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Interesting Links for 22-09-2024

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Interesting Links for 12-06-2024

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 )

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Interesting Links for 24-11-2022

1. All You Need To Know About Scotland's Legal Bid For An Independence Referendum: (tags:scotland law independence )
2. COVID-19 vaccination associated with 15% reduction in stillbirths: (tags:pandemic vaccination death pregnancy )
3. The influence of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies on cinematic portrayals of ancient Greece and Rome: (tags:rome greece lotr movies )
4. Turns out that dreaded pit beasts are a lot like cats: (tags:funny fantasy comic cats )
5. How much does it cost Facebook to look after your cat pictures?: (tags:cats facebook storage )
6. Lugo, the only town with fully intact Roman walls: (tags:history rome Spain architecture viaDanielDWilliam )
7. Where are all the heat pumps?: (tags:electricity heating UK viaDanielDWilliam )
8. If you're wondering how SpaceX coped with Musk, this will fill you in: (tags:ElonMusk Spacex management )
9. Fossil fuel power plants kill 35x as many birds as wind turbines do per GWh (and nuclear power is twice as deadly as wind power): (tags:birds death nuclearpower coal gas environment windpower )
10. European Parliament declares Russia a terrorism sponsor, then its site goes down: (tags:web russia europe terrorism )
11. How much trouble are GPs in Scotland in?: (tags:healthcare scotland )
12. Sponsian: Ancient Roman gold coins thought to be 'fakes' reveal long-lost local emperor: (tags:rome Romania archeology )

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Interesting Links for 12-02-2022

In A Sports World Segregated By Gender, Figure Skating Has Often Blurred Those Lines: (tags:sports gender history )
One in three Americans have high levels of toxic weed-killing chemical in their bodies: (tags:usa hormones toxic pesticide )
COVID-19 takes serious toll on heart health—a full year after recovery: (tags:pandemic heart )
Underwater Photographer of the Year winner revealed: (tags:photography water viacmcmck )
How hard it is to get to Mars—and then to live there (very): (tags:mars spacex space )
Chalk drum from 5,000 years ago is the most important UK art find in a century: (tags:uk prehistory archaeology art )
A villain of Twitter: Redeemed!: (tags:Twitter reading pubs alcohol books )
Researchers confirm newly developed inhaled vaccine delivers broad protection against SARS-CoV-2, variants of concern: (tags:Pandemic vaccine GoodNews )
UK exports to EU plunge £20bn in first full year after Brexit: (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
Two former legal directors of the EHRC point out that it's draft guidance is unlawful: (tags:law LGBT transgender UK rights )
YouTube's Olympics Highlights Are Riddled With Propaganda: (tags:China Olympics propaganda YouTube )

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4131048.html

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4056689.html

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Interesting Links for 03-07-2021

New 'Alien' TV Series Will Be Class Warfare With Xenomorphs (from the showrunner of Fargo): (tags:TV aliens )
Scottish Greens say SQA teaching benefits of climate change: (tags:globalwarming scotland Education )
Loch Ness falls to lowest water level in five years: (tags:LochNess scotland water )
Here's what a Falcon 9 looks like after 8 flights to space in a year: (tags:space recycling Spacex )
Drop-in vaccination clinics to open across mainland Scotland: (tags:Scotland vaccination pandemic )
Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Enable the IRS to fight tax evasion: (tags:tax USA )
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima's exclusion zone: (tags:pigs radiation Japan headline )
What *is* classic liberalism?: (tags:politics history liberal )
Apps with 5.8 million Google Play downloads stole users' Facebook passwords: (tags:Facebook passwords apps android )
Queer readings of The Lord of the Rings are not accidents: (tags:LGBT lotr history )
Two more cis Black women banned from Olympics for their natural testosterone levels: (tags:women testosterone Olympics OhForFucksSake )
The Gulf of Mexico is on fire: (tags:Mexico sea fire oil )
High Court backs trans women being housed in women's prisons: (tags:LGBT transgender women prison UK )
A useful list of things that have to be explained in writing workshops: (tags:writing advice viaFJM )
English school planning on abusing children: (tags:school abuse UK OhForFucksSake )
When a nerd has a pH monitoring capsule implanted, what else are they going to do but intercept the signals and try to decode them?: (tags:hacks radio technology medicine )
Driver shortage crisis: Major suppliers axe deliveries: (tags:transport UK Europe Doom )
This mudslide in Japan is terrifying: (tags:earth Japan terrifying video )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3871366.html

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3792874.html

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Interesting Links for 24-05-2019

