Entries tagged with wind

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Interesting Links for 22-03-2024

1. GPS jamming & interference map: (tags:gps maps )
2. Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds: (tags:security hotel )
3. A type of bacteria that causes dental plaque was found in 50% of colon cancers: (tags:cancer teeth bacteria )
4. A Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Was Just Transplanted Into a Person for the First Time: (tags:genetics pigs organs )
5. Larian Studios Won't Make Baldur's Gate 3 DLC, Expansions, or Baldur's Gate 4: (tags:games dungeonsanddragons )
6. A cargo ship's 'WindWing' sails saved it up to 12 tons of fuel per day (between 14 and 37 percent): (tags:fuel ships wind GoodNews )
7. Delighted to discover that the University of Maryland has a Gamer Symphony Orchestra (here playing the Dark Souls III Main Theme): (tags:music games )
8. UK warns of arms embargo to Israel as international pressure mounts: (tags:UK weaponry Israel )
9. Say Hello to Biodegradable Microplastics: (tags:environment plastic biodegradable )

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Interesting Links for 23-08-2023

1. The UK has a massive housing shortage, and yet builders are building less, because inflation is up.: (tags:uk housing OhForFucksSake )
2. Pioneering wind-powered cargo ship sets sail: (tags:wind shipping Technology )
3. Gaps in Elon Musk's SpaceX Starlink service cost Ukrainian lives and forced retreat: (tags:Ukraine Russia ElonMusk war )
4. We're All Just Temporarily Abled. (I notice this more and more. Every time a new twinge comes along I wonder if it'll be the one that doesn't ever get better): (tags:bodies age aging )
5. Leaving the ECHR isn't popular, even with Tories: (tags:echr rights Europe politics polls UK )
6. W. H. Auden's 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring.: (tags:review lotr )
7. Could decriminalisation solve Scotland's drug problem? (Lessons from Portugal): (tags:drugs decriminalization portugal scotland )
8. Can't lose what you never had: Claims about digital ownership and creation in the age of generative AI: (tags:ai intellectual_property regulation fraud usa )

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Interesting Links for 12-08-2022

1. Incredible video of a FireTornado: (tags:fire wind weather video viaPatrickHadfield )
2. The latest drought exposes the abject failure of Tory water privatisation: (tags:water privatisation UK epicfail )
3. The Daily Express is now actively trying to kill its readership: (tags:chemistry cleaning death journalism epicfail )
4. What motivates ordinary Russians about the Ukraine invasion?: (tags:Russia war Ukraine trade )
5. Vegetarian women have 33 per cent higher risk of breaking a hip: (tags:vegetarian bone health women )
6. Queensland researchers find overlap in pathology of long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome: (tags:pandemic disease ChronicFatigueSyndrome viaLilysea )
7. Public display of Nazi flags and memorabilia bearing swastikas banned in New South Wales following parliamentary inquiry: (tags:nazis censorship GoodNews )
8. Energy prices: UK must move to renewable power to avoid future crisis: (tags:renewables uk electricity )
9. Copyright infringement in artificial intelligence art: (tags:art ai copyright )
10. 'Meeting my rapist was the hardest thing I've done, but restorative justice gave me my life back': (tags:rape justice crime )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4034669.html

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Interesting Links for 10-05-2021

