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Interesting Links for 10-12-2024
Dec. 10th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Video of Edinburgh, Scotland 1930s in color
- (tags:Edinburgh Scotland video colour history )
- 2. Facebook/Meta's Role in Romania's 2024 Presidential Election
- (tags:disinformation Romania Facebook )
- 3. Edinburgh's latest new walking and cycling route officially opens between Roseburn and Union Canal
- (tags:Edinburgh walking bicycles transport )
- 4. Starmer's historic trip to Cyprus turns into a diplomatic storm as he lands on divided island
- (tags:Cyprus UK wtf Labour )
- 5. How to annoy a British person by making tea
- (tags:tea comic funny )
- 6. Americans Glad ISIS Defeated Or Something
- (tags:usa middle_east war funny satire )
- 7. Areas Of The UK With Most Devolution Have More Confidence In Their Mayors
- (tags:uk politics )
Interesting Links for 15-11-2024
Nov. 15th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. New Counterstrike map inspired by Edinburgh
- (tags:Edinburgh games video )
- 2. The Onion acquires Infowars
- (tags:wtf TheOnion )
- 3. I tried the best £5 dinner in London: The Ikea restaurant
- (tags:ikea food )
- 4. The Onion's official announcement "Here's Why I Decided To Buy 'InfoWars'" is hilarious
- (tags:TheOnion funny )
- 5. Is it time to disestablish the Church of England?
- (tags:religion UK politics )
- 6. Kawasaki norovirus symptoms and how to avoid UK's 'highly contagious' winter bug (I'm pretty sure this has gone through my while family in the last week or so)
- (tags:disease )
- 7. pedestrians spend more money than people arriving by car, and pedestrianised town centres have higher sales.
- (tags:walking business )
- 8. Scottish councils reject SNP proposals to partner with religious charity that says sex workers are "possessed by demons"
- (tags:sexwork Scotland OhForFucksSake )
- 9. Loved ones of those choosing assisted dying are being unfairly maligned
- (tags:euthenasia death love )
Interesting Links for 27-08-2024
Aug. 27th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Minecraft! Meets! Bloodborne!
- (tags:minecraft games horror video )
- 2. The gay penguins that changed how we think about same-sex love
- (tags:lgbt homosexuality penguins )
- 3. Jaywalking Legalized in California - What It Means for Pedestrians (There's no such concept in the UK)
- (tags:USA walking cars law California )
- 4. Don't make fun of renowned Dan Brown (possibly the finest review of all time)
- (tags:review satire funny )
Interesting Links for 29-05-2023
May. 29th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Hark to the tale of Octlantis and Octopolis, and the octopi who made them their homes
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- 2. Twitter pulls out of voluntary EU disinformation code
- (tags:Europe Twitter disinformation fraud )
- 3. UMD Study Finds Brain Connectivity, Memory Improves in Older Adults After Walking
- (tags:walking brain )
- 4. Most Americans say they would support stricter gun control laws
- (tags:guns law USA polls )
- 5. A measles vaccine delivered via sticker shows promising early results
- (tags:vaccination technology GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 26-05-2023
May. 26th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. These thoughts on becoming a parents pretty-much match with mine (except funnier)
- (tags:children funny )
- 2. Paralysed man walks again after AI system connects his thoughts to his legs
- (tags:ai disability walking Technology )
- 3. Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other animals
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- 4. What can we learn from the first community-level randomly controlled trial of a non-police public safety intervention
- (tags:Mexico society police research inequality crime )
- 5. How David Bowie helped save Tina Turner's career
- (tags:DavidBowie music history )
- 6. Shingles vaccine lowers Alzheimer's chances dramatically
- (tags:disease virus alzheimers viaDanielDWilliam )
- 7. Family-Friendly Trains from around the world (I demand mine has a Viking ship and a ball pit)
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Interesting Links for 11-05-2023
May. 11th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Your parents may have helped you, but they made everything more expensive for everyone else
- (tags:inheritance uk inequality )
- 2. Tories Blame Too Much Housebuilding For Local Election Losses
- (tags:Conservatives housing wtf uk politics )
- 3. What Happens When a Woman Walks Like a Man? (I have observed this a *lot* - and been guilty of it myself when I wasn't thinking about it)
- (tags:gender patriarchy walking women men )
- 4. Anyone here care about Good Omens season 2?
- (tags:TV neilgaiman )
- 5. Edinburgh Tram Inquiry: Final report sent to printers
- (tags:edinburgh trams )
- 6. Autonomous underwater drones are now crossing the English channel
- (tags:uk france drone sea video )
- 7. Renewable energy projects worth billions stuck on hold because the grid isn't ready for them.
