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Interesting Links for 16-02-2026
Feb. 16th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Good Omens Season 3 Release Date Confirmed By Prime Video To Close Out Hit Show
- (tags:TV neilgaiman terrypratchett )
- 2. On the immorality of bad jokes
- (tags:jokes funny comic philosophy )
- 3. I don't understand why people are using the internet less
- (tags:internet phones society awfulness comic )
- 4. In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud
- (tags:Technology sound music )
- 5. Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging
- (tags:vaccine age )
- 6. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy stage show - a review
- (tags:review HHG2G )
- 7. What Exact Products Do Games Sell, Two Case Studies
- (tags:games design )
- 8. A brief history of "Mysterioso Pizzicato" - one of the most famous pieces of music you may not have thought about.
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Interesting Links for 15-02-2026
Feb. 15th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Trans women can use women's toilets, except at work, court rules
- (tags:LGBT transgender UK law wtf bigotry viacmcmck )
- 2. Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics
- (tags:politics UK reform )
- 3. FAQ: Trans inclusion after the High Court decision on the EHRC's interim guidance
- (tags:LGBT faq transgender toilets UK law )
- 4. Moving TV to online-only could kill radio
- (tags:UK TV radio )
Interesting Links for 28-01-2026
Jan. 28th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. India and EU announce Free Trade Agreement
- (tags:india europe trade )
- 2. Risk of dying from cancer in Scotland at lowest rate on record (down almost 25% in the last few years)
- (tags:cancer scotland GoodNews )
- 3. Nigella to avoid Bake Off tent innuendo culture from the moment she opens the flaps
- (tags:bakery TV satire funny celebrity sex )
- 4. Charities shouldn't exclude trans people, regulator says
- (tags:UK charity transgender LGBT )
- 5. How to not revise for exams
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- 6. Doing the thing is doing the thing
- (tags:advice productivity )
- 7. How the UK became Putin's enemy number one
- Britons might be surprised to learn how much hatred their country receives from Russia, with threats of nuclear obliteration now a fairly common occurrence
(tags:russia uk politics )
Interesting Links for 27-01-2026
Jan. 27th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The behavioral cost of personalized pricing
- (tags:business psychology shopping )
- 2. Television is 100 years old today
- (tags:TV history technology )
- 3. More Brits now watch YouTube than the BBC
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- 4. Elden Ring! Vs! Nietzsche!
- (tags:games video )
- 5. A judge has ruled that RuneScape gold pieces are real property, which is bad news for the ex-dev accused of stealing 705 billion of them
- (tags:crime law intellectual_property UK games )
- 6. The mountain that weighed the Earth
- (tags:history physics mountains earth )
- 7. Nobody Likes Ice (as told by meteorologists)
- (tags:usa politics fascism video funny viaKalimac weather ice )
- 8. How they fix potholes in Cambridgeshire
- (tags:roads cambridge )
Interesting Links for 03-12-2025
Dec. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Humble Comic Bundle: Image Comics in the '10s (175 trade paperbacks, many of them awesome, for cheap)
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- 2. Gaelic and Scots gain official status on St Andrew's Day
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- 3. Shingles vaccination caused a 29.5% reduction in deaths due to dementia
- (tags:dementia vaccine )
- 4. The real reasons why courts have a massive backlog
- (tags:UK law austerity organisation OhForFucksSake )
- 5. HBO Max's 'Mad Men' Vomit Scene Proves 'Remastered' Doesn't Mean 'Better'
- (tags:TV resolution fail )
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Interesting Links for 22-11-2025
Nov. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Where nobody knows your name... - Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.
- (tags:TV history faces photos pubs )
- 2. The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed 600,000 people, most of them children
- (tags:USA aid death children )
- 3. Pope Leo XIV Gives His Apostolic Blessing to the Bedlam of Noise and Nightclub Worship Styles
- (tags:religion music catholicism video )
- 4. The Batman effect (putting someone in a Batman costume on a train makes people twice as likely to give up their seat for a pregnant woman)
- (tags:batman psychology )
- 5. Andy Burnham: "Here's how I would fix Britain"
- (tags:politics labour uk housing )
Interesting Links for 11-11-2025
Nov. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Multilingualism and Extending Healthspan
- (tags:language health lifespan viaKenny )
- 2. 'V for Vendetta' TV Series in the Works at HBO
- (tags:comics alanmoore tv )
- 3. Law used to ban Palestine Action being used too widely, report says
- (tags:law terrorism uk OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Why has one of Edinburgh's best views been off-limits for seven years?
- (tags:edinburgh safety rocks )
- 5. UK Government sets out plan to reduce animal experiments
- (tags:uk animals research safety )
Interesting Links for 27-10-2025
Oct. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 4 Halloween Costumes That'll Make Him Say 'Oh Cool Yeah I Haven't Seen that Show'
- (tags:Halloween costumes funny TV )
- 2. Time Immemorial turns 750: The Medieval law that froze history at 1189
- (tags:history law UK viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Why Warm Countries Are Poorer
- (tags:poverty economics geography temperature disease trade )
- 4. Chatbots Are Repeating Sanctioned Russian Propaganda
- (tags:russia ai propaganda )
- 5. Megafauna was the meat of choice for South American hunters
- (tags:prehistory SouthAmerica food animals )
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Interesting Links for 23-10-2025
Oct. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Settlers of Catan has been licensed by Netflix. I look forward to finding out the true lore behind "I've got wood for sheep".
