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Interesting Links for 14-10-2022
Oct. 14th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. When the police are injured at Notting Hill Carnival how did it happen?
- (tags:police festival assault )
- 2. Oblivion Mod Lets Players Order A Pizza Straight From the Game
- (tags:pizza games )
- 3. Why the Chancellor of Exchequer should read the book he wrote
- (tags:UK politics history conservatives epicfail )
- 4. "Free speech" networks and anti-semitism
- (tags:freespeech bigotry Jews )
- 5. What's expected of us (a short story about free will and time travel)
- (tags:timetravel FreeWill short_story scifi )
- 6. Scientists identify gene associated with strong immune response to Covid jabs (30% of UK people have it)
- (tags:pandemic vaccination genetics )
- 7. A dish of neurons may have taught itself to play Pong (badly)
- (tags:neuroscience games brain )
- 8. Having a baby? Sorry, your social life is over for the next 15 years (I'm very glad that I was 45 when it happened, and didn't mind too much)
- (tags:babies funny life )
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Interesting Links for 04-07-2022
Jul. 4th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. A chipmunk having its mind blown by a flavour explosion
- (tags:cute video food )
- 2. A "Chinese Borges" wrote millions of words of fake Russian history on Wikipedia for a decade.
- (tags:wikipedia Russia China fake )
- 3. Fun! With! Science! (be better if there were explanations of each of these though)
- (tags:video science )
- 4. Innovative lung-imaging technique shows cause of long COVID symptoms
- (tags:mri Pandemic Doom viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. Daily Mail to turn against Boris Johnson
- (tags:DailyMail BorisJohnson conservatives )
- 6. Neil Gaiman speaks honestly about the quality of the Sandman TV show
- (tags:neilgaiman TV sandman )
- 7. How do politicians respond when asked whether Scotland is allowed to leave and what the democratic route to them doing so.
- (tags:politics independence Scotland video )
- 8. When truth is another casualty: Why Ukraine is losing ground in the war by not telling the whole story
- (tags:Russia Ukraine censorship war )
- 9. If I was 20 years younger and still had the time/energy to watch terrible movies then I'd love to see Assassin 33A.D. (Time traveling Muslim assassins go after Jesus!)
- (tags:religion timetravel awful Jesus Christianity movies review )
- 10. Transphobic LGB Alliance condemned by Trades Union Congress in near unanimous vote
- (tags:LGBT transgender unions GoodNews )
- 11. The British class system is a delight
- (tags:class UK politics )
- 12. England's population is ageing. Our deeply substandard politicians ignore what this is going to cost us
- (tags:UK aging politics )
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Interesting Links for 06-06-2022
Jun. 6th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. What are Conservative MPs saying about Johnson when they call for him to go?
- (tags:Conservatives BorisJohnson )
- 2. Some advice about sex
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- 3. The Light That Shines When Things End
- (tags:life )
- 4. Severe Covid cases more likely in places with high air pollution
- (tags:pollution pandemic inflammation )
- 5. UK ivory ban comes into force today
- (tags:elephants uk law )
- 6. London's police are guilty of systemic sexism, racism and homophobia
- (tags:sexism racism homophobia police london uk )
- 7. Your Personality, Explained by Your Annoying Household Habits
- (tags:tidiness personality funny psychology )
- 8. Excellent uses for a time machine: #5663
- (tags:timetravel funny philosophy gravity physics comic )
- 9. This is what ignostic arguing looks like
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Interesting Links for 07-12-2021
Dec. 7th, 2021 01:43 pm- Can coronavirus cause diabetes, or make it worse?
