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• October 28th, 2020, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 28-10-2020

What Comes After the International Space Station?

(tags:iss space thefuture )

Royal High School hotel bid rejected in Edinburgh

(tags:Edinburgh school planning )

Traditional owners mark one year since closure of Uluru climb

(tags:australia )

US grid-battery costs dropped 70% over 3 years

(tags:batteries electricity USA GoodNews )

Brexit border software developers warn it will not be ready in time

(tags:trade UK Europe Doom software )

Covenants, Easements & Wayleaves: The Hidden Urban Interfaces Which Shape London

(tags:tube London transport law architecture history viaFanf )

Scale any task down into a 2-minute version to make it easier to get started

(tags:advice procrastination )

Researchers invent white paint which could reduce the need for air conditioning by keeping surfaces cooler than surroundings

(tags:heat materials viaDanielDWilliam )

Must remember not to let the kids do this

(tags:coke CGI funny video )

Patrol vessel! Vs! Cruise ship!

(tags:boats funny )

Patrol vessel! Vs! Cruise ship!

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1246364316355514368.html
(tags:boats funny )

The UK's mandatory sickness pay is the lowest of the OECD

(tags:sick pay UK OhForFucksSake )

I used Minecraft to teach my kids reading and writing

(tags:Minecraft games literacy children )

COVID's cognitive costs? Some patients' brains may age 10 years

(tags:intelligence disease pandemic )

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  advice, architecture, australia, batteries, boats, cgi, children, coke, disease, doom, edinburgh, electricity, europe, funny, games, goodnews, heat, history, intelligence, iss, law, links, literacy, london, materials, minecraft, ohforfuckssake, pandemic, pay, planning, procrastination, school, sick, software, space, thefuture, trade, transport, tube, uk, usa, viadanieldwilliam, viafanf, video

• July 11th, 2018, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 11-07-2018

India breastfeeding magazine cover ignites debate

(tags: breastfeeding india )

Theresa May will be PM til after Brexit

(tags: Conservatives uk politics )

PETA wants staffies added to the Dangerous Dogs Act

(tags: dogs PETA OhForFucksSake )

Picky Refugee Just Expects To Be Reunited With Exact Same Family As Before

(tags: immigration satire )

The U.S. Abortion Debate Isn’t As Partisan As Politicians Make It Seem

(tags: usa abortion )

EU negotiator Michel Barnier says 80% of Brexit deal is agreed

(tags: uk europe thefuture )

Why Russia is far less threatening than it seems

(tags: Russia economics thefuture )

Please don't pirate books before they've even been released!

(tags: books publishing piracy OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )

Psychology, Numeracy and Biases in Brexit Voters

(tags: referendum Europe UK psychology personality )

What If Trump Has Been a Russian Asset Since 1987?

(tags: Russia politics usa republicans conspiracy )

Netflix's The Dragon Prince: A New Animated Series From Avatar: The Last Airbender's Head Writer Announced

(tags: Netflix animation )

How peopleare misreading the end of Return of the Jedi

(tags: StarWars )

Brits are a _lot_ more in favour of immigratns than they were five years ago

(tags: immigration polls uk GoodNews )

These Bizarre Glasses Promise to Cure Your Motion Sickness

(tags: sick vision glasses )

Turns out you can fight corruption by informing the populace of their rights

(tags: corruption fraud GoodNews food )

Performing meaningless rituals boosts our self-control through making us feel more self-disciplined

(tags: self-control psychology )

Lesbians have better sex than straight women

(tags: sex lesbians lgbt )

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  abortion, animation, books, breastfeeding, conservatives, conspiracy, corruption, dogs, economics, europe, food, fraud, glasses, goodnews, immigration, india, lesbians, lgbt, links, netflix, ohforfuckssake, personality, peta, piracy, politics, polls, psychology, publishing, referendum, republicans, russia, satire, self-control, sex, sick, starwars, thefuture, uk, usa, viaswampers, vision

• October 21st, 2017, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 21-10-2017

The CEO of Goldman Sachs on Brexit

(tags: UK Europe thefuture doom )

Famous Irishmen subject of Westminster Wikipedia editing spree

(tags: Wikipedia Ireland UK history )

The U.S. Is Retreating from Religion

(tags: religion thefuture usa )

Disney's new solar farm shaped like Mickey Mouse

(tags: Disney solarpower )

