Entries tagged with writing

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Interesting Links for 16-04-2025

1. Do You Actually Know What Classical Music Is? Does Anyone?: (tags:music writing )

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Interesting Links for 03-03-2025

1. You need governmental approval to run psychological tests on job applicants in Canada: (tags:Canada psychology jobs viaDewline )
2. Edinburgh are having a consultation on dogs on beaches and in green spaces, as well as buskers and green-space management.: (tags:Edinburgh consultation dogs )
3. New study says TikToks are bad for you! Thankfully it's complete nonsense!: (tags:science brain videos )
4. The Cuddled Little Vice - a fascinating, in-depth, dissection of Neil Gaiman's career.: (tags:neilgaiman rape history writing sandman comics )
5. German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility: (tags:USA tourism prison OhForFucksSake )
6. The US Defense Department removes thousands of serving transgender people: (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry USA republicans )
7. Church of England: just 25% now have a favourable view - 49% unfavourable.: (tags:religion uk polls )

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Interesting Links for 11-12-2024

1. The Scottish government is to back a move to bar MSPs from also sitting as MPs or members of the House of Lords: (tags:scotland politics )
2. Next-generation datacenters consume zero water for cooling: (tags:water cool heat Technology )
3. Israel targets Syria: 480 strikes in 48 hours after Assad's ouster as they destroy weapons caches: (tags:Israel Syria weaponry )
4. "I'm a Syrian in the UK - here's what Britons don't understand about my country": (tags:syria war civilwar asylum )
5. Google's new AI predicts weather and the risks of extreme conditions better than the existing state-of-the-art: (tags:ai weather )
6. Medical misogyny leaving women in pain for years without a diagnosis for common conditions including endometriosis, heavy periods and chronic UTI: (tags:women misogyny uk nhs epicfail healthcare )
7. "My boyfriend sent me a heartfelt message - then I learned he'd used ChatGPT": (tags:relationships ai writing )

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Interesting Links for 23-10-2024

1. How does WhatsApp make money?: (tags:communication business )
2. You Don't Need Words to Think: (tags:language thinking )
3. Who wants to hear interesting facts about the English language?: (tags:language writing history video English )
4. Bohemian Rhapsody, told in memes: (tags:meme queen music funny )
5. George R.R. Martin Announces He's Written Every 'And' That Will Appear In Next Book: (tags:writing GeorgeRRMartin funny satire )
6. Keir Starmer scores first major Brexit reset success with landmark defence deal with Germany: (tags:UK Germany military russia )
7. Edinburgh city centre to get first major new public gardens for 200 years: (tags:edinburgh gardens school music )
8. Scientists Say Our Water Cycle Has Started Breaking Down: (tags:water environment doom )
9. Meet the winners of Nikon's 2024 photomicrography contest: (tags:photos awards microscope )
10. California Is Flooding School Cafeterias With Vegan Meals—and Kids Like It: (tags:food california vegan )
11. What explains the timing and manner of the Chagos Islands sovereignty deal? (the USA): (tags:usa uk india politics )
12. UK Supreme Court rules that individuals can take regulators to court to make them do their job.: (tags:uk regulation law )
13. "Autism" is at least four different things.: (tags:autism genetics development children )

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Interesting Links for 10-07-2024

1. What's the state of housing in the UK (spoilers: terrible): (tags:uk housing )
2. More than half of anti-abortion MPs lose seats in election: (tags:abortion uk politics )
3. Vatican to trans people - please resist the urge to become God: (tags:catholicism transgender god )
4. Scotland's 2024 General Election in numbers: (tags:Scotland election statistics )
5. This is the best write-up I've seen of the Neil Gaiman assault allegations. The whole thing sounds like a mess.: (tags:neilgaiman assault )
6. New weight-loss and diabetes drugs linked to lower risk of 10 cancers (if you have diabetes): (tags:diabetes cancer medicine )
7. Iain (M) Banks: Two Authors, One Man (An exhibition at the University of Stirling): (tags:IainBanks writing )
8. UK's sugar tax led to a nearly 50 per cent reduction in children's added sugar intake from sodas and other soft drinks: (tags:sugar children tax )
9. Evolution explained by Rage Against The Machine: (tags:music evolution funny viaMyBrotherMike )

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Interesting Links for 18-06-2024

1. Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers: (tags:uk surveillance trains transport )
2. First-ever randomized trial of Ozempic for alcohol use disorder shows significant reductions in drinking: (tags:alcohol healthcare research psychology )
3. But *when* was being gay invented?: (tags:LGBT gay prehistory )
4. Rogue Austrian minister burns bridges to save EU nature law: (tags:europe nature law green viaPatrickHadfield )
5. How writers see their own work is very different to how others see it: (tags:writing sandman neilgaiman comics )
6. Anyone want to buy a bunch of Church of Scotland buildings? You can have your own church for £38k...: (tags:religion scotland housing viaDanielDWilliam )
7. How had I never seen "Patrick Stewart's Cowboy Classics"?: (tags:cowboy PatrickStewart video wtf )
8. New coastal town for Edinburgh reaches next major milestone: (tags:edinburgh housing )

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Interesting Links for 11-06-2024

1. 4,000 years ago a mutation in horses made them easier to ride. Within 300 years we had spread them everywhere.: (tags:horses europe prehistory genetics )
2. No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making huge strides.: (tags:weather ai )
3. China Miéville Writes a Secret Novel With the Internet's Boyfriend (It's Keanu Reeves): (tags:KeanuReeves ChinaMieville writing )
4. How Norway's calm, cushy prisons put Britain's model to shame: (tags:prison norway )
5. The Conservatives have overseen a 400% increase in sexual orientation hate crimes and a 1,400% increase in transphobic ones: (tags:bigotry UK crime LGBT )
6. Here's a frankly great political manifesto: (tags:politics UK libdem )
7. A possible direct exposure of the Earth to the cold dense interstellar medium 2-3 Myr ago: (tags:sun solarsystem space )
8. I am currently earwormed by the song my children brushed their teeth to this morning. I would like to not be.: (tags:music teeth video )
9. UN Security Council votes in favour of Gaza ceasefire resolution: (tags:UnitedNations gaza palestine israel )
10. What's happened the previous times the Conservative Party have imploded?: (tags:Conservatives history politics uk )
11. Ed Davey says Lib Dems would fight for UK to rejoin EU single market and eventually overturn Brexit: (tags:libdem uk europe politics )
12. Before 'Fans,' There Were 'Kranks,' 'Longhairs,' and 'Lions': (tags:fandom history )
13. Inside the Lib Dem election stunt factory: 'We had to make Ed look very silly': (tags:libdem politics )

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Interesting Links for 24-05-2024

1. New pylons to be installed across the UK in National Grid's £30bn green upgrade: (tags:uk electricity infrastructure )
2. For whom Good Omens is being written: (tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett alzheimers TV writing )
3. Football Association resists government pressure to change its transgender inclusion policy: (tags:football UK transgender LGBT GoodNews sports )
4. The next food marketing blitz is aimed at people on new weight-loss drugs: (tags:food weight drugs )
5. Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking for first time in US: (tags:marijuana alcohol usa )
6. The Suit Died, but for Good Reasons: (tags:history clothing UK monarchy class USA )
7. Managers - what are they good for?: (tags:management engineering software )
8. Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue: (tags:Reddit Google ai OhForFucksSake safety advice headline epicfail )

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Interesting Links for 15-03-2024

1. The financial burden of tackling climate change will fall disproportionately on Scotland: (tags:scotland globalwarming )
2. The Violence Of Relentless Positivity In The Workplace (or: "Negativity is an expensive signal of honesty"): (tags:work honesty complaints )
3. Why women are at greater risk of autoimmune disease: (tags:immune_system women disease )
4. The Small Company at the Center of 'Gamergate 2.0': (tags:harassment games writing Diversity bigotry OhForFucksSake )
5. Review of "Who's Afraid of Gender?" by Judith Butler - An urgent counter to trans panic: (tags:gender society )
6. Urban humans have lost much of their ability to digest plants: (tags:humans microbiome plants food )
7. How Michael Sheen met Neil Gaiman, and the mystery they ate when they did: (tags:neilgaiman food )
8. Next-gen battery tech: Reimagining every aspect of batteries: (tags:batteries Technology thefuture research )
9. There is no EU cookie banner law: (tags:europe regulation privacy )
10. A Diversity of Novels with Transgender Protagonists: (tags:transgender lgbt fiction )
11. The Designer Who's Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge: (tags:water cities china design drought )

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