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Interesting Links for 03-02-2023
Feb. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. James Gunn's plans for the DC Movie Universe look very sensible - and might actually be good!
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- 2. The topologist's world map
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- 3. Timelapse of the future: A Journey to the End of Time
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- 4. An Astonishing Regularity in Student Learning Rate (Students seem to get better at about the same speed as each other)
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- 5. Squid skin inspires novel "liquid windows" for greater energy savings
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Interesting Links for 20-04-2022
Apr. 20th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Boots to flush plastic fibre wet wipes from its shelves by the end of the year
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- 2. Brexit felt all the way down in Falkland Islands as fishing exports take a hit after squid orders in EU dry up
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- 3. Me,a week ago "I'm not watching a five hour review of Dark Souls". Me, today "Well, I guess I'd better share that with my friends"
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- 4. Fake reviews to be illegal under new UK rules - subscriptions to be easier to leave
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- 5. The stories behind 10 of the roads in the Edinburgh neighbourhood - from Baltic Street to Easter Road
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- 6. The UK population are not impressed with their government
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- 7. Sanctions on Russia are effective, and will get moreso
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Interesting Links for 22-02-2022
Feb. 22nd, 2022 12:00 pm- The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency (for free!)
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- Benefits changes could have serious consequences on mental health, warns UK psychologists' body
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- Lit-Up Fishing Nets Dramatically Reduce Catch of Unwanted Sharks, Rays and Squid
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- First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children
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- How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading
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- Some Reasons why Babies Cry in the First Three Months, How to Tell Them Apart, and What to Do
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- Where Are All the Men in Science Fiction?!?
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- The "Peacemaker" Opening Credits are just...amazing. (I just about held it together until the eagle. And then the giggling started.)
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- Wordle, confirmation bias, and conspiracy theories
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- Boris Johnson takes away the tools people use to avoid killing their relatives
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- We are in an unprecedented era of UK relative macroeconomic decline
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Interesting Links for 22-06-2019
Jun. 22nd, 2019 11:03 pm- Lothian Buses staff vote for strike action in Edinburgh
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- How Oxford university shaped Brexit — and Britain's next prime minister
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- Why brilliant people lose their touch (reversion to the mean after a lucky streak)
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- Do EU rules stop Britain re-nationalising its railways? It depends what you mean by 'nationalise'
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- Alas, I am unlikely to grow horns
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- I'm adding this to the list of things Sophia is not allowed to do in the house
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- Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home
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- Ends of the Urth - Neil Gaiman considers the most remarkable science fiction work of the past fifty years
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- Giant Squid, Phantom of the Deep, Reappears on Video
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- Mystery as pagan altar and symbol unearthed in Edinburgh's Holyrood Park
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Interesting Links for 21-09-2018
Sep. 21st, 2018 12:00 pm- Britain lets Putin move his dark money with impunity. That has to stop
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- A very Australian coup: Murdoch, Turnbull and the power of News Corp
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- Let’s scrap external exams
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- 3D Emoji Town (Pure CSS)
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- How Connected Is Your Community to Everywhere Else in America?
- Would love to see this for Europe
(tags: usa connection viaSwampers ) - Will Edinburgh become bigger than Glasgow?
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- High-gluten diet during pregnancy increases child's type 1 diabetes risk
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- Woman's Tongue Gets Inseminated By Squid After Eating Undercooked Seafood
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- The US justice system is just a mess
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- John Hancock makes fitness tracking mandatory for insurance
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- All 27 EU leaders believe Theresa May's Brexit trade plan will not work
- What on earth is going on for Theresa May to say she doesn't understand the concerns?
(tags: uk europe doom ) - Single Neurons in the Human Brain Encode Numbers
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- Labour could gain more than 60 seats and 1.5 million votes if it backs EU referendum
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- New York Can't Afford to Concede Retail Cannabis to New Jersey
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- South Africa's highest court legalises cannabis use
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- Oldest known animal fossil discovered in Russian cliffs
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- The EU couldn’t help May at Salzburg because she’s seeking the impossible
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- A former UK diplomat talks about the damage that The Sun newspaper has done over Brexit
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- Sergei Skripal 'hitmen' linked to GRU officer's plot to assassinate Montenegrin Prime Minister
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- Schizophrenia as a disease of prediction and meaning
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- EU: Luxembourg McDonald's tax ruling was not illegal state aid
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- Are emos, goths and rockers at increased risk of self-harm and suicide?
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Interesting Links for 19-02-2017
Feb. 19th, 2017 12:00 pm- Mass sexual assaults by refugees in Frankfurt completely made up
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- The rise of the £300 smartphone—you want how much for a flagship?
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- "The Great Wall is my new favorite lizard monster war movie "
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- 35 years after he wrote it, Weird Al gets permission to release his Beatles spoof
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- Remembering Nüshu, the 19th-Century Chinese Script Only Women Could Write
- See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana#History
(tags: china language viaSwampers women ) - How millions of old CRT televisions have wound up abandoned in warehouses all over America
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- Alan Moore and Grant Morrison's 25-year war
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- There's us, Denmark(what happens when we stop stereotyping)
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- Labour falls 12 points behind the Conservatives in Scotland
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- Squid Communicate With a Skin-Powered Alphabet
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Interesting Links for 14-06-2015
Jun. 14th, 2015 12:00 pm- The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever
- The creation of Protestantism, as told through Facebook updates
- Amazon commits to Terry Gilliam's 'lost' Don Quixote film
- Generating Magic cards using deep, recurrent neural networks
- Why the first Clash LP was not released in the U.S.
- It’s time to embrace the true heroes in Game of Thrones: The White Walkers
- Bored of mindfulness? Give mindlessness a try
- Men in committed, romantic relationships have lower testosterone.
- Why the internet is so slow in North Africa
- Japan's biggest CD/DVD/Blu-Ray disc manufacturer gets out of the market.
- Some people really don't want their neighbours to earn a living wage
- Cooking Sous Vide: Plastic Safety
- These Plants Evolved To Explode
- Who wants to see a giant squid giving birth (well, laying eggs)
- 1970s Men’s Fashion was clearly the best (particularly underwear fashion)
- Solar power passes 1% of global production
- How taxpayers fund Tony Blair's global business empire (and how much it's costing the taxpayer)
- What Makes a Woman?
- Banks have, apparently, never heard of SYN/ACK
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