- (tags:diabetes Pandemic Doom )
- Rail freight boosted by HGV driver shortage and climate change
- (tags:trains transport shipping GoodNews uk )
- Uber prices could rise 20% after UK VAT ruling
- (tags:tax UK law taxi )
- As few as 1 in 10 Covid infections checked for omicron, as 'community transmission' confirmed
- (tags:UK Pandemic Doom )
- Two hippos at Belgian zoo test positive for Covid
- (tags:hippo Pandemic )
- Virgin Media O2 completes gigabit upgrade after two years (I'm on the much slower 350Mbit speed)
- (tags:broadband internet UK virgin )
- What Whale Barnacles Can Tell Us
- (tags:whales history biology )
- How the Government both won and lost the Priti Patel High Court bullying case
- (tags:law bullying government uk )
- Robot facial expressions are getting pretty good
- (tags:robots faces viaJamesNicoll )
- A feel-good, time-travelling Christmas movie starring Michael Sheen, you say?
- (tags:movies viaLilysea christmas timetravel )
- DARPA Funded Researchers Accidentally Create The World's First Warp Bubble
- (tags:physics space )
- What's Putin really up to with Ukraine?
- (tags:russia ukraine usa )
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Interesting Links for 26-07-2021
Jul. 26th, 2021 12:00 pm- The UK government isn't including reinfections in their Covid stats
- (tags:pandemic statistics OhForFucksSake )
- The Best Time Travel Movies of … All Time
- (tags:timetravel movies )
- What's the moral (and pragmatic) approach to dealing with vaccine deniers and the damage they cause?
- (tags:vaccination psychology conspiracy )
- DNA Has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth
- (tags:virus dna )
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Interesting Links for 08-06-2020
Jun. 8th, 2020 12:00 pm- How the US police are taught that non-police are the enemy
- (tags:police USA viaCharlesStross )
- A Comedian Explains the Pandemic to Their Past Self (Part 1)
- (tags:pandemic doom funny video timetravel )
- A Ceomdian Explains the Pandemic to Their Past Self (Part 2)
- (tags:pandemic doom funny video timetravel )
- Edinburgh professor renews call to reword history on a statue memorialising man who prolonged the slave trade
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- It seems that JK Rowling *used* to understand that gender is part of our identity.
- (tags:LGBT harrypotter transgender )
- Rowling's treatment of a trans woman in one of her mystery novels is not good.
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- Minneapolis lawmakers vow to disband police department in historic move
- (tags:police USA )
- Quantum Dots Shift Sunlight's Spectrum to Speed Plant Growth
- (tags:plants light quantum )
- The anger behind the George Floyd protests, explained in 4 charts
- (tags:racism police USA )
- Calls to dump Edinburgh's Henry Dundas statue 'into the Forth' after Bristol protest
- (tags:Edinburgh slavery )
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Interesting Links for 09-02-2020
Feb. 9th, 2020 12:00 pm- The assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand: a science fictional expansion
- (tags:scifi assassination history timetravel viaSteer )
- Knives Out, Last Jedi DP has a plan to end the film-vs-digital debate
- (tags:film movies Technology light )
- What is the current state of the art in understanding of autism?
- (tags:autism psychology )
- This article isn't about Phillip Schofield
- (tags:LGBT marriage UK history )
- Divorce rates among lesbian couples higher than among gay men but why?
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- Diapers and Chocolate Frogs: An Economist's Guide to Potty Training
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Interesting Links for 12-08-2019
Aug. 12th, 2019 12:08 pm- Alternative non-spherical earth theories
- (tags:comic funny conspiracy earth )
- The Post-Game Interview
- (tags:funny sports interview comic )
- Nicolas Cage on Acting, Philosophy and Searching for the Holy Grail
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- An occasional reminder that using seat predictors on current polling is stupid
- (tags:polls politics uk viaDanielDWilliam )
- If Disney want my money then this is what they'll do
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- Official new pet naming technique
- (tags:pets food names )
- The audience at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, in multi-part harmony, singing from memory. The actual audience. No words on screen, no-one on stage. Just waiting, and singing.
- (tags:wales singing amazing )
- Bisexual people have worse mental than straight or gay people. Now researchers know why.
