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Interesting Links for 26-01-2026
Jan. 26th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. United Nations Declares That the World Has Entered an Era of 'Global Water Bankruptcy'
- (tags:water environment doom )
- 2. Why Minnesota Can't Do More to Stop ICE (Democratic lawmakers have few options that wouldn't trigger something like civil war.)
- (tags:civilwar usa politics )
- 3. The Lego Pokémon Line Shows Toys Are Only for Rich Adults Now
- (tags:lego pokemon toys business children )
- 4. LED lighting (350-650nm) undermines human visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra (400-1500nm+) like daylight
- (tags:light vision doom )
- 5. What the world can learn from Paris's cycling revolution
- (tags:bicycles Paris transport cities environment )
- 6. Can South Cambridgeshire council get its work done in four days?
- (tags:work working_hours )
Interesting Links for 06-08-2024
Aug. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. How war between Russia and the Olympics is fuelling boxing's gender row
- (tags:gender sports olympics russia )
- 2. Watch Carbon Dioxide Move Through Earth's Atmosphere
- (tags:co2 visualisation video )
- 3. BBC removing Huw Edwards from family and entertainment content (The Dr Who episode his voice was in will be redubbed)
- (tags:bbc pedophilia drwho )
- 4. What Happens in a Mind That Can't 'See' Mental Images (a brief history of aphantasia)
- (tags:psychology vision imagination )
- 5. The nature of consciousness, and how to enjoy it while you can
- (tags:consciousness )
- 6. A brief explanation of why the Japanese currency markets are causing issues right now
- (tags:economics investing Doom video )
- 7. Dinosaurs Did Not Trudge Through Thick Rainforests
- (tags:trees dinosaurs )
- 8. OpenAI has the tech to watermark ChatGPT text—it just won't release it
- (tags:ai )
- 9. The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media
- (tags:socialmedia decentralisation )
- 10. Chrome is about to make it harder to block ads. I recommend switching to Firefox.
- (tags:advertising chrome web OhForFucksSake )
- 11. Three different approaches to the problem of disposable plastic
- (tags:plastic environment waste )
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Interesting Links for 15-07-2024
Jul. 15th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Questions for Wes Streeting on his banning of puberty blockers
- (tags:LGBT transgender Labour OhForFucksSake children puberty )
- 2. Objective tests for aphantasia
- (tags:vision brain psychology )
- 3. What would the general election have looked like with PR
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(tags:elections UK proportional_representation ) - 4. Could HS2 be revived? Government still owns £500m land from Birmingham to Manchester
- (tags:hs2 GoodNews )
- 5. How Nextdoor reduced racial bias by 75% with improved design
- (tags:racism bias design )
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Interesting Links for 07-03-2023
Mar. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Did you know there were two types of boomers?
- (tags:generation demographics usa history )
- 2. Reconstructing visual experiences from human brain activity
- (tags:vision mri brain neuroscience ai )
- 3. Slow motion adverts make people think the produce is more luxurious
- (tags:luxury advertising slowmotion video psychology )
- 4. How you phrase questions really really strongly affects the answers you get
- (tags:polls language bias )
- 5. Edinburgh's Lothian Buses announce revised fares from Sunday 2 April
- (tags:edinburgh buses transport money )
- 6. Neil Gaiman on whether CGI is replacing physical movie making
- (tags:movies cgi neilgaiman )
- 7. SimCity 2013 launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series
- (tags:simcity games epicfail )
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Interesting Links for 31-12-2022
Dec. 31st, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh's Gorgie Farm to close amid rising costs and funding cuts
- (tags:Edinburgh farm animals charity sad )
- 2. The UK's clunking grid system is stalling renewable projects, leaving energy bills higher for longer
- (tags:UK electricity infrastructure )
- 3. The Men Of China Hill - and how they smuggled fruit and vegetables into prison
- (tags:prison vegetables fruit viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. The button on Canon's image-stabilized binoculars unlocked superhuman sight
- (tags:vision optical impressive )
- 5. Video demonstration of how impressive self-stabilising binoculars are
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Interesting Links for 27-11-2022
Nov. 27th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Transporting liquid hydrogen is never going to be effective
- (tags:hydrogen energy storage viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. Photochemistry happening in an exoplanet - found for the first time!
