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Interesting Links for 09-04-2025
Apr. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Confusion surrounds ETA visa waiver process for some dual national Brits
- (tags:migration uk passport )
- 2. Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals
- (tags:Intelligence crows primates evolution )
- 3. No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
- (tags:ai Technology images )
- 4. Trump tariffs based on massive error (as well as being total nonsense)
- (tags:mathematics trade incompetence EpicStupidity politics usa )
- 5. Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy (current payback time for a solar panel in Pakistan is 2-3 years)
- (tags:pakistan solarpower GoodNews )
- 6. People conceived during colder months may end up with a lower body mass index and less fat around internal organs
- (tags:weather temperature fat )
- 7. What's going on with the announcements of "bringing dire wolves back from extinction"
- (tags:prehistory DNA animals wolves genetics viaPatrickHadfield )
- 8. Bracket City - a fun new daily puzzle!
- (tags:puzzle games )
- 9. Trade Will Move On Without the United States
- (tags:trade USA )
- 10. Great Moments in Peaceful Protest History
- (tags:protests funny satire comic )
- 11. Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws
- (tags:gender race research libraries USA censorship )
- 12. China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
- (tags:china materials USA trade doom )
- 13. How are Trump's supporters dealing with the tariff fallout?
- (tags:politics usa republicans )
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Interesting Links for 12-01-2025
Jan. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. World's largest compressed air energy storage facility commences full operation in China
- (tags:china batteries air )
- 2. How to advocate for yourself when dealing with doctors
- (tags:healthcare advice video viaSwampers )
- 3. 161 years ago, a New Zealand sheep farmer predicted AI doom
- (tags:history ai scifi doom )
- 4. Ethiopian! Wolves! Pollinate! Plants!
- (tags:plants wolves Ethiopia cute )
- 5. This Coke ad from the 90s is amazing. Simple, but very neat, and requiring hundreds of people to stand very still
- (tags:cocacola advertising video )
Interesting Links for 03-12-2024
Dec. 3rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Britons want closer ties with EU over Trump trade deal
- (tags:uk usa europe trade polls )
- 2. Vasopressin boosts sociability in solitary monkeys
- (tags:hormones monkeys psychology vasopressin sociability )
- 3. Gideon has made me read him The Wolf's Secret repeatedly and I don't mind because it's lyrical and beautifully illustrated
- (tags:wolves books children review )
- 4. France just carried out their own review of treatment for trans children. And came out with the opposite findings to the Cass review
- (tags:LGBT transgender children France hormones )
- 5. Why housebuilding is so hard in the UK
- (tags:planning housing uk doom )
- 6. Why are there not enough train drivers in Scotland?
- (tags:trains jobs scotland )
- 7. The Scottish NHS is in trouble (fundamentally - not enough money)
- (tags:scotland nhs doom )
Interesting Links for 20-11-2024
Nov. 20th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Canadian wolves are being dropped into Michigan to kill moose. (With awesome cute video)
- (tags:wolves video Canada USA )
- 2. Joint Declaration by the Foreign Ministers of Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom on Russia
- (tags:Russia Germany Italy Spain UK France Poland )
- 3. Looks like we've found the ship sabotaging internet cables in Europe
- (tags:ship internet sabotage infrastructure Europe )
Interesting Links for 30-05-2024
May. 30th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Corsica, Sardinia, and accidents of history (and why a Europe of The Regions is a good thing)
- (tags:Europe history Italy France viaPatrickHadfield )
- 2. Decoding the EU AI Act
- (tags:europe regulation ai Technology )
- 3. How North Korea infiltrates large tech companies
- (tags:NorthKorea espionage fraud technology USA )
- 4. Police Scotland apology to the LGBTQI+ communities of Scotland
- (tags:Scotland LGBT police )
- 5. Road planners embrace an unconventional intersection
- (tags:roads design USA )