- (tags:renewables electricity infrastructure co2 environment uk )
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Interesting Links for 31-03-2023
Mar. 31st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Clues to the Lives of North America's First Inhabitants Are Hidden Underwater
- (tags:usa prehistory archeology ocean )
- 2. Early Remote Work Impacts on Family Formation
- (tags:work family remote Technology society )
- 3. The Uniquely American Future of US Authoritarianism
- (tags:usa authoritarianism )
- 4. "If you want to watch games on your tractor, please use your own iPad"
- (tags:funny Technology farming )
- 5. An Unusual Finding of a Ladybug on Screening Colonoscopy
- (tags:healthcare insects unlikely )
- 6. Quarter of British renters don't report repairs over eviction fears
- (tags:uk rental OhForFucksSake )
- 7. DeSantis, the Disney board and King Charles III: A power struggle, explained
- (tags:law Disney republicans LGBT USA Florida )
- 8. A Greek and Roman Mythology Walk around London (I've been on one of Tony's walking tours and he's an academic who really knows his stuff)
- (tags:London Greece Rome history UK walking )
- 9. Growing a chicken in an open egg
- (tags:chicken life eggs video weird )
- 10. Finland clears its last hurdle, will join NATO in July
- (tags:Finland NATO )
- 11. UK-Asia trade deal to boost UK economy by...0.08%
- (tags:trade UK pacific )
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Interesting Links for 16-05-2022
May. 16th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Wikipedia Around - find Wikipedia articles near you!
- (tags:Wikipedia location viaClare )
- 2. In a shocking change in direction, tech companies are going to have to actually make money
- (tags:technology business )
- 3. Occasionally I find myself wandering around the house humming the map maker's theme from Hollow Knight
- (tags:music games maps )
- 4. Goths are the Goths in the coalmine
- (tags:history rome funny )
- 5. The Fifth Element Is One of the Best/Worst Sci-Fi Films Ever
- (tags:movies scifi viaNancyLebov )
- 6. Robot animals that move realistically. (warning: realistic robot spiders)
- (tags:robots animals walking video viaPatrickHadfield )
Interesting Links for 14-05-2022
May. 14th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. When there's a choice candidates vote alphabetically over 80% of the time
- (tags:names voting bias )
- 2. Who wants to see a standing wave in a swimming pool?
- (tags:water physics )
- 3. Why the Sudden Infant Death syndrome finding might not be very useful
- (tags:death children viaNancyLebov )
- 4. Alliance Party In Northern Ireland Could Rewrite Power Sharing
- (tags:politics NorthernIreland )
- 5. Trying (and failing) to track down why American outhouses have crescent moons on them
- (tags:moon toilet USA history )
- 6. Wakefield Labour executives resign en masse amid row over by-election selection process
- (tags:labour OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Edinburgh Councillors celebrate as Water of Leith walkway reopens after years of closure
- (tags:Edinburgh walking rivers )
Interesting Links for 02-09-2021
Sep. 2nd, 2021 12:00 pm- The rise of period pants: are they the answer to menstrual landfill - and women's prayers?
- (tags:menstruation clothing )
- Scots to need vaccine passports for large events
- (tags:scotland vaccination pandemic )
- Scotland had fourth hottest summer on record
- (tags:Scotland temperature )
- Round animals!
- Anyone complaining that some of them are unhealthy will be roundly booed.
(tags:animals ) - Beware of all of these dogs. Their cuteness levels are too high
- (tags:dogs cute )
- Google's new AI photo technology guesses what details might have been there in a very believable way!
- (tags:ai photos )
- Pair complete UK's longest straight-line challenge
- (tags:uk walking )
- White 'old boys' network holding ethnic minority surgeons back from job promotions
- (tags:uk racism nhs doctors sexism )
- Dogs can distinguish between deliberate acts and accidents
- (tags:dogs psychology )
- Five Myths About the Taliban's New Arsenal
- (tags:taliban afghanistan military viaDanielDWilliam )
- What happens to your brain when you give up sugar?
- (tags:brain sugar dopamine addiction )
- Neil Gaiman's 11 Geekiest Cameo Appearances
- (tags:neilgaiman TV radio )
- Mayday trailer - Metaphorical sirens as female revenge fantasy. Looks interesting, and rather gorgeously shot.