Turning a single photo (or a piece of art) into an animated face. Incredibly impressive - watch to the Mona Lisa!: (tags:video art ai faces )
Your regular reminder that Labour are pro-Brexit: (tags:labour uk europe )
European elections: EU citizens report being barred from polling stations: (tags:europe uk voting OhForFucksSake )
Terminator: Dark Fate - Official Teaser Trailer (I'm trying not to be excited. Not very successfully): (tags:terminator jamescameron movies trailer video )
'Swarms' of wolf-dog hybrids sweeping Europe: (tags:dogs wolves europe )
"What happened when I met my Islamophobic troll": (tags:Islam troll bigotry Internet )
Ursula Le Guin on Abortion: (tags:UrsulaKLegGuin abortion )
SpaceX Launches sixty Starlink satellites on thrice-flown rocket, sticks landing: (tags:Spacex internet )
When we say "Everest is crowded," this is what we mean: (tags:everest tourism )
NASA officially orders its first segment of a lunar space station: (tags:space moon )
Ultra-rare discovery reveals how ancient Celtic warriors fought - 2,400 years ago: (tags:archeology prehistory uk )
Different voting systems across the EU (for the European elections): (tags:europe voting )
Mathematicians revive abandoned approach to the Riemann Hypothesis: (tags:mathematics )
European elections: Far-right populists flop in the Netherlands as centre-left makes surprise gains: (tags:netherlands europe voting )
Renault's new target market : people who loved the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon: (tags:dungeonsanddragons advertising cars viaMyBrotherHugh )
Theresa May has quit: these were her five greatest moments of failure: (tags:epicfail Conservatives )
The Last Known Slave Ship Has Been Found: (tags:slavery history ship )
Video filmed at four trillion frames per second captures light in a flash: (tags:light )
"Once-In-A-Hundred Year" Sightings of Bamboo Blossoms Reported In Japan: (tags:japan plants )
Stroke deaths halved in England over ten years: (tags:stroke uk nhs GoodNews )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3781245.html

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Interesting Links for 13-04-2019

Upskirting now a crime after woman's campaign: (tags:photography law crime abuse uk )
Police detectors to warn mobile phone-using drivers: (tags:phones police safety )
The calmest looking part of the sea may be the most dangerous. Here's how to survive it.: (tags:sea safety swimming )
Ministers blasted after 'dodgy statistics' overstate non-EU imports by ??300bn: (tags:uk europe doom )
Brexit extension: The EU just condemned migrants to seven months of 'flexible' uncertainty: (tags:europe uk immigration OhForFucksSake )
SpaceX successfully launches most powerful rocket in world -??before landing boosters back on the ground: (tags:Spacex space awesome )
Chinese scientists have put human brain genes in monkeys: (tags:humans monkeys genetics )
Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply: (tags:mathematics )
Self-driving cars still years away: (tags:automation driving )
How Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Musicians): (tags:music Spotify economics streaming business )
Electrical jolts to brain restored memory of elderly to that of 20-year-old: (tags:electricity brain memory viaMyBrotherHugh )
We have had multiple years of politics condensed into three months: (tags:politics uk europe stress )
How advertisers bid for your eyeballs: (tags:advertising technology web )
Pro-EU parties hit out at Independent Group lie over People's Vote: (tags:UK politics europe OhForFucksSake )
Egyptian erectile dysfunction ads are amazing: (tags:penis medication advertising sex Egypt )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3766055.html

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Interesting Links for 14-02-2019

Mars rover "Opportunity" is probably done, alas: (tags:Mars robots NASA )
Boys banned from playing netball at Urdd sports festival: (tags:gender sports )
What you, personally, can do about the upcoming insect apocalypse.: (tags:insects gardens environment )
Girl Scouts reject anti-transgender gift, then triple the money: (tags:usa transgender scouts lgbt girls )
EU officials: UK only 'pretending to negotiate' over Brexit impasse: (tags:UK europe doom )
Bikes put spanner in works of Dutch driverless car schemes: (tags:cars automation bicycles netherlands )
Lufthansa sues passenger for not getting on a plane: (tags:airlines OhForFucksSake )
Failed UKIP candidate claims he was personally invited on to BBC Question Time: (tags:UKIP bbc OhForFucksSake )
Post-Brexit trade partners ask UK to lower human rights standards: (tags:rights trade doom uk europe )
The "Impossible" Tech Behind SpaceX's New Engine: (tags:technology space fuel Spacex )
Female Gamer Angry About How Breast Physics Work in Real Life: (tags:physics breasts games satire funny viaBartCalendar )
Why is Ford leaving? Is it the risk of hard Brexit? Or because we're abandoning the Customs Union? Is it because we're leaving the Single Market? Or is it the Euro?: (tags:trade europe euro uk doom )
The Proverbial Murder Mystery (This made me giggle repeatedly): (tags:funny humour language )
Newly isolated human gut bacterium reveals possible connection to depression: (tags:depression microbiome )
Effect of breastfeeding versus pumping on human milk microbiome: (tags:microbiome milk breastfeeding babies )
"One man who made history" by another who seems just to make it up: Boris on Churchill: (tags:history myths fail uk wwii )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3755930.html

