Interesting Links for 14-11-2023
Nov. 14th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Scientists perplexed to find each nostril works separately to sense world
- (tags:smell noses )
- 2. If the UK government wants parents to work then wraparound care needs to be fixed
- (tags:parents work childcare uk )
- 3. Nearly Everyone With Mild Cognitive Impairment Goes Undiagnosed
- (tags:brains neuroscience fail )
- 4. 'Coyote vs. Acme' Shelved by Warner Bros, Taking $30M Tax Writeoff
- (tags:movies business OhForFucksSake )
- 5. US election results show rights still bewilderingly popular
- (tags:rights women USA politics funny )
- 6. Dutch elections: is a new version of PR on the way?
- (tags:Netherlands proportional_representation )
- 7. When Israel-Palestine Peace Was Within Reach
- (tags:Israel Palestine history )
- 8. What words were added to the dictionary the year you were born? (Gaia, Bipolar Disorder, and Woke for me)
- (tags:words history dictionary )
- 9. What's Biden's record on trans rights?
- (tags:transgender politics USA democrats )
- 10. "I've Been To Over 20 Homeschool Conferences. The Things I've Witnessed At Them Shocked Me."
- (tags:school Education children politics usa )
Interesting Links for 19-10-2023
Oct. 19th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. How Do Musicians Make Money? (And how much?)
- (tags:music business money )
- 2. Todd Klein on how comics lettering was done with pens
- (tags:pen comics )
- 3. I've switched from Google search to Kagi. This is why.
- (tags:google search )
- 4. Public corruption prosecutions rise where nonprofit news outlets flourish
- (tags:corruption journalism usa )
- 5. "I'm a sociopath who feels no remorse - it's just how my brain is wired"
- (tags:sociopath psychology personality )
- 6. Ruling could transform rape cases in Scottish courts
- (tags:rape law Scotland )
- 7. New pill helps COVID smell and taste loss fade quickly (mine hasn't recovered fully for nearly 18 months)
- (tags:Pandemic virus smell )
Interesting Links for 31-08-2022
Aug. 31st, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The imminent BA.5 vaccine booster
- (tags:Pandemic vaccine )
- 2. Edinburgh to apologise for role in slave trade
- (tags:edinburgh slavery scotland )
- 3. Teenagers struggle to tell the difference between real and fake health advice
- (tags:teenagers fraud psychology )
- 4. Associations between obese BMI and mortality are only there for people who are suffering insulin issues or inflammation
- (tags:insulin diabetes inflammation obesity BMI )
- 5. A person and an AI cooperating on some art
- (tags:ai art video )
- 6. Affirming parent tells how schools can support trans kids
- (tags:LGBT transgender schools viaPatrickHadfield )
- 7. A trans man on Sandman's A Game Of You arc
- (tags:LGBT transgender Sandman neilgaiman )
- 8. All the times someone falls off of something in the Lord of The Rings movies
- (tags:lotr funny )
- 9. Republican candidates are changing how they handle abortion after Roe v. Wade
- (tags:abortion USA republicans )
- 10. Eurostar to axe direct trains to Disneyland Paris, partly blaming Brexit
- (tags:UK Europe Disney trains )
- 11. What do computers dream of (or: what happens when you feed an AI image generator into an animation?)
- (tags:animation ai generation video )
- 12. Experimenters' sex modulates mouse behaviors and neural responses to ketamine
- (tags:research experiment gender smell mice )
Interesting Links for 14-04-2022
Apr. 14th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Hard drives we didn't want or need - and what have they got to do with juggling trillions of chainsaws?
- (tags:data video funny Technology silly )
- 2. Why the UK parliament's standards committee is powerless on Boris breaking the law and then lying about it
- (tags:politics UK parliament lies )
- 3. Lifting of Scottish face mask laws confirmed for Monday
- (tags:Pandemic Scotland )
- 4. Far-UVC (222 nm) light should be staggeringly effective against airborne viruses
- (tags:virus light )
- 5. Elden Ring Looks Tiny, Adorable With 'Tilt-Shifted' Camera (and like it was directed by Henry Selick)
- (tags:games cute viaSwampers )
- 6. Fantastic Beasts: Inside Scandals, Controversies Plaguing the Series (along with it not being very good)
- (tags:jkrowling transgender bigotry harrypotter fail movies business )
- 7. Nobody knows why this Unicode character exists
- (tags:Unicode )
- 8. Autopsies suggest COVID's smell loss is caused by inflammation, not virus
- (tags:inflammation virus smell brain )
Interesting Links for 28-06-2021
Jun. 28th, 2021 12:00 pm- The number of "gender critical" transphobes there are on Twitter is much lower than you'd think
- (tags:LGBT Twitter transgender bigotry )
- How do the original inhabitants of Catan feel all these damned settlers?