Here's Britain's beloved royal family selling access to Putin: (tags:UK monarchy Russia corruption )
Serious questions for the Electoral Commission tonight as inexplicable ruling appears to have robbed the Greens (and thus the pro-independence camp) of two seats they should have won: (tags:elections GreenParty Scotland OhForFucksSake names viaDanielDWilliam )
Gravity is a double copy of other forces: (tags:gravity physics mathematics )
Tory 'Blue Wall' in south starting to crumble, claim Liberal Democrats: (tags:England politics libdem Conservatives )
Edinburgh ghost tour guide doesn't give a fuck: (tags:Edinburgh scary video funny true )
Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid Transmission?: (tags:pandemic epicfail who virus history )
Freeport firms won't be able to export without paying huge tariffs: (tags:trade WTF UK )
Three new horror novels which take motherhood and birth as their starting point: (tags:motherhood childbirth children horror books viaClare )
Glass walkway in China loses panels in high winds, looks even more terrifying than usual: (tags:glass bridge scary China wind )
Justice League: Gal Gadot Confirms Threats To Her Career Were Made By Joss Whedon: (tags:JossWhedon OhForFucksSake movies )
The Animal is tired: (tags:age )
Buyer sought for £250m hydro scheme at Glenmuckloch: (tags:scotland hydroelectric storage electricity )
Boris Johnson being investigated over Caribbean holiday and flat renovation: (tags:BorisJohnson corruption )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3866228.html

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Interesting Links for 17-02-2020

Uber and Lyft said they would ease congestion. Instead they made it worse.: (tags:transport taxi fail )
Prime numbers do not like to repeat themselves: (tags:PrimeNumbers mathematics viaSwampers )
World's first portable, low-cost MRI: (tags:MRI technology healthcare )
Brexit: Ministers refuse to release secret studies believed to show little gain from trade deals with US and Asia: (tags:trade UK Europe Asia USA doom )
Psychedelic Fiber Offers a New Twist on the Science of Knots: (tags:materials mathematics )
A380 basically doing a vertical landing in storm Dennis: (tags:airplanes wind video impressive )
Airbnb Has Devoured London. Here's the Data to Prove It: (tags:housing UK )
Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses: (tags:security cryptography communication )
What if Frasier was set in the gaming community: (tags:games funny TV viaSwampers )
Star Wars is poly-vocal, and always has been.: (tags:StarWars )
Clinical studies show no effects of soy protein or isoflavones on reproductive hormones in men: results of a meta-analysis: (tags:hormones testosterone food )
Friendship Is Crucial to the Adolescent Brain: (tags:friendship children psychology parenting )
Who wants to see "Back to the Future" With Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland? Because now you can: (tags:movies fake video )
We have a British government which refuses to criticise eugenics: (tags:UK OhForFucksSake BorisJohnson )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3719854.html

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Interesting Links for 01-09-2018

Mystery of the cargo ships that sink when their cargo suddenly liquefies: (tags: ocean shipping physics materials viaFanf )
The Howard Rule: A Modest Proposal for Libdem policy: (tags: libdem politics uk )
Well this is one of the least Jewish things I’ve ever read...: (tags: Jews OhForFucksSake middle_east )
American border police are defending them against...Dungeons & Dragons Artists: (tags: dungeonsanddragons immigration usa OhForFucksSake )
EAT CHEESE LIVE FOREVER EAT CHEESE NEVER DIE: (tags: cheese journalism funny satire research health )
The Irreverent Joys of a Japanese Sherlock Holmes: (tags: tv SherlockHolmes Japan viaSwampers )
How well does population density predict U.S. voting outcomes?: (tags: voting demographics statistics usa )
Maersk installed 100-foot-tall rotating sails on one of its tankers to cut fuel costs: (tags: ocean shipping wind )
The Dark Core of Personality - I scored 2: (tags: evil psychology testing )
You are mostly not stardust.: Nor, as autocorrect would insist, are you mostly starfish.
(tags: physics space )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3717570.html

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Interesting Links for 23-08-2018

Saudi Arabia seeks death penalty for woman activist: (tags: saudiarabia death_penalty )
How do you like it, Elon Musk? ‘Impressive’ Russian inventions to rival Tesla’s space launch: (tags: Russia Spacex meme funny ViaDrCross )
Mum’s a Neanderthal, Dad’s a Denisovan: discovery of an ancient-human hybrid: (tags: humans prehistory genetics )
Napoleon’s defeat partly caused by massive volcano ‘short circuiting’ electrical current in atmosphere: (tags: volcano war France history )
Carbon Dioxide can have large effects on sleep and concentration - and can rise sharply at night: Shame meters are so expensive. Do five other Edinburgh people want to throw on £20 each?
(tags: co2 intelligence sleep )
Europe to ban halogen lightbulbs (in a week's time): (tags: europe globalwarming led lighting )
Aeolus: Britain's wind mapping satellite lifts off (over a decade late, but hopefully the data will be worth the wait): (tags: wind weather uk space )
Amazon tribe which has never had contact with the outside world seen for the first time in amazing drone footage: (tags: amazon brazil drone )
The war over supercooled water (and why researchers need to release their code): (tags: software physics simulation fail research )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3546815.html

