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Interesting Links for 23-12-2025
Dec. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pmTags:
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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 17-11-2025
Nov. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. A Crucial Genetic Mutation Behind Crohn's Disease Has Finally Been Revealed
- (tags:disease genetics )
- 2. The North-South Tramline: Building a Connected, Prosperous Edinburgh?
- (tags:transport economics Edinburgh )
- 3. Behold - the Future of Poltics!
- (tags:politics satire comic conspiracy )
- 4. The sad truth about most end of life healthcare
- (tags:healthcare age satire funny comic )
- 5. Repeated mRNA Covid vaccinations make a more diverse and stronger T-cell response
- (tags:vaccine pandemic GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 15-09-2025
Sep. 15th, 2025 07:39 pm- 1. Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 5 to 11 years old have little-to-no effect
- (tags:obesity children research exercise diet )
- 2. Cannabis use associated with quadrupled risk of developing type 2 diabetes (2.2% vs 0.6%)
- (tags:diabetes marijuana )
- 3. Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles
- (tags:electricity myths solarpower windpower cars transport environment )
- 4. The chumbox is (still) the dirty design secret of the internet
- (tags:advertising web doom )
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Interesting Links for 19-08-2025
Aug. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. This story about how a parent's love grows for their child rang true for me, even if it was written about adoption
- (tags:love children parenting adoption )
- 2. An alternative to LASIK—without the lasers (melt your eyes, mould them into a new shape, let them resolidify)
- (tags:eyes eyesight )
- 3. Trump helped Netanyahu's cyber chief evade child sex crime charges
- (tags:Israel USA Child_abuse OhForFucksSake law )
- 4. On the recognition of Palestine - and its legality
- (tags:law palestine )
- 5. Tennessee woman denied prenatal care for being unmarried
- (tags:women healthcare USA OhForFucksSake marriage society )
- 6. Covid and Our Arteries
- (tags:pandemic blood health doom )
- 7. 97% of Edinburgh Airbnb-style flat plans refused
- (tags:edinburgh housing )
- 8. The Church Is Moving!
- (tags:church transport sweden )
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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Interesting Links for 19-06-2025
Jun. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Doctor uses robot to remotely perform surgery on patient thousands of miles away
- (tags:surgery robots )
- 2. General-purpose robots are very nearly here
- (tags:robots ai video impressive )
- 3. How roundabouts transformed Carmel, Indiana
- (tags:transport planning roads design usa )
- 4. Beware the gaze of raccoons!
- (tags:raccoon comic funny literature )
- 5. Banning smartphones in schools has little or no impact on the wellbeing of students or their education or on the prevalence of online bullying
- (tags:phones school )
- 6. A Provocative Argument About What Creates Serial Killers (possibly Heavy Metals)
- (tags:murder brain pollution )
- 7. Scottish Government advice on school uniforms now says that you shouldn't need branded items.
- (tags:school clothing GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 10-06-2025
Jun. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. This seems like a reasonable overview of how Labour are doing on the economy
- (tags:economics labour uk )
- 2. The Trump Administration's Nasty Campaign Against Trans People
- (tags:lgbt bigotry usa transgender OhForFucksSake )
- 3. The Allegory Of The Cave - Further Details
- (tags:comic philosophy funny )
- 4. Fiber Optic Bird's Nest Heralds A Fiber Drone Summer In Ukraine
- (tags:Ukraine fibreoptics drone war nature birds technology )
- 5. World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says
- (tags:fertility population )
- 6. Civil servants told to consider quitting if they disagree with policy over Gaza
- (tags:uk gaza government )
- 7. Give new dads six weeks off work at nearly full pay, MPs say
- (tags:uk parenting fatherhood )
- 8. Uber brings forward trialling driverless taxis in UK
- (tags:automation taxi uk driving transport )
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Interesting Links for 09-06-2025
Jun. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Have you experience the glory that is "It's Raining Tacos"? Because my children have subjected me to it over 5,000 times now...
- (tags:music video children food funny )
- 2. Mapping Edinburgh planning applications
- (tags:Edinburgh planning maps visualisation )
- 3. The UK's North-South divide in transport funding - mapped
- (tags:uk transport government money )
- 4. AI - where are we now?