- (tags:games empire society )
- Google launches a new medical app—outside the United States (can match the performance of dermatologists)
- (tags:healthcare apps Google )
- The Secret Workings of Smell Receptors, Revealed At Last
- (tags:smell biology )
- You can see the UK's bigotry from space!
- (tags:UK bigotry LGBT transgender )
- GB News gets five times fewer than Welsh language Paw Patrol
- (tags:TV UK Wales )
- FCA bans world's largest crypto-currency exchange Binance
- (tags:cryptography money uk regulation )
- Earth is trapping twice as much heat as it did in 2005
- (tags:globalwarming Doom )
- Stalking for Love - the movie trope that tells young men that obsessively overriding women's wishes is the route to true love
- (tags:love romance movies TV video stalking )
- I had not realised how offensive my facial hair was
- (tags:hair moustache funny comic )
Interesting Links for 24-05-2021
May. 24th, 2021 12:00 pm- Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist
- (tags:Belarus OhForFucksSake journalism )
- Climate change and flying: what share of global CO2 emissions come from aviation? (and what share of global warming)
- (tags:globalwarming co2 airplanes )
- What do anti trans activists believe? And what do they suggest?
- (tags:bigotry transgender LGBT )
- Sniffer dogs trained on smelly socks can detect Covid with up to 94% accuracy
- (tags:Pandemic dogs smell )
Interesting Links for 28-11-2020
Nov. 28th, 2020 12:00 pm- Glad to see the Conservative Party are as well run as ever
- (tags:corruption conservatives )
- How accurate is The Crown?
- (tags:tv facts funny history royalty uk )
- "Why I Think Elvis Was Autistic"
- (tags:autism history music )
- Short films recorded in the far north of Scotland at the start of the 20th century
- (tags:history scotland video viacmcmck )
- Why the rivets on a tape measure are so important
- (tags:measurement video interesting )
- R number for UK (just) below 1 for first time since August
- (tags:UK pandemic GoodNews )
- The Home Office must be destroyed
- (tags:UK immigration OhForFucksSake )
- Analysing the prevalence of Covid through reviews of scented candles
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1332398737604431874.html
(tags:reviews smell pandemic statistics ) - Bionic gloves help injured concert pianist to play again.
- (tags:piano cyborg bionic music )
Interesting Links for 18-04-2020
Apr. 18th, 2020 12:00 pm- #Masks4All: Homemade masks can stop COVID-19 spread and save lives
- Anyone disagree with this? Or should I be make myself a mask right now?
(tags:pandemic ) - Climate-Driven Megadrought Is Underway in Western U.S.
- (tags:globalwarming drought USA Doom )
- The Lancet comes out in favour of wearing masks
- (tags:pandemic )
- Depression: The Olfactory Perspective
- (tags:smell depression )
- Amount of leadership from the cabinet: zero
- (tags:government pandemic OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
- Shambolic Incompetence And Magic Thinking: The inside story of the UK's Ventilator Challenge
- (tags:UK medicine incompetence OhForFucksSake )
- Do you think humans are capable of thought?