How to have lucid dreams

(tags: dreams psychology )

US University defends fascist posters telling gay people to kill themselves

(tags: usa University abuse OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )

A lovely story about a very sick girl and a photographer

(tags: sick illness children photography )

Other people not being such twats ‘can help treat depression’, finds study

(tags: satire depression funny )

Britain thinks Germans care about Brexit — they don’t

(tags: Germany Europe uk doom )

Student speech to be censored at UK universities

(tags: university uk freespeech students )

The problem with starting a new centrists political party

(tags: politics uk )

Why the next general election will be in 2022

I'm still hoping for a split in the Conservatives. But it's terribly unlikely.
(tags: politics elections uk )

A Fire Story (A Californian comic artist's tale of evacuation)

(tags: fire california usa comic )

It's _really_ important to care for your cookware right

(tags: food comic funny )

Guest blog: Ethical porn - is it real?

(tags: porn morality )

Awesome spooky plants!

(tags: scary plants awesome )

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  abuse, awesome, california, children, comic, depression, disney, doom, dreams, elections, europe, fire, food, freespeech, funny, germany, history, illness, ireland, links, morality, ohforfuckssake, photography, plants, politics, porn, psychology, religion, satire, scary, sick, solarpower, students, thefuture, uk, university, usa, viaswampers, wikipedia

• April 12th, 2017, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 12-04-2017

Google’s Dueling Neural Networks Spar to Get Smarter, No Humans Required

(tags: ai google )

European Parliament votes to end visa-free travel for Americans

(tags: europe usa travel OhForFucksSake )

38% of Labour supporters think Corbyn would be a better Prime Minister than May

Which, I think, comes down to perceived competence. May might be an awful human being who is unnecessarily tearing the country apart, but she still comes across as more capable of organising a piss-up in a brewery than Corbyn does.
(tags: labour Conservatives politics uk epicfail )

What lurks inside the walls of ancient buildings, and how was it supposed to keep out evil?

(tags: history witchcraft superstition uk )

Boeing Dreamliner Gets $3M Cheaper Thanks to Rapid Plasma Deposition

(tags: 3dprinting airplanes )

The Osiris Child - a trailer for proper trashy b-movie science fiction

(tags: scifi trailer video movies )

The 5 Types Of Vaginas, As Revealed By A Bikini Waxer

(tags: vagina )

Amazon's new sick policy: collective punishment

(tags: amazon sick illness OhForFucksSake )

What Happened to "Who"?

(tags: grammar english usa viaLizzieCassMaran )

Investigation finds prison inmates built computers and hid them in prison ceiling

(tags: prison computers )

The changing definitions of the word "Robot"

(tags: robots history language english scifi )

The factual impenetrability of zombie rules (Like insisting on "Who")

(tags: language english history viaLizzieCassMaran )

Intestinal bacteria may protect against diabetes

(tags: microbiome diabetes )

British man charged after US gamer is shot by Swat police following hoax terrorism call

(tags: OhForFucksSake gaming police guns )

Why Buying T-Shirts Is the Absolute Best Way to Support Bands You Like

(tags: t-shirts music business viaBartCalendar )

That Four-Star Rating You Left Could Cost Your Uber Driver Her Job

(tags: ratings reviews OhForFucksSake )

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  3dprinting, ai, airplanes, amazon, business, computers, conservatives, diabetes, english, epicfail, europe, gaming, google, grammar, guns, history, illness, labour, language, links, microbiome, movies, music, ohforfuckssake, police, politics, prison, ratings, reviews, robots, scifi, sick, superstition, t-shirts, trailer, travel, uk, usa, vagina, viabartcalendar, vializziecassmaran, video, witchcraft

• March 4th, 2017, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 04-03-2017

Labour membership falls by 26,000 in six months

(tags: labour europe )

How Uber Used Secret Greyball Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide

(tags: driving business secrets )

Sick DPD couriers face £150 charge if unable to find cover

(tags: sick pay OhForFucksSake transport uk )

"You May Want to Marry My Husband"

(tags: death cancer life relationships )

Entire operating system written into DNA at 215 Pbytes/gram

(tags: data dna amazing Technology )

New law to stop people accidentally signing up to unwanted monthly subscriptions

(tags: business money uk )

PayPal Redirects Charitable Contributions Without Consent

(tags: paypal charity OhForFucksSake )

