-Fidelity Simultaneous Speech-To-Speech Translation
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- 5. Ita O'Brien: Up close and professional with the world's leading intimacy coordinator
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- 6. Trump seems to have decided that America should be more like Rome
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- 7. The perfect, but slow, way to boil an egg - according to science
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Interesting Links for 08-06-2025
Jun. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Summarising the last few days in American politics
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- 2. UK — High Court to lawyers: cut the ChatGPT or else
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- 3. After Pornhub left France, Proton VPN saw a 1,000% surge in minutes
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- 4. Reform UK doesn't know how government spending works
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Interesting Links for 08-05-2025
May. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Mike Pence's takedown of Trump shows how lost traditional Republicans are
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- 2. 'I did stunts for my own pleasure': The terrifying feats of French film legend Jean-Paul Belmondo
- (tags:history france stunts movies viaKenny )
- 3. Europeans Have Realized Their Error About Russia
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- 4. Trump blows a hole in Ed Miliband's wind farm plan
- (tags:usa uk politics windpower OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Vagus Nerve Stimulation Erases PTSD
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- 6. Digitising NHS and adult social care 'will cost £21bn over the next five years'
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- 7. How do we deal with Reform?
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- 8. A map of electromagnetic warfare happening in real time over Ukraine and parts of Russia
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Interesting Links for 26-04-2025
Apr. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 'It's everything': 5-year-high pork cancellation signals China weaning off US farm goods
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- 2. Debunking various transgender myths
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- 3. Trump's use of the Enemy Alien Act is pure fascism
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- 4. Help challenge the Supreme Court's judgment on trans rights
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- 5. Reminder that Senior Officials Quit Britain's Equalities Watchdog EHRC Over Transphobia last year
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Interesting Links for 09-04-2025
Apr. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Confusion surrounds ETA visa waiver process for some dual national Brits
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- 2. Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals
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- 3. No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
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- 4. Trump tariffs based on massive error (as well as being total nonsense)
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- 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
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- 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!
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- 9. Trade Will Move On Without the United States
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- 10. Great Moments in Peaceful Protest History
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- 11. Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws
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- 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?
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Interesting Links for 03-03-2025
Mar. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. You need governmental approval to run psychological tests on job applicants in Canada
- (tags:Canada psychology jobs viaDewline )
- 2. Edinburgh are having a consultation on dogs on beaches and in green spaces, as well as buskers and green-space management.
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- 3. New study says TikToks are bad for you! Thankfully it's complete nonsense!
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- 4. The Cuddled Little Vice - a fascinating, in-depth, dissection of Neil Gaiman's career.
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- 5. German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility
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- 6. The US Defense Department removes thousands of serving transgender people
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- 7. Church of England: just 25% now have a favourable view - 49% unfavourable.
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Interesting Links for 28-02-2025
Feb. 28th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Waymo is the only Western company with an autonomous taxi service. Here are their expansion plans for 2025.
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- 2. A nice video explanation for why you can't go faster than the speed of light
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- 3. Are they, or were they? Use of tense when referring to death.
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- 4. LGBTQ+ Purges In the US Government Begin
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- 5. Elon Musk's Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online
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Interesting Links for 29-01-2025
Jan. 29th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh cross-city cycle scheme CCWEL proving successful
- (tags:edinburgh cycling GoodNews )
- 2. Congressional Republicans' coming war on poor people
- (tags:politics usa republicans tax poverty viaDanielDWilliam )
- 3. Microplastics block blood flow in the brain (in mice)
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- 4. US civil servants are being asked who they voted for in 2024 election
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- 5. Both men and women are slightly attracted to younger partners
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- 6. A proposal for reopening Edinburgh's South Suburban Railway line as a tram-train. Looks great - not sure how many stations will be viable to reopen.
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- 7. Petition · Reopen Edinburgh's South Sub using Tram-Trains
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Interesting Links for 17-11-2024
Nov. 17th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. From the time Musk endorsed Trump Republicans started getting boosts on X/Twitter
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- 2. What's going on with New Zealand and treaties with the Maori?