- (tags:thinking comic )
- I've never watched a White House press briefing, but this is how I imagine Trump's to be
- (tags:comic satire pandemic usa politics )
Interesting Links for 18-11-2019
Nov. 18th, 2019 10:12 pm- Superhero or Supervillain? Technology's Role Changes Comic Books
- (tags:art comics colour computers Technology )
- 15 Major countries demand compensation from UK and EU for Brexit disruption t
- (tags:UK Europe trade Doom wto )
- Dogs 97% accurate at sniffing out cancer
- (tags:cancer dogs smell )
- Thousands of European children at risk from Home Office immigration scheme
- (tags:immigration UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
- Labour abandons climate change plan for net zero carbon emissions by 2030
- (tags:labour globalwarming jobs uk )
- X-ray vision: the forgotten suffragette who pioneered radiography during the First World War
- (tags:x-ray wwii women history )
- The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up
- (tags:tidiness chaos design efficiency organisation )
- Padmé Amidala, Queen of Empty Space, Of What Might Have Been
- (tags:StarWars )
Interesting Links for 13-07-2019
Jul. 13th, 2019 04:59 pm- Lion King remake review: Roaring visuals, but the execution is a hairball
- (tags:Disney fail movies review lionking lions )
- Clear majority of the UK public supports transgender self-ID and LGBT-inclusive education
- (tags:GoodNews polls LGBT transgender uk )
- More than half of young English judges are women
- (tags:England UK law women )
- Deposition on the Trump/Epstein rape case
- (tags:USA rape politics republicans )
- Talking about vagina smell
- (tags:vagina smell )
- Hundreds of blindfolded goats airdropped into mountain range
- (tags:goats mountains salt viaDanielDWilliam )
- Distinct From IQ Or Working Memory, "Implicit Learning Ability" Is An Important, Stable Trait That Varies Between Individuals
- (tags:psychology learning )
- Illuminatus! vs Atlas Shrugged
- (tags:viaSupergee illuminati objectivism )
Interesting Links for 09-06-2019
Jun. 9th, 2019 01:43 pm- California Considering a Ban on Realtime Police Body Camera Facial Recognition
- (tags:faces police California usa )
- Charlie Stross on The Millenial Joker Origin Story
- (tags:batman jobs comics origins )
- Torture Should Not Work in Dungeons & Dragons
- (tags:torture games dungeonsanddragons viaSupergee )
- The trailer for "Ophelia" looks awesome
- (tags:shakespeare women hamlet trailer )
- A third of people are sensitive to artificial fragrances. 9% of us have had to take time off (or lose a job) in the last year because of it
- (tags:smell jobs health )
- Commons committee finds UK welfare approach counterproductive and pointlessly cruel. Government ignores it.
- (tags:welfare uk OhForFucksSake )
- ASCII fluid dynamics
- (tags:ascii text video fluid physics )
- An open letter to pretty much every linguistic Voynich theorist ever
- (tags:language epicfail )
- The Kelly Criterion - how should you bet in a given situation?
- (tags:gambling )
- Have a bunch of pretty images (pulled from Reddit)
- (tags:photos reddit pretty )
- Michael Sheen Inspired By Good Omens Fanfic For Aziraphale's Love Of Crowley
- (tags:books tv neilgaiman terrypratchett fanfic )
- NYC Burger King has been passing off beef as (vegan) Impossible Whoppers
- (tags:meat food OhForFucksSake )
- Clearing Up Some Misconceptions about Neurodiversity
- (tags:neurodiversity )
Interesting Links for 21-03-2019
Mar. 21st, 2019 01:08 pm- Remain would win second Brexit referendum 61% to 39%
- (tags:UK europe )
- Woman capable of sniffing out Parkinson's disease offers hope for new diagnosis method
- (tags:disease smell )
- Women's Pain Is Different From Men's???the Drugs Could Be Too
- (tags:pain drugs gender )
- Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up? (because your food is too soft)
- (tags:food teeth humans evolution )
- Not Everything Is Horrible: BILL & TED 3: FACE THE MUSIC Gets A Release Date (My birthday! Next year!)
- (tags:movies KeanuReeves )
- Pensioner Catches A Mouse That Kept Cleaning His Shed (the video is terribly cute)
- (tags:mice cleanliness video viaElfy )
- Labour's policy on Brexit is a con job
- (tags:Labour UK europe OhForFucksSake )
- A trans man explains teenage boys
- (tags:teenagers testosterone boys )
- If you're looking for something uplifting today, this is the story for you.
- (tags:comic cancer photography )
- Britain humiliated on global stage as it begs EU for more time
- (tags:uk europe doom )
- Smartphone Addiction Is Associated With Impaired Decision-making
- (tags:decisions psychology phones )
- Mount Everest: Melting glaciers expose dead bodies
- (tags:everest mountains death )
- Article 50 petition: Government website crashes after more than 600,000 demand Brexit is cancelled
- (tags:uk petition europe )
Interesting Links for 06-03-2019
Mar. 6th, 2019 12:03 pm- Female Cyclist Forced To Stop When She Nearly Catches Male Racers After Their Head Start
- (tags:cycling )
- A quick look at QUIC (the next generation of HTTP over TCP/IP)
- (tags:internet networking web Technology )
- Picosecond lasers weld glass and metal together for the first time
- (tags:lasers materials )
- Prospiracy Theories
- (tags:conspiracy satire truth funny )
- Should vagrants be flogged in the street?