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  amazing, business, cancer, charity, data, death, dna, driving, europe, labour, life, links, money, ohforfuckssake, pay, paypal, relationships, secrets, sick, technology, transport, uk

• April 18th, 2015, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 18-04-2015

• New research sheds light on how popular probiotic benefits the gut
  (tags: microbiome bacteria )
• Many teens try e-cigs, but very few become regular users
  (tags: cigarettes technology nicotine children )
• When insanity is contagious
  (tags: disease mentalhealth )
• Psychology students are seduced by superfluous neuroscience
  (tags: neuroscience psychology )
• High-fat diet alters behavior and produces signs of brain inflammation (in mice)
  (tags: health fat behaviour mice )
• The Origins of the White Collar Worker
  (tags: history office work )
• Why Young Men Go to War
  (tags: war society )
• A QUIC update on Google’s experimental transport
  (tags: internet technology Google networking )
• Study links brain anatomy, academic achievement, and family income
  (tags: money brain education intelligence )
• I Hope You Get Officially Sick.
  (tags: sick illness healthcare categorisation doctors )
• Why not voting is such a pitifully ineffective form of protest
  (tags: voting politics )
• When your job is editing the worst porn in the world
  (tags: porn editing aieeee! )
• A fantastic illustration of the Smurfette Principle
  (tags: women representation tv movies )
• The Batman equation
  (tags: batman maths )
• This is my favourite story about Philip Glass
  (tags: work art )
• Nothing is more indicative of a bullshit job than the interview
  (tags: interview jobs technology )

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  aieeee!, art, bacteria, batman, behaviour, brain, categorisation, children, cigarettes, disease, doctors, editing, education, fat, google, health, healthcare, history, illness, intelligence, internet, interview, jobs, links, maths, mentalhealth, mice, microbiome, money, movies, networking, neuroscience, nicotine, office, politics, porn, psychology, representation, sick, society, technology, tv, voting, war, women, work

• July 30th, 2012, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 30-07-2012

• Critical Mass police ban blocked by law lords
  (tags: bicycles protest uk law )
• Tom Hardy Rapping With A Baby Is The Internet’s Reckoning
  (tags: viaJohnBobShaun video funny baby TomHardy )
• £1.4bn plan for Fife wind farm submitted
  (tags: wind electricity Scotland uk )
• Music Labels Won’t Share Pirate Bay Loot With Artists
  (tags: copyright piracy money )
• Gretna Green residents are hoping for an influx of people wanting gay marriages.
  (tags: marriage uk scotland lgbt )
• Climate sceptics carry out investigation, change their minds. Huzzah for science!
  (tags: science globalwarming )
• Olympic opening ceremony: Chinese Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei's review
  (tags: uk china review olympics )
• Surprisingly Good Evidence That Real Name Policies Fail To Improve Comments
  (tags: internet conversation identity names )
• The New York Times gets more than half its money from subscribers. Still making a loss though.
  (tags: money newspapers advertising business media )
• Employment Minister Chris Grayling moves to push people deemed too sick to work back into work.
  (tags: viaFanf work sick welfare government uk )
• The London Olympics are the most Right-wing major event in Britain’s modern history.
  (tags: viaFanf uk olympics )
• Fall, Mortality, and the Machine: Tolkien and Technology
  (tags: fantasy fiction Technology Tolkien )
• Mississippi church refuses to marry black couple.
  (tags: religion usa racism )
• The Lord of the Rings in 99 seconds. In song.
  (tags: funny song video lotr )
• All music sounds the same these days - Computer confirms what your gran always said.
  (tags: music )
• Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM allows _any_ website to take over your computer.
  (tags: drm games EpicFail )
• Ursula K. Le Guin on being asked to produce books like Harry Potter, and the quality of her adaptations
  (tags: UrsulaKLegGuin writing publishing )
• How our brains see men as people and women as body parts.
  (tags: brains psychology gender perception )

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  advertising, baby, bicycles, brains, business, china, conversation, copyright, drm, electricity, epicfail, fantasy, fiction, funny, games, gender, globalwarming, government, identity, internet, law, lgbt, links, lotr, marriage, media, money, music, names, newspapers, olympics, perception, piracy, protest, psychology, publishing, racism, religion, review, science, scotland, sick, song, technology, tolkien, tomhardy, uk, ursulaklegguin, usa, viafanf, viajohnbobshaun, video, welfare, wind, work, writing