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Interesting Links for 25-01-2017

Is 'Snowflake' a Nazi Term That Was Used During the Holocaust?: (tags: language history facts )
All the MPs who have indicated they will vote against triggering Article 50: (tags: politics uk europe )
5 Absolute Wrong Ways To Respond To Remorseful Trump Voters: (tags: politics )
Inside The Private Chatrooms Trump Supporters Are Using To Manipulate French Voters: (tags: france lies politics manipulation )
Rogue One Subverts Asian Male Stereotypes — and That’s Important: (tags: race stereotypes StarWars )
Columbus and the shape of the Earth, a “Holywood” story: (tags: history space universe America maps )
Thefacebook.com’s darker side (2004): (tags: facebook history )
George Orwell's 1984 Is Now the #1 Bestselling Book on Amazon: (tags: dystopia politics amazon )
75-Year-Old Texas Woman Flies Through Tornado in Bathtub, Lands in Woods Unharmed: (tags: wind headline )
What awful things have the Trump administration done in the first five days?: (tags: politics republicans usa OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3497404.html

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Interesting Links for 24-08-2016

Britain’s Hardest Workers: the most gobsmacking reality TV show to date: (tags: work tv poverty )
What kind of game is No Man's Sky, and what kind of game is it not?: Framing is everything.
(tags: games space )
The Rio Games Were An Unjustifiable Human Disaster, And So Are The Olympics: (tags: olympics sport corruption inequality OhForFucksSake )
America’s First Offshore Wind Farm May Power Up a New Industry: (tags: wind windpower electricity usa )
Six ways to tackle the gender pay gap: (tags: gender pay money inequality viaSwampers )
Dragon Age Cosplay Is Better With Dogs: (tags: cosplay dogs viaSwampers )
Very cute programming game: (tags: game programming viaTheWeaselKing )
31 Essential Science Fiction Terms And Where They Came From: (tags: language scifi )
First study to explore language and LSD since the 1960s: (tags: language psychedelics lsd )
Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move From Above: (tags: surveillance usa police )
Wasting time on the internet? There's a book for that: (tags: viaSwampers internet )
More than 400 Tb of live streaming were transferred during the Olympic Games Rio 2016 (In Brazil alone!): I wonder what percentage watched on TV vs over the internet.
(tags: video olympics Technology brazil internet )
Of kimono and cultural appropriation: (tags: japan cultural_appropriation )
Learning difficulties linked with winter conception: (tags: children time Intelligence weather )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3469929.html

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Interesting Links for 22-06-2016

Less than a quarter of people buy CDs, and most of those are over 40: (tags: music Technology streaming uk )
A report on e-voting in Estonia shows how dangerous the whole idea is: (tags: Technology security voting )
Is the EU really run by unelected bureaucrats?: (tags: europe democracy )
Krugman on Brexit: (tags: economics europe uk referendum )
Pumping bike tires up doesn't make them go faster: (tags: bicycles viaFanf research )
The Warcraft movie: one of the most successful stinkers of all time: (tags: WarCraft WorldOfWarcraft movies money china )
Insulin-sensitive fat leads to obesity: (tags: obesity fat insulin genetics )
How to get upgraded from "Schroedinger's Rapist" to "Probably Rapist": (tags: rape consent men )
Not the Nine O'Clock News sums up the reactions to the death of Jo Cox: (tags: viaJennieRigg death politics funny video )
When two people from Northern Ireland meet, the conversation goes a little like this...: (tags: comic NorthernIreland funny )
Fairyography does photoshoots where little girls dress as fairies. Here she does big beardy men instead...: (tags: beards funny photography viaElfy )
The Problem of Susan: (tags: narnia )
There is now really no excuse for not using two-factor authentication on your Google account.: (tags: google security )
For men, the importance of safe sex depends on how hot their partner is: (tags: beauty sex safety men OhForFucksSake )
England has one of the world's highest rates of tornadoes, relative to its size: (tags: uk england wind )
What's the EU doing about intra-country tax-avoidance?: (tags: tax europe )
Watch A Japanese Dance Troupe Perform With Drones: (tags: drone dance video )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3253461.html