- (tags:homelessness libdem )
- Emmanuel Macron: Dear Europe, Brexit is a lesson for all of us: it's time for renewal
- (tags:europe thefuture )
- The Movement To Skip The Electoral College Just Passed A Major Milestone (but has a long way to go)
- (tags:politics usa voting viaDanielDWilliam )
- A Brief History of British and Irish Languages
- (tags:language Wales Scotland UK England Ireland history viaDanielDWilliam )
- A Behind the Scenes Take on Lithium-Ion Battery Prices
- (tags:batteries thefuture Technology )
- GMB launches Scotland's first sex workers' union
- (tags:Scotland unions sexwork )
- Widening Russia Money Laundering Scandal Hits European Banks
- (tags:Russia europe fraud banking )
- Missing out on sleep robs brain cells of ability to repair themselves
- (tags:brain sleep )
- The Special Curse of Living on Instagram's Favorite Street (Paris's Rue Cremieux)
- (tags:Paris celebrity photography )
- Goldman Sachs relaxes dress code (which companies still insist on more formal dress codes?)
- (tags:clothing work )
- On Food Shopping for Brexit
- (tags:UK europe OhForFucksSake food Conservatives )
- What is it like working at a company during and after the release of a negatively received game?
- (tags:games work epicfail )
- Momentum fined over ??16,000 for multiple breaches of electoral law during 2017 election
- (tags:labour politics uk )
- What Causes the Smell of New & Old Books?
- (tags:smell books chemistry )
- Unless something is done, paying by cash will become near-impossible in the UK soon.
- I haven't used cash in weeks (if not months) - but the people hardest hit are the poor and those with bad mental health.
(tags:cash money uk Technology ) - Study Finds No link Between Violent Video Games And Teen Aggression (Yet again)
- (tags:psychology aggression games violence )
Interesting Links for 31-05-2018
May. 31st, 2018 12:00 pm- People with a keener sense of smell find sex more pleasant and, if they are female, have more orgasms during sex
- (tags: sex smell )
- Are there benefits to breastfeeding until the age of five?
- (tags: breastfeeding health )
- Italy can't blame Brussels for its descent into the abyss
- (tags: italy politics economics )
- Vitamin D deficiency may increase risk of miscarriage
- (tags: pregnancy vitaminD )
- Obese people enjoy food less than lean people
- (tags: psychology food obesity )
- European Data Protection Board backs ban on 'cookie walls'
- (tags: cookies surveillance web europe )
Interesting Links for 16-06-2017
Jun. 16th, 2017 12:00 pm- Microsoft AI plays a perfect game of Ms Pac-Man
- (tags: ai games )
- Definitive proof that lesbians cheat
- (tags: lgbt cheating games funny )
- The founder of Pinboard on why understanding fandom is good for business
- (tags: viaSwampers bookmarks delicious pinboard )
- City of Edinburgh Council to be run by coalition (a Labour/SNP one)
- (tags: politics Scotland edinburgh )
- List: Writing Advice to My Students That Would Also Have Been Good Sex Advice for My High School Boyfriends
- (tags: advice sex writing funny ViaDrCross )
- How the .NET Runtime Loads a Type
- (tags: dotnet programming computers )
- The idea that humans have a poor sense of smell is an outdated myth
- (tags: smell humans brain )
- Spotify hits more than 140 million users (Still losing money. Not sure it can actually make money.)
- Spotify passes on 70% of its income to the labels. I wonder what the fixed costs are which push them into losses.
(tags: spotify music streaming business ) - Streaming Drives U.S. Music Sales Up 11% in 2016 - Streaming was 51% of the market
- (tags: streaming spotify music business )
Interesting Links for 22-07-2016
Jul. 22nd, 2016 12:00 pm- The media don't report the truth, they tell interesting stories
- (tags: media stories )
- People In Toronto Made Memorial For Dead Raccoon After City Forgot To Pick It Up For 12 Hrs
- (tags: funny death animals )
- Why brain medication has weird side-effects
- (tags: drugs brains psychology )
- This is now my favourite picture of the LOTR cast
- (tags: photo lotr tattoos )
- Vitamin D supplements 'advised for everyone'
- (tags: vitaminD advice uk viaSwampers )
- Scottish Government will block Human Rights Act repeal for the whole UK
- This one turns out to be nine months old.