- 6. infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii makes wolves 46 times more likely to become a pack leader
- (tags:wolves ToxoplasmaGondii behaviour viaPatrickHadfield )
- 7. Tory, Labour, Lib Dem and Green environment pledges, ranked by experts
- (tags:environment uk politics )
- 8. Risky business: Linking Toxoplasma gondii infection and entrepreneurship behaviours across individuals and countries
- (tags:business behaviour ToxoplasmaGondii fear )
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Interesting Links for 11-01-2024
Jan. 11th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. "I am from Norway. Here's why the UK pension system baffles me"
- (tags:pensions )
- 2. Plans released for the new arena intended for Edinburgh Park
- (tags:edinburgh music architecture concerts )
- 3. 17 dramatic projects set to transform Edinburgh in the next five years
- (tags:edinburgh city architecture )
- 4. Side by side maps of Scotland (in this case Edinburgh in 1804 vs a photo)
- (tags:maps scotland edinburgh history )
- 5. A huge battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant
- (tags:batteries Hawaii GoodNews )
- 6. How one mislabeled raccoon skull led to a whole load of imposter-wolf tattoos
- (tags:tattoos raccoon wolves funny bone )
- 7. Children are more likely to be hospitalised by air pollution
- (tags:pollution children health )
- 8. I'm generally in favour of Labour's plans for schoolkids
- (tags:children labour politics uk )
- 9. Bitcoin: exchange-traded funds get the green light - but what are they?
- (tags:bitcoin blockchain investment )
Interesting Links for 31-10-2023
Oct. 31st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Which UK university towns have the highest cost of living?
- (tags:university edinburgh money uk )
- 2. The future of warfare: A $400 drone destroying a $2M tank
- (tags:war drone )
- 3. People with autism less likely to succumb to bystander effect
- (tags:psychology autism )
- 4. Getting angry may help you achieve your goals, so long as they are hard ones.
- (tags:anger achievement psychology )
- 5. What Happens to a Werewolf on the Moon? - a call for research!
- (tags:viaSimonTatham wolves supernatural funny research moon space )
- 6. Use your own controller to work with an Xbox? Not if Microsoft has anything to do with it!
- (tags:Microsoft OhForFucksSake consoles )
- 7. Woman uses man's name on delivery app, notices marked change in service
- (tags:patriarchy food OhForFucksSake )
- 8. To find out how wildlife is doing, scientists used AI to listen to the forest
- (tags:sound nature ai birds )
- 9. Facebook and Instagram launch ad-free subscription tier in EU (not UK though)
- (tags:facebook socialnetworking advertising GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 21-08-2023
Aug. 21st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. West Virginia can't require incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming
- (tags:atheism religion USA law prison viaSwampers )
- 2. English Chess Federation will not exclude trans women
- (tags:LGBT chess UK viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. The ecological impact of wolf reintroduction to Britain.
- (tags:wolves ecology viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. Why does global warming lead to both droughts and flooding?
- (tags:globalwarming disaster flooding drought )
- 5. Artists have forgotten how to draw
- (tags:art education drawing )
- 6. Saying Hello To Your Neighbors Linked to Higher Wellbeing, but With Limits
- (tags:happiness health community psychology )
- 7. Two Drums and a Cymbal Fall off a Cliff
- (tags:funny video jokes )
- 8. I am really delighted by how well Rick Astley has done recently. (Here pulled into an impromptu collaboration with the Foo Fighters)
- (tags:music rickroll video viaDanielDWilliam )
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Interesting Links for 12-12-2022
Dec. 12th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The Five-Year Engineering Feat Germany Pulled Off in Months
- (tags:Germany engineering gas energy Russia impressive )
- 2. Countries that have banned spanking have lower rates of violence amongst children
- (tags:children violence spanking )
- 3. Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer
- (tags:Cancer genes GoodNews )
- 4. Where Do US Teaching Skeletons Come From?
