andrewducker | Entries tagged with virus

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 )

1. What's it like being one of the vast hidden teams of OnlyFans chatters who pretend to be sexy women.: (tags:sexwork fraud communication )
2. The future of motorway rehabilitation - a bridge that runs along the length of the motorway so that repairs can happen underneath: (tags:design Technology video impressive )
3. 2023 temperatures were warmest we've seen for at least 2,000 years: (tags:globalwarming doom )
4. Edinburgh planning: £80 million two tower blocks in Leith approved: (tags:Edinburgh housing )
5. Body temperature and depression seem to interact with each other in interesting ways: (tags:temperature depression )
6. Sex Education - Benefits and Statistics: (tags:education sex children )
7. Raw Milk Sales Skyrocket in the USA as Idiots Believe Drinking Bird Flu Will Give Them Immunity: (tags:virus disease birds milk EpicStupidity USA )
8. A fantastic review of Chuck Tingle's trans wizard novel.: (tags:lgbt harrypotter transgender review fantasy satire )
9. 'It's destroyed us': Parents of children with long Covid accused of making it up - threatened with having their children taken away: (tags:pandemic children OhForFucksSake )

1. One Ring Funk - A Lord of the Rings Uptown Funk Parody: (tags:music video parody lotr viaSwampers )
2. Want to Watch The Toymaker's Original Doctor Who Episodes? Sorry, Not Possible!: (tags:TV history drwho )
3. A Flesh-Eating Bacterium Is Creeping North as Oceans Warm: (tags:bacteria globalwarming Doom )
4. Who wants to go swimming with crocodiles in the Cage of Death?: (tags:crocodile Australia aieeee! video )
5. Box Jellyfish have no brains but can still learn: (tags:learning brain )
6. Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed images: (tags:ai copyright )
7. Antiviral Covid drug linked to virus mutations: (tags:virus mutation Pandemic Doom )
8. How hard is it to become a train driver?: (tags:trains )
9. Lego axes plan to make bricks from recycled bottles, as it wasn't cutting carbon emissions: (tags:lego energy co2 )
10. UK's 3G coverage is going away over the next year or so.: (tags:uk mobile_phones )

1. Kitkat ads made using AI satirise making things with AI: (tags:ai advertising food chocolate )
2. Iowa passes a law allowing child labour: (tags:USA children work OhForFucksSake )
3. Two-for-One: Chickenpox Vaccine Lowers Shingles Risk in Children: (tags:chicken virus vaccination )
4. Manager at radical French publisher arrested on terror charges en route to London Book Fair (for taking part in protests against French pension changes): (tags:France UK publishing wtf protests )
5. Former Wagner fighters claim they were ordered to kill children and civilians in Ukraine: (tags:murder WarCrimes Russia Ukraine children )
6. Brecon Beacons name change explained: How to pronounce the National Park's new Welsh name Bannau Brycheiniog: (tags:names wales nature mountains )
7. Prepayment meter ban could see energy firms go after struggling customers' cars and TVs: (tags:energy money business debt poverty )
8. Hundreds of years after the first try, we can finally read a Ptolemy text: (tags:history mathematics writing )

1. Here's the full analysis of newly uncovered genetic data on COVID's origins: (tags:pandemic virus animals genetics china )
2. How fast does spring travel? About 2mph: (tags:time uk weather viaSwampers )
3. GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question: (tags:ai memory exams )
4. Fungus! Attacks! America!: (tags:fungus usa doom )
5. One of history's most famous psychological experiments was probably fake (Sending well people into psychiatric hospitals): (tags:psychology research history fraud OhForFucksSake )
6. Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic: (tags:computers history windows programming microsoft billgates )
7. Ethical AI art generation? Adobe Firefly may be the answer: (tags:ethics ai art )
8. Comparing the cost of living in the UK and Germany: (tags:UK Germany austerity society Doom )
9. Life hacks from the 90s: (tags:history advice funny )
10. Scientists can now separate sperm based on whether they carry X or Y chromosomes with 80% accuracy: (tags:gender children sperm )
11. Female Afghan judge living in fear of Taliban denied sanctuary in Britain: (tags:UK Afghanistan asylum OhForFucksSake )