- (tags:women society movies trailer )
- I'd wondered why John Varley's "Irontown Blues" hadn't had great reviews. And now I know!
- (tags:scifi writing OhForFucksSake publishing )
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Interesting Links for 01-09-2021
Sep. 1st, 2021 12:00 pm- Tardigrades can walk! (and they look like insects when they do!)
- (tags:viaNancyLebov walking video )
- Apple and Google must allow developers to use other payment systems, new Korean law declares
- (tags:korea apps money google android apple )
- In the US, wind power is getting bigger and better
- (tags:usa windpower )
- 71% of British people would be supportive of a family member coming out as trans. How does that compare with other countries?
- (tags:LGBT UK )
- Jabs for teens in the UK being held back out of fear of disrupting boosters for elderly
- (tags:UK pandemic teenagers )
- A collection of excellent press retractions
- (tags:journalism funny fail )
Interesting Links for 08-09-2020
Sep. 8th, 2020 12:00 pm- Woman hatches ducks from Waitrose eggs
- (tags:ducks eggs shopping )
- Going for a Lake District walk with Max the Miracle Dog
- (tags:dogs walking )
- Gender has now destroyed another 7,000 acres of forest. It must be banned!
- (tags:fire gender children OhForFucksSake )
- 1,204,986 Votes Decided: What Is The Best Thing?
- (tags:voting video viaSwampers )
- Coronavirus: Two charged after 300 people attend Midlothian house party
- (tags:Scotland party pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- Hokusai: More than 100 lost works by non-western world's most famous artist rediscovered
- (tags:art history Japan )
- Waves going through low clouds (or mist) looks amazing!
- (tags:Ocean video beautiful )
- The Head of the UK government's legal division just resigned. This is very significant
- (tags:law government UK Europe Doom )
Interesting Links for 28-07-2019
Jul. 28th, 2019 09:26 pm- Wind is outpacing coal as a power source in Texas for the first time
- (tags:windpower Texas USA renewables )
- Boris Johnson 'absolutely' rules out election before 31 October Brexit deadline
- (tags:politics UK elections Europe doom )
- Thousands without mobiles (or, worse, signal) could be frozen out of online payments
- (tags:security phones banking UK europe )
- US border official testifies that a 3-year-old might be a national security threat.
- (tags:OhForFucksSake children immigration )
- In case anyone was wondering what to get me for my birthday
- (tags:penis walking )
- Why are violent brawls breaking out on cruise ships?
- (tags:alcohol holidays ocean ship )
- "My (25M) subs (23F, 26F, 22M, 28M, 28M) have unionized"
- (tags:relationships bdsm funny unions )
- HS2: hated by some, halted in parts, but still making progress
- (tags:hs2 trains transport uk )
Interesting Links for 13-06-2019
Jun. 13th, 2019 01:26 pm- Brexit: Leaked cabinet note admits UK not ready for no-deal exit on October 31
- (tags:UK Europe doom )
- A woman decided to start walking down the street like a man. Spoiler: it didn't go well
- (tags:women men psychology behaviour walking )
- This Deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg Tests Facebook's Fake Video Policies
- (tags:Facebook fraud video )
- No-deal Brexit will be 'commercial suicide', manufacturers tell MPs
- (tags:uk business doom europe Conservatives )
- Artificial islands in Scotland date back to 3700BC
- (tags:Scotland archeology )
- The colours associated with the cardinal directions in Chinese, Turkish and Lakota (which is why the Black Sea is black)
- (tags:language colour geography )
- Radiohead Donates Money to Climate Change Group Instead of Paying Ransom to Hackers
- (tags:money theft music radiohead )
- A soldier talks about realistic depictions of war in computer games
- (tags:games war reality )
- The original creator of Men in Black still isn't making royalties from the movie
- (tags:movies money fraud )
- This badass Edinburgh photo shows two ladies in long dresses and hats rock climbing in the 1900s
- (tags:climbing women history scotland )
- I had no idea Florence Nightingale was gay!
- (tags:history LGBT lesbians )
- The Funniest Math Joke is "Base 10"
- (tags:numbers funny )
- The thirteen countries where being an atheist is punishable by death
- (tags:Death atheism )
- Lucy told the Crisis team 11 days in a row, that she was suicidal. They didn't believe her & they didn't act to help her. Now she's dead.
- (tags:suicide mentalhealth OhForFucksSake )
- Christian Right tips to fight transgender rights: separate the T from the LGB
- (tags:bigotry conspiracy religion USA )
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Interesting Links for 04-06-2019
Jun. 4th, 2019 01:16 pm- Autism: "What If Trains, But Too Much?"
