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Interesting Links for 01-08-2021
FactCheck: What's behind the UK vaccination slowdown?(tags:UK vaccination )China is building nuclear weapons. Here's why.
(tags:nuclearweapons China )Electric cars have much lower life cycle emissions(tags:co2 cars manufacturing ) How transphobes read Pratchett as being on their side(tags:LGBT transgender terrypratchett )Google encouraged employees ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 07-07-2021
New Norway law mandates social media influencers disclose photo editing and sponsorship(tags:Norway transparentsociety Photoshop photos socialmedia )Cybersecurity Workers Flood Twitter With Bikini Pics to Protest Harassment(tags:harassment women clothing security Twitter )Israel data shows plunge in efficacy of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as delta ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 06-05-2021
Why Bookshop.org is not the saviour the book world needsI'm not actually sure there *is* a saviour
(tags:books business )Facebook Oversight Board upholds ban on former President Trump(tags:facebook politics ) West Midlands police are apparently both racist and incompetent(tags:OhForFucksSake police harassment UK incompetence ) What adverts are the ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 11-03-2021
Shellfish Businesses Say Government Plan To Build Purification Centres Won't Help Most Exports(tags:trade UK Europe fish Doom )New opening date for Edinburgh's children's hospital(tags:Edinburgh children hospital )97% of young women in the UK have been sexually harassed, 52% of them have been harassed at work(tags:abuse harassment women UK )Israel ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 31-10-2020
Loathing of Boris Johnson fueling surge in support for Scottish independence(tags:Scotland independence BorisJohnson politics polls )Deaths per hundred thousand people - 156 countries do better than the UK, only 10 do worse(tags:pandemic UK OhForFucksSake )"Oh Jeeeesus": Drivers react to Tesla's full self-driving beta release(tags:driving ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 25-07-2020
Sainsbury's, Co-op and Asda among stores saying they won't enforce English face mask laws(tags:shopping pandemic )Professor Sir Geoff Palmer compares Scottish independence with independence of former British colonies(tags:UK history Scotland independence empire ) Your regular reminder that trans people have been competing in sport and using their ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 26-05-2020
The Miracle Sudoku - watching the impossible slowly fall into place. Very impressive(tags:numbers puzzles )The Best Health Care System in the World: Which One Would You Pick?(tags:healthcare ) How do you remain compassionate in the face of unremitting awfulness?(tags:emotion caring awfulness ViaDrCross )UK hospital closes A&E and no longer accepting ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 04-09-2019
Boris Johnson to rip up purdah convention if there's an election(tags:UK elections conservatives ) How to intervene when you see someone bring harassed(tags:harassment advice )Could Britain really hold an election on a Monday?(tags:elections uk )I have to say I'm not even slightly convinced that the Lib Dems should have accepted Phillip Lee in to ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 30-07-2019
Famous dance scenes from movies with the wrong music. (favourites are Saturday Night Fever Vs Metallica and Flashdance Vs Bon Jovi(tags:music video movies dancing viaSwampers ) I did not realise you could dissolve an infinite amount of candyfloss in water(tags:video chemistry fun ) Can *you* throw like a girl?(tags:video women sports ) If MPs no- ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Links for 10-06-2019
A different kind of string theory: Antoni Gaudi(tags:architecture spain design )Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans(tags:USA history ) This story is a rollercoaster(tags:death relationships ) Your regular reminder that workplaces which don't have a formal structure are a nightmare(tags: ( Read more... )