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Interesting Links for 01-05-2026
May. 1st, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. A 25-Year-Fight Over a 2-Second Sample
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- 2. Why Law Is Law-Shaped
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- 3. A forest-based yard improved the immune system of daycare children in only a month
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- 4. The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
- (tags:linux security epicfail doom )
- 5. How ChatGPT got obsessed with goblins
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- 6. An interview with Scottish Travellers.
- (tags:roma travel history Scotland society )
- 7. Renters' Rights Act: What it means for the England's tenants and landlords
- (tags:rental housing law england )
- 8. Beltane Fire Festival 2026: 15 incredible pictures of Edinburgh's Calton Hill lit up to celebrate the changing seasons
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Interesting Links for 09-02-2026
Feb. 9th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Jurassic Tank Top: The Uncanny Valley of Agency
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- 2. Etymology of "Foo"
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- 3. World's first mass-production sodium-ion battery keeps 90% capacity even at -40c
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- 4. Blood omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia (incidence drops from 0.19% to 0.11%)
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- 5. I was totally blown away by this beatboxing. Just totally unbelievable. (Wing: Dopamine)
- (tags:music video voice impressive )
- 6. Substack's "Nazi problem" won't go away
- (tags:Nazis blogs )
- 7. The time of day when you eat could be key to success for intermittent fasting
- (tags:food time diet health )
- 8. Last week the Prime Minister lost control of how documents should be reviewed for security reasons.
- (tags:security politics uk constitution )
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Interesting Links for 04-11-2025
Nov. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Dungeons & Dragons is great for brain health (particularly the elderly and people with disabilities)
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- 2. NHS threatens GP practice over trans care
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- 3. Cambridge University's oldest women-only college, Newnham, stands firm for trans inclusion
- (tags:transgender Cambridge university GoodNews )
- 4. Novel peanut allergy vaccine shows promise to transform allergy care
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- 5. Petition to make schools in Scotland safe for pupils with allergies
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- 6. 20% of US UTIs are caused by contimated meat
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- 7. When Stick Figures Fought (A history of the stick figure combat flash animations of the early 200s)
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- 8. The password for the Louvre's Video Surveillance System was "Louvre"
- (tags:art museums security epicfail france )
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Interesting Links for 22-10-2025
Oct. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Cancer patients who got a mRNA vaccine lived nearly twice as long - even though the vaccine wasn't aimed at cancer.
- (tags:cancer immune_system viaKenny vaccine GoodNews )
- 2. Penguin and Club biscuit bars can no longer be described as chocolate
- The price of cocoa has soared by 4x, and the amount of chocolate in a biscuit has dropped significantly.
(tags:chocolate food biscuits ) - 3. If you're still using Windows 10 (like me!) make sure you've signed up for Extended Support Updates to protect you from security issues
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- 4. Pop quiz: who is the only scientist to have won both an Ig Nobel and a Nobel prize?
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- 5. If Labour want more houses then they need to stop mucking about with consents and put up the cash
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- 6. Brexit has been awesome - for making Europe less divided
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- 7. Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down a street drain
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- 8. Humans can absorbe oxygen anally
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- 9. Lawsuit alleges Prime Day is a fraud
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Interesting Links for 11-07-2025
Jul. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Everything tech giants will hate about the EU's new AI rules
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- 2. Photos: The Scale of China's Solar Power Projects
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- 3. What kind of video games do different fantasy races make?
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- 4. Fake signs and graffiti, frequently science-fiction related, from Glasgow
- (tags:Glasgow scifi graffiti sign art funny viaSwampers )
- 5. The Marks & Spencer hack was down to TCS having *terrible* security processed on their helpdesk.
- (tags:security epicfail OhForFucksSake incompetence )
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Interesting Links for 08-07-2025
Jul. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 7 Engineers Suspended After $2.3 Million Bridge Includes Bizarre 90-Degree Turn
- (tags:architecture design epicfail India )
- 2. Edinburgh Airport liquid limit increased from 100ml to two litres
- (tags:airport security Technology )
- 3. The Time Someone Plagiarized Calvin & Hobbes and Nobody Noticed or Cared
- (tags:comics plagiarism history art ai )
- 4. Turns out a great way to get children to want to learn their times tables is to set them to pop songs
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- 5. Employers to be banned from silencing harassed or abused staff
- (tags:regulation abuse work UK law )
- 6. Some English children are living in 'Dickensian' poverty, says commissioner
- (tags:england poverty children OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Electricity from large solar arrays with batteries now cheaper than from fossil plants in Germany
- (tags:electricity solarpower batteries germany GoodNews )
- 8. O Fortuna Misheard Lyrics
- (tags:music hearing words illusion funny video )
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Interesting Links for 30-04-2025
Apr. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Trump plans to put military on the streets to catch criminals (See section 4)
- (tags:usa police military doom fascism )
- 2. Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search
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- 3. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in Canadian Parliament
- (tags:canada Conservatives politics funny )
- 4. Burying cables costs 10x-20x more than pylons
- (tags:electricity infrastructure )
- 5. "Induced Atmospheric Vibration" may have caused the outages across Spain and Portugal. But what is it?