- (tags:ai programming globalwarming economics )
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Interesting Links for 31-05-2025
May. 31st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What does "Undecidable" mean, anyway (in computing terms)
- (tags:computers logic )
- 2. Survey on the impact of school working hours on parents and businesses in Edinburgh
- (tags:edinburgh school time )
- 3. Edinburgh's LEZ one year on: More walking and cycling, less pollution and fewer fines
- (tags:pollution transport Edinburgh GoodNews )
- 4. The Two Extremists Driving Israel's Policy
- (tags:religion Israel genocide Judaism )
- 5. The secrets to incredible photos taken inside musical instruments
- (tags:photography music )
- 6. He Won the Nobel Prize for Physics. Then He Changed His Mind.
- (tags:physics )
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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Interesting Links for 27-04-2025
Apr. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem
- (tags:protest politics USA law jobs )
- 2. Statement on the Genocidal Nature of the Gender Critical Movement's Ideology and Practice
- (tags:genocide transgender LGBT )
- 3. Recreating the Mini Motorways game as a functional 3D printed map
- (tags:games transport 3dprinting viaSwampers )
- 4. Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and USA (raising money through an auction)
- (tags:scifi fandom auctions transgender rights LGBT )
- 5. The record-breaking tunnel being built from Denmark to Germany
- (tags:Denmark Germany tunnel )
- 6. Mike Lindell's lawyers used AI to write brief—judge finds nearly 30 mistakes
- (tags:law ai epicfail )
- 7. Stimming increases self-efficacy in autistic people
- (tags:psychology autism )
- 8. "I have lived on an Edinburgh canal boat for nearly five years and I have no plans to jump ashore"
- (tags:housing boats Edinburgh Scotland )
Interesting Links for 19-04-2025
Apr. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Glad to see the LibDems taking the Supreme Court ruling on trans rights seriously
- (tags:lgbt transgender bigotry libdem uk law )
- 2. Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
- (tags:genocide USA politics satire )
- 3. No obligation to exclude trans women under 'misunderstood' Supreme Court ruling, former top judge says
- (tags:transgender UK law )
- 4. Scientists create the world's largest lab-grown chicken nugget, complete with artificial veins
- (tags:food technology )
- 5. Turns out you can have cheap green hydrogen buses - if you live next to a chemical works that has hydrogen waste
- (tags:hydrogen transport buses doom )
- 6. But good sir, what is electricity?
- (tags:electricity )
Interesting Links for 15-04-2025
Apr. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What's the opposite of DEI?
- (tags:usa politics OhForFucksSake comic )
- 2. Edinburgh Trams introduces Tap-On Tap-off... soon
- (tags:Edinburgh trams buses transport )
- 3. These game case animations are gorgeous
- (tags:animations game art )
- 4. The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien's fantasy world
- (tags:lotr fantasy maps )
- 5. China's 'dreamy' new ship aims to drill 7km below the ocean floor
- (tags:ocean research geology )
- 6. NHS England is holding back a report on suicide in trans kids that was finished a year ago.
- (tags:suicide LGBT transgender children NHS UK OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 29-03-2025
Mar. 29th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Hayao Miyazaki on the use of AI: "I am utterly disgusted"
- (tags:ai ghibli art )
- 2. Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
- (tags:protest UK police )
- 3. Iron Age Britain was matrilocal (the female lines stayed still, the male lines migrated)
- (tags:archeology genetics uk )
- 4. Flight Bookings From Canada to the US Plummet Over 70%
- (tags:transport Canada USA doom )
Interesting Links for 28-03-2025
Mar. 28th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Art projected onto The National Gallery of Scotland
- (tags:art edinburgh scotland )
- 2. Why I recommend against Brave Browser
- (tags:browser advertising fraud )
- 3. Nintendo's new system for sharing digital Switch games, explained
- (tags:games Nintendo )
- 4. New research shows that monogamy is just as good as polyamory
- (tags:research relationships happiness polyamory ViaDrCross )
- 5. Two-way traffic returns to Edinburgh's North Bridge ahead of schedule
- (tags:edinburgh transport )
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Interesting Links for 15-03-2025
Mar. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Tired and depressed people are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories
- (tags:depression sleep conspiracy psychology )
- 2. Origami measuring spoon incites fury after 9 years of Kickstarter delay hell
- (tags:manufacturing kickstarter design )
- 3. Why Do Transit Agencies Keep Falling for the Hydrogen Bus Myth?
- (tags:hydrogen buses transport fraud )
- 4. I love Tumblr's enthusiastic celebration of the Ides of March
- (tags:history funny murder Roml )
- 5. A trans refugee's court case against Hungary just improved Trans+ rights across all of Europe
- (tags:transgender LGBT rights Europe GoodNews )
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