- (tags:space planets chemistry light )
- 3. It amuses me no end how much people can't understand that different people have fundamentally different experiences
- (tags:imagination vision psychology brain experience )
- 4. How is the China chip embargo going?
- (tags:China USA trade Doom technology processor cpu computers )
- 5. Half of Twitter's top advertisers have left the social media platform
- (tags:Twitter advertising )
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Interesting Links for 29-07-2021
Jul. 29th, 2021 12:00 pm- How could Batman be rebooted as a hero?
- (tags:batman comics )
- Monks Wood Wilderness: 60 years ago, scientists let a farm field rewild - here's what happened
- (tags:nature UK trees )
- Teacher sacked after vowing to block transgender student from becoming Head Girl
- (tags:lgbt transgender teachers UK )
- Brexit: what is the 'Lugano Convention' and does it matter?
- (tags:UK Europe law )
- Social norms people have let go of
- (tags:society norms )
- Queen's lawyers secured amendment to Scottish green energy law
- (tags:royalty law Scotland )
- Perceptual distortions in late-teens predict psychotic symptoms in mid-life
- (tags:teenagers psychosis psychology vision hallucinations )
Interesting Links for 13-06-2021
Jun. 13th, 2021 12:00 pm- How to Mute Twitter's Suggested Tweets on Your Timeline
- (tags:twitter )
- Can't See Pictures in Your Mind? You're Not Alone. And Now We Know There Are People That See Particularly Vivid Ones.
- (tags:vision imagination memory brain neuroscience psychology )
- How the Web Became Unreadable
- (tags:accessibility web fail )
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Interesting Links for 05-08-2020
Aug. 5th, 2020 12:00 pm- The mysterious case of man who can read letters—but not numbers
- (tags:viaDrPlokta numbers vision brain )
- What if Plesiosaurs were giant penguins?
- (tags:dinosaurs birds penguins )
- Teacher Trainees Are More Likely To Misread Black Children As Angry Than White Children
- (tags:racism psychology emotion children teachers )
- Balrogs cannot fly
- (tags:lotr flying )
- 400 million additional customs checks a year and fines for entering Kent without the proper documentation - the future of British trade with Europe
- (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
- Mini cyclones are very cool
- (tags:weather video viaCipherGoth )
- Mysterious spiral structures found extending out of strange star
- (tags:space weird )
- Harry Potter - But all the wands are guns
- (tags:harrypotter guns funny video trailer )
- Parents share the times their children were creepy
- (tags:children scary Twitter )
- The Matrix Was Intended to Be a Trans Story, Says Lilly Wachowski
- (tags:transgender TheMatrix movies )
- Coronavirus: 'Inexplicable' failure to quarantine travellers to the UK made pandemic far worse
- (tags:OhForFucksSake UK pandemic )
- Scotland's results day: Thousands of pupils have exam grades lowered
- (tags:exams scotland pandemic )
- Edinburgh Waverley redevelopment: city centre set for incredible and dramatic transformation
- (tags:edinburgh )
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Interesting Links for 24-12-2019
Dec. 24th, 2019 01:43 pm- A long thread about how Northern voters turned away from Labour and towards racism
- (tags:racism politics UK Labour inequality )
- Cats film to be 'resupplied' with improved visuals
- (tags:cats musical cgi )
- With 'Knives Out,' Rian Johnson Finally Bounces Back From Critically Acclaimed, Billion Dollar 'The Last Jedi'
- (tags:movies satire funny StarWars )
- Cats can very clearly recognise things in a mirror
- (tags:mirrors cats vision )
Interesting Links for 14-06-2019
Jun. 14th, 2019 01:49 pm- Terrible erotica for millennials (the Twister one made me laugh)
- (tags:funny erotica writing sex bad )
- Radiohead Fans vs. Black-Market Sellers: How the OK Computer Tapes were leaked
