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Interesting Links for 07-09-2023
Sep. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Russia! Attacks! Romania! (accidentally)
- (tags:Russia Romania Ukraine war )
- 2. Why there won't be a boom in British onshore wind
- (tags:UK windpower conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Scientists grow whole model of human embryo from stem cells in lab
- (tags:babies stem_cells ArtificialLife )
- 4. Heating on prescription trial suggests fewer NHS visits
- (tags:NHS heating health )
- 5. Israel is enforcing apartheid in the West Bank, says former Mossad spy chief
- (tags:Israel Palestine apartheid )
- 6. Connected cars are a privacy nightmare
- (tags:cars privacy OhForFucksSake )
- 7. The room-temperature superconductor that wasn't
- (tags:superconductors materials science physics )
Interesting Links for 23-06-2023
Jun. 23rd, 2023 02:43 pm- 1. 57 different scripts that all descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs (from Latin to Aramaic to Tibetan to Javanese)
- (tags:language history evolution )
- 2. I just discovered that the blobfish only looks ugly when it's been dragged up from the ocean depths.
- (tags:fish )
- 3. Why was the Titan's hull made of carbon fibre?
- (tags:materials submarine epicfail )
- 4. How does raising interest rates lower inflation? Why Bank of England hikes base rate to combat rising prices
- (tags:economics )
- 5. India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks
- (tags:India science evolution education OhForFucksSake )
- 6. One of the best pieces of advice on making art
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- 7. Major report says pupils should not sit exams before fifth year
- (tags:scotland school Education )
- 8. ID rules stopped more than 14,000 British people voting
- (tags:uk identity voting OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 16-05-2023
May. 16th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The racist history of the sex binary
- (tags:racism gender history transgender viaSwampers science )
- 2. Lib-Lab "Coalition of Chaos" seen as more stable than a Conservative majority
- (tags:politics UK libdem labour coalition )
- 3. I'm curious what makes Jeff Bezos' new yacht a yacht, rather than a schooner. Or a frigate.
- (tags:boats money )
- 4. Games developers say mandatory return-to-office policy has 'cost us some amazing people'
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Interesting Links for 17-03-2023
Mar. 17th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Finally, the true meaning of the universe is revealed
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- 2. The condemnation of Jess Phillips for honouring a trans teenager is a new low in our culture wars
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- 3. National Academies: We can't define "race," so stop using it in science
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- 4. There's a hierarchy of racism under Starmer
- (tags:labour racism UK OhForFucksSake politics )
- 5. Against the idea of gender dysphoria as a mental illness
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- 6. Silicon Valley Bank's collapse was spotted well in advance by everyone in the know - other than the regulators.
- (tags:banking regulation OhForFucksSake )
- 7. 10 best D&D map makers for dungeons, cities and worlds
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- 8. So, you've been challenged to a duel. What are the rules?
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- 9. Nebraska lawmaker 3 weeks into filibuster over trans bill
- (tags:LGBT USA transgender politics )
- 10. Northern Ireland rejects Irish unity by large margin (50% to 26%)
- (tags:NorthernIreland polls )
- 11. A Pro-Trump Social Network Wants to Corner the Anti-Vax Jizz Market
- (tags:fertility politics USA viaPatrickHadfield headline )
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Interesting Links for 13-12-2022
Dec. 13th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Researchers thought weight and education had shared genetic roots - turns out that educated people tended to marry thin people
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- 2. How many times does Hidetaka Miyazaki have to tell an interviewer that Armored Core 6 isn't a Soulsborne game?
- (tags:games interview mecha )
- 3. Reminder that "Eskimo" is a slur.