(tags: rights uk scotland ) - malarial mosquitos don't like the smell of chicken
- (tags: Malaria chicken smell )
- Stitching together the global financial safety net
- (tags: banking finance safety )
Interesting Links for 07-06-2016
Jun. 7th, 2016 12:00 pm- Britain's housing shortage takes marriage, children, and careers off the agenda for millions
- (tags: society housing uk relationships marriage )
- Panama Papers Show How Rich United States Clients Hid Millions Abroad
- (tags: usa tax )
- The Condorcet Paradox at work? Rock-paper-scissors in the EU referendum
- (tags: referendum europe immigration voting paradox viaFanf )
- Uncovering a 30 year old C64 bug
- (tags: bug Technology history )
- The Five Monkeys Experiment Obviously Never Happened
- (tags: monkeys science psychology meme )
- Babies don't just look cute, they even smell cute
- (tags: cute babies smell sight touch )
- The Simulation Argument FAQ
- (tags: simulation matrix philosophy reality )
- A friend in Edinburgh is starting up a parent+kids choir
- (tags: music edinburgh )
- Saturday Morning Watchmen - disturbingly entertaining!
- (tags: watchmen animation funny )
- Genetic variations linked with social, economic success
- (tags: genetics genes success )
- In US, poverty dampens genetic influence on IQ
- (tags: iq genetics genes poverty usa )
- Connection established between anxiety control, inflammation, Type 2 diabetes
- (tags: anxiety diabetes inflammation )
- 2001 A Space Odyssey Fail (when every member of the orchestra plays the wrong instrument)
- (tags: music fail video )
- Disadvantages of purely functional programming
- (tags: programming )
- NoScript is harmful and promotes Malware!
- (tags: advertising web OhForFucksSake )
- Psychopathic colleagues can be helpful and co-operative
- Or, perhaps more accurately, "psychopathy is a mixture of different traits, not all of which are necessarily harmful."
(tags: psychopath psychology work ) - It’s Not Just Robots: Skilled Jobs Are Going to “Meatware”
- (tags: work Technology thefuture )
Interesting Links for 02-11-2015
Nov. 2nd, 2015 12:00 pm- The most evil Halloween idea I've ever seen
- Always the Wallflower at the Orgy
- Software is made of decisions
- UK losing millions in VAT from non-EU sellers on Amazon and eBay
- I have a new favourite Star Wars theory!
- Morality is fractal, the closer you get to things, the less you can easily divide things into good and evil.
- Common anticholinergic drugs like Benadryl linked to increased dementia risk (54% !!!)
- The Chemist Who Hasn't Showered in 12 Years Explains Why He Doesn't Stink
- A lovely fan suggestion involving Batman and Time Travel
- Zugzwang (I just learned a new word!)
- One of my favourite things about Tumblr is the little snippets of people's lives
- How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult
- I'd love to live in a co-housing development with a bunch of likeminded people, but I can't see how to make it happen.
- Netherlands revokes Scientology’s tax-exempt status
- If you want to understand Russia's behaviour then you have to understand its geography
- When is competition beneficial?
- Alabama is clearly engaging in racist voter suppression
Interesting Links for 07-08-2014
Aug. 7th, 2014 12:00 pm- Scotland's Decision - 16 questions to think about (in-depth, and impartial, AFAICT)
- Next time someone tells you that the UK economy has recovered, point them at this graph
- Wikipedia is now publishing the list of its pages that are being affected by the "Right to be Forgotten"
- The woman who broke the Tetris World Record - without meaning to
- Dice Shameing
- What Do Porn Stars Get Paid?
- Procter & Gamble are shelving 2/3 of their brands. Because of modern technology
- Wikipedia refuses to delete photo as 'monkey owns it'
- Kale, cauliflower, cabbage, and Brussels sprouts are all the same species of plant
- The War of Guardians of the Galaxy Porn Has Been Won
- Extended cut of X-Men: Days of Future Past coming next year
- This is how I feel about perfume.
- Destination Moon: The 350-Year History of Lunar Exploration
- How old are the people on Tumblr?
- George R R Martin at Edinburgh International Book Festival to be live-streamed
- The inexplicable world of Asian ‘Hitler chic’
- Ant colony 'personalities' shaped by environment
- How the rendition programme had the CIA and MI6 hand over a 12-year-old girl to Gaddafi. And then cover it up.
- Deficient in Vitamin D? You're up to twice as likely to develop dementia/Alzheimer's