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Interesting Links for 06-01-2019

LEGO Porsche crashing in slow motion with 1000 fps: (tags: slowmotion car lego video viaFanf )
Ministry Of Justice Staff Called A Journalist "Crazy" And A "Bitch" After She Published A Leaked Report: (tags: journalism law uk OhForFucksSake )
Ravenmaster Tells of His Relationships with the Tower of London’s Resident Birds: (tags: London birds )
Towards a Better Pythagorean Cup: (tags: design physics viaFanf )
Trump’s Lies vs. Obama’s - who told more?: (tags: fraud lies politics usa )
Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not: (tags: inequality diversity Spacex )
Women talk about how people react when they tell them they were raped: (tags: rape society OhForFucksSake )
The Evolutionary Mystery of Left-Handedness and What It Reveals About How the Brain Works: (tags: brain genetics history society )
People overwhelmingly prefer staying in the EU to either No Deal or May's plan: (tags: UK europe polls )
China's population to peak in 2029 at 1.44 billion: (tags: China population demographics )
The world's most dominant athlete is 23 years old - and getting better: (tags: sports )
Sweden Has a 70 Percent Tax Rate and It Is Fine: (tags: Sweden tax )
Women on the pill don't need to have simulated periods: (tags: menstruation contraception )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3725039.html

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Interesting Links for 19-09-2018

BBC Scotland's full response to accusations of anti-independence bias: (tags: bbc scotland )
What are Scotland's P1 assessments really like?: (tags: school testing )
SpaceX reveals identity of the world's first lunar space tourist: (tags: tourism moon Spacex space )
Thinking beyond yourself can make you more open to healthy lifestyle choices: (tags: health exercise diet psychology )
A Day in the Life of a Female Incel: (tags: satire celibacy gender murder sex relationships )
Germany launches world's first hydrogen-powered train: (tags: hydrogen trains transport environment )
Two-thirds of secondaries can’t find maths teachers: (tags: teaching fail jobs uk mathematics )
NASA isn’t going to pay for the BFR, so Musk charts a new course: (tags: Spacex space )
Twitter will soon let you switch between chronological and ranked feeds: (tags: Twitter GoodNews )
The Captain Marvel Trailer looks like a lot of fun: (tags: comics marvel movies trailer )
Construction to begin on 36 megawatt Moroccan wind farm for Bitcoin mining: (tags: electricity Morocco bitcoin solarpower )
Bicycle Speed Record Broken - Denise Mueller-Korenek Bikes at 183.93 MPH: (tags: speed bicycles )
Can attachment theory help explain the relationship some people have with their “anorexia voice”?: (tags: anorexia eatingdisorders psychology )
Sugar content of most supermarket yogurts well above recommended threshold: Organic products, perceived as healthier options, among some of the worst offenders: (tags: sugar food )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3717570.html

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Interesting Links for 23-08-2018

Saudi Arabia seeks death penalty for woman activist: (tags: saudiarabia death_penalty )
How do you like it, Elon Musk? ‘Impressive’ Russian inventions to rival Tesla’s space launch: (tags: Russia Spacex meme funny ViaDrCross )
Mum’s a Neanderthal, Dad’s a Denisovan: discovery of an ancient-human hybrid: (tags: humans prehistory genetics )
Napoleon’s defeat partly caused by massive volcano ‘short circuiting’ electrical current in atmosphere: (tags: volcano war France history )
Carbon Dioxide can have large effects on sleep and concentration - and can rise sharply at night: Shame meters are so expensive. Do five other Edinburgh people want to throw on £20 each?
(tags: co2 intelligence sleep )
Europe to ban halogen lightbulbs (in a week's time): (tags: europe globalwarming led lighting )
Aeolus: Britain's wind mapping satellite lifts off (over a decade late, but hopefully the data will be worth the wait): (tags: wind weather uk space )
Amazon tribe which has never had contact with the outside world seen for the first time in amazing drone footage: (tags: amazon brazil drone )
The war over supercooled water (and why researchers need to release their code): (tags: software physics simulation fail research )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3697254.html

