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Interesting Links for 08-07-2024
Jul. 8th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Election 2024: This could be the birth of a powerful new electoral reform movement
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- 2. Minister rejects Blair's call for ID cards to control migration
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- 3. The children have been singing "Elephants Have Wrinkles" for the last twenty minutes. No one knows why.
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- 4. Were some Reform candidates virtual?
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- 5. The Insidious World of Fake Mobile Game Ads
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- 6. Best toddler drummer
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- 7. Germany set to overhaul subsidy regime for renewable energy
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- 8. Gamification needs to be specific to its subject and absolutely minimal, in order to be effective
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Interesting Links for 14-03-2024
Mar. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Did you know there was an old rifle range under Edinburgh's Waverley Station? (6 minutes in to this video)
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 6. The Existential Relief of Having Children
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- 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!
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- 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
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- 14. The only other mammals to go through the menopause live longer because of it
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- 15. New ONS figures show how Edinburgh's share of short term lets is massive by comparison to practically everywhere else in the UK
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- 16. New extremism definition unveiled by British government. Is very vague.
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- 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
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Interesting Links for 19-03-2022
Mar. 19th, 2022 04:34 pm- Could super-sized heat pumps help make gas boilers extinct?
- (tags:gas heating UK )
- Reality TV fuels people's belief in the American Dream
- (tags:reality tv capitalism success )
- Self! Learning! Robot! Cheetah!
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- Idaho's Uniquely Evil Abortion Bill Gives Rapists' Families a Say
- (tags:usa rape abortion OhForFucksSake )
- Are the P&O Ferries sackings legal?
- (tags:law employment business UK )
- British Sign Language set for legal recognition
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- Democrats just passed the Violence Against Women Act
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Interesting Links for 16-04-2020
Apr. 16th, 2020 12:00 pm- Airbreak - jailbreaking CPAP machines to turn them into ventilators
- (tags:software medicine hacking impressive pandemic )
- The 1904 Olympic Marathon May Have Been the Strangest Ever
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- Claim that Conservatives voted against a nurse pay rise needs some context
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- Why is coronavirus killing so many more people in the UK than in Ireland?
- (tags:UK Ireland pandemic )
- Millionaires to reap 80% of benefit from tax change in US coronavirus stimulus
- (tags:usa tax inequality pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- Ray-traced Minecraft looks remarkably pretty
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Interesting Links for 13-10-2019
Oct. 13th, 2019 02:29 pm- Eliud Kipchoge is the first human to run a marathon in less than two hours!
- (tags:running )
- How to Love Your Introvert
- (tags:introversion love poetry video )
- The end of uBlock Origin for Google Chrome?
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- Meet the Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement
- (tags:money globalwarming fraud OhForFucksSake )
- Old Man Yells At Cloud (Marvel edition)
- (tags:MartinScorsese movies art marvel )
- Is crude oil is a genuine eldritch horror?
- (tags:oil evil satire )
- DUP's Nigel Dodds rejects double customs Brexit solution: "It cannot work"
- I'm not sure why the EU is even trying to negotiate something that the ERG and DUP will vote against...
(tags:europe uk NorthernIreland ) - Some downsides to being in the EEA rather than the EU
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- New, smaller, banks are all losing money
- (tags:Banking fail )
- How Italians Became 'White'
- (tags:racism USA history )
- Some details on the Brexit withdrawal deal being put together. Can't see it getting past parliament, but we'll see!
- (tags:UK Europe )
Interesting Links for 23-08-2019
Aug. 23rd, 2019 12:04 pm- Jeremy Corbyn's call for 'tactics' meeting - who is going and who isn't?
- (tags:UK Europe politics )
- The main thing I love about the Watchmen trailer is that I have no idea where it's going
- (tags:watchmen TV wtf )
- The crystal growers who sparked a revolution in graphene electronics
- (tags:Japan graphene crystals materials )
- A new survey shows what really interests 'pro-lifers': controlling women
- Yes, I know it's not a surprise. But it's always good to have data.
