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Interesting Links for 04-03-2026
Mar. 4th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. China's 450km/h bullet train is the fastest ever built
- (tags:trains speed china )
- 2. Two Major Studies, 125,000 Kids: The Social Media Panic Doesn't Hold Up
- (tags:children socialmedia )
- 3. AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule
- (tags:art ai copyright law usa )
- 4. Beyond Oil: The Strait Of Hormuz And The Global Food Risk
- (tags:food trade middle_east doom USA Iran war )
- 5. This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won't (check the date)
- (tags:politics USA middle_east history )
- 6. The Siege of Cuba
- (tags:cuba usa oil )
Interesting Links for 18-12-2025
Dec. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Why Do Commercial Spaces Sit Vacant?
- (tags:business property finance economics banking )
- 2. What Happens When Netflix Buys Warner Bros. (nothing good)
- (tags:netflix movies history WarnerBrothers video doom )
- 3. UK energy costs likely to halve by 2050, says system operator
- (tags:UK renewables electricity thefuture )
- 4. Teachers to be trained to spot early signs of misogyny in boys
- (tags:misogyny UK children boys )
- 5. One month to go: Edinburgh-Fife rail upgrades begin soon (closing the line for a week)
- (tags:Scotland transport trains )
- 6. Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Is Having a Renaissance
- (tags:hydroelectric electricity storage )
Interesting Links for 07-12-2025
Dec. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Tides are weirder than you think
- (tags:tides gravity moon sun mathematics history )
- 2. Zuckerberg Basically Giving Up on Metaverse... After Renaming Entire Company "Meta"
- (tags:Facebook VirtualReality )
- 3. Reminder that the UK just had independent ADHD investigation which found it was under diagnosed and under supported.
- (tags:UK ADHD healthcare NHS )
- 4. Trans Holocaust History
- (tags:history LGBT transgender holocaust Germany Nazis )
- 5. America has identified its greatest enemy: Western Europe
- (tags:USA politics racism Europe )
- 6. Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image
- (tags:trains ai fraud photos )
Interesting Links for 25-11-2025
Nov. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Britain is one of the world's richest countries. So why do a third of its children live in poverty?
- (tags:uk poverty children )
- 2. Brexit costing the UK up to £90bn in lost tax a year, new analysis shows (People are around £3k per year worse off)
- (tags:uk europe OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Footage of Japan's new train zooming down the track at 310mph leaves spectators speechless
- (tags:trains magnets Japan video )
- 4. Five pivotal ages in your brain's development revealed in new scientific study (0-9, 9-32, 32-66, 66-83, 83+)
- (tags:development brain age )
Interesting Links for 20-10-2025
Oct. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Leading OpenAI researcher announced a GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened
- (tags:maths AI )
- 2. Something from "space" may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah
- (tags:airplanes space )
- 3. Eastern Australian humpback whale population now well above pre-whaling levels (from 150 to 50,000)
- (tags:whales Australia GoodNews )
- 4. 10% more people support the UK railways being "publicly owned" than support them being "run by the government"
- (tags:polls language trains )
- 5. Take an elevator to space and see what you can see
- (tags:space earth )
Interesting Links for 22-07-2025
Jul. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. HS2 was doomed to be a mess before it began, say insiders
- (tags:hs2 uk regulation trains planning epicfail )
- 2. Is it cake? M&S vs HMRC tax edition
- (tags:uk tax food cake viaSwampers )
- 3. In a Major Reversal, the World Bank Is Backing Mega Dams
- (tags:hydroelectric investment renewables )
- 4. UK's Biobank, the biggest human imaging study scans its 100,000th volunteer
- (tags:uk mri health research )
- 5. ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries
- (tags:ai inequality women pay OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 20-06-2025
Jun. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Rachel Reeves Promised Oil Industry 'Quid Pro Quo' Over Windfall Tax in Private Meeting
- (tags:pollution Labour tax globalwarming )
- 2. How to waste £37bn on HS2, from botched contracts to political meddling
- (tags:hs2 trains politics transport uk epicfail )
- 3. New emissions guidance published for North Sea oil and gas projects
- (tags:globalwarming oil gas uk )
- 4. Scoring Computer Games (Ori's Ginso Tree Escape)
- (tags:music games video )
- 5. Britons support rejoining the EU by 56% to 34% (but think it's not the top priority)
- (tags:UK Europe polls )
- 6. If you get a body party amputated you can apply to keep it!
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(tags:bodies video )
Interesting Links for 17-05-2025
May. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Keir Starmer is now less popular with Labour voters than Ed Davey.