- (tags:USA education bodies India )
- 5. Aspartame makes mice anxious. And their children. and their grandchildren
- (tags:food anxiety mice psychology )
- 6. If you're in London you should go see The Wolves in the Walls
- (tags:wolves theatre puppets video London neilgaiman )
- 7. On White Girls Wearing Braids as Cultural Appropriation
- (tags:cultural_appropriation hair race )
- 8. I object to headlines about Edinburgh Zoo penguins playing adorably in the snow when the video clearly shows them just standing about acting entirely normal!
- (tags:headline OhForFucksSake journalism video penguins )
- 9. This lizard is behaving exactly the same as our cat, Jim
- (tags:animals behaviour video )
- 10. What happens to your smartphone when it gets stolen?
- (tags:iphone crime viaPatrickHadfield )
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Interesting Links for 26-11-2022
Nov. 26th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The real reason eggs are being rationed - it's not all down to avian flu, say farmers
- (tags:farming eggs uk )
- 2. Wolves with Toxoplasmosis were 11 times more likely to leave their birth family to start a new pack, and 46 times more likely to become pack leaders
- (tags:wolves ToxoplasmaGondii behaviour )
- 3. Kanye West has a disturbing history of admiring Hitler
- (tags:hitler wtf music )
- 4. The black cat cigarette factory, an interesting piece of London's historical architecture
- (tags:architecture cigarettes London Egypt )
- 5. Russian secret service mistakes LARPers for terrorists and kills them
- (tags:Russia spying larp murder OhForFucksSake games )
- 6. Dead granny's number was up, but texts still came from beyond grave
- (tags:death phones Ireland )
- 7. London Fire Brigade is institutionally misogynist and racist, independent review concludes
- (tags:racism misogyny fire London UK OhForFucksSake )
- 8. List of things named after Norbert Wiener
- (tags:names mathematics viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 22-11-2021
Nov. 22nd, 2021 12:00 pm- Wearing socks in bed increases your chance of orgasm
- (tags:clothes orgasm socks )
- Wolves make roadways safer, generating large economic returns to predator conservation
- (tags:wolves cars economics viaCharlesStross )
- When younger siblings try to copy older ones
- (tags:family children funny video )
- Happy Not Quite Almost Christmas Time!
- (tags:Christmas video music funny )
- A former fusion scientist on why we won't have fusion power by 2040
- (tags:Fusion video )
- Scotland's forests are back to the coverage they were at 1,000 years ago
- (tags:forests Scotland GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 08-07-2021
Jul. 8th, 2021 12:00 pm- Children among staggering number of autistic people drawn to terrorism
- (tags:autism terrorism UK )
- What the "OLED Model" means for the future of Nintendo Switch
- (tags:Nintendo consoles )
- Why the US is about to start waging war on wolves
- (tags:USA wolves )
- OnePlus admits to slowing down 300 popular apps (including Chrome) with recent update
- (tags:phones batteries speed )
- Scotland first to use 'sponge on a string' pill as cancer test
- (tags:Cancer Scotland )
- Researchers investigate the spread of weighing systems across Western Eurasia 4,000 years ago
- (tags:europe prehistory measurement weight )
Interesting Links for 14-06-2021
Jun. 14th, 2021 12:00 pm- So your grandmother is a starship now: a quick guide for the bewildered
- (tags:grandparents space short_story scifi )
- 'Jupiter's Legacy': Battles Over Budgets, Executive Purge Factor in Cancellation
- (tags:superheroes TV netflix fail )
- Yellowstone Wolf 21 had an amazing life
- (tags:wolves books )
- Reasons to hate Adam Curtis
- (tags:documentary funny visualisation )
- 'Ultimate Slip 'N Slide' Production Shut Down Over Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak
- (tags:headline faeces aieeee! )
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Interesting Links for 15-01-2021
Jan. 15th, 2021 12:00 pm- Emergency measure planned at ports to prevent food shortages because of Brexit
- (tags:food trade UK Europe Doom )
- US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters
- (tags:protest police bias )
- The Scottish postman behind 'Sea Shanty TikTok'
- (tags:music sea )
- Eyes Wide Shut is an anti-consumerist Christmas classic
- (tags:christmas StanleyKubrick movies capitalism )
- Highway to the Danger Zone: Top Gun and the dangers of flirting with heterosexuality
- (tags:lgbt satire planes TomCruise homosexuality heterosexuality movies review )
- People are great at following the lockdown rules - except for the one that matters the most
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1349459843833352192.html
(tags:pandemic Doom OhForFucksSake viaFrancescaElston ) - Dire Wolves Were Not Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal
- (tags:wolves genetics USA )
- Takeaways in Scotland: 'I put £2,000 in every week just to stay open'
- (tags:takeaway food Scotland business pandemic )
- Why was NYC able to roll out a vaccine 50x faster in the 40s?