(tags:misogyny abortion society ) - Starbucks, monetary superpower
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- How a Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals
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- iPhone 7 radiation safety tests find device over legal limit
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Interesting Links for 17-04-2019
Apr. 17th, 2019 11:59 am- Stonehenge: DNA reveals builders were descended from people from Turkey
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- Pelosi: No UK-US trade deal if Good Friday undermined
- (tags:usa uk NorthernIreland ireland borders trade doom )
- Why The Other Side Won't Listen to Reason
- (tags:morality psychology )
- As Ebola outbreak rages, vaccine is 97.5% effective, protecting over 90K people
- (tags:vaccine GoodNews )
- Work harder or the communists will win!
- (tags:society work business china usa working_hours OhForFucksSake )
- Why the phrase "chick flicks" should be retired
- (tags:women movies comedy relationships language society )
- What to Expect From Sony's Next-Gen PlayStation
- (tags:PlayStation consoles thefuture )
- 30 Animal Panorama Fails
- (tags:animals photography fail funny viaElfy )
- From the MCU to Star Wars: In Praise of Poorly Built Worlds
- Creators leave cracks in their worlds so that silliness and wonder can get through.
(tags:design fantasy StarWars marvel movies writing ) - A lovely personal story about George R. Martin
- (tags:gameofthrones GeorgeRRMartin )
- We still have three Brexit options, and no sign of a decision
- (tags:UK europe doom )
- Wonderdraft - an amazing looking map designer
- (tags:design maps fantasy )
- Pro-Brexit Leave.EU group accused of faking videos and forging images of migrants committing crimes
- (tags:uk europe fascism fraud immigration )
- Colorado Tried a New Way to Vote: Make People Pay???Quadratically
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- Scotland post-surgical deaths drop by a third
- (tags:death scotland nhs surgery )
- Long-distance running and evolution: Why humans can outrun horses but can't jump higher than cats.
- (tags:humans evolution sports running viaFanf )
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Interesting Links for 19-01-2019
Jan. 19th, 2019 02:02 pm- We are undergoing UK political failure on a grand scale.
- (tags: UK europe politics doom )
- Raytraced Quake II makes me want to buy a ludicrously expensive new graphics card
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- Top tip, if you're going to murder someone don't wear a GPS tracker...
- (tags: GPS running murder )
- AeroMexico's new 'DNA Discount' ad goes viral
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Interesting Links for 12-09-2018
Sep. 12th, 2018 12:00 pm- Societal issues explained (by throwing people down pits)
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- The EU is betting that Brexit will make a trade deal with India a little easier.
- (tags: europe india uk trade )
- Why has Brexit become a legal matter when it should be a political matter?
- (tags: politics uk Europe law )
- Kieron Gillen's new comic looks interesting
- (tags: comics roleplaying )
- Brexit: Now Conservatives are suggesting the EEA for three years as a stop-gap.
- (tags: uk europe doom )
- There has been no Corbyn surge in Scotland
- (tags: Scotland labour politics )
- EA defies Belgian loot box decision, setting up potential gambling lawsuit
- If they decide that loot boxes are gambling then I can't see how, for instance, Hearthstone card packs aren't. Or, indeed, Magic: The Gathering card packs. This one could be absolutely massive.
(tags: gambling games belgium ) - Which artist do you think draws the most handsome/beautiful/sexiest characters in comics? Any genre. (Nice range of styles in the replies)
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- 'She has to go': Conservative MPs meet over plot to oust Theresa May
- I don't actually think she'll lose a vote of no confidence
(tags: conservatives ) - Barnier confronts Raab over discovery of Brexit no-deal letters to EU27
- (tags: Europe UK doom )
- Movie Star's Absence Shows Perils of Show Business in China
- (tags: movies China money )
- Brexit: EU can 'certainly not' accept Theresa May's single market plan, Juncker warns
- (tags: europe uk doom )
- ‘Super-recognisers’ employed by UK police to hunt criminals may not be identifying people correctly
- (tags: faces vision uk police fail )
- The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security
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- Finding balance in the universe, a short story
- (tags: short_story scifi ethics morality )
- A single gene mutation may have helped humans become optimal long-distance runners
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- Tom Watson says Momentum should drop speaker who vandalised Warsaw ghetto
- (tags: labour Jews OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 15-05-2018
May. 15th, 2018 12:00 pm- EEA+CU is the least bad version of Brexit. It is however still an extremely poor option.