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Interesting Links for 18-03-2015

Google is pushing electricity-generating kites
(tags: energy electricity wind Google )
Bacteria programmed to find tumours
(tags: bacteria nanotech cancer )
Recommendation for vitamin D intake was miscalculated - by a factor of ten!
(tags: vitaminD )
New 12-sided pound coin to be unveiled
(tags: money currency uk design forgery )
DNA nanobots to undergo trial use against cancer
(tags: cancer nanotech )
Scientists discover how to change human leukemia cells into harmless immune cells
(tags: cancer )
FactCheck: how Labour got it wrong on the economy
(tags: Labour economy UK )
Labour does not want to represent people out of work
(tags: Labour poverty uk politics )
You Can Text A Pile of Poo, But You Can’t Write Your Name In Bengali
(tags: language technology diversity )
Touch Isolation: How Homophobia Has Robbed All Men Of Touch
(tags: touch men homophobia )
Diet soda linked to increases in belly fat in older adults
(tags: drinking diet weight )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3101783.html

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Interesting Links for 03-06-2014

23 Words That Have A Totally Different Meaning In Scotland
(tags: Scotland language funny )
Edinburgh trams ‘worth 400 year wait’
(tags: Edinburgh trams )
Smokers with gene defect have one in four chance of developing lung cancer
Which I think means that those without it have a 10% chance. Anyone care to check my maths?
(tags: cancer genetics smoking )
D-day landings scenes in 1944 and now – interactive
(tags: wwii photos history vianwhyte )
Whether or not Laverne Cox is a woman is not a question of biology; it's a question of language
(tags: politeness language gender LGBT )
Bricksy: LEGO Banksy
(tags: lego banksy )
Game of Thrones meets Jeremy Kyle
(tags: gameofthrones )
The LiveJournal staff want to know - How do you use LiveJournal?
(tags: livejournal )
Why net neutrality is important
(tags: internet freedom )
Autism linked to male hormones
(tags: hormones autism )
Why walking consumes more gasoline than driving!
(tags: energy agriculture cycling environment fuel walking )
Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes
(tags: gender society death wind weather )
A story of greed, short-sightedness, and legal incompetence. (Scottish Power, in this case)
(tags: fail electricity law money Scotland )
A critical look at the data behind the "The female hurricane is more deadly than the male" story
(tags: wind data weather gender )
Labour's fake folksiness and empty slogans speak of snobbery and stupidity
(tags: Labour politics uk )
There's a Reddit for polite discussion between feminists and Men's Right's Activists
(tags: reddit men feminism )
New graphene-reinforced aluminum matrix nanocomposites with tensile and yield strengths 25% and 58% higher than pristine aluminum
(tags: materials graphene )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3022337.html

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Interesting Links for 19-12-2013