- (tags:history vaccine USA nyc newyork )
- The reluctance of the Home Office to deny publicly that it is reconsidering the restoration of the death penalty - an example of government-media relations
- (tags:government journalism UK death_penalty )
- An outbreak of common colds at an Antarctic base after seventeen weeks of complete isolation
- (tags:colds virus weird )
- What next for Scottish Labour?
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1349830451742060545.html
(tags:Scotland politics labour )
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Interesting Links for 12-11-2020
Nov. 12th, 2020 12:00 pm- "My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania"
- (tags:USA voting )
- Dwayne Johnson is rebooting The Scorpion King
- (tags:movies )
- So, how is the USA managing its Covid-19 response?
- (tags:USA pandemic epicfail )
- Our Brains Have Two Distinct "Beauty Centres": One For Art And One For Faces
- (tags:beauty faces art psychology brain neuroscience )
- Being More Authentic On Social Media Could Improve Your Wellbeing (I suspect that being more authentic generally would do the trick, hiding who you are is exhausting and stressful)
- (tags:psychology happiness socialmedia )
- Boris Johnson picks pro-fracking Tory MP who has campaigned against wind farms as 'climate change champion'
- (tags:globalwarming conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- Capital gains tax: Rate should double, says government review
- (tags:UK tax )
- Behold! The most Irish of all films!
- (tags:Ireland movies satire trailer funny )
- A focus group on Trump voters finds out what they really think. (Interesting on defunding the police)
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1326210279387099136.html
(tags:voting usa ) - COVID-19 Daily Dashboard for Scotland (broken down by neighborhood)
- (tags:pandemic Scotland visualisation viaDanielDWilliam )
- The Polls Weren't Great. But That's Pretty Normal.
- (tags:polls USA politics )
- Good statues of women
- (tags:women statue )
- Japanese town deploys Monster Wolf robots to deter bears
- (tags:robots wolves bears )
- How Brexit will make it much much harder for artists and musicians to tour in Europe
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1326554078256656389.html
(tags:music Europe UK Doom ) - New project at Oxford University explores the origins of money
- (tags:money prehistory research )
- Politics versus policy, and why the approach of Johnson and Cummings to exercising power is going so badly
- (tags:politics government UK )
- There is no evidence that suicides have increased 200% under lockdown
- (tags:suicide pandemic )
- Will government lockdown shopping loopholes destroy the high street?
- (tags:shopping UK doom )
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Interesting Links for 08-11-2020
Nov. 8th, 2020 12:00 pm- Clearly the best version of Tetris
- (tags:tetris cute video )
- Evidence that hobbits didn't have daylight saving time
- (tags:lotr time )
- America Is (Still) a Conservative Country
- (tags:politics usa )
- Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health
- (tags:drugs USA legalisation GoodNews )
- Boris Johnson is ready to address Joe Biden's concerns over Irish border as Government reaches out
- (tags:UK Europe trade )
- South Ayrshire Golf club owner loses 2020 presidential election
- (tags:politics funny Scotland headline )
- Mass Effect: Legendary Edition brings back the sci-fi trilogy next year
- (tags:games remake MassEffect )
- Wolves win vote for reintroduction in Colorado
- (tags:wolves USA )
- I think Boris Johnson might be in trouble...