- (tags:LGBT bisexual mentalhealth society )
- Insect apocalypse in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides
- (tags:pesticide insects Doom usa )
- Why are there so many new books about time-travelling lesbians?
- (tags:lgbt lesbians viaErindubitably books timetravel scifi history society )
- Asda signs up its fridges to keep the UK warm this winter (I'm confused as to how this is in any way a battery)
- (tags:electricity uk )
- Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser
- (tags:psychology )
- The Queen is not happy
- (tags:UK politics monarchy )
- The last magnetic pole flip saw 22,000 years of weirdness
- (tags:magnets earth prehistory )
- 41 per cent say UK government should grant a second Scottish independence referendum
- (tags:Scotland democracy )
- Study shows e-bike riders get more exercise than cyclists
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- Worshipper, 65, takes down heavily armed mosque gunman before he can kill anyone
- (tags:terrorism Islam fascism norway )
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Interesting Links for 13-10-2018
Oct. 13th, 2018 12:00 pm- Theresa May abandons pledge for 'time limit' on UK's stay in customs union as part of Brexit deal
- (tags: UK europe )
- Here's a sub editor not doing their job
- (tags: viaSwampers journalism funny )
- Theresa May kicks can down the road. Still hoping horse will learn to talk.
- (tags: Conservatives uk europe doom )
- FactCheck: Men are more likely to be raped than be falsely accused of rape
- (tags: rape facts )
- Theresa May faces her party as a desperate gambler in hope of a break
- (tags: UK europe doom )
- 10 Psychology Findings That Reveal The Worst Of Human Nature
- (tags: psychology )
- Star Wars Writer Says Marvel Fired Him, Cites Tweet 'Vulgarity'
- (tags: politics StarWars OhForFucksSake )
- The difference between teaching in Canada and the UK
- (tags: teaching UK Canada OhForFucksSake )
- Fat: A new player expands our understanding of diabetes
- (tags: diabetes fat )
- Thank you for purchasing the TimeMaster 3000! (A short story)
- (tags: short_story timetravel scifi )
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Interesting Links for 01-08-2018
Aug. 1st, 2018 12:00 pm- "What Happened When I Tried Talking to Twitter Abusers"
- Which shows how pointless it is to engage with vile people.
(tags: Twitter abuse ) - Ministers misleading public after denying that plans to turn Kent into a giant lorry park are because of Brexit
- (tags: uk europe doom )
- Labour councillor quits over transgender women being allowed to use female toilets
- (tags: labour transgender toilets )
- Hobby Games Top $1.5 Billion - collectible games are half that, role-playing games about 3%
- (tags: games business )
- MoviePass Goes Black Just Days After Running Out of Cash
- (tags: movies business fail )
- Labour set to include pilot of radical basic income policy in next manifesto
- (tags: Labour GuaranteedIncome )
- Writer Greg Pak looks back at the role-playing campaign notes of his thirteen-year-old self, and is surprised at what he finds
- (tags: writing roleplaying )
- HBO picks up The Time Traveler’s Wife series from Steven Moffat
- Season one: a beautifully written, tragic and deeply compelling time travel love story.
Season 2 and onwards: the characters go back to all of the times and scenes shown in season one and high-five each other for being so compelling. Each series has a cameo where a steadily increasing number of Steven Moffats high five themselves.