- (tags: europe uk )
- There's A Cheap And Effective Way To Reduce Gun Violence. Why Aren't More States Doing It?
- (tags: guns usa viaAmaebi )
- D&D adventure premises inspired by stupid bear puns
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- Are you a terrorist? Would you like an easy way to get through security without being checked closely?
- (tags: islam security OhForFucksSake )
- Ninja cat runs the gauntlet.
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- Waterstones accused of breaking pledge not to take on independents
- (tags: books edinburgh waterstones )
- Do You Know Where Your Healing Crystals Come From?
- (tags: mining children OhForFucksSake )
- Cause of polycystic ovary syndrome discovered at last (in mice)
- (tags: fertility women health testosterone mice viaSwampers )
- Brexit: No significant progress made on any issue in negotiations since March, says EU
- (tags: uk europe )
- John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories
- (tags: games Apple history doom stevejobs )
- Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system
- (tags: brain ai dopamine )
- May’s Brexit meeting to end in ‘long grass’ and ‘fudge’ amid standoff over customs
- (tags: UK Europe conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- Stop talking about "fighting" cancer
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Interesting Links for 18-06-2014
Jun. 18th, 2014 12:00 pm- 43% of the people turned down by the Work Capability Assessment successfully appeal
- When the US Government poisoned 10,000 of its own citizens to death
- We’re losing all our Strong Female Characters to Trinity Syndrome
- Solar at Scale (Some people are thinking BIG)
- The DOs and DO NOTs of running your first marathon
- 29 Times Tumblr Raised Serious Questions About "Harry Potter"
- Fluorescent dye + sea sponges is both fascinating and beautiful
- Daniel "Flowers for Algernon" Keyes is dead, alas
- Celtic Britain First! The campaign to kick our Saxon immigrants begins here!
- The inside story of how Larry Page got to be CEO of Google. Twice.
- Thoughts on Succeeding as a Modern-Day Author
- Cabinet Collective Responsibility and why we need to reform it
- How engineers create: Not so much 'eureka' moments as it's the sweat of one's brow
- MP asks voters to help choose bill
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Interesting Links for 18-04-2014
Apr. 18th, 2014 12:00 pm- People will engage in risky behaviour in order to fit in with gender norms
- Why is Good Housekeeping's 'intimate test' on vibrators so shocking?
- Cameron is playing up his Christianity because of gay marriage, not poverty
- Don't let fear stop you from traveling!
- The Least Traditional (and Geekiest) Engagement Rings
- Childhood bullying can lead to depression and unemployment in adulthood
- Simultaneously the nerdiest and most romantic thing I've read this week.
- Two year long case study demonstrating an increase in arch height from running in minimalist shoes.
- Viewing porn out of context makes women feel sick
- Great interview with Skrillex
- Male university workers sue over alleged sex discrimination
- Spanish village called 'Kill the Jews' mulls rebranding exercise
- Why are diamonds clear, but coal black?
- Facebook Introduces A New Optional Feature Called Nearby Friends
- Atypical brain connectivity associated with autism spectrum disorder
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Interesting Links for 02-04-2012
Apr. 2nd, 2012 12:00 pm- Email and web use to be monitored under new laws. I really hope this gets rapidly squashed
- Mind-boggling XKCD April Fools comic wrap-up thread
- Many groundbreaking cancer studies cannot be replicated
- Ask a Physicist: Will CERN awaken the Elder Gods?
- Why nations fail
- SPAM may have uses (in protecting against universal internet surveillance)
- Humans: hot, sweaty, natural-born runners
- How the Tories u-turned on civil liberties. (Where, by the way, are the lib-dems speaking out against this?)
- Do you remember voting for The National Security And Anti-terrorism Party?
- Gaming Consoles Will Soon Be for Nerds Only (I don't agree, but it's an interesting argument)
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