- (tags:UK Europe Ireland NorthernIreland USA trade video funny )
- Government Buys PPE Made by Uyghur Muslims in Chinese Forced Labour Programmes
- (tags:China UK OhForFucksSake pandemic )
- Brexit: Liz Truss secures tariff wins with her Japan trade deal - for products the UK doesn't export (and 83% of gains will go to Japan)
- (tags:trade UK Japan OhForFucksSake )
- Last year Florida gutted a law which would have given an extra million voters to the Democrats
- (tags:florida law voting crime OhForFucksSake )
- Biden and Harris do not like Boris Johnson
- (tags:GoodNews USA UK politics )
- Boris Johnson under pressure to avoid no-deal Brexit after Biden victory (and some details about how the negotiations are going)
- (tags:UK Europe USA trade )
- Kamala Harris's Record on Trans Rights Isn't "Mixed".
- (tags:USA transgender lgbt rights politics )
- Decorators Review Farrow and Ball Emulsion
- (tags:painting review viaDalglir )
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Interesting Links for 25-05-2020
May. 25th, 2020 12:00 pm- National Trust branded "hard-nosed" and "harsh" by Scottish Government over plans to axe hundreds of jobs
- (tags:nature charity jobs Scotland )
- Some very simply estimated costs for a UBI in Scotland
- (tags:scotland GuaranteedIncome )
- A Feud in Wolf-Kink Erotica Raises a Deep Legal Question
- (tags:copyright fetish wolves erotica fanfic )
- The Ainu, Japan's Indigenous People
- (tags:Japan history )
- Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions
- (tags:scifi history )
- A collection of essays about why online communities end up the way they do
- (tags:community internet )
- What's Up With the Funny-Looking Moons in 'Onward'?
- (tags:space moon Disney )
- Tory whips apologise for urging MPs to support Dominic Cummings
- (tags:conservatives pandemic )
Interesting Links for 18-01-2020
Jan. 18th, 2020 12:00 pm- Lizzo's Choreographer on Why Plus-Size Dancers Shouldn't Be a "Specialty" Act
- (tags:dancing weight )
- Edinburgh Low Emission Zone: Drivers have 5 years to 'clean up cars' or face hefty fines
- (tags:Edinburgh cars transport pollution )
- Scientists discover wolf cubs also play fetch, behaviour thought to belong to dogs alon3
- (tags:dogs wolves behaviour )
- What can parents do to protect their daughters from campus sexual violence?
- (tags:assault rape university advice parenting )
Interesting Links for 29-11-2019
Nov. 29th, 2019 01:23 pm- Dear (Cis) People Who Put Your Pronouns On Your "Hello My Name Is" Name Tags
- (tags:gender lgbt )
- Why we should all be playing games
- (tags:games )
- Can't face a social engagement? Why not send your dad? Like the British prime minister. FFS
- (tags:WTF Father BorisJohnson politics UK )
- UK police explain decision on Prince Andrew case
- (tags:royalty rape uk police OhForFucksSake )
- Really Cool Fluid Simulation (touch sensitive on your phone too)
- (tags:simulation fluid )
- 12 EU states reject move to expose companies' tax avoidance
- (tags:Europe tax transparency OhForFucksSake )
- Lib Dems and Labour are mostly not in direct competition.
- (tags:Labour libdem politics UK )
- Labour to change strategy with two weeks to go
- (tags:Labour UK Europe politics )
- There is widespread Islamophobia among Conservative Party members
- (tags:conservatives Islam bigotry racism )
- 18,000-year old puppy found perfectly intact in Siberian permafrost
- (tags:dogs wolves prehistory )
- Lying liar Boris Johnson lies over his record of lying
- (tags:lying BorisJohnson )