- (tags:music radiohead )
- Most Comprehensive Review To Date Finds The Average Person's Reading Speed Is Slower Than Previously Thought (240 wpm rather than 300)
- (tags:reading speed )
- Confirmation that politics and discussion shows tell their guests to fight
- (tags:argument tv OhForFucksSake radio politics Doom )
- When the World's Most Famous Mystery Writer Vanished
- (tags:mysteries authors relationships history )
- Boris Johnson is heading for Downing Street, but he'll hate the experience as much as we will
- (tags:Conservatives politics uk )
- Adults Who Played Pokémon Extensively In Childhood Have A Pokémon-Sensitive Region In Their Visual Cortex
- (tags:pokemon vision psychology )
- A country of purists: the polling which lays bare the death of any compromise on Brexit
- (tags:uk europe doom )
Interesting Links for 08-05-2019
May. 8th, 2019 12:57 pm- European election analysis: Open-closed divide means voters can switch parties more easily
- (tags:politics europe uk )
- Arrival's Ted Chiang returns with the awe-inducing Exhalation
- (tags:short_story scifi )
- Wherein I have an interesting discussion about religion and emotional knowledge
- (tags:religion emotion knowledge )
- Tactical voting for Remainers in the European Elections
- (tags:europe voting advice )
- Disney announces a ton of Star Wars and Marvel movies
- (tags:Disney StarWars marvel movies )
- The Great Solicited Dick Pic Experiment
- (tags:penis twitter bodies men sex )
- Stone mosaics will not be returned to Rose Street in Edinburgh
- (tags:edinburgh )
- Elon Musk Was Right: Cheap Cameras Could Replace Lidar on Self-Driving Cars
- (tags:vision cars automation )
- Where different breeds of dogs come from
- (tags:funny dogs comic )
Interesting Links for 26-04-2019
Apr. 26th, 2019 03:39 pm- New Doctor Who, sorted by date the story is set in.
- (tags:drwho )
- Sekiro: DK Bongos Set-up!
- (tags:games amazing )
- If you own any Apple hardware then you need to be aware of this
- (tags:apple hardware fail electricity )
- What human milk ducts look like
- (tags:breasts milk breastfeeding )
- Why Won't Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too.
- (tags:twitter usa racism )
- Ecuador legalized gangs and murder rates plummeted
- (tags:society Ecuador gangs violence )
- Stop what you're doing and Google 'Thanos' for an Avengers Easter egg
- (tags:google marvel )
- Revealed: the Trump-linked 'Super PAC' working behind the scenes to drive Europe's voters to the far right
- (tags:politics money europe usa russia )
- Face it: The Lion King is a crazed piece of capitalist propaganda (I'd say monarchist propaganda myself)
- (tags:Disney propaganda )
- Extinction Rebellion claim success, as their protests spark huge surge in 'climate change' web traffic
- (tags:globalwarming protests )
- This picture is designed to simulate the experience of having a stroke. Everything looks hauntingly familiar but you just can't quite recognize anything
- (tags:stroke brain vision )
- Some more, fascinating, information on the milk duct visualisation going around
- (tags:milk bodies breastfeeding breasts )
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Interesting Links for 11-03-2019
Mar. 11th, 2019 12:16 pm- Why does the BBC have an online game where you play at being a bigot?
- (tags:BBC bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- "I got told what to call this poem by my male colleague"
- (tags:feminism society poetry viaFJM )
- Vegan pie scoops top award, makes top chef cry
- (tags:vegan food )
- Theresa May now trying to involve the Queen in Brexit
- (tags:UK monarchy Europe OhForFucksSake )
- No majority support for Theresa May's deal in any constituency
- (tags:europe uk politics )
- Barking drones used on farms instead of sheep dogs
- (tags:dogs sheep farming Technology )
- SNOW DUCKS!!
- (tags:ducks snow video )
- Women Do Ask for More Money at Work. They Just Don't Get It.