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- 3. "I fixed my lactose intolerance -- by chugging ALL the lactose"
- (tags:milk video viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 02-11-2024
Nov. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Norovirus cases rise by 41 per cent to twice average level
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- 2. Trump Suggests That America's Top General Deserves Execution
- (tags:USA politics republicans military OhForFucksSake )
- 3. The Untold Story of Trump's Failed Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela's President
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- 4. Large crowd duped into attending non-existent Halloween parade in Dublin
- (tags:Halloween Ireland lies wtf viaSwampers )
Interesting Links for 06-09-2024
Sep. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Ulez has cut children's school car rides
- (tags:transport pollution london children school GoodNews )
- 2. Edinburgh Council's plan for Princes Street (and Princes Street gardens)
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- 3. 60% of Israelis believe you shouldn't be allowed to post sympathy for Gazan civilians. 50% believe you shouldn't be allowed to criticise the government
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- 4. Stonehenge Altar Stone was not sourced from Mainland Orkney
- (tags:stonehenge viaDanielDWilliam )
- 5. GOP network props up liberal third-party candidates in key states, hoping to siphon off Harris votes
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- 6. Five things to know before forming an opinion on Paralympics transgender row
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Interesting Links for 10-08-2024
Aug. 10th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh council is carrying out a consultation on Firework control zones - have your say here
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- 2. More than 2,000 people died from the heat in England last summer
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- 3. The truth about Trump's press conference
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- 4. A Huge New York office building sold for a 97% discount. How much worse can the office space market get?
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- 5. Love this review of "The Crush House" a game that has you working as a camera operator on a reality show, forced to balance the needs of competing audiences and the demands of the contestants.
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Interesting Links for 08-08-2024
Aug. 8th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. In 1997, the minimum age for women gymnasts was raised to 16. Some thought it would usher in a less competitive era. Instead, athletes of incredible skill and longevity emerged.
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- 2. Republicans are pro-cancer
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- 3. An injection every 6 months completely prevents HIV
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- 4. On October 23rd 1911 400 guests sat down to the world's first 'Cold-Storage Banquet'
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- 5. What would a move to a Canadian-style pensions model for the UK's local government schemes look like?
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- 6. Worldcon arrives in Glasgow (I wish I could go. Hopefully next time around!)
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Interesting Links for 25-07-2024
Jul. 25th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Judge in E. Jean Carroll Case: Yes, Donald Trump Is a Rapist
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- 2. World of Warcraft's Entire Development Team Has Officially Unionized
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- 3. Number of long-term empty homes brought back into use in Scotland approaches 11,000
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- 4. Roblox Predator Problem Potentially Exposes Kids to Pedophiles
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- 5. There's been a fire at Gorgie Farm
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- 6. A 3-D London Tube Visualisation With Moving Trains
- (tags:london tube visualisation viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 13-05-2024
May. 13th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Terry Pratchett On Trans Folk
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- 2. What's the difference between the British and Finnish welfare systems?
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- 3. Wes Streeting explains why Labour are fine with starving children
- (tags:Labour children welfare poverty OhForFucksSake )
- 4. What happened to the Great Library of Alexandria?
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- 5. 30,000 rare oysters being reintroduced to Firth of Forth
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- 6. Small nuclear reactors don't add up as a viable energy source
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- 7. Internet use is linked to higher wellbeing
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- 8. Economic performance is stronger when Democrats hold the White House
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- 9. The Aurora Borealis from Calton Hill, Edinburgh.
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- 10. Scientists document remarkable sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet'
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- 11. Have no doubt: we are at war with Russia
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Interesting Links for 26-01-2024
Jan. 26th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Apple to allow rival app stores and browsers on iPhones in EU
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- 2. A collection of stories of queer and trans Floridians who have fled the state
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- 3. Looking at how much male and female characters speak in the Disney Princess movies
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- 4. More states propose bills to exclude trans, nonbinary people from public life
- (tags:LGBT USA law bigotry transgender viaBenWerdmuller )
- 5. A new global gender divide is emerging as young women shift in a more liberal direction and young men shift to the right
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- 6. What if consciousness is a coping mechanism?
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- 7. The "Code of Conduct" for Improbably Island is fantastic. Anyone running an online community should read it.
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- 8. QWERTLE - like Worldle, but based on keyboard location. I got today's in 4.
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Interesting Links for 30-11-2023
Nov. 30th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. UK humans rights watchdog under review by the UN over approach to trans people
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- 2. On portrayals of tech billionaires in science fiction
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- 3. Edinburgh trams 'wouldn't have gone ahead if councillors weren't lied to on cost'
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- 4. 27% Of New Cars In France Now Plugin Electric Cars!
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- 5. 1850s Tumblr Simulator
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- 6. Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America's Ruling Class, Finally Dies
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- 7. Elon Musk Just Told Advertisers, 'Go Fuck Yourself' (because they didn't want to support antisemitism)
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