1. Jews, bicycle riders and trans folk: (tags:bigotry Jews lgbt transgender Russia )
2. Trove of spices from around the world found on sunken fifteenth-century Norse ship: (tags:food history boats trade Sweden )
3. Protesters clash at Tate Britain during drag queen kids story-telling event held to mark LGBT+ History Month: (tags:lgbt history UK art bigotry )
4. ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web: It's not clear that it's technically possible to retain the acceptable kind of blurriness while eliminating the unacceptable kind
(tags:ai knowledge text )
5. 84% of studies find that Adenovirus 36 causes people to put on weight: (tags:Weight virus obesity )
6. What if Judaism advertised the way that Christianity does?: (tags:religion judaism funny )

1. How calculus was invented: (tags:mathematics history video infinity )
2. Scientists discover first known organism thriving exclusively on diet of viruses: (tags:virus food )
3. Surgical smart knife detects womb cancer in seconds: (tags:cancer )
4. Me, when my code doesn't work: (tags:funny babies anger video )
5. Scientists Revived 32,000-Year-Old Plant DNA From Siberian Permafrost: (tags:plants prehistory Russia )
6. Over the last 40 years US food purchasing power has dropped by 85%: (tags:USA food money Doom )
7. Facial Recognition Tech Used To Jail Black Man For Louisiana Theft - He's Never Been To Louisiana (and doesn't look like the criminal): (tags:racism faces technology OhForFucksSake )
8. The "People Of Color In Tech" website provides an interesting perspective if you're not one.: (tags:race technology )
9. Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery: Paper here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/an-upper-palaeolithic-protowriting-system-and-phenological-calendar/6F2AD8A705888F2226FE857840B4FE19
(tags:prehistory calendars art )
10. Arizona inducing labor of pregnant prisoners against their will: (tags:usa prison labour childbirth OhForFucksSake )
11. Using AI to make all of your arrays infinite: (tags:ai coding funny )

1. Misogyny in Scotland - QC reports to the Scottish government: (tags:Scotland misogyny )
2. Covid: Discharging hospital patients to care homes 'unlawful': (tags:UK Pandemic OldAge death )
3. Russia Is Being Hacked at an Unprecedented Scale: (tags:hacking Russia Ukraine )
4. A puzzling phenomenon: Patients report a rebound of COVID-19 symptoms after taking the antiviral Paxlovid (still better than not taking it though): (tags:Pandemic virus treatment )
5. Behold: The Sign War!: (tags:sign funny )
6. A deep dive into the cases of hepatitis amongst kids in the UK: (tags:children disease Pandemic uk )
7. The untold story of Britain's first black school teacher: (tags:Scotland race school history )
8. "I Animated My Watercolors": (tags:animation painting art viaClare )
9. Opinions divided over reintroduction of lynx to Scotland: (tags:cats wildlife Scotland )
10. Central African Republic Adopts Bitcoin as Legal Tender: (tags:Africa bitcoin )
11. Pupils boost memory and fitness from fifteen minutes of daily activity: (tags:exercise )
12. Why we should sanction Putin's favourite conductor: (tags:music corruption Russia Ukraine war )
13. Making rope by hand from hemp looks like a lot of hard work: (tags:manufacturing video )

