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Interesting Links for 11-01-2022
What are the biggest non-diet causes of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, etc?(tags:society sleep stress disease weight diabetes )Leaked email shows 100 No 10 staff were invited to a party during lockdown restrictions(tags:UK conservatives Pandemic law OhForFucksSake )Repeat after me: Covid doesn't spread on surfaces(tags:Pandemic cleanliness ) ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 06-01-2022
Wordle creator promises viral game will stay simple and ad-free (I'm enjoying it!)(tags:games money )A bird building a nest inside a box (semi time lapse, lovely to see)(tags:birds video timelapse ) A detailed, personal, history of the famous battlefield relic of a chest plate with a cannonball hole(tags:history war France )Google fixes nightmare ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 24-12-2021
Ancient mass migration transformed Britons' DNA(tags:genetics UK prehistory language )Omicron needs to be 90% less severe to avoid large wave in hospital admissions(tags:NHS Doom Pandemic virus )People With Omicron Are 50-70% Less Likely To Be Hospitalised Than Other Covid Cases(tags:NHS Pandemic Doom UK )The consolidation of the games industry ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 10-11-2021
Malnutrition doubles to over 10,000 cases under Tory rule(tags:food conservatives UK OhForFucksSake )Tiny cute bat wins New Zealand's Bird of the Year poll(tags:birds bats funny )Moonfall looks like an amazingly ridiculous movie. I'm actively looking forward to this.(tags:trailer moon video ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
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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 10-10-2021
How will Sandman handle its transgender character?(tags:LGBT Sandman neilgaiman transgender writing TV comics ) Have you collateralised your bird of prey? (I was amused and delighted by this satire)(tags:finance birds satire funny )Proof that you can totally make a USB-C iPhone.(tags:USB iPhone video ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
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Interesting Links for 19-09-2021
Unprecedented seabird deaths on northern coasts a mystery(tags:birds death UK )Facebook forced fraudulent content on over 40% of all Americans each month(tags:Facebook fraud OhForFucksSake Russia )Lib Dems urge sanctions and Olympic boycott on China over Uyghur genocide(tags:libdem China genocide Olympics )Ireland raises privacy question over ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 03-08-2021
I think these people have opened a door into the void. Or the elemental plane of storms. Either way: don't!(tags:weather video )Government passed over 171 candidates to pick Bullingdon Club 'chum' of Boris Johnson for sleaze watchdog role(tags:corruption conservatives BorisJohnson ) The 60s. When gay men married gay women and they all raised kids ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 16-07-2021
Birds with terrible names(tags:birds names funny )Valve have announced the very Switch-like Steam Deck(tags:valve steam games console )Thanks to the wonders of AI you been now be appalled at Willem Dafoe in Pretty Woman(tags:ai movies wtf viaEatSoylentGreen )California breaks 1 GW energy storage milestone (and looks to a 'future' 1.21 GW moment)( ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 12-05-2021
How To Do Everything You Need To Do With a Newborn When Your Partner's Gone Back To Work(tags:babies viaJane )This illiberal Queen's Speech is the next step for authoritarian populism after Brexit(tags:uk authoritarianism doom politics )Richard Garfield: Getting Lucky (on the role of luck in making games appealing)(tags:games luck viaDanielDWilliam ( Read more... )