- (tags:Inuit language abuse )
- 4. The 10 Most Promising Breakthrough Innovations of 2022
- (tags:science viaDanielDWilliam )
- 5. Renewables are set to triple over the next three years, and overtake coal to be the largest source worldwide
- (tags:renewables GoodNews viaBenWerdmuller )
- 6. Probably the geekiest drinking game of all time
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- 7. When your nose gets cold it loses its ability to fight infections
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- 8. Disney now hiding LGBT content from kids, irrespective of age rating
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- 9. Independent blockchain news site turns out to be funded by fradulent crypto company
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- 10. The amusement park rides in The Centrifuge Brain Project deeply unsettled me
- (tags:video gravity physics movie documentary )
- 11. It is very hard to keep a straight face while an elephant is fondling it
- (tags:elephants cute video funny )
- 12. I'm not sure if my advice would be to never interview the Muppets live, or always interview the Muppets live.
- (tags:muppets interview funny video )
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Interesting Links for 29-10-2022
Oct. 29th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Mondrian hung upside-down for over 75 years
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- 2. Accounts reveal six years of 'major risk' concerns over Filmhouse and Edinburgh International Film Festival
- (tags:film festival edinburgh cinema epicfail )
- 3. How "Seal Rocks" charted the fall of the Baltic Sea
- (tags:sea science history viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. Sturgeon to attend Cop27 as Sunak focuses on 'depressing domestic challenges'
- (tags:UK politics globalwarming Scotland )
- 5. The environmental case for buying a coal mine
- (tags:mining environment viaDanielDWilliam )
- 6. Welcome to hell, Elon
- (tags:Twitter Doom epicfail ElonMusk viaPatrickHadfield )
- 7. If you were thinking of transferring from Bulb to Octopus then congrats, you don't need to any more!
- (tags:electricity UK business )
- 8. Elon Musk has put himself in an impossible situation at a critical time
- (tags:Twitter ElonMusk Doom Russia China propaganda )
- 9. Russia's elite begins to ponder a Putinless future
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Interesting Links for 05-10-2022
Oct. 5th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
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- 2. New dominant Covid symptom as experts warn UK already in new wave
- (tags:Pandemic Doom )
- 3. British police are arresting people over Kiwifarms posts
- (tags:LGBT transgender police UK GoodNews )
- 4. More animals are social than you'd think
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- 5. LAPD Officer Killed During Exercise Was Investigating Cops Accused of Rape
- (tags:police rape murder USA )
- 6. How Paris Will Become 100% Cyclable
- (tags:France Paris bicycles transport )
- 7. Netflix has a bunch of good animation that you probably don't know about..
- (tags:animation Netflix recommendation viaSwampers )
- 8. UK's economic policies could cause many more deaths than Covid
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- 9. The Balto/Togo theory of scientific development
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- 10. Scotland's NHS given £600m to help it cope with winter and retain demoralised staff
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- 11. Six-month rent freeze for almost 1m households in Scotland approved by MSPs
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- 12. Forget the naughty step, your child (and probably you) need emotion coaching
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- 13. Labour urges Suella Braverman to ramp up asylum seeker deportations
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Interesting Links for 13-07-2022
Jul. 13th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Of the 978 cyclists in the men's pro peloton, none are comfortable being out
- (tags:LGBT cycling )
- 2. I don't know if this is satire, or a warning about the terrible people out there, or what. It's terrifying in any case
- (tags:relationships terrifying )
- 3. Rotterdam bridge won't be dismantled for Jeff Bezos' superyacht to sail through
- (tags:Amazon boats bridge Netherlands )
- 4. What is a woman?
- (tags:women LGBT transgender )
- 5. Queer Animals Are Everywhere. Science Is Finally Catching On. - The Washington Post
- (tags:LGBT animals history science bigotry )
- 6. Leith's major role in new offshore wind project confirmed
- (tags:Edinburgh windpower )
- 7. Labour MP making it clear that Labour would rather vote with Tories than the SNP
- (tags:labour Conservatives snp )
- 8. What IS a Number? (As Explained by a Mathematician)
- (tags:mathematics video viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 04-07-2022
Jul. 4th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. A chipmunk having its mind blown by a flavour explosion
- (tags:cute video food )
- 2. A "Chinese Borges" wrote millions of words of fake Russian history on Wikipedia for a decade.
