Interesting Links for 29-08-2022

Aug. 29th, 2022 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 20-07-2022

Jul. 20th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. Yay! 60% of Americans aren't Creationists!
(tags:religion usa headdesk evolution belief )
2. UK pay falls at fastest rate on record as inflation hits
(tags:inequality uk pay )
3. A fictional dictionary entry from the future, about the first ever upload. Fascinating and horrifying.
(tags:transhumanism viaCharlesStross scifi )
4. How to encourage your child to have a healthy relationship with food
(tags:psychology food children )
5. Anti-Corbyn Labour officials covertly diverted election funds away from winnable seats, Forde report finds
(tags:labour corruption OhForFucksSake )
6. Beware of bad science reporting: No, we haven't killed 90% of all plankton
(tags:FactCheck ocean doom )
7. A cool debugging story (this one about nuclear detectors in space!)
(tags:space nuclearweapons bug history development viaPatrickHadfield )
8. Government quietly removes commitments to women's rights after summit on freedom of beliefs
(tags:UK abortion women rights OhForFucksSake )
9. Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book Is Being Disneyfied
(tags:Disney neilgaiman )
10. The Labour Party is making a terrible mistake if it ignores the Forde report
(tags:labour democracy politics corruption uk )
11. Stranger Things 4 creators reveal they've secretly been editing past seasons without viewers noticing
(tags:TV editing )
12. Battery cost declines raise prospects of all-electric container shipping
(tags:electricity ships shipping batteries )
13. A Brief History of "Nobody Wants to Work Anymore"
(tags:work history newspapers )
14. 'Unacceptable' waits for Edinburgh high-rise mould repairs
(tags:edinburgh housing OhForFucksSake )
15. Gender-Affirming Care Improves Mental Health And Saves Lives
(tags:psychology transgender lgbt )
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Interesting Links for 22-11-2021

Nov. 22nd, 2021 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 28-10-2021

Oct. 28th, 2021 12:00 pm
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The teaser for "Lightyear" (a new Pixar movie) looks like a lot of fun
(tags:pixar space trailer )
Oregon's arboreal smiley
(tags:trees emoji viaDanielDWilliam photos )
"Dune" (the movie), annotated
(tags:sci-fi movies )
Exams in Scotland to be reformed, but not scrapped
(tags:education school Scotland exams )
The UK Media Has Seriously Bungled the Kathleen Stock Story
(tags:transgender media academia LGBT uk journalism )
People Who Technically Did Their Job, But In A Really Bad Way
(tags:work funny fail viaCharlesStross )
I just donated to the Legal Defence Fund for Transgender Lives
(tags:law transgender lgbt uk money nhs )
Facebook prioritized 'angry' emoji reaction posts in news feeds - pushing more provovactive content into users' news feeds
(tags:facebook emotion viaSwampers OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 13-04-2021

Apr. 13th, 2021 12:00 pm
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800-year-old medieval pottery fragments reveal Jewish dietary practices
(tags:Jews diet history food UK )
The 100 Best, Worst, and Strangest Sherlock Holmes Portrayals of All-Time
(tags:TV movies lists SherlockHolmes )
Holyrood bills to be challenged by UK government
(tags:UK law Scotland )
It's too late for vaccines to save Michigan, CDC director explains
(tags:vaccination USA pandemic Doom )
Tiger! Vs! Goose!
(tags:Tiger birds video viaCharlesStross )
So, how is Tumblr doing nowadays?
(tags:Tumblr orange )
Former SNP councillor quits Alba Party amid hideous claims against LGBT groups
(tags:LGBT Scotland politics OhForFucksSake )
Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests
(tags:protests police USA murder racism )
Men who identify as more masculine are more likely to refuse to use masks, take vaccines, or act safely
(tags:pandemic gender men masculinity USA )
That's England onto the 45-50s. Hopefully Scotland soon!
(tags:UK England Wales pandemic vaccination )
Demon's Souls mo-cap footage makes foam sword fights look intense
(tags:motioncapture games sony playstation )
This is my brother. And yes, this is really what he's like
(tags:viaMyBrotherMike computers games interview )
UK Government disbands LGBT+ panel of advisers
(tags:lgbt uk Conservatives )
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Interesting Links for 24-02-2021