- (tags:work pay women OhForFucksSake viaJennieRigg )
- David Lloyd Say Trans People Can't Use Preferred Changing Rooms Unless They Have Gender Certificate
- (tags:transgender OhForFucksSake lgbt )
- Stone Age Cave Symbols May Be Part of a Single Prehistoric Proto-Writing System
- (tags:language prehistory archeology )
- Why you shouldn't buckle your children into car seats with their jackets on
- (tags:babies safety viaClare )
- "Is it a Duck or a Rabbit?" AI edition
- (tags:ai ducks rabbits vision )
- The Six Wings Of The Democratic Party
- (tags:democrats usa politics )
- Engineered microbe may be key to producing plastic from plants
- (tags:bacteria plastic plants )
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Interesting Links for 11-10-2018
Oct. 11th, 2018 12:00 pm- Mental health care in the NHS is terrible.
- (tags: mentalhealth NHS UK OhForFucksSake )
- Uncoiling the spiral: Maths and hallucinations
- (tags: vision brain mathematics patterns )
- Theresa May told to scrap fit-to-work assessments after nearly 50% of women attempted suicide during process
- (tags: suicide welfare uk OhForFucksSake )
- A brief history of Grace Kelly
- (tags: movies royalty celebrity )
- Now this is an awesome obituary
- (tags: death obituary funny viaSwampers )
- Pro-remain Tory MPs will form group to vote down May's Brexit deal
- (tags: conservatives UK europe )
- Declassified documents show why the US and the USSR came close to war in 1973
- (tags: history war USA russia )
- Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
- (tags: robots jobs japan )
- Waymo's self-driving cars have logged 10 million miles
- (tags: automation cars driving )
- Feeding 10 billion people by 2050 within planetary limits may be achievable
- (tags: food population thefuture )
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Interesting Links for 12-09-2018
Sep. 12th, 2018 12:00 pm- Societal issues explained (by throwing people down pits)
- (tags: society satire )
- The EU is betting that Brexit will make a trade deal with India a little easier.
- (tags: europe india uk trade )
- Why has Brexit become a legal matter when it should be a political matter?
- (tags: politics uk Europe law )
- Kieron Gillen's new comic looks interesting
- (tags: comics roleplaying )
- Brexit: Now Conservatives are suggesting the EEA for three years as a stop-gap.
- (tags: uk europe doom )
- There has been no Corbyn surge in Scotland
- (tags: Scotland labour politics )
- EA defies Belgian loot box decision, setting up potential gambling lawsuit
- If they decide that loot boxes are gambling then I can't see how, for instance, Hearthstone card packs aren't. Or, indeed, Magic: The Gathering card packs. This one could be absolutely massive.
(tags: gambling games belgium ) - Which artist do you think draws the most handsome/beautiful/sexiest characters in comics? Any genre. (Nice range of styles in the replies)
- (tags: comics art beauty )
- 'She has to go': Conservative MPs meet over plot to oust Theresa May
- I don't actually think she'll lose a vote of no confidence
(tags: conservatives ) - Barnier confronts Raab over discovery of Brexit no-deal letters to EU27
- (tags: Europe UK doom )
- Movie Star's Absence Shows Perils of Show Business in China
- (tags: movies China money )
- Brexit: EU can 'certainly not' accept Theresa May's single market plan, Juncker warns
- (tags: europe uk doom )
- ‘Super-recognisers’ employed by UK police to hunt criminals may not be identifying people correctly
- (tags: faces vision uk police fail )
- The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security
- (tags: security journalism )
- Finding balance in the universe, a short story
- (tags: short_story scifi ethics morality )
- A single gene mutation may have helped humans become optimal long-distance runners
- (tags: humans genetics running )
- Tom Watson says Momentum should drop speaker who vandalised Warsaw ghetto
- (tags: labour Jews OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 02-09-2018
Sep. 2nd, 2018 12:00 pm- Our seemingly detailed view of the world is more of an ever-changing sketch than a rich portrait—our minds fill in the blanks
- (tags: psychology perception vision )
- What's it like dating outside of your race?