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- 6. People eat more when given ultra-processed foods than when given unprocessed food.
- (tags:diet food weight )
- 7. White House hits back at Amazon plan to show tariff price rises
- (tags:Amazon economics business politics USA )
- 8. Popular LLMs Found to Produce Vulnerable Code by Default
- (tags:security ai fail )
- 9. Trump is the Godfather in Reverse
- (tags:politics economics usa canada china )
- 10. Why translating Chinese food names into English is 'an impossible task'
- (tags:translation language china English food )
- 11. The British Government is not taking climate threats seriously
- (tags:uk globalwarming doom )
Interesting Links for 29-04-2025
Apr. 29th, 2025 12:07 pm- 1. NHS to allegedly test trans young people for autism and ADHD
- (tags:adhd autism transgender lgbt uk nhs viaSwampers )
- 2. Spain, Portugal and parts of France hit by massive power outage
- (tags:spain france electricity )
- 3. Donald Trump Demands Investigations Into Negative Approval Rating Polls
- (tags:polls usa politics viaKenny )
- 4. New Edinburgh Airport scanners allow liquids to remain in bags
- (tags:edinburgh security airport )
- 5. I WANT TO LIVE IN THIS HOUSE!
- (tags:Housing fun video )
- 6. Islanders say they cannot escape mysterious humming sound
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- 7. Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts
- (tags:funny politics USA )
- 8. What Even *Is* Consciousness?
- (tags:consciousness comic funny )
- 9. Trans former judge plans to challenge gender ruling at European court
- (tags:transgender rights echr law )
- 10. Doctors condemn Supreme Court ruling on trans women as ‘scientifically illiterate’
- (tags:UK doctors transgender science law bigotry )
- 11. Irn-Bru - How they collect Unicorn Tears for their new recipe
- (tags:video viaSwampers funny unicorns advertising Scotland )
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Interesting Links for 04-04-2025
Apr. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Russia escalates attacks on 'internal enemy' LGBT as it expands war in Ukraine
- (tags:lgbt bigotry russia )
- 2. Why has Russia escaped Trump's tariffs?
- (tags:Russia USA trade )
- 3. A revolutionary new understanding of autism in girls
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- 4. How tarrifs really work (a peek into a deranged mind)
- (tags:economics funny satire )
- 5. An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
- (tags:intellectual_property ai )
- 6. Tariffs Are Driving Up Game Prices Now
- (tags:games economics USA politics )
- 7. The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT due to over-reliance on AI
- (tags:ai security thinking doom intelligence )
- 8. Largest ever UK pumped hydro scheme granted consent
- (tags:UK hydroelectric Scotland )
- 9. Chickens are the true miracle animal!
- (tags:comedy funny video chicken viaSwampers )
- 10. The "Naked Gun" Teaser Trailer actually made me giggle
- (tags:police satire movies funny trailer video )
Interesting Links for 22-01-2025
Jan. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. An economist explains why Europeans GDP isn't keeping up with the US, but Europeans are actually doing pretty much just as well
- (tags:Europe USA economics gdp )
- 2. USA decides that it's doesn't need cyber security
- (tags:security internet USA doom )
- 3. Illustrated poetry In 150 characters or less
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- 4. 3D world generation is now *really* impressive. Damned if I can tell any of this apart from reality.
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- 5. Labour strips environmental watchdogs' powers to block building projects
- (tags:labour environment building uk )
Interesting Links for 20-10-2024
Oct. 20th, 2024 12:17 pm- 1. The Lucy Letby case - here’s why experts are still arguing about it
- (tags:murder statistics healthcare evidence )
- 2. Microsoft creates fake Azure tenants to pull phishers into honeypots
- (tags:security Microsoft )
- 3. Playing video games may make you sharper – but moderate exercise does not
- (tags:exercise games intelligence )
- 4. EU court upholds right to sell PlayStation add-ons, in loss for Sony
- (tags:Sony games mod intellectual_property Europe GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 02-06-2024
Jun. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code
- (tags:security viaPatrickHadfield surveillance Microsoft OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Gazans 'clinging to glimpse of hope' as Biden pushes new ceasefire proposal
- (tags:USA Israel Gaza )
- 3. Transfer of IgG from Long COVID patients induces symptomology (in mice)
- (tags:pandemic immune_system mice )
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Interesting Links for 08-05-2024
May. 8th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Visualizing The Most Common PIN Codes (I hope yours isn't a nice light colour here)
- (tags:security visualisation numbers )
- 2. The WHO has finally agreed that Covid is airborne. Maybe we can finally get changes made to improve air quality inside
- (tags:air pandemic who )
- 3. If Labour wins and nothing changes, we risk losing Gen Z to the political fringes
- (tags:politics uk doom labour )
- 4. BreakTime: Decline calendar meetings by playing Breakout
- (tags:games calendars funny )
- 5. The world's oceans have broken temperature records every single day over the past year
- (tags:globalwarming ocean doom )
- 6. Every COVID Infection Increases Your Risk of Long COVID
- (tags:pandemic doom )
Interesting Links for 30-04-2024
Apr. 30th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. UK outlaws awful default passwords on connected devices
- (tags:UK security GoodNews )
- 2. On Thufir Hawat and his role in Fine 3
- (tags:scifi assassination )
- 3. Photointegrity
- (tags:ai photography photoshop )
- 4. Can anyone explain to me whether these figures on Long Covid are "Numbers who had Long Covid at any point last year" or "Numbers having Covid at any specific point in the year" or something else?