Feb. 24th, 2021 12:00 pm
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The bitcoin blockchain is helping keep a botnet from being taken down
(tags:bitcoin malware )
Firefox enables Total Cookie Protection to stop you being tracked
(tags:Firefox privacy )
Chip shortage may threaten PlayStation 5 supplies at Christmas
(tags:PlayStation CPU )
Robot lumberjacks are terrifyingly impressive
(tags:robots trees video )
It is staggeringly hard for small businesses to export to the EU
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1364137289165791232.html
(tags:trade UK europe Doom )
Why can't we unlock now the most vulnerable are vaccinated?
(tags:pandemic vaccination )
Why the high court was right to deny standing to members of parliament to bring public law claims
(tags:law UK )
Nursing home deaths spike after private equity acquisitions
(tags:death age care OhForFucksSake viaCharlesStross )
Learning to program increases your creativity, maths, and ability to reason
(tags:thinking programming education )
50 terrible terrible sets of stairs
(tags:housing stairs design fail )
Scientists create new class of Turing patterns in colonies of E. coli
(tags:patterns biology AlanTuring )
Edinburgh councillors back call for buffer zones to protect women from abortion clinic protesters
(tags:abortion protest Edinburgh GoodNews Scotland )
Slug filmed descending from vertical thread of slime in never seen before behaviour
(tags:animals )
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Interesting Links for 21-02-2021

Feb. 21st, 2021 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 22-10-2020

Oct. 22nd, 2020 12:00 pm
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Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19 relative to controls: An N=84,285 online study
(tags:intelligence virus pandemic )
The forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks
(tags:remote driving construction )
Will a vaccine stop Covid?
(tags:vaccine pandemic virus )
How to build an Olympic champion: Be born at the right time
(tags:time birth sports )
British government screams that it 'never wanted a trade deal anyway' and it 'wishes it had never been born'
Astoundingly, this is from over a month ago!
(tags:UK trade satire viaCharlesStross )
Phil Collins' ex-wife has taken over his mansion with armed guards
(tags:music relationships wtf viaBartCalendar )
Pope Francis calls for civil union law for same-sex couples
(tags:LGBT pope catholicism )
The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3
(tags:Web technology Facebook http )
Cryo-electron microscopy breaks the atomic resolution barrier at last
(tags:microsocopy physics impressive )
Jared Leto Returning as Joker in the Snyder Cut
(tags:comics movies )
What's wrong with America's approach to pain management drugs?
(tags:pain USA healthcare medication )
Private rents in London plunge by up to 34% amid Covid crisis
(tags:London rental GoodNews pandemic )
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Interesting Links for 26-09-2020

Sep. 26th, 2020 12:00 pm
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Low Stakes TV; Cleaning Drains, Washing Cars and Long Walks
(tags:tv video ViaDrCross )
New Twitter prompt gets users to read news before retweeting it
(tags:Twitter reading )
Teaching offshore robots to speak our language
(tags:robots communication viaDanielDWilliam )
Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April
(tags:technology trade UK Europe Doom viaCharlesStross )
Even Renewables Are Bigger In Texas
(tags:renewables windpower solarpower viaDanielDWilliam Texas usa )
Chimpanzee casually browsing Instagram
(tags:chimpanzees phones viaElfy )
Coronavirus: UK pledges £500m to global vaccine-sharing scheme
(tags:UK pandemic vaccine )
Stop taking people with dementia to the cemetery
(tags:dementia memory death )
On being a gay transgender man marrying in to a devout Jewish family, and the science fiction that sprung therefrom
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1298466405873049600.html
(tags:scifi writing Jews religion transgender LGBT gay ViaDrCross )
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Interesting Links for 08-06-2020

Jun. 8th, 2020 12:00 pm
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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
(tags:Edinburgh slavery )
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.
(tags:jkrowling transgender lgbt )
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 05-06-2020

Jun. 5th, 2020 12:00 pm
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Calls for anti-racist education to be taught in Scottish schools
(tags:Scotland racism education )
Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases. Here's why
(tags:India pandemic )
Woman loses bid for Irish epitaph on mother's grave
(tags:Ireland language death )
How The Lockdown Sex Ban Could 'Break The Chain' Of HIV Transmission
(tags:pandemic hiv )
The chair of the US joint chiefs of staff reminds the military that the constitution safeguards freedom of both speech and assembly
Amazing that they should feel they need to
(tags:USA military freedom )
Coronavirus: No 10 fails to deny reports Boris Johnson told Italian PM he wanted 'herd immunity'
(tags:pandemic BorisJohnson )
Why telepathy (and other psychic nonsense) used to be popular in science fiction. And now isn't.
(tags:scifi telepathy )
Police in Norway Haven't Killed Anyone in Nearly 10 Years (2014 article, but pertinent right now)
(tags:police USA viaCharlesStross )
How much do we need the police?
(tags:police USA )
How the UK paid off its slave owners, and kept paying off until 2015
(tags:slavery UK history )
Coronavirus: Patients refusing treatment because of fake news on social media
(tags:NHS lies pandemic socialmedia OhForFucksSake )
Public inquiry into Edinburgh tram project has now lasted longer than the building of line itself
(tags:Edinburgh trams )
Labour coming out with exactly the kind of nonsense welfare policy ideas that means I wouldn't vote for them. Must be a day with a Y in it.
(tags:Labour welfare OhForFucksSake )
Divorces rise by 30% in Saudi Arabia after quarantine uncovers polygamous husbands
(tags:divorce saudiarabia polygamy pandemic viaElfy )
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Interesting Links for 05-05-2020

