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Interesting Links for 06-07-2021
Jul. 6th, 2021 12:00 pm- Students flee field as computer "fad" fades
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- "'Mendel's Quest,' aka 'Angry Jew,' Helped Me Embrace My Heritage"
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- Green light in Edinburgh for Scotland's largest net zero housing project
- (tags:Edinburgh housing globalwarming Scotland )
- Epstein-Barr virus reactivation may be the cause of long COVID symptoms
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- Scotland to keep face masks for public transport and shops
- (tags:Pandemic Scotland transport shopping )
- Lambda variant: What is the new strain of Covid detected in the UK?
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- How many robots does it take to run a grocery store? (Incredible video)
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- Warhammer 40k Timeline In 20 Mins! From the 21st Century to the 41st Millenium
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- Mind-controlling parasite makes hyena cubs more reckless around lions
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- Most attempts to improve the world fail. That doesn't mean they aren't important
- (tags:Revolution history protests )
Interesting Links for 30-09-2020
Sep. 30th, 2020 12:00 pm- Intermittent fasting doesn't help weight loss
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- Jet suit trial for Great North Air Ambulance paramedics
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- Can someone reassure me that this, about postal votes at the last election, is ridiculous nonsense?
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1310709988059492358.html
(tags:voting UK mail ) - Early Introduction of Gluten May Prevent Coeliac Disease in Children
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- The Legal Defense For Fox's Tucker Carlson: He Can't Be Literally Believed
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- UK considered shipping asylum seekers to a tiny volcanic island thousands of miles away in the mid Atlantic
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- That's the UK's car industry fucked
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- Arseholes, considered as a strategic resource
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- Coventry University: 200 students attend illegal rave in halls (seriously, this is never going to work. Send them all home.)
- (tags:university pandemic Doom )
- A list of things Mark Evanier learned through 50 years in the comics industry
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- "Right-wing populism is always more engaging" says Facebook exec
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- The Strongman Con: How to stop worrying about Trump stealing the election
- (tags:democracy usa GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 19-08-2017
Aug. 19th, 2017 12:00 pm- The Eclipse Conspiracy
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- How many house points Harry and the others have won/lost for their house
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- You’re not the hero of Pyre’s revolution, and that’s the point
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- What a Border Collie Taught a Linguist About Language
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- Evidence of a Toxic Environment for Women in Economics
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- What do we know about the ethnicity of sexual abuse gangs?
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- Bank Of Scotland, Lloyds and Halifax customers face up to 52% APR overdraft fee
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Interesting Links for 14-06-2017
Jun. 14th, 2017 12:12 pm- Men! Are you juggling a successful career and fatherhood? Then you'll need these helpful tips!
- (tags: work life tips men sexism satire )
- All 213 Beatles Songs, Ranked From Worst to Best
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- Boss threatened staff with redundancy if they voted Labour
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- Is the keyboard faster than the mouse?
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- Drug that creates a 'real sun-tan' could prevent cancer
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- Black Panther: World of Wakanda canceled: I'm the reason superhero comics are struggling
- Me too. I only buy trades, and I'm sure that has an effect.
(tags: comics publishing business ) - Majority of every worker group voted for Labour over Tories except retired
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- Kazakhstan Has First Ever Tabletop RPG Convention
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- Donald Trump Is Making Europe Liberal Again
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- I shall not be seeing The Mummy
- (tags: movies review funny )
- Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire
- (tags: history Europe empire language Germany austria Jews )
- An amusing thread involving sexism, children, Disney, and troublesome grandmothers
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- Abortion: NI women not entitled to NHS terminations in England
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- Conservative supporters are more likely to be ill-educated or old
- Changeover point is of people who were 10 during Winter of Discontent. Which _still_ has my parents voting Conservative.
(tags: demographics age education politics UK ) - The menace of UK's firetrap tower blocks (from 2013)
- (tags: uk safety housing fire OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 20-04-2015
Apr. 20th, 2015 04:47 pm- Lion Gets Stuck In A Tree Before His Brother Helps Him Down
- How snakes climb trees
- People on probiotics focus less on their negative feelings
- The Look of Love Is in the Dog's Eyes (And not, as you might think, in its kiss)
- My Son Was A Victim of Baby Role-Play (One of the creepiest things I've encountered)
- TV exposure of Scientology shelved because of Northern Ireland's libel law.
- Seven Reasons People Hate Free-Range Parenting
- By 2017, Norway wants to be the first country to ditch FM radio entirely
- This French tech school with no teachers, no books, and no tuition
- Are other languages as passive-agressive as English?
- Cats can see the rotating snake illuion
- The TV Tropes relationship status options are awesome
- Korean Shipbuilder Uses "Iron Man" Exosuit to Help Build World's Largest Freighter
- Myths of the American Revolution
- The Town that Runs on Social Media
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Interesting Links for 23-10-2013
Oct. 23rd, 2013 12:00 pm- CurrencyFair: A P2P platform for currency exchange
- Fulfilled by Amazon: How to get rid of old stuff immediately, sell it for more, and use Amazon as a cheap storage facility
- Why we keep doing bizarre things in order to finance public works
- An excellent collection of free programming books
- Who wants to see Benedict Cumberbatch make dragon faces?
- New Dutch political party wants €1,000 basic income for all.
- Trapped Under Ice, Indeed: Metallica's "December Surprise" is a Show in Antarctica
- In favour of union (and the BART Strike)
- How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes
- Fibromyalgia solved; A pathology, not in the mind
- Eating food rich in tryptophan makes you trust people more
- Give people decently formatted information about their diseases and they make better decisions
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- SpongeBob headstone removed by Ohio cemetery
- Flagship £1bn youth unemployment scheme branded a failure
- Edinburgh is the second-best place to live in the UK
- This is _almost_ enough to make me vote Labour.
- 58% of Americans Favor Legalizing Marijuana
- Aluminium studs can make all solar panels 22% more efficient
- Holy Crap, This Titanfall Trailer
- True tales from school
- When cats stop for directions
- Eat butter and avoid alternatives loaded with sugar
- Eat Lard
- Google Glass is making a life changing difference for the disabled
- Both China and the US have income inequality at levels where there is high risk of potential social unrest
- Computer-related productivity is up by 480% since the 1970s.
- Police ask for condom ban in Edinburgh saunas (This makes me so angry)
- Don’t trust VPNs? Create your own with a friend and a browser extension
- Theatre offers promise for youth with autism (Fairly sure that roleplaying did the same for me)
- Question by the police...for knitting!
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Interesting Links for 2-11-2011
Nov. 2nd, 2011 11:00 am- A new phylogeny of the mammals. Nice diagram.
- Half of Britain now owns a smartphone.
- From April people in the UK will be able to opt-out from junk mail through a single website.
- Revolutions and the Internet.
- The price of Greek democracy
- India plans safer nuclear plant powered by thorium
- Google tells you why it's serving you specific ads.
- The dangers of bedtime reading
- After UNESCO Palestine vote, could US defund nuclear watchdog IAEA, too?
- Jason Segel, Unlikely Hero Behind the New Muppet Movie (I've loved him for years)
- Hormone in birth control shot linked to memory loss
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