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Interesting Links for 14-02-2024
Feb. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. New Discworld games possible if devs "come to us with the right ideas and the resources", says Rhianna Pratchett
- (tags:terrypratchett games )
- 2. Teenager charged with attempted murder after transgender girl stabbed 14 times at party
- (tags:transgender OhForFucksSake uk assault )
- 3. Changing people's appearance with makeup and lighting
- (tags:specialeffects makeup history movies )
- 4. What will robots replace next?
- (tags:automation funny robots comic )
- 5. How Leith opened itself up by bridging its river
- (tags:edinburgh history River bridge )
- 6. Inside the parts of Edinburgh store Jenners you've never seen before
- (tags:edinburgh shops history )
- 7. Edinburgh drug consumption room backed by study
- (tags:edinburgh drugs )
- 8. Scientists found a 900m Stone Age hunting wall submerged in the Baltic Sea
- (tags:prehistory archeology )
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Links (catchup) for 2023-11-24
Nov. 24th, 2023 03:41 pm- 1. Owners of empty Edinburgh shops to be hit with tax hike under new rules
- (tags:edinburgh tax shops )
- 2. Edinburgh Council are running a survey on the proposed tourist tax
- (tags:edinburgh tax tourism survey )
- 3. Bill & Ted's Napoleon on the freedom of playing the tiny emperor
- (tags:movies acting viaJohnBobShaun )
Interesting Links for 14-10-2023
Oct. 14th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. This is an amazing bionic hand
- (tags:cybernetics amazing )
- 2. Terrorists want to provoke an over-reaction. It's what gets them their next round of recruits.
- (tags:terrorism psychology viaDanielDWilliam )
- 3. Hamas have successfully destroyed America's Saudi-Israel normalization plans
- (tags:middle_east terrorism USA saudiarabia Palestine Israel OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Government warned by own watchdog three year ago that prisons would run out of space in 2023
- (tags:UK prison epicfail )
- 5. Edinburgh's Princes Street: Shops gone, hotels coming - the changing face of city's most famous street
- (tags:Edinburgh cities shops hotel )
- 6. UK's nuclear fusion site ends experiments after 40 years
- (tags:UK research fusion nuclearpower history )
- 7. Missy Cummings, a Top Robotics Expert, Is Elon Musk's Worst Nightmare
- (tags:technology automation driving death statistics viaPatrickHadfield )
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Interesting Links for 02-03-2023
Mar. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Steel was already being used in Europe 2,900 years ago
- (tags:prehistory archeology materials europe )
- 2. Terry Pratchett on the fantasy genre
- (tags:fantasy terrypratchett writing )
- 3. Fearful of dating app scams, men in Brazil are taking measures women and the LGBTQ+ community have used for years.
- (tags:dating brazil crime men )
- 4. Presidents with Mullets is the kind of thing AI was made for
- (tags:ai USA president viaDanielDWilliam )
- 5. Early-life stress can disrupt maturation of brain's reward circuits, promoting disorders (in mice)
- (tags:stress brain reward psychology mentalhealth mice )
- 6. How to tie beautiful bows
- (tags:craft beautiful video )
- 7. Weirdly it can still be really hard to find shop space, even when the high street is dying
- (tags:shops UK rental )
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Interesting Links for 06-02-2023
Feb. 6th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh Paperchase holds massive closing down sale after Tesco takeover news
- (tags:Edinburgh shops )
- 2. CNET used AI to write articles - it plagiarized and hallucinated. And then the sales department took over and things got really bad
- (tags:journalism ai corruption OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Return rail fares expected to be scrapped in shake-up of British rail system
- (tags:UK trains transport )
- 4. We need to talk about how we talk about AI progress
- (tags:ai )
- 5. Australia moves to allow psychiatrists prescribe MDMA and psilocybin for mental illnesses
- (tags:psychedelics Australia legalisation mentalhealth )
- 6. Photographs from unusual viewpoints
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Interesting Links for 24-01-2023
Jan. 24th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. 2,500 pieces, measuring 30 metres and weighing 25 tonnes - This medieval sessel is world's largest 3D puzzle
- (tags:history ship )
- 2. 7 steps to victory in Ukraine
- (tags:ukraine russia war )
- 3. How the "smeariness" of CRT TVs made pixel art look so much better
- (tags:Technology games video tv displays )
- 4. Brainfarts, a collection
- (tags:brain language oops funny mistakes )
- 5. Dictionary biz finally infiltrates gaming as Merriam-Webster buys Quordle
- (tags:dictionary words games )
- 6. These vaccine side effects look harrowing
- (tags:vaccine funny dancing video )
- 7. Disfrustrating puzzles
- (tags:funny xkcd )
- 8. Netflix's New Chapter - how did it get here and what does it need to do next?
