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Interesting Links for 18-01-2022
UK Covid cases halve in a week, and Omicron is 'disappearing fast' across most of the UK(tags:Pandemic UK GoodNews )ScotWind offshore auction raises £700m - will have capacity of 25GW(tags:Scotland windpower )Israel Finds Fourth Covid Jab Is Ineffective(tags:Pandemic vaccination Israel )Turn your Wordle result into a cute building with the ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 27-11-2021
The Highest City in the World Celebrates Its Indigenous Culture with Neo-Andean Architecture(tags:design Bolivia architecture colour )Boris Johnson bridge to Northern Ireland would cost over £300bn and should not be built, government review finds(tags:uk NorthernIreland trains )Edinburgh's tram extension: Leith Walk faces longer closure after ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 09-11-2021
Ancient wild bees found at Blenheim Palace(tags:bees )The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything(tags:advice learning teaching )Portugal makes it illegal for your boss to text you after work(tags:portugal work working_hours )Walmart is using fully driverless trucks to ramp up its online grocery business(tags:automation driving transport ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 12-10-2021
We May Have Found Roman Concrete's Secret Strengthening Ingredient(tags:rome concrete history architecture materials )Why won't Sally Rooney allow her latest novel to be translated into Hebrew?Update in comments
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Interesting Links for 09-10-2021
Lateral flow tests: Health chiefs probe 'high number' of positive rapid Covid tests followed by negative PCRs(tags:pandemic weird )Edinburgh's former Royal High school: Lease granted for music school trust(tags:edinburgh school history architecture ) How the worst civilian rail disaster in UK history helped create the paramedic(tags:healthcare ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 30-09-2021
The Mystery Box Storytelling Approach Is Broken, and Here's How to Fix It(tags:writing mysteries bad )Covid in Scotland: Latest ICU patients largely unvaccinated and young(tags:Pandemic hospital Scotland )Oh lord, Will Wright's new game is built on NFTs(tags:OhForFucksSake games cryptography )How on earth were the red flags around Sarah Everard's ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 08-08-2021
Wibbly wobbly buildings (scroll down to see other contributed examples)(tags:architecture weird ) The Ferry and The Flames - terrifying footage from the ongoing apocalypse(tags:fire video ) The world's biggest tyre dump is on fire(tags:fire Doom )Does Oil Come from Dinosaurs?(tags:dinosaurs oil myths ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
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Interesting Links for 22-06-2021
Volcano Fortress versus Meteor: Fight!(tags:volcano meteor photos )Negativity about political opponents is twice as likely to go viral as positivity about your own side(tags:Twitter politics viral psychology )New system for complaints against Scottish ministers(tags:Scotland government )Ninety-five per cent of world's fish hide in mesopelagic zone ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 02-06-2021
'My landlord wants six months' rent upfront'(tags:rent uk )China allows couples to have three children(tags:china children )The first complete sequence of a human genome(tags:genetics )Eighteen million trees to be planted around Glasgow(tags:trees glasgow scotland ) A swimming pool. In the air. Between two skyscrapers.(tags:swimming architecture UK ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 29-04-2021
Samsung's Lee family to pay more than $10.8 bln inheritance tax(tags:inheritance tax Korea Samsung )Ford's Ever-Smarter Robots Are Speeding Up the Assembly Line(tags:automation cars manufacturing )Vertical turbines far more efficient in large-scale wind farms(tags:windpower )What are the consequences for politicians who lie?(tags:lying politics UK ( Read more... )