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1. Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation are caused by your brain flushing itself clean: (tags:brain sleep )
2. Only 416 days until next Christmas!: (tags:Christmas )

1. Welsh Labour councillor quits party after learning it hid evidence that cleared him of complaint: (tags:Labour corruption OhForFucksSake )
2. On Wikipedia and how it works: (tags:Wikipedia )
3. Why some cities (including Edinburgh) are banning fossil fuel advertisements: (tags:Edinburgh Scotland advertising oil )
4. Frankly, Labour are going to stomp this election, so vote for whoever you like. But if you want tactical voting advice for your constituency here it is: (tags:voting advice conservatives )
5. Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccines: (tags:USA military propaganda vaccine OhForFucksSake )
6. What is Box Breathing? (This helped me sleep when I was stressed): (tags:sleep stress )
7. Australia and New Zealand explicitly reject Cass review (joining USA and Canada): (tags:healthcare transgender Canada USA Australia newzealand LGBT )
8. Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths: (tags:greece migration murder )
9. Small modular nuclear reactors are over-budget, taking years longer to build, and are never getting built.: (tags:nuclearpower epicfail viaDanielDWilliam )
10. £130m Dundee Eden Project set for approval: (tags:scotland nature architecture tourism )

1. My other earworm of today is C-A-P-Y-B-A-R-A [an AI-generated song with an AI-generated video]: (tags:cute animals video music ai )
2. It's not the screen of your phone that stops you going to sleep, it's the distraction it causes.: (tags:screens Technology sleep )
3. Genes protective during the Black Death may now be increasing autoimmune disorders: (tags:disease immune_system history genetics )
4. Donuts, Uhauls, snuggly farm cats, and international law - what happens when a chunk of spacecraft falls on your property?: (tags:spaceflight Spacex law Canada USA viaPatrickHadfield )
5. Objective or Biased - On the questionable use of Artificial Intelligence for job applications: (tags:ai jobs bias )
6. On the Americanisation of Winnie The Pooh: (tags:WinnieThePooh USA )
7. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says the battle for America "can't be compromised," and that one political party will "win.": (tags:politics civilwar usa law )

1. This is how crime reporting feels to me nowadays: (tags:crime comics journalism )
2. The "Gender Game Test" and the distribution of money: (tags:psychology gender equality money children )
3. Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text—with a twist: (tags:copyright ai )
4. EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy: (tags:privacy facebook europe regulation )
5. Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of bitcoin than the building of the pyramids of Giza: (tags:Egypt history )
6. Netflix Accused of Using AI Photos in True Crime Documentary: (tags:fraud documentary netflix crime AI )
7. U.S. blocks Palestinian request for full UN membership: (tags:USA Palestine nationality UnitedNations )
8. Sleeping flushes junk out of the brain: (tags:sleep brain )
9. The Scale of the Universe (zoom in from the largest objects to the smallest): (tags:universe size visualisation )
10. Sweden passes law lowering age to change legal gender from 18 to 16 and greatly simplifying the process: (tags:LGBT transgender Sweden GoodNews )

1. Why Don't Grocery Stores Stock the Most American Fruit? (The Pawpaw): (tags:fruit USA )
2. Why full-fat food could be the healthiest option: (tags:fat food )
3. How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now: (tags:ocean shipping fishing maps ai )
4. Looks like Room Temperature Superconductors are back on the menu!: (tags:superconductors )
5. Crypto hedge fund CEO may not exist; probe finds no record of identity: (tags:fraud identity business Blockchain )
6. FactCheck: do you have to pay tax for selling secondhand on Vinted or eBay?: (tags:tax uk )
7. A Gel Injected Into the Scrotum Could Be the Next Male Contraceptive: (tags:contraception men )
8. Study reveals genetic link between anorexia and being an early riser: (tags:sleep anorexia genetics )
9. More of Mickey Mouse is public domain than you might think: (tags:Disney copyright )
10. Here's a Labour MP denying Nazi war crimes. But apparently it's fine, because they're against transgender people.: (tags:nazis labour OhForFucksSake transgender bigotry lgbt )
11. They Had PTSD. A Psychedelic Called Ibogaine Helped Them Get Better: (tags:ptsd psychedelics psychology )
12. Has The 'Sexlessness Epidemic' Been Overstated?: (tags:sex demographics society )

1. Psychedelics plus psychotherapy can trigger rapid changes in the brain: (tags:psychedelics therapy psychology )
2. Lead poisoning causes far more death, IQ loss than thought: (tags:iq death lead )
3. British parents are less interested in their children being obedient, more interested in them being independent and hard-working: (tags:children society uk )
4. All Labour's Economic Pledges Announced By Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves: (tags:labour economy politics uk )
5. This year, why not give the Sleeptober challenge a go?: (tags:sleep funny )
6. Edinburgh Council has broad support from the public for plans to cut traffic and parking: (tags:Edinburgh transport )
7. 23andMe user data targeting Ashkenazi Jews leaked online: (tags:Jews genetics hacking )
8. All of Labour's net zero policies, and whether they'll actually work: (tags:labour globalwarming )
9. The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation: (tags:israel palestine war disinformation twitter )
10. Internet Vs Ocean: the essential wires we never think about: (tags:maps internet video )