- (tags:children autism parenting behaviour )
- Military rules, by service (funny)
- (tags:military funny )
- "10,000 Steps Every Day" is a health myth
- (tags:health walking myths )
- Once again, a neural net tries to name cats
- (tags:cats names Tumblr ai )
- I need to know what happened in this house!
- (tags:housing Edinburgh wtf )
- Who remembers cat macros?
- (tags:cats meme )
- Caster Semenya able to run medication-free for now as Swiss court floors IAAF
- (tags:hormones gender sports Switzerland )
- Helsinki's radical solution to homelessness
- (tags:housing homelessness Finland )
- France Bans Judge Analytics, 5 Years In Prison For Rule Breakers
- (tags:france law analysis wtf censorship )
- Project Details - Meadows to George Street pedestrianisation/segregated cycleways
- (tags:edinburgh transport bicycles )
- What are the Tory candidates' Brexit policies?
- (tags:Conservatives uk europe )
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Interesting Links for 18-09-2018
Sep. 18th, 2018 12:00 pm- Details on the end of European time changes
- (tags: time europe )
- Early gender tests leading to selective abortions of girls in UK
- (tags: patriarchy uk abortion )
- Who likes to be alone? Not introverts
- (tags: introversion personality loneliness psychology )
- Household cleaning products may contribute to kids being overweight by altering their gut microbiota
- (tags: children microbiome cleanliness weight )
- Growing up in a violent environment is bad for kids, whether or not you are directly bullied
- (tags: violence bullying children behaviour )
- How safety standards made infant walkers 90% safer
- (tags: safety children walking )
- People tend to cluster into four distinct personality groups
- (tags: personality psychology )
- Using literally figuratively is literally prehistoric
- (tags: language history )
- Only a quarter of Mail readers think UK will get good Brexit deal. Mostly they blame the British government
- (tags: UK Europe fail polls newspapers DailyMail )
- In January 2019 Britain will switch from a pro-Brexit to an anti-Brexit country - even if nobody changed their minds
- (tags: UK Europe demographics )
- Coca-Cola in talks to develop cannabis drinks
- (tags: marijuana cocacola inflammation )
- Sixteen gambling regulators unite to grumble about loot boxes and skin gambling
- (tags: gambling games regulation )
- A memory of Rees-Mogg
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- Value of EU citizens to the economy is the equivalent of 5p on income tax
- (tags: europe uk tax doom )
- UK children with maths difficulties (dyscalculia) are 100 times less likely to receive an official diagnosis than peers with dyslexia
- (tags: mathematics children fail uk )
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Interesting Links for 15-12-2017
Dec. 15th, 2017 12:16 pm- Xenomorphs are now officially Disney Princesses (and the X-Men can rejoin the Marvel Universe)
- (tags: Disney fox movies tv )
- Scottish income tax changes introduced (looks like I'll be paying more. And a good thing too.)
- (tags: tax scotland )
- Man denies downloading child porn as he isn't attracted to black people
- (tags: racism paedophilia OhForFucksSake headline )
- Scrap the stethoscope: engineers create new way to measure vital signs with radio waves
- (tags: healthcare technology )
- Coloring books make you feel better, but real art therapy much more potent
- (tags: art colour stress psychology )
- Treatable Condition Could Be Mistaken for Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder
- (tags: mentalhealth psychology immune_system )
- Insight into how infants learn to walk
- (tags: babies learning walking )
- Intervention offered in school readiness program boosts children's self-regulation skills and early academic success
- (tags: learning children self-control )
- Almost half of under 25s 'never use a condom with a new partner'
- (tags: disease pregnancy contraception uk )
- Does the Government defeat on clause 9 of the EU (Withdrawal) Bill mean Parliament has ‘taken back control’?
- (tags: UK Europe law )
- You can’t support my ‘No’ if you don’t also support my ‘Yes’: a thread on consent, sexual harassment/assault, and sex work
- (tags: sex society sexwork consent )
- Amazon will resume selling Apple TV, Google's Chromecast
- (tags: amazon google apple )
- Gene therapy cures haemophilia A
- (tags: genetics blood Technology awesome )
- Suicidal thoughts rapidly reduced with ketamine
- (tags: suicide depression ketamine )
- On helping people who stay in am abusive relationship
- (tags: abuse relationships )
- 43% of people on disability payments have tried to kill themselves. Double what it was under Labour.
- (tags: suicide disability OhForFucksSake uk austerity )
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