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Interesting Links for 29-05-2025
May. 29th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. A Square Theory (of crosswords and jokes)
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- 2. Edinburgh winter festivals worth almost £200m to the city
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- 3. Sir Ian McKellen to open all trans and non-binary production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
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- 4. Episode IX - Duel of the Fates. I'll Forever Wish This Was the 3rd Sequel Film
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Interesting Links for 09-09-2024
Sep. 9th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Scientists invent nanorobots that can repair brain aneurysms (in rabbits)
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- 2. Edinburgh transport: 14 challenges facing new transport convener Stephen Jenkinson from trams to parking
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- 3. If anyone would like to buy me a marmot for my birthday that would be awesome
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- 4. Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots
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- 5. English Green Party backs rejoining EU
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- 6. Winter fuel payment cut could kill 4,000 people, Labour research suggests
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Interesting Links for 21-01-2023
Jan. 21st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. How is life in the UK? (Top 1% have grabbed nearly ⅔ of all growth in the last 2 years)
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- 2. AI is being used by students to produce essays and projects - how should the education system respond?
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- 3. Total whiteout on Ben Macdui - what it's like climbing Scotland's second-highest mountain in snowy weather
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- 4. Church of England refuses to back marriage equality, declares that marriage is between "one man and one woman for life" (despite their Supreme Governor being divorced)
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- 5. How ironic are Ricky Gervais' views on transgender people?
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- 6. Driverless bus takes passengers across Forth Road Bridge in UK first
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- 7. The pianist with the bionic hands
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- 8. Could Ultrasound Replace the Stethoscope?
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Interesting Links for 16-10-2022
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Interesting Links for 27-09-2022
Sep. 27th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Labour members back calls for electoral reform
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- 2. Red Wall voters support changing voting system to proportional representation, by 47:12
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- 3. Idaho bans talking about abortion
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- 4. Animals Being Freed For The First Time (a video collection)
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- 5. The Tripitaka Koreana is an incredible feat
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- 6. Abolishing non-dom tax status would raise more than £3.2bn each year
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- 7. The Polar Vortex is already destabilising, which could lead to some very cold periods this winter
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- 8. We live in a time of wonders, and yet nobody is happy
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Interesting Links for 24-02-2022
Feb. 24th, 2022 12:00 pm- Russia has list of journalists, activists, and gay rights advocates to be killed or sent to camps after invasion of Ukraine
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- On More Covid Next Winter
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- Texas CPS says it will treat hormone treatments for transgender kids as possible child abuse
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- New Covid vaccine 100% effective against severe disease
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- Sex differences, depression, anxiety, and strength
- (tags:anxiety depression psychology gender viaDanielDWilliam )
- The Estonian Government requests consultations under Article 4 of the NATO Treaty
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- This is pretty much how I feel about immortality
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Interesting Links for 26-12-2021
Dec. 26th, 2021 12:00 pm- There are two reasons not to judge people for wanting what they want. This is the other one
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- Clearly the best way of doing jigsaw puzzles
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- The costume design in Muppet Christmas Carol is far better than it needed to be
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- New York City is banning natural gas hookups for new buildings
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- Having fun in a Northern Chinese winter
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- Where did Britain get half its genes from? France...
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- Huge rise in first Covid jabs as vaccine refuseniks come forward
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Interesting Links for 17-02-2021
Feb. 17th, 2021 12:00 pm- Renewables are not causing blackouts in Texas
- (tags:Texas coal winter electricity fail windpower viaDanielDWilliam )
- Tesco loses 'fire and rehire' court battle
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- An illustrated version of one of Tolkien's unpublished epilogues of The Lord Of The Rings
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- Photographer Sues Tattoo Artist over Miles Davis Tattoo
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- Trump declares war on McConnell — vows to back MAGA challengers against GOP
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- Covid in Scotland: Watchdog's report on the government released
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- Humans were drinking milk before they developed the genes for digesting it
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- Please don't assume all age-gap relationships are the same
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- Sacked UK LGBT veterans can reclaim removed medals
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- Database management is key to good government policy making
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1361673425140543490.html
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Interesting Links for 11-02-2021
Feb. 11th, 2021 12:00 pm- Locus really need better editors working on their reviews
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- How To Build a Snölykta - Traditional Swedish Snow Lanterns
- (tags:snow Sweden video viaNeilRodger )
- 'Fuck Your Feelings' Doesn't Apply to White Men
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- Charisma Carpenter on Joss Whedon's abusive behaviour
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- Stage meat - food you can eat on stage and still act around
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- I see the EU is asking the UK to honour its promises. I can't see that going down well
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1359590841619275776.html
(tags:UK Europe trade Doom NorthernIreland ) - Amsterdam becomes Europe's top trading hub, ousting London
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- Temperature of -22.9C in Braemar 'UK's lowest in 26 years'
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- Netflix acquires the rights to all 22 Redwall books, plans film and series
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- Weird Pride Day is March 4th
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Interesting Links for 29-11-2020
Nov. 29th, 2020 12:00 pm- New plaque for racist Dundas statue in Edinburgh revealed: and it's already been put in place
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- Netflix to start declaring £1bn-plus UK revenues to HMRC
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- Robert Fisk: Fabricator and fraudster (shameful for the newspapers that kept employing him)
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- This kind of awful employment stories is a major reason I'm in favour of UBI
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- 'When it's brutal in the Cairngorms, it can kill you' - memories of 40 years of mountain rescue in Scotland
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- Covid in Scotland: Mass testing in high risk communities to begin
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- Some fascinating history of African people at the Scottish court in the 1500s
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- Why did the Trump campaign not allege fraud in their post-election court cases?