(Stolen from Alex)
(tags: StevenMoffat timetravel tv scifi ) - Waymo pilot program shows how self-driving cars could work with public transport
- (tags: transport cars automation )
- Edinburgh named as UK's easiest city for travel
- (tags: Edinburgh transport uk cities )
- Men are more attracted to women who are closer to them
- (tags: men psychology attraction )
- Abusers given power by Britain's outdated benefits system
- (tags: uk welfare abuse )
- The Science Behind Non-Newtonian Noodles
- (tags: physics food china viaFanf )
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Interesting Links for 08-08-2017
Aug. 8th, 2017 12:00 pm- Moral Decision-Making and the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex
- (tags: morality brain )
- Personality has greater impact on success than IQ
- (tags: personality Intelligence success )
- Study Finds Advanced Reactors Will Have Competitive Costs
- (tags: nuclearpower electricity viaDanielDWilliam )
- Netflix buys comic book company behind Kick-Ass and Kingsman
- (tags: comics tv movies scotland )
- Love is not dead because two people fell out of it
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- Bilingual infants as young as 20 months of age efficiently and accurately process two languages
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- Media portrayals of pregnant women, new moms are unrealistic and harmful
- (tags: pregnancy motherhood media depression )
- Pilot-wave quantum theory gains experimental support.
- (tags: quantum viaFanf )
- A Summary of the Metaclasses Proposal for C++
- (tags: programming )
- Government accused of squandering £1.6bn a year on anti-drug policy
- (tags: drugs UK epicfail law Conservatives )
- Time Travel Heals All Wounds
- It's nice to know that things can always be worse.
(tags: comic politics funny timetravel ) - Why don't more physicists subscribe to Pilot Wave Theory
- (tags: quantum viaFanf )
- Your country needs funds: The extraordinary story of Britain’s early efforts to finance the First World War
- (tags: war finance money investment wwi history uk )
- The Single Greatest Predictor of Future Stock Market Returns
- (tags: investment economics markets finance )
- The enthusiasm for prediction markets has outpaced the evidence
- (tags: markets predictions )
- Economic sanctions to Iraq didn't actually kill lots of children
- (tags: iraq death children fraud )
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Interesting Links for 22-04-2017
Apr. 22nd, 2017 12:00 pm- Borussia Dortmund bombs: Rogue capitalist to blame
- Now, I'm not saying all capitalists are to blame, but why have the leaders of the capitalist community not condemned this action by one of their members?
(tags: capitalism finance murder germany ) - Britain set for first coal-free day since the industrial revolution
- (tags: coal electricity pollution )
- Nearly half of US liberals under 30 are religiously unaffiliated
- (tags: religion usa )
- A British pub chain has just banned swearing
- (tags: swearing UK alcohol viaSwampers )
- "I Think I Should Get More Credit for Killing Hitler"
- (tags: hitler timetravel funny viaSwampers )
- Fansubs for TV shows and movies are illegal, court rules
- (tags: hearing copyright subtitles )
- What Makes N++ Different To Other Platformers?
- (tags: games physics )
- China tells USA and North Korea to quit it
- (tags: usa china NorthKorea )
- Can Anybody Find Any Significant Difference Between May's Policies and the British National Party Manifesto of 2005?
- (tags: politics Conservatives uk )
- What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?
- (tags: banks security OhForFucksSake )
- The most patriotic of all email services
- (tags: email RonaldReagan EpicWTF )
- UK incomes: how does your salary compare?
- (tags: money demographics uk )
- The Loch Ness Monster of Mollusks
- (tags: history animals ocean )
- Trump bumps Britain down the queue after Merkel lobbies for EU trade deal first
- (tags: trade uk Europe usa )
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Interesting Links for 16-09-2016
Sep. 16th, 2016 12:00 pm- The Design of Parliaments Has a Major Impact on Politics
- (tags: politics architecture design psychology )
- Man arrested for speeding in DeLorean at 88mph
- (tags: timetravel funny cars crime )
- "How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math"
- (tags: mathematics learning brain )
- In parts of the US it makes more sense to build a solar plant than a gas plant
- (tags: renewables solarpower usa electricity )
- Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California Grid
- (tags: california batteries usa electricity )
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Interesting Links for 06-08-2016
Aug. 6th, 2016 12:00 pm- How to make tea correctly (according to science)
- (tags: drinking advice science )
- HMRC wins battle against film companies' tax avoidance scheme
- (tags: tax movies )
- Sorry, Folks. The LHC Didn’t Find a New Particle After All
- (tags: physics )
- The super-recognisers of Scotland Yard
- (tags: police vision faces uk crime )
- Brains of overweight people are smaller those of lean peers - but just as smart
- (tags: Intelligence brains weight )
- Intelligent people tend to be messy, stay awake longer, and swear more
- (tags: Intelligence cleanliness swearing language sleep )
- Time travel would save on a lot of conversations
- (tags: timetravel comic funny conversation )
- Push to tackle online 'booter' services
- Mostly run by teenagers.
