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2022-04-20 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 20-04-2022

1. Boots to flush plastic fibre wet wipes from its shelves by the end of the year
(tags:plastic waste recycling )
2. Brexit felt all the way down in Falkland Islands as fishing exports take a hit after squid orders in EU dry up
(tags:squid trade falklands Europe uk Doom )
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"
(tags:video review games )
4. Fake reviews to be illegal under new UK rules - subscriptions to be easier to leave
(tags:uk law reviews fraud )
5. The stories behind 10 of the roads in the Edinburgh neighbourhood - from Baltic Street to Easter Road
(tags:names edinburgh )
6. The UK population are not impressed with their government
(tags:uk Conservatives fail polls )
7. Sanctions on Russia are effective, and will get moreso
(tags:Russia )
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2022-02-22 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 22-02-2022

The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency (for free!)
(tags:fraud jobs OhForFucksSake )
Benefits changes could have serious consequences on mental health, warns UK psychologists' body
(tags:mentalhealth welfare uk OhForFucksSake )
Lit-Up Fishing Nets Dramatically Reduce Catch of Unwanted Sharks, Rays and Squid
(tags:light fish fishing sharks squid )
First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children
(tags:genetics Jews medicine )
How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading
(tags:reading books organisation )
Some Reasons why Babies Cry in the First Three Months, How to Tell Them Apart, and What to Do
(tags:babies advice )
Where Are All the Men in Science Fiction?!?
(tags:scifi men gender women publishing )
The "Peacemaker" Opening Credits are just...amazing. (I just about held it together until the eagle. And then the giggling started.)
(tags:tv superheroes video funny )
Wordle, confirmation bias, and conspiracy theories
(tags:conspiracy words game psychology )
Boris Johnson takes away the tools people use to avoid killing their relatives
(tags:conservatives Pandemic OhForFucksSake )
We are in an unprecedented era of UK relative macroeconomic decline
(tags:economics uk doom Conservatives viaDanielDWilliam )
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2019-06-22 11:03 pm
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Interesting Links for 22-06-2019

Lothian Buses staff vote for strike action in Edinburgh
(tags:buses transport edinburgh unions )
How Oxford university shaped Brexit — and Britain's next prime minister
(tags:Oxford university politics UK epicfail )
Why brilliant people lose their touch (reversion to the mean after a lucky streak)
(tags:luck success sports investment gambling )
Do EU rules stop Britain re-nationalising its railways? It depends what you mean by 'nationalise'
(tags:uk europe transport trains regulation )
Alas, I am unlikely to grow horns
(tags:research bone phones )
I'm adding this to the list of things Sophia is not allowed to do in the house
(tags:chemistry awesome video )
Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home
(tags:glass housing design food plants )
Ends of the Urth - Neil Gaiman considers the most remarkable science fiction work of the past fifty years
(tags:scifi neilgaiman )
Giant Squid, Phantom of the Deep, Reappears on Video
(tags:squid video )
Mystery as pagan altar and symbol unearthed in Edinburgh's Holyrood Park
(tags:Edinburgh paganism weird )
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2018-09-21 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 21-09-2018

Britain lets Putin move his dark money with impunity. That has to stop
(tags: fraud money russia banking transparency )
A very Australian coup: Murdoch, Turnbull and the power of News Corp
(tags: australia media OhForFucksSake )
Let’s scrap external exams
(tags: exams teaching )
3D Emoji Town (Pure CSS)
(tags: css impressive viaSwampers )
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?
(tags: scotland edinburgh glasgow thefuture population )
High-gluten diet during pregnancy increases child's type 1 diabetes risk
(tags: gluten diabetes )
Woman's Tongue Gets Inseminated By Squid After Eating Undercooked Seafood
(tags: squid sex aieeee! )
The US justice system is just a mess
(tags: law usa OhForFucksSake )
John Hancock makes fitness tracking mandatory for insurance
(tags: tracking surveillance fitness insurance )
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
(tags: numbers psychology brain )
Labour could gain more than 60 seats and 1.5 million votes if it backs EU referendum
(tags: Labour polls uk europe )
New York Can't Afford to Concede Retail Cannabis to New Jersey
(tags: newyork usa marijuana legalisation )
South Africa's highest court legalises cannabis use
(tags: marijuana southafrica )
Oldest known animal fossil discovered in Russian cliffs
(tags: Russia fossil life animals )
The EU couldn’t help May at Salzburg because she’s seeking the impossible
(tags: uk Europe doom )
A former UK diplomat talks about the damage that The Sun newspaper has done over Brexit
(tags: UK Europe media OhForFucksSake )
Sergei Skripal 'hitmen' linked to GRU officer's plot to assassinate Montenegrin Prime Minister
(tags: Russia assassination )
Schizophrenia as a disease of prediction and meaning
(tags: schizophrenia prediction psychology meaning )
EU: Luxembourg McDonald's tax ruling was not illegal state aid
(tags: tax Europe mcdonalds )
Are emos, goths and rockers at increased risk of self-harm and suicide?
(tags: suicide music society )
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2017-02-19 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 19-02-2017

Mass sexual assaults by refugees in Frankfurt completely made up
(tags: germany immigration assault OhForFucksSake fraud media lies )
The rise of the £300 smartphone—you want how much for a flagship?
(tags: phones viaSwampers )
"The Great Wall is my new favorite lizard monster war movie "
(tags: monsters china movies MartialArts )
35 years after he wrote it, Weird Al gets permission to release his Beatles spoof
(tags: satire music )
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
(tags: usa tv Technology fail recycling )
Alan Moore and Grant Morrison's 25-year war
(tags: magic comics alanmoore GrantMorrison )
There's us, Denmark(what happens when we stop stereotyping)
(tags: stereotypes denmark video )
Labour falls 12 points behind the Conservatives in Scotland
(tags: scotland labour Conservatives polls )
Squid Communicate With a Skin-Powered Alphabet
(tags: squid )
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2015-06-14 12:00 pm
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