- (tags:netflix SettlersOfCatan EpicWTF games tv )
- 2. Tracking down the Romans who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius
- (tags:Rome history volcano viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
- (tags:ai news fraud )
- 4. Brainwave study sheds light on cause of 'hearing voices' in schizophrenic people
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- 5. Amazon unveils prototype AI smart glasses for its delivery drivers
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- 6. How to get men to share their feelings, by an Army psychologist
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Interesting Links for 16-09-2025
Sep. 16th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Channel 4 To Air Marathon of Trump Lies Amid UK State Visit
- (tags:USA UK politics TV lies )
- 2. Hundreds of firms warn new guidance on single sex spaces is 'unworkable' and would cause 'significant economic harm'
- (tags:lgbt uk transgender bigotry )
- 3. Edinburgh trams: Part of line to close for three days while engineers replace track points
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- 4. Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza
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Interesting Links for 29-08-2025
Aug. 29th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. My Top Five Favorite Techno Songs and Why They're All the Mortal Kombat Theme Song
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- 2. A historian reviews King & Conqueror (neither good nor accurate)
- (tags:history UK TV review )
- 3. Spineless fence-sitter thinks killing children is bad no matter who does it
- (tags:israel palestine satire politics murder children gaza )
Interesting Links for 18-08-2025
Aug. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Harry Potter board game creators to donate profits to trans charities
- (tags:harrypotter transgender boardgames GoodNews LGBT viaPatrickHadfield )
- 2. Europe Divided Into Areas With An Economy Equal In Size To London (this would make everyone happy, of course)
- (tags:maps funny Europe viaSwampers )
- 3. What does a proper British diet look like?
- (tags:tea satire video funny )
- 4. Happy 20th anniversary to "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!"
- (tags:history music funny lotr video )
- 5. Britain's first transgender judge takes UK to European court over Supreme Court ruling on biological sex
- (tags:law echr rights transgender uk lgbt )
- 6. Ranking AIs by how well they score in Only Connect
- (tags:tv ai quiz )
Interesting Links for 13-08-2025
Aug. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Denethor in Lord of the Rings is now a metaphor for doomscrolling
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- 2. The UK government's final tip on how to save water is, frankly, out of contact with reality
- (tags:uk government water EpicWTF )
- 3. Call for free bus travel to help under-22s in England into work (Scotland already has this)
- (tags:buses children england )
- 4. Tracing a joke back through British TV
- (tags:tv history comedy jokes )
- 5. Carolyn Mercer Describes Her Experiences of Transgender Conversion Therapy
- (tags:transgender torture bigotry uk video history )
- 6. Trans conversion therapy survivor: 'I wanted to be cured so asked to be electrocuted'
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Interesting Links for 04-07-2025
Jul. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Five baby beavers born at Cairngorms National Park in Scottish Highlands spotted for first time
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- 2. Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate implications
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- 3. Deafness reversed: Single injection brings hearing back within weeks | ScienceDaily
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- 4. High-Fidelity Simultaneous Speech-To-Speech Translation
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- 5. Ita O'Brien: Up close and professional with the world's leading intimacy coordinator
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- 6. Trump seems to have decided that America should be more like Rome
- (tags:usa fighting republicans EpicWTF )
- 7. The perfect, but slow, way to boil an egg - according to science
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Interesting Links for 12-06-2025
Jun. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. EU puts Monaco on money laundering blacklist
- (tags:fraud money Europe )
- 2. Steven Universe Sequel Series Heads to Prime Video
- (tags:TV animation scifi GoodNews )
- 3. Houseplants Do Not Purify the Air
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- 4. Solar Orbiter offers first glimpse of the Sun's poles in breakthrough mission
- (tags:sun astronomy space solarsystem )
- 5. Cthulhu's ABCs: A Heavy Metal Muppet Parody Song about the Alphabet
- (tags:muppets language funny video cthulhu viaKirsty )
- 6. Book burning is a modern free speech test for Labour
- (tags:uk freespeech religion )
Interesting Links for 04-05-2025
May. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes
- (tags:automation driving delivery )
- 2. "I like being autistic": Assessing the benefit of autistic-led psychoeducation for autistic children
- (tags:autism education children )
- 3. Snake enthusiast survived hundreds of bites. Now his blood is aiding the search for a universal antivenom
- (tags:snakes immune_system genetics viaKenny )
- 4. They Sent the Message. But Did They Write It? (How AI is disrupting actual communication)
- (tags:communication ai doom )
- 5. Love in the time of cancer
- (tags:cancer love death )
- 6. Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director
- (tags:TV Australia art animation )
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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