1. Hard drives we didn't want or need - and what have they got to do with juggling trillions of chainsaws?: (tags:data video funny Technology silly )
2. Why the UK parliament's standards committee is powerless on Boris breaking the law and then lying about it: (tags:politics UK parliament lies )
3. Lifting of Scottish face mask laws confirmed for Monday: (tags:Pandemic Scotland )
4. Far-UVC (222 nm) light should be staggeringly effective against airborne viruses: (tags:virus light )
5. Elden Ring Looks Tiny, Adorable With 'Tilt-Shifted' Camera (and like it was directed by Henry Selick): (tags:games cute viaSwampers )
6. Fantastic Beasts: Inside Scandals, Controversies Plaguing the Series (along with it not being very good): (tags:jkrowling transgender bigotry harrypotter fail movies business )
7. Nobody knows why this Unicode character exists: (tags:Unicode )
8. Autopsies suggest COVID's smell loss is caused by inflammation, not virus: (tags:inflammation virus smell brain )

(3) Nobody has ever had as much fun at a party as these two are having at this party: (tags:funny video dogs children )
Bigoted BBC journalists are making malicious complaints: (tags:BBC LGBT transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake )
Second ground-breaking antiviral to be deployed to UK's most vulnerable people: (tags:virus medicine Pandemic GoodNews )
"There is something wrong with my arse and I'm tired of having to take photos of it": (tags:healthcare UK funny photography )
Why on earth would the Metropolitan Police ask Sue Gray to redact key parts of her independent report?: (tags:police party BorisJohnson )
A Fractal of Lies (a tale of sex, lies, and academia): (tags:research lies sociology sex work power psychology )
Crypto Co-Founder Revealed to Be Infamous Fraudster: (tags:blockchain fraud )
UK government finds a way to make unemployment even worse: (tags:unemployment UK OhForFucksSake work viaPatrickHadfield )
Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young in boycotting Spotify over their spreading of harmful lies: (tags:Pandemic music lies )
How the Nazis burned the first library that did research into LGBT lives: (tags:LGBT history transgender research Nazis censorship )
How much work do people really get done?: (tags:work working_hours )
The Arecibo Signal in Townscaper is the geekiest thing I've seen in some time. I love it: (tags:space games )

An interesting take on a simple time management tool: (tags:time )
Covid: Are Scotland and England's isolation rules different?: (tags:scotland england pandemic rules )
Operation Save Big Dog: Boris Johnson draws up plan for officials to quit over partygate so he can keep job: (tags:politics BorisJohnson Pandemic party )
Any geneticists out there able to tell me is this is paranoid nonsense or a reasonable take on COVID?: (tags:genetics Pandemic virus conspiracy )
Old stone toilet reveals Jerusalem's wealthy elite had intestinal parasites: (tags:parasites Israel archeology )
We don't know why, but being in space causes us to destroy our blood: (tags:blood space disease anaemia )
Boris Johnson's 'wine time Fridays' - No10 staff held drinks EVERY week during pandemic: (tags:BorisJohnson Pandemic Party )
How to make friends around the world: (tags:uk history food funny comic )
Some thoughts about the Sue Gray investigation into Johnson's parties: (tags:party Pandemic BorisJohnson investigation )
Countries that have managed to almost completely suppress Covid have difficult choices ahead of them: (tags:Pandemic viaDanielDWilliam )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4136564.html

Covid loses almost all its ability to infect after 20 minutes.: (tags:pandemic virus )
Lorries stuck at checkpoints for four days due to terrible new Brexit red tape: (tags:uk europe trade )
Having just finished re-reading Sandman I enjoyed this person documenting their re-read.: (tags:sandman comics neilgaiman )
Using American spellings is cheating, Wordle told: (tags:language words spelling usa uk satire )
Atomic mushroom clouds are big. Really big. You might think it's a long way up Mount Everest, but that's peanuts compared to an atomic mushroom cloud: (tags:size nuclearweapons visualisation viaSwampers )
Firefox bug is causing it to hang. Here's the solution: (tags:Firefox bug viaSwampers )
How a livestreamed roleplaying game's bid to make an animated version became the biggest kickstarter campaign ever, and got a Prime deal out of it.: (tags:tv animation roleplaying amazon streaming )
Satisfying simulations of bouncing balls obeying physical laws; for a fleeting moment during the simulation, the balls pass through a beautiful regular pattern: (tags:physics simulation maths video )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4136012.html

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