Interesting Links for 11-11-2025
Nov. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Multilingualism and Extending Healthspan
- (tags:language health lifespan viaKenny )
- 2. 'V for Vendetta' TV Series in the Works at HBO
- (tags:comics alanmoore tv )
- 3. Law used to ban Palestine Action being used too widely, report says
- (tags:law terrorism uk OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Why has one of Edinburgh's best views been off-limits for seven years?
- (tags:edinburgh safety rocks )
- 5. UK Government sets out plan to reduce animal experiments
- (tags:uk animals research safety )
Interesting Links for 12-09-2025
Sep. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What holes are there in the Big Bang theory?
- (tags:BigBangTheory physics science history )
- 2. "Gender Ideology" Is a Conspiracy Theory
- (tags:transgender bigotry conspiracy LGBT )
- 3. Would you like some reasons to have hope about the environment?
- (tags:hope nature history environment )
- 4. Pharmaceutical companies are pulling out of the UK because the UK government isn't investing in life sciences
- (tags:UK healthcare investment doom pharmaceuticals )
- 5. Factsheet: The immune system and ME/CFS
- (tags:ChronicFatigueSyndrome health immune_system )
- 6. Hyundai is now delaying its EV battery plant that was raided by ICE
- (tags:manufacturing usa racism doom korea )
- 7. You have a chance to collect meteorite fragments from Scottish highland hills for first time in 100 years
- (tags:scotland space rocks )
Interesting Links for 02-03-2024
Mar. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh parking: New permits for carers to be introduced in Capital
- (tags:Edinburgh driving )
- 2. CNN leak shows internal distress about double standards on Israel coverage
- (tags:Israel cnn journalism Palestine bias )
- 3. As banks buy up bitcoins, who else are the 'Bitcoin whales'?
- (tags:bitcoin investment banks )
- 4. Waymo Will Bring Autonomous Taxis to Los Angeles—Its Biggest Challenge Yet
- (tags:automation cars taxi USA )
- 5. Rock star: I've spent 30 years making a Scotland map from pebbles
- (tags:rocks geology scotland )
- 6. Who *doesn't* want Tenacious D covering Britney Spears?
- (tags:music video cover BritneySpears )
- 7. On the genetic basis of tail-loss evolution in humans and apes
- (tags:genetics humans evolution )
- 8. Facebook, Instagram, X and Telegram fail to remove posts selling date rape drugs
- (tags:drugs rape Facebook twitter OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 31-07-2022
Jul. 31st, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. This is very nearly exactly what you don't want to happen while rock climbing
- (tags:rocks Doom video )
- 2. Confusing British words: a very abbreviated list
- (tags:language UK English )
- 3. Apparently "doing your job" is now called "quiet quitting"
- (tags:work wtf )
- 4. The Sandman Creator Explains Why He Tears Down Online Trolls
- (tags:neilgaiman racism )
- 5. The benefits of special interests in autism
- (tags:autism psychology )
- 6. Covid cases could give just 28 days immunity as scientists warn of shorter, sharper Omicron variant waves
- (tags:Pandemic Doom )
- 7. Genetically engineered rice needs less fertilizer, makes more food
- (tags:food rice genetics )
- 8. I approve of arming orangutans
- (tags:ape funny )
Interesting Links for 11-09-2014
Sep. 11th, 2014 12:00 pm- Chat logs show how 4chan users created #GamerGate controversy
- What Independence Referendum polls are still to come?
- Helsinki's ambitious plan to make car ownership pointless in 10 years
- The end of the Apple spectacle
- FactCheck: Is an #indyref yes vote forever?
- The Bézier Clock is pretty neat
- A chunk of the Sierra Nevada caught fracturing on video
- With genetic testing, I gave my parents the gift of divorce
- The moment a man enlists in the US armed forces, his chances of being sexually assaulted increase by a factor of ten.
- I Was the Weirdest Person at BronyCon 2014
- Stonehenge was accompanied by 17 neighbouring shrines
- The evidence that Beethoven was black is...lacking
- U2’s new album is showing up on your iPhone whether you want it or not
Interesting Links for 08-05-2012
May. 8th, 2012 12:00 pm- The truth about space pens
- Move fast and break things - why Facebook (the company) works the way it does.
- A brilliant post about how similar software development and having your bathroom refitted are.
- Brazil retailer using Facebook likes on its clothing hangers
- Scotland's councils - coalitions everywhere! (Including one where it's Labour+Conservatives!)
- Religion riskier than porn for online viruses.
- Fox News contributor laments mistake of letting women vote
- How savage has European austerity (spending cuts) been?
- Why the Department of Defense refused to support The Avengers
- Losing yourself in a fictional character can affect your real life
- Oral zinc may lessen common cold symptoms (and cause nausea)
- Labour-SNP Coalition to Control Edinburgh City Council. Hurrah for common sense beating tribalism.
- Want creative adults? Encourage fanfic.
- I had no idea that Ireland has mysterious boulders that move when nobody is looking
- Google gets license to test drive autonomous cars on Nevada roads
- Does your Hi-Fi system have an atomic clock? Then frankly you haven't spent enough on it.