1. Scotland's first electric HGV starts making trips: (tags:scotland transport electricity )
2. Photoshop's new "Generative Fill" feature is really impressive.: (tags:ai photoshop )
3. The science around babies and sleep is, frankly terrible. (And the article assumes you'll be doing sleep training at all): (tags:research babies sleep )
4. Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People: (tags:Intelligence ai society )
5. The cultural bias of "ultra-processed food": (tags:food society )
6. Edinburgh tram time-lapse shows route extension (opening today!): (tags:Edinburgh trams timelapse video )
7. UK government ignored that major drinks companies, retailers, and trade bodies, as well as the Environment Agency wanted glass to be included in the deposit return scheme.: (tags:uk recycling OhForFucksSake glass )
8. Your Reminder that "AI" Will Just Flat-Out Make Things Up: (tags:ai fraud )
9. Who wants to eat a giant isopod from the depths of the ocean?: (tags:animals food weird taiwan )

1. On Columbo and ADHD: (tags:adhd tv )
2. Why Chuck Tingle writes like that: (tags:writing autism stress )
3. Support for Scottish independence has risen, but why?: (tags:Scotland independence polls )
4. The Royal Mint are releasing a coin celebrating JRR Tolkien: (tags:Tolkien money uk viaSwampers )
5. Immune cells in brain and spinal fluid connected to cognitive impairment/Alzheimers: (tags:immune_system brain )
6. Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics: (tags:Intelligence genetics society school )
7. Nitrites in meat cause massive increase in bowel cancer in mice: (tags:meat cancer mice )
8. A massively long and detailed look at the research into sleep training for babies: (tags:babies sleep psychology )
9. No more airplane mode? EU to allow calls on flights: (tags:airplanes phones Europe )
10. Privacy Is Good: (tags:privacy communication cryptography )
11. Top scientists recreate the exact moment that The Titanic crashed into an iceberg: (tags:titanic funny video )
12. ISO 3103 - the international standard for tea brewing: (tags:tea standards )

1. Unknown Vincent Van Gogh self-portrait discovered in Edinburgh gallery: (tags:Edinburgh art Scotland )
2. James Webb Space Telescope vs Hubble Telescope Comparison: (tags:astronomy )
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV series looks quite pretty: (tags:tv lotr )
4. Where's the Beef? A First-Hand Assessment of Cultivated Meat Progress: (tags:meat technology viaDanielDWilliam )
5. Should the Human Rights Act be replaced with a Bill of Rights? (The UK parliament human rights committee wants to know your opinions): (tags:rights UK )
6. How surnames work: (tags:names funny )
7. Edinburgh's North Bridge to remain partially closed for nine months longer after council discovers more repairs needed: (tags:Edinburgh bridge transport )
8. Edinburgh council gives £100 per child payments to families hardest hit by cost of living crisis: (tags:Edinburgh austerity )
9. Princess Mononoke: The masterpiece that flummoxed the US: (tags:movies ghibli USA neilgaiman )
10. UK tech talent shortage threatens to stifle growth in the industry: (tags:technology Jobs UK )
11. Keir Starmer scraps yet another pledge - this time to end NHS private sector outsourcing: (tags:nhs labour lies )
12. Researchers identify two drugs effective at treating insomnia: (tags:sleep medicine )

1. Edinburgh's 2030 Festival City Vision: (tags:Edinburgh thefuture festival viaPatrickHadfield )
2. Universal Credit has increased crime rate by 6.5%: (tags:welfare uk crime OhForFucksSake )
3. How flowers are 'put to sleep' for long sea voyages: (tags:trade flowers sea )
4. Germany seeks ′safety first′ approach to legalizing cannabis: (tags:marijuana legalisation germany )
5. Yes, part of the UK constitution is (or was) a letter written to the Times under a pseudonym: (tags:uk monarchy politics constitution history )
6. Major chords are happy and minor chords are sad? Only if society has trained you that way!: (tags:music psychology emotion )
7. Germany unveils plans for simpler gender change process: (tags:LGBT transgender Germany GoodNews )
8. UK's export support agency stops investing in new fossil fuel projects: (tags:globalwarming investment UK GoodNews )
9. Giraffes eat acacia trees from downwind, because otherwise they warn each other to taste bitter!: (tags:trees self-defence )
10. Boris Johnson wants multi-generational mortgages so parents can pass on debt to children: (tags:mortgages conservatives BorisJohnson )
11. Melatonin peaks in teenagers at 7am. Waking them then is like waking an adult at 4am: (tags:sleep teenagers )

1. The impact of 'pile-ons' and trolling by transphobic Twitter users: (tags:LGBT Twitter bigotry transgender )
2. Rwanda genocide orphans told to leave hostel to make room for UK asylum seekers: (tags:genocide Rwanda asylum UK OhForFucksSake )
3. On Jimmy Saville and the price of joining the British establishment: (tags:UK abuse corruption )
4. "My skin was irritated, red and blotchy for years until I found out why because of lockdown": (tags:allergies )
5. UK Shared Prosperity Fund gives Scotland one sixth of what they got from the EU: (tags:UK Scotland Europe money OhForFucksSake )
6. The power of inflation: (tags:money economics Argentina inflation )
7. As a parent, if offered a choice of my birth child or the one I had raised I would absolutely make this same choice: (tags:children fairytale )
8. A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? Does it understand? And what does that mean?: (tags:language ai )
9. Put people in an unfamiliar place and only half their brain sleeps at a time (I wonder if this is also true of parents): (tags:sleep humans brain )
10. The modern chicken is more than 4x the size of one from 50 years ago: (tags:chicken food history )
11. Happy "Virus Freedom Day" to everyone in Scotland!: (tags:scotland pandemic doom )
12. Two versions of the trolley problem elicit similar responses everywhere: (tags:morality philosophy psychology )

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