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- Revealed: the millionaires hoarding UK fishing rights
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Interesting Links for 29-10-2020
Oct. 29th, 2020 12:00 pm- Covid in Scotland: 78 patients sent to care homes after testing positive
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- What SOFIA's discovery of water on the Moon is, and isn't
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- What's going on with the sentencing of the police officer who murdered his lover
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1321425591531425792.html
(tags:murder police law UK ) - Sexual Eeling (or how people spent 2000 years thinking new Eels spontaneously generate
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- The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
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- If you want people to work together on a shared solution take away the option to have their own private one. (this is why I'm against private schools)
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- Exposed: Special procurement channels for 'VIPs' and Cabinet contacts - offering up to 45% profit
- (tags:UK corruption pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- This hot tub brings all the birds to the yard
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- Reminder that you don't actually own videos you "buy" from Amazon (or most other providers)
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- Zardoz child is the best Halloween costume
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Interesting Links for 01-10-2020
Oct. 1st, 2020 12:00 pm- Dreading a dark winter lockdown? Think like a Norwegian
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- "My son can get a COVID test result in 90 minutes. And that's a disgrace."
- (tags:pandemic virus testing OhForFucksSake uk )
- Scotland's Covid death toll hits highest level since June (7 people)
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- Switzerland referendum: Voters reject end to free movement with EU
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- Downing Street will not rule out using Scottish Islands for asylum processing plan
- (tags:Scotland asylum viaPatrickHadfield wtf )
- Covid-19 and the Problem of Collective Action
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1311276277798756352.html
(tags:pandemic economics organisation government viaDanielDWilliam ) - Far Right Extremists celebrate after Trump's debate callout
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- The Dying Russians
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- The world is stranger than I can imagine: Australian prison tree edition
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- How Agatha Christie moved with her times
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- Call for laws to force sale of derelict sites in Scotland
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- Coronavirus Is Spreading Most Rapidly Among Young People in The North East and North West of England
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- Why the UK's "grammar, punctuation, and spelling" test is nasty and dangerous
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- Large scale sequencing of 1,500 SARS-CoV-2 genomes from Norwich shows 32 foreign strains and other interesting details
- (tags:pandemic virus UK genetics viaPatrickHadfield )
- EU brings Infringement process against the United Kingdom
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- Investigations launched after Atikamekw woman records Quebec hospital staff uttering slurs before her death
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Interesting Links for 03-12-2018
Dec. 3rd, 2018 11:00 am- 'I am worried': Macron's chat with Saudi prince captured at G20
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- The World's Most Efficient Languages
- (tags: language viaFanf )
- The Scottish Tories are sending politicians out to food banks as a PR move
- (tags: conservatives Scotland poverty ViaDrCross )
- Madrid bans polluting vehicles from city centre
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- Fractal structure produces fractal electrons with fractal energies
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- Forget Christmas! It's time for Mari Lwyd, the Welsh midwinter horse skull rap battle tradition!
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- 53% of British people have no religion. Including 71% of young adults.
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- The Stereotypes Gay Men and Lesbians Hold About Bisexual Persons
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Interesting Links for 01-12-2018
Dec. 1st, 2018 11:00 am- No deal or 'no Brexit at all' if MPs reject Theresa May agreement, EU president Donald Tusk says
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- Government warnings for five failing independent faith schools that basically taught only religious faith
- (tags: Jews Islam faith education UK OhForFucksSake )
- Bad sex award 2018: the contenders in quotes
- Aieee! My eyes! My brain!