- (tags:Labour libdem politics UK )
- 2. Illegal release lynx moved to new permanent home at the Highland Wildlife Park
- (tags:Scotland animals cats )
- 3. Fortnite deployed an AI Darth Vader. Players taught it to swear
- (tags:ai StarWars swearing )
- 4. Aberdeen to Penzance: End of the line for longest UK direct train route (running for over 100 years)
- (tags:trains UK history )
- 5. Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya
- (tags:Palestine Libya USA OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 13-05-2025
May. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How Gandalf Proved Mightiest: Spiritual Power in Tolkien
- (tags:lotr Tolkien magic viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. ScotRail trials wi-fi using Elon Musk's Starlink satellites
- (tags:Scotland trains internet )
- 3. Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses from the same people to the same meals
- (tags:insulin sugar eating food )
- 4. The charts showing the big flaw in Starmer's immigration plan
- (tags:migration economy uk doom )
- 5. Moderna's combo Covid and flu mRNA shot outperforms current vaccines in large trial
- (tags:vaccine pandemic flu )
- 6. Despair at Starmer's divisive language as he channels Enoch Powell
- (tags:bigotry immigration UK Labour OhForFucksSake )
- 7. US Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn't always fair use
- (tags:ai copyright USA politics )
- 8. Edinburgh traffic bans in city centre to be made permanent following trial
- (tags:traffic transport Edinburgh )
- 9. Top UK Special Forces general oversaw blocking of Afghan war-crime witnesses to Britain
- (tags:UK military crime war OhForFucksSake Afghanistan )
- 10. How the news feels right now
- (tags:news satire doom )
- 11. Mass vote losses to Lib Dems and Greens would cost Labour twice as many seats as mass Reform switch
- (tags:labour libdem green )
- 12. Getting to know 'Reform curious Labour voters'
- (tags:Labour politics UK )
- 13. Zodiac Killer Revealed by His Love of Comic Books, Author Says
- (tags:comics murder usa history )
- 14. London, Brighton, Birmingham and Manchester Prides suspend political parties from taking part (over trans rights)
- (tags:lgbt transgender protest uk politics )
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- viadanieldwilliam,
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Interesting Links for 07-05-2025
May. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How to reduce the spread of crypto
- (tags:cryptography virus funny newzealand )
- 2. Dozens of clubs fight back against FA ban on trans women
- (tags:football transgender women uk )
- 3. Fear and intimidation at Newark airport, as a Palestinian-American re-enters the USA
- (tags:usa palestine OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Peak rail fares to be scrapped by Scottish government
- (tags:trains GoodNews )
- 5. Hugo Administrators Resign in Wake of ChatGPT Controversy
- (tags:Hugo awards conventions ai OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Scientists issue new warning linking microplastics with strokes
- (tags:plastic stroke )
- 7. The county that shows how benefits cuts and bills drove voters from Labour to Reform
- (tags:politics economics uk poverty )
- 8. Orsted pulls plug on Hornsea 4 windfarm (one of the world's largest)
- (tags:windpower doom )
- 9. Scottish 'Hollow Mountain' hydro power plant expansion put on hold
- (tags:hydroelectric scotland doom )
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Interesting Links for 28-04-2025
Apr. 28th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 177-meter-long machine renews entire railway tracks — removing old rails, cleaning ballast, and laying new track all in one go!