- (tags:streaming TV Netflix business )
- 9. Pet fish spend cash and expose Nintendo Switch owner's credit card during Pokemon live stream
- (tags:Nintendo fish viaPatrickHadfield weird )
- 10. Why men are more likely to aggressively avoid tax than women
- (tags:psychology tax gender )
- 11. New Scottish fox hunting bill to pass 20 years after ban
- (tags:foxes scotland law )
- 12. Russia's energy blackmail fails as Europe switches to LNG and prices fall to pre-war levels
- (tags:russia gas electricity europe economy )
- 13. Germany is failing Ukraine, leaving Nato allies no choice but to sideline it
- (tags:germany ukraine war russia )
- 14. Chronic UTI patients are waiting up to 12 years for a diagnosis from the NHS
- (tags:nhs urination disease uk OhForFucksSake )
- 15. Edinburgh Jenners fire: Shops and roads still closed after Princes Street fire, including M&S and TK Maxx
- (tags:edinburgh fire shops )
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Interesting Links for 20-04-2021
Apr. 20th, 2021 12:00 pm- How a fake doctor saved thousands of infants and changed medical history by turning them into a sideshow
- (tags:history children healthcare viaMyBrotherHugh )
- For £130k you can buy the northernmost castle in Scotland - and be a baron!
- (tags:castle scotland viaMyBrotherHugh )
- How often do people actually copy and paste code from Stack Overflow?
- (tags:software programming )
- FOOTBALL!
- (tags:football video funny )
- The writer who thought that 4.5 stars for her book was an insult
- (tags:writing Twitter reviews OhForFucksSake )
- Fire crews tackle blaze at former Debenhams store in Edinburgh
- (tags:Edinburgh fire shops )
- American Humanist Association Board Statement Withdrawing Honor from Richard Dawkins
- (tags:RichardDawkins LGBT transgender identity racism )
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Interesting Links for 20-01-2021
Jan. 20th, 2021 12:00 pm- How one musician took on the world's biggest TV network over copyright—and won
- (tags:music TV copyright China YouTube )
- The Hong Kong migrants fleeing to start new lives in the UK (70% of Hong Kong to get UK visas)
- (tags:HongKong immigration UK GoodNews China )
- Tories see off revolt over anti-genocide trade deal law
- (tags:genocide conservatives trade OhForFucksSake )
- How The Bible was made
- (tags:history Bible Christianity funny )
- How The Avengers would react to the Capitol riot
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1351578428840013825.html
(tags:riots USA marvel funny viaPatrickHadfield ) - Real-world analysis of vaccine in Israel raises questions about UK strategy (33% effectiveness at 2 weeks)
- (tags:vaccine Israel pandemic Doom )
- New legislation protects Scottish shop staff from customer abuse
- (tags:Scotland shops abuse law )
- Trump administration finalizes Arctic refuge drilling leases on his last day in office
- (tags:USA Arctic OhForFucksSake )
- Tory MPs rip out NHS protections from trade bill
- (tags:conservatives NHS trade )
- Did you know the US President could offer secret pardons?
- (tags:USA law wtf )
- Covid in Scotland: Phased return 'likely' for Scottish schools
- (tags:schools pandemic children Scotland )
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Interesting Links for 06-12-2020
Dec. 6th, 2020 12:00 pm- How 700 Epidemiologists Are Living Now, and What They Think Is Next
- (tags:thefuture pandemic )
- Once the transition period finishes the UK will be an outsider as far as GDPR is concerned. That's going to be difficult.
- (tags:UK Europe dataprotection )
- "Black" is not a dirty word
- (tags:race language )
- Vaccines arrive in Scotland - first injections to be given on Tuesday
- (tags:pandemic vaccination Scotland GoodNews )
- The man who crossed Groundhog Day with serial killers is doing the same with Freaky Friday
- (tags:movies murder review )
- Rewatching Lord of The Rings in 2020
- (tags:lotr )
- When you Kickstart a game and it gets lost at sea
- (tags:games kickstarter Ocean shipping )
- Companies are now writing end of year reports tailored for AI readers
- (tags:AI business )
- Books that give you insight into various professions
- (tags:books jobs )
- Minimalist! Nativity! Sets!
- (tags:religion Christmas christianity art )
- The robot kitchen that will make you dinner - and wash up too (this is just screaming "snake oil" to me)
- https://youtu.be/E2evC2xTNWg
(tags:robots cooking ) - Here's how Brexit will affect each ingredient of the full English breakfast
- (tags:UK Europe breakfast food prices )
- What will happen to closed High Street shops?
- (tags:shops UK cities )
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Interesting Links for 01-09-2020
Sep. 1st, 2020 12:00 pm- How Britain's economic activity is moving from office zones to where people live
- (tags:shops business UK pandemic )
- A world's first in 1850s Edinburgh - an interesting snippet on the world's first train ferry
- (tags:trains video history edinburgh )
- Women commit more violent crimes than you'd think
- (tags:women crime USA )
Interesting Links for 13-08-2020
Aug. 13th, 2020 12:00 pm- Why is Britain's GDP down more than other major nations?