(tags: sex awful writing awards ) - Trump tries to cancel meeting with Putin, Putin tracks him down in Argentina
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- Soy milk, almond milk, oat milk. Spider milk?
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- This is what happens when a bubble freezes.
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- I think there might be something wrong with me. I really want this dog
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Interesting Links for 30-11-2018
Nov. 30th, 2018 11:00 am- Children who start school a year early more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD
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- Stuck in a loop of wrongness: Brain study shows roots of OCD
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- May and Corbyn clash over what kind of economic collapse they would inflict on the country
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- Free ice skating for anyone called Andrew to mark St Andrew's Day in Edinburgh
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- Adult Swim, Crunchyroll announce first-ever co-production: A Blade Runner anime
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- Strange seismic waves that rippled around world leave scientists bewildered
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- Physicists finally calculated where the proton’s mass comes from
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Interesting Links for 15-02-2018
Feb. 15th, 2018 12:00 pm- Boris Johnson talking 'total nonsense' about EU, European Commission president says
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- Russia has threatened to block access to YouTube and Instagram if they don't remove posts that show a senior government official sailing on a yacht with a billionaire oligarch, who has links with the Trump campaign
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- What If Men And Women Skied Against Each Other In The Olympics?
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- You've always wanted Robocop Valentine's cards
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- In Leaked Chats, Wikileaks Discusses Preference for GOP
- (tags: politics JulianAssange usa wikileaks OhForFucksSake )
- This kid shattering the top of a frozen trampoline with one perfect jump may be the most satisfying thing you'll see all day.
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- Travelodge overbooks its rooms!
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- Norwegian women drink least while pregnant, British women drink most
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- Feminist has a T
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- Magic Leap One Video – Diffractive Waveguides Confirmed
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- The crow that could count higher than Clive
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Interesting Links for 09-01-2018
Jan. 9th, 2018 12:00 pm- On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint
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- Chris Grayling's 27 Seconds as Conservative Party Chairman
- (tags: conservatives fail viaSwampers )
- Donald Trump's tweets aren't random - he's live-tweeting his favourite tv
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- The couple who got engaged and married on the same day
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- The plummeting Conservative membership makes the party ripe for entryism
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- How to argue, in eight easy steps
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- Lemurs mob BBC News reporter
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- The Omnicopter, A Super Agile Omni-Directional Drone That Can Play Catch With a Ball
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- Goodbye iPod, and Thanks for All the Tunes
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- Is everything Johann Hari knows about depression wrong?
- (tags: depression OhForFucksSake johannhari mentalhealth psychology )
- Plans unveiled for new Northern Forest from Liverpool to Hull
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- Beginner's guide to longevity research
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- The reshuffle that wasn't: May blows it again
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- 7 articles that are basically free therapy
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- Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology
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- Iran Bans English in Primary Schools
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- Jeremy Corbyn insists UK cannot remain in single market after Brexit
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- China wants an orderly exit from Bitcoin mining
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- Tory MSPs back call for Scottish Parliament to reject UK Brexit Bill
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- A 430-Year-Old World Map, Taking Up 60 Square Feet
- Link to a zoomable version: https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~303661~90074314:Composite--Tavola-1-60---Map-of-the
(tags: maps history ) - Swallowable sensors reveal mysteries of human gut health
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- New insights into lifetime personality change
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- Women more likely to suffer winter depression and mood changes
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Interesting Links for 05-02-2016
Feb. 5th, 2016 12:00 pm- After 100 years, scientists are finally closing in on Einstein’s ripples
- Tories and SNP 'miles apart' over future of UK grant for Scotland
- Nearly 14,000 disabled people have mobility cars taken away
- Vaginal weightlifting. It's the future.
- Facebook will calculate your average "degrees of separation". Mine is 3.24, what's yours?
- Superforecasting - how do the people who can predict the future do it?
- Mercy, extortion, and dictatorship - exploring the complexities of the Prisoner's Dilemma
- What does the owner of a juice bar eat?
- Images reveal winter in Scotland's hills (It's pretty. Pretty...cold)
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Interesting Links for 20-10-2015
Oct. 20th, 2015 12:00 pm- Crossing a wheelchair with a segway
- The real reason germs spread in the winter (humidity)
- Parkinson's patients walk and talk again after receiving cancer drug in trial
- This is the cancer drug that my lovely wife Julie is on. Glad to see it's got the possibility of helping many others too!
- Canadian Liberals sweep to power by raising taxes, legalising marijuana and deficits to invest in infrastructure
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