Interesting Links for 07-12-2021

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Can coronavirus cause diabetes, or make it worse?(tags:diabetes Pandemic Doom )Rail freight boosted by HGV driver shortage and climate change(tags:trains transport shipping GoodNews uk )Uber prices could rise 20% after UK VAT ruling(tags:tax UK law taxi )As few as 1 in 10 Covid infections checked for omicron, as 'community transmission' confirmed(tags:UK Pandemic Doom )Two hippos at Belgian zoo test positive for Covid(tags:hippo Pandemic )Virgin Media O2 completes gigabit upgrade after two years (I'm on the much slower 350Mbit speed)(tags:broadband internet UK virgin )What Whale Barnacles Can Tell Us(tags:whales history biology )How the Government both won and lost the Priti Patel High Court bullying case(tags:law bullying government uk ) Robot facial expressions are getting pretty good(tags:robots faces viaJamesNicoll )A feel-good, time-travelling Christmas movie starring Michael Sheen, you say?(tags:movies viaLilysea christmas timetravel )DARPA Funded Researchers Accidentally Create The World's First Warp Bubble(tags:physics space )What's Putin really up to with Ukraine?(tags:russia ukraine usa ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
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