- (tags:UK pandemic gdp )
- Periods, the pill and the effect on female athletes
- (tags:women menstruation sports )
- National Grid fires up coal power station for first time in 55 days
- (tags:coal electricity UK )
- Coronavirus: England death count review reduces UK toll by 5,000 (matching method used by rest of UK)
- (tags:UK pandemic statistics )
- Debunking The Lies, Smears, and Distortions about Kamala Harris
- (tags:politics usa )
- 23 Of The Most Beautiful Terry Pratchett Quotes To Remember Him By
- (tags:terrypratchett quotes )
- 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko have exited the live-action Netflix series
- (tags:avatar animation TV OhForFucksSake )
- Researchers find a chemical that makes locusts swarm
- (tags:insects behaviour pheromones )
- Coronavirus in Scotland: Positive cases spreading 'rapidly' in Orkney
- (tags:scotland pandemic )
- No silver lining for first-time home buyers even if prices collapse
- "in the 1990s, a typical young couple putting away 5% of their income each year could save enough for a deposit in just four years. By 2019, that figure had risen to 21 years"
(tags:housing OhForFucksSake uk ) - UK police use of secretive facial recognition software stopped by the courts
- (tags:law police faces )
- "My Landlord is Evicting Us Over My Wife's Quarantine Courgette Harvest"
- (tags:rental OhForFucksSake pandemic vegetables )
- This owl is not impressed
- (tags:owls )
- When children's stores reopen, let's leave boys' and girls' sections behind
- (tags:children gender toys shops shopping )
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Interesting Links for 13-02-2020
Feb. 13th, 2020 12:00 pm- How the Danish electoral system makes it one of the most representative in the world
- (tags:denmark elections voting )
- When Rage Against The Machine announced they were playing a bookshop
- (tags:funny music books shops )
- Squabbling mice win photography award
- (tags:mice photos nature )
- Many stories are told of a legendary trickster, a prankster, a fellow of infinite jest. But what do we really know of this "Bon Jovi"?
- (tags:funny music myths viaJohnBobShaun )
- Why are all the great philosophers so bad?
- (tags:philosophy )
- The Myth of the Barter Economy
- (tags:economics history )
- British man sleeping on streets in Europe after being blocked from entering UK
- (tags:UK citizenship OhForFucksSake )
- Irish reunification - what does the law say?
- (tags:Ireland NorthernIreland UK law viaDanielDWilliam )
- How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class
- (tags:management business inequality )
- Jordan Peterson, Addiction, and the Cult of Personal Responsibility
- (tags:addiction wtf )
- Google's Android Keyboard "GBoard" - 13 handy shortcuts
- (tags:keyboard android google )
- People Born Blind Are Mysteriously Protected From Schizophrenia
- (tags:blindness schizophrenia viaSwampers )
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): latest information and advice
- (tags:disease virus UK China )
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Interesting Links for 25-12-2015
Dec. 25th, 2015 12:00 pm- Minimum alcohol pricing in Scotland: Not yet dead but outcome too hard to call
- John Lewis and Asda accused of being sexist as girls buy sports kit marketed for boys
- A Christmas Computer Bug, and the Future of Files
- These Are The Most-Streamed Beatles Songs So Far
- The evolution of Christmas over the last 20 years (funny, because true)
- Artists Share "Before and After" Evolution of Their Drawing Skills with Years of Practice
- Incredibly impressive (and unorthodox) dance to the Nutcracker Suite
- This Star Wars-related advert actually made my eyes damp
Interesting Links for 22-12-2015
Dec. 22nd, 2015 12:00 pm- The story of the oldest rug in the world
- Edinburgh trams use up 12 per cent, surpassing targets
- Emotional abuse to become illegal under new domestic abuse law
- New flow battery offers lower-cost energy storage
- Scientists discover why old birds never go grey with age (and how plumage colouring works generally)
- Same-sex couples could both be biological parents to their babies with new genetic technique
- Study finds that more than one-third of patients with metastatic cancer continue to work: Symptoms related to their disease play an important role in whether patients remain employed
- Large proportion of IBS sufferers are vitamin D deficient (No control group though,FFS)
- Why Autism in Women Is Misunderstood
- Waterstones bookstore is thriving. By being run very cleverly.
- I really didn't think that they'd still be here now, and I'm damned impressed that they're actually making a profit.
- The 10 deadly sins of software estimation
- How to write a thank-you card for sex
- A gene connected to how strongly people react emotionally
- No nationality, no religion - The complicated, liberating metadata of my future children
- The Python canon
- A Brief Review Of That New Female-Designed Dating App
- Fears of new economic crash as British families run £40bn deficit
- Cats + Sharks = Terrifying Beasties
- I learned something new about Swedish culture! And sweets!
- What "Star Wars Minus Star Wars" says about creativity
- Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully performs vertical rocket landing after sending satellites into orbit
- Git man page generator
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Interesting Links for 22-02-2015
Feb. 22nd, 2015 12:00 pm- A map of states where it is legal to argue that a trans woman is to blame for your decision to murder her
- I read only non-white authors for 12 months. What I learned surprised me
- Why Women Stay Quiet at Work
- How the Photocopier Changed the Way We Worked—and Played
- A fascinating explanation of why gravity makes things fall
- No, The Pope Didn’t Compare Trans People To Nuclear Weapons
- The Etsy Criticism Machine
- Amazon Did Not Kill the Comic Shop (or, How My Daughter Saved the Shop)