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Interesting Links for 22-06-2018

Listen and weep: Audiobooks outdo films in emotional engagement: (tags: books emotion tv movies )
How bad could Brexit be, really?: (tags: Europe UK doom )
Famous gorilla Koko who could do sign language has died at the age of 46: (tags: gorillas sign language )
Why Rank-And-File Evangelicals Aren’t Likely To Turn On Trump Over Family Separation - For Now.: (tags: religion usa immigration racism society )
First physiological test for autism has 88% accuracy in second trial: (tags: autism )
The day after: Tory MPs look at the cliff-edge: (tags: politics UK Europe )
Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant: (tags: food automaton )
Immigrant children have been forcibly injected with powerful psychiatric drugs at one of the U.S. government "shelters": (tags: drugs usa children immigration OhForFucksSake )
Roseanne officially going on without the titular character: (tags: tv funny )
Airbus warns no-deal Brexit could see it leave UK - taking 14,000 jobs with it: (tags: airplanes uk europe jobs business doom )
Guys, guys, I found the very definition of entitlement: (tags: StarWars OhForFucksSake )
Edinburgh trams profits more than £1m above forecast: Considering that it's only half of the line, I'm amazed it's making a profit at all.
(tags: trams edinburgh )
Investigating The Mysterious ‘Jumping Gene’ That Appears 500k Times in Human DNA: (tags: genetics )
Air Force certifies Falcon Heavy, orders satellite launch for 2020: (tags: Spacex )
Eurozone agrees deal to bring Greece out of financial crisis: (tags: Greece debt Europe economy )
Psychiatric disorders share an underlying genetic basis: (tags: genetics mentalhealth )
A mechanism behind choosing alcohol over healthy rewards is found (in rats, but probably also humans): (tags: alcohol brain genetics addiction rats )
Turns out Stephen King is responsible for Donald Trump: (tags: usa politics horror funny stephen_king )
The great irony of Brexit is that it is teaching the UK that it already had the best model: EU membership: (tags: europe uk )
The three legal ways by which Brexit may not take place on 29 March 2019: (tags: uk europe law )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3658134.html

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Interesting Links for 07-02-2018

Love Island women offered less money for other work than men: (tags: women men money )
Katie Hopkins detained by passport control for spreading racial hatred: (tags: racism southafrica GoodNews )
Theresa May announces review into sustainable print journalism: (tags: newspapers uk )
UK crops left to rot after drop in EU farm workers in Britain after Brexit referendum: (tags: UK Europe farming OhForFucksSake )
Scotland is now the right size on BBC's new weather map: (tags: BBC weather maps Scotland uk )
AI Just Learned How to Boost the Brain's Memory - From the Inside: (tags: brains neuroscience ai )
I had no idea paper jams were so complex and fascinating: (tags: paper technology design )
Edinburgh arts base "St Mags" under threat from £15m student flats deal: (tags: art housing Edinburgh OhForFucksSake beltane )
Elon Musk's Falcon Heavy rocket launches successfully - hopefully sending his car to Mars: (tags: mars space ElonMusk Spacex )
California Crops Rot as Immigration Crackdown Creates Farmworker Shortage: (tags: farming immigration usa Mexico fail )
Another Star Wars movie series is coming—from Game of Thrones‘ showrunners: (tags: gameofthrones StarWars )
Do you live in the Blue Banana: (tags: urbanisation europe viaElfy )
This may be the moment SpaceX opened the cosmos to the masses: (tags: space Spacex )
Want to help your partner stress less? Listen from the heart: (tags: stress psychology communication )
First modern Briton had dark to black skin, DNA research reveals: (tags: uk prehistory dna )
Gig economy: Theresa May promises to improve conditions for millions of workers: (tags: work law uk Conservatives )
UK could adopt Norway bottle recycling system: (tags: norway recycLing plastic uk )
What happens in a working-class town when work is taken away? (they vote for Brexit, because the government blames Europe): (tags: uk jobs Europe poverty fail )
Winter Olympics : US skiers use VR goggles & brain zapping headphones: (tags: sport VirtualReality brain usa )
If we gave everyone a decent standard of living, could we sustain it?: (tags: life economics earth environment )
Americans are spending less on clothing (casual dress commonplace, ties vanishing): (tags: clothing )
The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet: (tags: Technology review )
Germany has a government again!: (tags: Germany government )
The Stats on the ‘Star Wars’ Film Universe: Its Creators Are 96% White Men: (tags: StarWars diversity )