May. 5th, 2020 12:00 pm
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Vote Leave AI firm wins seven government contracts in 18 months (seems to be connected to the people running the tracking app)
(tags:UK Europe NHS OhForFucksSake )
Nearly a quarter of British employees furloughed in last fortnight
(tags:UK employment pandemic )
The Hidden Rules of Conversation
(tags:language communication video conversation )
Apple and Google provide first look of COVID-19 tracing in iOS and Android
(tags:Apple Google Android ios pandemic )
Experts Doubt the Sun Is Burning Coal (1863)
(tags:history science sun )
Edinburgh artist creates beautiful images of what the city would look like overgrown
(tags:nature Edinburgh art )
'Time has come' for universal basic income, says Sturgeon
(tags:Scotland GuaranteedIncome viaCharlesStross )
UK COVID-19 contact-tracing app data may be kept for 'research' after crisis ends
(tags:NHS privacy apps pandemic )
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Interesting Links for 10-04-2019

Apr. 10th, 2019 11:59 am
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Amazon shoppers misled by 'bundled' star-ratings and reviews
(tags:reviews amazon OhForFucksSake )
Leith Street to close for three weeks in May
(tags:viaCharlesStross edinburgh transport construction OhForFucksSake )
Declassified U-2 spy plane photos are a boon for aerial archaeology
(tags:surveillance archeology photos )
Invisible Abuse: ABA and the things only autistic people can see
(tags:autism abuse children )
Autism symptoms reduced nearly 50 percent two years after fecal transplant (I'm sceptical, but intrigued)
(tags:autism microbiome viaMyBrotherHugh viaElfy )
Bodyguard star Richard Madden criticises 'unrealistic' weight demands
(tags:weight bodies acting )
'Monstrous' ancient fossil named after Cthulu
(tags:cthulhu fossils )
Four bees found living inside woman's eye, drinking her tears
(tags:bees eyes headline )
First major 20mph crackdown in Edinburgh sees 105 drivers booked
(tags:edinburgh driving speed )
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Interesting Links for 27-04-2017

Apr. 27th, 2017 12:00 pm
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The stress of poverty doesn't just last a lifetime - you can pass it on to the next generation
(tags: poverty psychology epigenetics behaviour inequality )
TfL to spend £18m on preparing London for new electric black cabs
(tags: taxi electricity london transport )
L.A. shop introduces black ice cream, for goths with a sweet tooth
(tags: goth IceCream colour )
Sweet Dreams Cthulhu is a weirdly adorable, Lovecraftian kids story
(tags: cthulhu children books )
If Hell was British, what would it look like?
(tags: hell uk funny viaCharlesStross )
Early Nintendo programmer worked without a keyboard
(tags: nintendo keyboard programming )
Why you should not use pie charts.
(tags: visualisation fail advice )
Liberal Democrats will not field a candidate against Caroline Lucas
Good for them. Bloody annoying that the stupid voting system means they have to.
(tags: libdem green politics )
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Interesting Links for 01-09-2016

Sep. 1st, 2016 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 26-09-2015

Sep. 26th, 2015 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 21-05-2015

May. 21st, 2015 12:00 pm
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Chiver's Law "If you can legally go online and call your government a fascist regime, then you are not living under a fascist regime"
(tags: politics freespeech society rights internet discussion )
Pre-thoughtcrime: Russian think tank app catches protestors before they protest
(tags: viaCharlesStross police surveillance Russia )
How the Indian Ocean ended up stealing the atmosphere’s heat
(tags: globalwarming India pacific ocean )
Statistical study of first-year college rape (18% during the year, 37% from the time they were 14)
(tags: rape )
The Extraordinary Story Of "The Crystal Maze", The Most Epic Game Show Ever Made
(tags: games TV UK )
The curious incident of the rioters in the bookshop
(tags: riots books )
Is the Tesla PowerWall battery system a worthwhile investment?
(tags: batteries power Tesla )
Acetaminophen/paracetomol/tylenol in pregnancy may lower testosterone in unborn boys
(tags: testosterone children health )
Apparently I've been pronouncing Parmesan completely wrong.
(tags: cheese funny language viaTheFerrett )
Card and automated payments overtake cash transactions for the first time (cheques down to 2%)
(tags: money )
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Dec. 11th, 2014 11:00 am
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