- (tags:wikipedia Russia China fake )
- 3. Fun! With! Science! (be better if there were explanations of each of these though)
- (tags:video science )
- 4. Innovative lung-imaging technique shows cause of long COVID symptoms
- (tags:mri Pandemic Doom viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. Daily Mail to turn against Boris Johnson
- (tags:DailyMail BorisJohnson conservatives )
- 6. Neil Gaiman speaks honestly about the quality of the Sandman TV show
- (tags:neilgaiman TV sandman )
- 7. How do politicians respond when asked whether Scotland is allowed to leave and what the democratic route to them doing so.
- (tags:politics independence Scotland video )
- 8. When truth is another casualty: Why Ukraine is losing ground in the war by not telling the whole story
- (tags:Russia Ukraine censorship war )
- 9. If I was 20 years younger and still had the time/energy to watch terrible movies then I'd love to see Assassin 33A.D. (Time traveling Muslim assassins go after Jesus!)
- (tags:religion timetravel awful Jesus Christianity movies review )
- 10. Transphobic LGB Alliance condemned by Trades Union Congress in near unanimous vote
- (tags:LGBT transgender unions GoodNews )
- 11. The British class system is a delight
- (tags:class UK politics )
- 12. England's population is ageing. Our deeply substandard politicians ignore what this is going to cost us
- (tags:UK aging politics )
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Interesting Links for 01-07-2022
Jul. 1st, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. UK scientists lose European funding in row over Brexit deal
- (tags:UK Europe science money )
- 2. UK pays EU £583m after customs ruling on Chinese imports
- (tags:UK Europe money China )
- 3. Compound pejoratives on Reddit
- (tags:swearing Reddit )
- 4. Do you know what a shitgibbon is?
- (tags:language swearing linguistics )
- 5. A Visual Guide to the Aztec Pantheon
- (tags:history religion Mexico )
- 6. Supreme Court severely limits the EPA's ability to regulate carbon emissions
- (tags:USA co2 law )
Interesting Links for 24-06-2022
Jun. 24th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Female scientists less likely to get authorship credit
- (tags:science sexism research )
- 2. UK State pension to rise 10 per cent next year
- (tags:pensions uk inequality )
- 3. Can't stand on one leg for ten seconds? You're 84% more likely to die soon
- (tags:death health )
- 4. The Disney movie with two sisters working through their issues? Yeah, 'Lilo & Stitch' is the best
- (tags:movies family Hawaii Disney )
- 5. Respectability politics is a compromise with bigotry
- (tags:LGBT bigotry society genocide )
- 6. Sleeping longer than 6.5 hours/day can help you lose weight
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Interesting Links for 19-05-2022
May. 19th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. There's a plan for 200 homes and green offices at Edinburgh's old Scottish Widows HQ
- (tags:Edinburgh housing )
- 2. There are only 10 types of movies.
- (tags:movies posters viaSwampers )
- 3. DS9 series suggestion: Quark's
- (tags:StarTrek TV )
- 4. Transphobes are the ones making up new definitions
- (tags:language transgender LGBT bigotry )
- 5. Four countries pledge tenfold rise in EU offshore wind power capacity
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- 6. Edinburgh Zoo penguin Mrs Wolowitz is thought to be the oldest of her species in the world
- (tags:penguins age edinburgh zoo )
- 7. A galactic collision strips dark matter, starts star formation
- (tags:darkness physics space )
- 8. Weed legalisation linked to drop in alcohol, tobacco consumption
- (tags:marijuana legalisation alcohol tobacco cigarettes )
- 9. Girls see physics as for white men only, MPs told
- (tags:racism sexism society uk science physics Education )
- 10. Two thirds of Edinburgh residents would cycle if there were more separated cycle lanes
- (tags:edinburgh cycling polls )
- 11. "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting," Ten Years On
- (tags:society lgbt racism sexism history patriarchy kyriarchy )
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Interesting Links for 23-11-2021
Nov. 23rd, 2021 12:00 pm- Energy firm Bulb set to go into administration - no other providers willing to take its customers
- (tags:UK electricity epicfail )
- Russian Anti-Vaccine Disinformation Campaign Backfires
- (tags:Russia disinformation lies vaccination irony )
- Turns out no prize winning scientists want to come to the UK. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada.