Bank of England switches to plastic notes with Churchill fiver
(tags: money plastic uk )
Earning a PhD by studying a theory that we know is wrong
(tags: science physics )
Where Are the American Evangelicals Going?
(tags: christianity usa religion demographics )
What do UKIP's poll figures actually mean?
(tags: ukip politics uk )
Internet Ettiquette Guidelines from 1995.
(tags: internet ettiquette history )
One charger to power nearly every laptop coming from standards group
(tags: laptop computers power )
Inside the software trojan that infects ATMs.
(tags: money computers virus )
Dogs recognize familiar faces from images
(tags: dogs faces recognition )
Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. Why don’t all newspapers do the same?
(tags: globalwarming science discussion reddit )
What are the best-paid jobs in 2013?
(tags: money pay uk )
Shia LaBeouf plagiarizes Daniel Clowes comic for his film, responds with plagiarized apology
(tags: plagiarism epicwtf )
This is how my atheist friends seem to feel about the new Pope
(tags: pope catholicism funny )
I don't even like footbal, but _damn_ this is good football
(tags: football )
Summing up my feelings on Facebook vs Tumblr
(tags: facebook tumblr )
How The Media Will Report The Apocalypse (sheer, unadulterated, genius)
(tags: funny apocalypse media viaEveryoneOnMyFriendsList )
Marks & Spencer agrees to gender-neutral toy packaging
(tags: MarksAndSpencer toys gender uk )
An offline desktop app for Workflowy!
(tags: todo )
A much funnier takedown of Love Actually.
59pm
(tags: funny movies women society viaAtreic viaJulie )
Porn filters block sex education websites (and rape/abuse support sites).
(tags: uk pornography sex censorship epicfail )
Why WordPress bloggers were blocked by TalkTalk, and what it tells us about Internet filtering
(tags: censorship uk politics viafanf )
This is what it's like when Bill Gates gets you a Christmas present.
(tags: christmas billgates )
Beauitful _live_ map of the wind across the whole world.
(tags: weather wind visualisation earth meteorology maps )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2876366.html

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Interesting Links for 26-02-2013

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2759733.html

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Interesting Links for 30-07-2012

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2748710.html

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Interesting Links for 14-07-2012

There is no economic case for regional pay
(tags: libdem pay uk economics )
Bring in migrants to cut billions from deficit
(tags: immigration economics uk )
10 Reasons Why Oxytocin Is The Most Amazing Molecule In The World
(tags: psychology emotion oxytocin )
If you "Like" something on Facebook, you just gave it permission to post in your Timeline.
(tags: advertising facebook )
Pupil Premium's first year: Grade A or could do better?
(tags: school UK education politics )
What happens if a batter tries to hit a baseball thrown at 90% of the speed of light?
(tags: baseball funny science xkcd physics )
Free users can now create LJ polls
(tags: polls livejournal )
The best post I've read on rape jokes.
To which I would add that jokes are subjective. Declaring that X "is not funny" just doesn't parse as a sentence to me, and indicates that the speaker has failed to understand humour in particular and taste in general.
(tags: humour rape jokes )
A handy Higgs Boson flowchart. Can you understand it?
(tags: funny flowchart physics higgs )
The video for Amanda Palmer's "Want It Back" is lots of fun. (Warning: Stop motion nudity)
(tags: stopmotion music video AmandaPalmer )
Angela Merkel backs parental right to chop bits off their baby's penis
(tags: germany circumcision )
Indifferent cats in amateur porn
(tags: nsfw funny cats porn )
Stunning image shows boy watching solar eclipse... taken from 1.5 miles away
(tags: viaPhilmoPhlegm eclipse photo )
Some bird and bat species are disproportionately affected by wind turbines
(tags: viaPhilmoPhlegm wildlife bats birds wind )
1200 years ago, Earth was struck by a mysterious energy burst.
(tags: radiation science history )
How to Make a Rape Joke
(tags: humour jokes rape )
Logging Spider - I had no idea we now had walking machines this awesome
(tags: awesome transport Technology )
How to spec out a truly ridiculous music system
(tags: funny amplification music )
There's a Defense Grid 2 Kickstarter. Go give them all your money!!!
(tags: epicwin kickstarter DefenseGrid )
What divorced readers did with their wedding rings
(tags: relationships divorce jewelry wedding )
I try to avoid doing this, because I loathe it when others do it.
(tags: geeks culture society nerd )
Super Resolution From a Single Image
(tags: computers graphics resolution research )
Scenes From A Multiverse takes on Game Of Thrones
(tags: GameOfThones funny comic )