- (tags:trains Technology impressive video )
- 2. A 10-foot microscope reveals big lessons about the tiniest threats to the human body
- (tags:virus microscope impressive viaKenny )
- 3. The Settlers is Louis Theroux at his shocking best
- (tags:israel palestine gaza tv review )
- 4. Edinburgh to get 160 new affordable homes
- (tags:edinburgh housing )
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- gaza,
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Interesting Links for 09-03-2025
Mar. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Social housing to be demolished as post-Grenfell repairs are too expensive
- (tags:UK housing OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions
- (tags:cars driving ux )
- 3. Game-Changing Vaccine Offers Long-Lasting Protection Against COVID-19 & Flu
- (tags:vaccine pandemic flu GoodNews )
- 4. The Person Centred Association comes out against transphobia
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(tags:LGBT transgender bigotry GoodNews counselling ) - 5. Asimov's, Analog, and Fantasy and Science Fiction have all been purchased
- (tags:scifi publishing )
- 6. Why the Edinburgh South Suburban tram/train is unlikely to happen
- (tags:trains trams edinburgh economics )
- 7. The Relationship between Autism and Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes/Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders
- (tags:autism genetics bodies )
- 8. Scandal of the sick: Ill and disabled PIP benefit claimants die while waiting for payments
- (tags:UK welfare austerity OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 06-03-2025
Mar. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Scottish Tories propose 14 years old for school leaving age
- (tags:Education children scotland Conservatives )
- 2. Those who oppose the Chagos deal are wilfully ignoring the facts
- (tags:diplomacy uk usa law )
- 3. Jeep Owners Fed Up With In-Car Pop-Up Ads
- (tags:cars advertising OhForFucksSake )
- 4. UK's highest railway the Cairngorm funicular returns to service after 17-month closure
- (tags:tourism Scotland trains mountains )
- 5. Neil Gaiman's defense against legal claims
- (tags:neilgaiman rape law )
- 6. Doctors back total ban on hitting children in England
- (tags:England children violence )
- 7. Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need
- (tags:Finland homelessness GoodNews )
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- cars,
- children,
- conservatives,
- diplomacy,
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- england,
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- mountains,
- neilgaiman,
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- scotland,
- tourism,
- trains,
- uk,
- usa,
- violence
Interesting Links for 03-12-2024
Dec. 3rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Britons want closer ties with EU over Trump trade deal
- (tags:uk usa europe trade polls )
- 2. Vasopressin boosts sociability in solitary monkeys
- (tags:hormones monkeys psychology vasopressin sociability )
- 3. Gideon has made me read him The Wolf's Secret repeatedly and I don't mind because it's lyrical and beautifully illustrated
- (tags:wolves books children review )
- 4. France just carried out their own review of treatment for trans children. And came out with the opposite findings to the Cass review
- (tags:LGBT transgender children France hormones )
- 5. Why housebuilding is so hard in the UK
- (tags:planning housing uk doom )
- 6. Why are there not enough train drivers in Scotland?
- (tags:trains jobs scotland )
- 7. The Scottish NHS is in trouble (fundamentally - not enough money)
- (tags:scotland nhs doom )
Interesting Links for 21-11-2024
Nov. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. You Can Now Buy Lab-Grown Foie Gras
- (tags:Technology meat food )
- 2. Dare you climb... The Death Stairs?
- (tags:death stairs )
- 3. The Mistake Waltz
- (tags:ballet dancing mistakes funny video )
- 4. Japan has made a $26Billion discovery of rare metals wrapped around megalodon teeth
- (tags:sharks metal ocean )
- 5. Would you pay $5m for the right to tape a banana to your wall?
- (tags:banana art )
- 6. Railways set to come back into public ownership after law passes
- (tags:railways UK trains labour )
Interesting Links for 22-08-2024
Aug. 22nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Getting a train from London to Newcastle/Edinburgh? Here's a way to do it cheaper and more flexibly
- (tags:trains UK OhForFucksSake )
- 2. "Widely reported study suggesting divorce is more likely when wives fall ill is retracted
- (tags:research relationships gender fail )
- 3. Irish public continue to fall out of love with alcohol as consumption falls to its lowest level since 1987
- (tags:alcohol Ireland )
- 4. German warship floats down Thames while playing Darth Vader's theme
- (tags:StarWars Germany music navy UK funny viaPatrickHadfield )
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Interesting Links for 11-07-2024
Jul. 11th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Can someone explain why train companies use overtime so much, rather than employing enough drivers?
- (tags:trains scotland )
- 2. How would the election have gone if Reform hadn't stood?
- (tags:UK elections politics )
- 3. What Labour's strategy was in the election, and how it depended not just on how many votes it got, but what kind
- (tags:voting UK Labour Conservatives politics )
- 4. China's Batteries Are Now Cheap Enough to Power Huge Shifts
- (tags:batteries china )
- 5. These rats could be the future of search and rescue
- (tags:rats disaster )
Interesting Links for 24-06-2024
Jun. 24th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Train passengers face price hikes and fewer seats after HS2 cancellation
- (tags:hs2 trains UK epicfail OhForFucksSake transport )
- 2. This Is The First Animal Ever Found That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive
- (tags:oxygen life mitochondria )
- 3. What would 'GB Energy' mean for Scotland's green economy? (not much)
- (tags:Scotland Labour energy investment )
- 4. Why zonal electricity pricing is needed to power the energy transition
- (tags:uk economics electricity renewables )
- 5. A fascinating new result on dark matter and astrophysics
- (tags:space astronomy physics )
- 6. Seven changes for a better UK constitution? Some interesting proposals from some good people.
- (tags:uk constitution )
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