- (tags:science migration UK fail )
- Hired to erase a man's life, instead he carried out with him
- (tags:life photos )
- I see that Pixar are remaking "Ginger Snaps"
- (tags:movies puberty girls pixar Disney trailer )
- 'Dancing molecules' successfully repair severe spinal cord injuries (in animals, so far)
- (tags:nerves back amazing )
Interesting Links for 14-09-2021
Sep. 14th, 2021 12:00 pm- Hands-on with Facebook's first smart glasses
- (tags:transparentsociety glasses cameras facebook )
- UK's Chief Medical Officers Give Green Light To Covid Vaccines For All 12 To 15-Year-Olds
- (tags:uk pandemic children vaccination )
- American Psycho Business Card Scene - With Cats
- (tags:cats funny video AmericanPsycho movies )
- The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (by Ursula K. Le Guin)
- (tags:fiction writing scifi society gender )
- HGV driving tests won't test if drivers can reverse. Which is how you get to loading docks...
- (tags:viaNeilRodger UK driving transport Doom )
- Understanding the onset of hot streaks across artistic, cultural, and scientific careers
- (tags:achievement psychology art science writing )
- Government says discrimination against black people and Travellers 'objectively justified' with new laws
- (tags:racism UK law OhForFucksSake conservatives )
- Disturbing trend? UK hotels adding service charge to room rate
- (tags:hotel uk money OhForFucksSake )
- Why even giant ships can't solve the shipping crisis
- (tags:shipping trade doom )
- France grants citizenship to 12,000 COVID frontline workers
- (tags:france pandemic citizenship )
- What the Torah Teaches Us About Gender Fluidity and Transgender Justice
- (tags:transgender Jews lgbt )
- Women's Science Fiction keeps getting filed under "Young Adult" even when it's not.
- (tags:women publishing children OhForFucksSake )
- One Woman's Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia
- (tags:nazis wikipedia propaganda )
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Interesting Links for 05-09-2021
Sep. 5th, 2021 12:00 pm- The JVCI risk/benefit analysis of vaccinations for children is terrible
- (tags:UK vaccination children statistics OhForFucksSake )
- Decoding GitHub Copilot's "banned word" list. (includes "Israel")
- (tags:language censorship Microsoft cryptography )
- Is 'Race Science' Making A Comeback?
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Interesting Links for 09-08-2021
Aug. 9th, 2021 12:00 pm- Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free to all
- (tags:science research publishing uk GoodNews )
- Four officers who defended U.S. Capitol against attack have died by suicide
- (tags:suicide USA police )
- Xsolla fires 150 employees using big data and AI analysis, CEO's letter causes controversy. (and rightly so)
- (tags:work OhForFucksSake redundancy technology ai )
- What did Margaret Thatcher have to say about climate change?
- (tags:margaretthatcher conservatives globalwarming environment pollution )
- 'Tortured phrases' give away fabricated research papers (what are journals paid for again?)
- (tags:research publishing fraud translation ai OhForFucksSake )
- Global Warming: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
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- Exams remain the best way to guarantee standards, says The Commission on School Reform
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- Nicaraguan liberals forcibly disbanded by Ortega regime
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- Chinese scientists develop world's strongest glass that's as hard as diamond
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- Lorry driver showing off his 1337 skills
- (tags:tea driving impressive ViaDrCross video )
- Vodafone to bring back roaming charges from January
- (tags:uk europe phones )
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