- (tags: race relationships fantasy )
- This Tudor London map overlay is marvelous
- To make it work, open the link near the top of the article in a desktop browser (didn't work on my phone) and then click on "Layers" and turn on the Tudor one. It only covers a tiny proportion of the map, but changing the transparency back and forth while zoomed out will help you find the right bit. And when you do, it's fascinating!
(tags: maps history ) - Stop working long hours, it doesn't get more done, and it's not good for you
- (tags: work working_hours )
- Religion in Scotland continues to wither away
- (tags: religion scotland )
- Procrastination is more about managing emotions than time
- (tags: procrastination psychology )
- Why would you have a therapy dog when you could have a therapy unicorn.
- (tags: animals dogs unicorns therapy )
- Migrants can make the world more prosperous, but voters need convincing
- (tags: immigration economics society )
- Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system
- (tags: socialnetworking distribution )
Interesting Links for 16-08-2018
Aug. 16th, 2018 12:00 pm- Babies in prams exposed to 60% more pollution
- (tags: babies pollution )
- Argumentative relationships open the door to disease: Study links couples' hostility and gut bacteria, inflammation in bloodstream
- (tags: relationships microbiome inflammation )
- Judge throws out challenge to Scots abortion pill move
- (tags: abortion scotland GoodNews )
- A Lesson From Germany on How to Cover Far-Right Leaders
- (tags: Germany politics journalism )
- Jeremy Corbyn wreath row explained
- (tags: Israel Palestine assassination terrorism Labour history )
- Not on your life: six means of science fictional transportation I would not use.
- (tags: transport scifi )
- Chris Grayling has no credible plan for 'no-deal' Brexit, road hauliers warn
- (tags: transport UK Europe doom )
- Pixel Objectness - spotting objects in photos automatically
- (tags: photos vision ai )
- Uber still losing billions per year, somehow still considered valuable
- (tags: driving business fail )
- How Star Wars was saved in the editing suite (I just learned a lot)
- (tags: starwars video )
- How Wakandacon, the first Black Panther-themed convention, escaped the fan con curse
- (tags: conventions movies comics race )
- Patrick Stewart: 'I find it difficult to know what Labour stands for'
- (tags: Labour PatrickStewart )
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Interesting Links for 14-07-2018
Jul. 14th, 2018 12:00 pm- The Labour position on Brexit is now slightly harder than the government’s. But neither is remotely realistic
- (tags: Labour conservatives uk europe OhForFucksSake )
- People Are So Annoying That Animals Are Becoming More Nocturnal
- (tags: environment time humans animals )
- Nokia 6.1 Review—The best answer to “What Android phone should I buy?”
- (tags: phones nokia android )
- Nasa works out precisely how fast universe is expanding – and finds bizarre result that could change our understanding of cosmos
- (tags: space physics )
- Microsoft Urges Congress to Regulate Use of Facial Recognition
- (tags: faces vision regulation usa )
- I Used A Phone Like Most People In The World And It Was Awful
- (tags: inequality phones Technology india )
- Women won big in Mexico’s elections — taking nearly half the legislature’s seats. Here’s why.
- (tags: women Mexico elections )
- Brutalist Web Design
- (tags: design web )
- Facebook touts fight on fake news, but struggles to explain why InfoWars isn't banned
- (tags: fraud news facebook )
- A years-old, one-letter typo led to Aliens: Colonial Marines‘ weird AI
- HOW WAS THIS NEVER FIXED???
(tags: bugs ai wtf ) - A rescue diver on what it was like to save the Thai boys in the cave
- (tags: Thailand diving cave )
- Trump's ambassador lobbied Britain on behalf of jailed right-wing activist Tommy Robinson
- (tags: racism usa Republicans uk )
- How The Scottish Island Where Trump's Mom Grew Up Became a Haven For Refugees
- (tags: refugee immigration scotland )
- How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books (says article which doesn't include any evidence of increased interest in books)
- (tags: books minecraft Education )
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