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Interesting Links for 04-05-2016
May. 4th, 2016 12:01 pm- The real reason some people end up with partners who are way more attractive
- (tags: relationships attraction dating beauty )
- Sixteen Things Dark Souls Is A Metaphor For
- (tags: games funny )
- Some thoughts on crying
- (tags: babies emotion )
- Pretty girls get higher grades (Except in online courses, where they get the same grades)
- (tags: beauty school academia )
- Six Bands You Didn’t Know Were Broken Up By Yoko Ono
- (tags: music scifi shortstory timetravel )
- Against the lie of the "dangerous stranger"
- (tags: rape abuse police )
- Doctor Who to use a writers room under Chris Chibnall in 2018
- (tags: drwho writing )
- Dead could be brought 'back to life' in groundbreaking project
- This is, of course, how the zombie apocalypse starts...
(tags: death stem_cells )
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Interesting Links for 05-04-2016
Apr. 5th, 2016 12:00 pm- Probably going to buy this PC (only with 256GB SSD rather than 128). Anyone spot any problems?
- (tags: gaming computer )
- Prison employment pilot scheme sees 100% success rate
- (tags: prison employment scotland )
- Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outgoing FTC Commissioner
- (tags: advertising )
- Exercise is an evidence-based treatment for depression
- (tags: exercise depression )
- The Problem With Electric Vehicles (Solvable, will take time)
- Nice rebuttal of many points over here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11421974
(tags: electricity transport cars ) - To dodge crypto, undercover UK cops simply asked to see terror convict’s iPhone
- (tags: police encryption terrorism uk )
- Batman v Superman: Spoiler FAQ of Justice
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- Tabletop Gaming has a White Male Terrorism Problem
- (tags: gaming feminism society roleplaying OhForFucksSake )
- Latex clothes - made to measure, based on laser scans
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- The Dark Knight Returns casts a long, enduring shadow on superhero comics
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- The ladies of Star Trek
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- All of the spocks are here for you.
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- The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens
- (tags: tumblr teenagers advertising web community socialnetworking )
- Wherein time travellers attempt to kill a young Clark Kent, and his mother turns out to be handy with a shotgun
- (tags: superman fanfic timetravel )
- People will form tribes around nothing. If you don't understand that, you can't understand society.
- (tags: psychology groups people religion discussion islam disability gaming )
- Of all the awful things i've read on the internet, "women are the hitlers of sex" might be my favourite
- (tags: misogyny hitler feminism OhForFucksSake )
- This is the exact process I use to find my links
- (tags: internet funny comic links viaTheFerrett )
- BBC documentary about "Panama" hides that actually the companies are based in the British Virgin Islands...
- (tags: uk tax bbc viaPatrickHadfield )
- Laws on Osborne v Duncan Smith
- (tags: politics welfare libdem Conservatives )
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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
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Interesting Links for 02-06-2015
Jun. 2nd, 2015 12:00 pm- Labour's left flank must ask itself: is it time to walk away?
- Trans man discovers that men really do have it better
- Who is worth voting for in the Labour Party leadership competition?
- The Death Stats That the British Government Is Using to Ban Legal Highs Are Total Bullshit
- The technical advances that could make wind power viable everywhere
- Killing time (travelers)
- Common things you own which the legal highs bill is going to make illegal
- The older men looking for a womb for their dreams
- Head of TSA out after they fail to spot 95% of test items smuggled through
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