- (tags:pandemic numbers )
Interesting Links for 22-03-2024
Mar. 22nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. GPS jamming & interference map
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- 2. Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds
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- 3. A type of bacteria that causes dental plaque was found in 50% of colon cancers
- (tags:cancer teeth bacteria )
- 4. A Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Was Just Transplanted Into a Person for the First Time
- (tags:genetics pigs organs )
- 5. Larian Studios Won't Make Baldur's Gate 3 DLC, Expansions, or Baldur's Gate 4
- (tags:games dungeonsanddragons )
- 6. A cargo ship's 'WindWing' sails saved it up to 12 tons of fuel per day (between 14 and 37 percent)
- (tags:fuel ships wind GoodNews )
- 7. Delighted to discover that the University of Maryland has a Gamer Symphony Orchestra (here playing the Dark Souls III Main Theme)
- (tags:music games )
- 8. UK warns of arms embargo to Israel as international pressure mounts
- (tags:UK weaponry Israel )
- 9. Say Hello to Biodegradable Microplastics
- (tags:environment plastic biodegradable )
Interesting Links for 27-01-2024
Jan. 27th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Happy 50th birthday Dungeons and Dragons!
- (tags:dungeonsanddragons birthday )
- 2. 13 Times People Leaked Military Documents on the War Thunder game forums
- (tags:games security EpicStupidity )
- 3. A Case For Hope: The Victories Trans People Won In 2023
- (tags:USA law transgender GoodNews )
- 4. Edinburgh council have released the recommended route for Granton to BioQuarter tram
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Interesting Links for 23-01-2024
Jan. 23rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. EU pushes for Palestinian statehood, rejecting Israeli leader's insistence it's off the table
- (tags:Israel Palestine Europe )
- 2. No evidence of inflated mortality reporting from the Gaza Ministry of Health
- (tags:death statistics Palestine Israel )
- 3. What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?
- (tags:space security research )
- 4. No cervical cancer cases detected in women who had HPV vaccine, Public Health Scotland study finds
- (tags:cancer women GoodNews vaccine )
- 5. New Brexit red tape creating 'existential' crisis, say food and flower firms
- (tags:uk europe food flowers doom )
- 6. The World's First Malaria Vaccine Program for Children Starts Now
- (tags:malaria vaccine )
- 7. Does Palworld break Pokémon's copyright? A lawyer speaks
- (tags:law copyright pokemon nintendo games design )
- 8. Finally some hope on Alzheimer's
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Interesting Links for 04-01-2024
Jan. 4th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Don't like the way some sites fill up your Google searches? Here's a browser addon that fixes that.
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- 2. Online security and privacy tune-up suggestions for 2024!
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- 3. One Life (2023) and thoughts on asylum
- (tags:asylum immigration history )
- 4. Italy divided over new pineapple pizza
- (tags:pizza fruit )
- 5. Which Hugo Winners Have You Read: the poll! (I've read 33)
- (tags:hugo awards poll )
Interesting Links for 02-10-2023
Oct. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. cripes does anybody remember Google People (a short story)
- (tags:short_story Google technology AI scifi horror )
- 2. The world's oldest trigonometry table (1,500 years before the Greeks)
- (tags:archaeology mathematics )
- 3. Extreme Misogyny in Incels Probably Not Caused by Sexual Frustration (instead caused by trying to show how much inceller they are than any of their terrible friends)
- (tags:misogyny psychology )
- 4. How Insect Brains Melt and Rewire During Metamorphosis
- (tags:insects brain )
- 5. U2 at the Sphere in Vegas looks mind-blowing
- (tags:u2 video concert technology )
- 6. The 'Center of Edinburgh' Bollard
- (tags:Edinburgh postoffices )
- 7. You cannot design a productive city around car transport
- (tags:cars transport cities viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. Animation vs. Math
- (tags:mathematics animation video )
- 9. Oxford University Mathematician reacts to "Animation vs. Math"
- (tags:mathematics video animation )
- 10. The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History
- (tags:security Technology epicfail hacking )
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