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20 links, first saved September 1, 2015, latest April 21, 2026.

• Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mindApr 21, 2026 WT345

  Interesting read filled with what seems like a decent amount of common sense. Their findings are not unique. Other teams have also found that drops in testosterone during their…

• Frank Gehry's most iconic work in picturesDec 11, 2025 WT336

  Such iconic design.

• 'I heat my Essex home with a data centre in the shed'Nov 20, 2025 WT333

  Data centers use a tremendous amount of power and create a lot of heat. The two are connected -- the more power the more heat. Both of those things are hard to deal with when they…

• The hidden world beneath the shadows of YouTube's algorithmMar 10, 2025 WT313

  YouTube is so hard for me to classify. Is it a social platform? Yeah. Is it Internet infrastructure? Yeah. Is it archiving all video for the future? Yeah. Is it radicalizing…

• Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road - BBC SportJul 20, 2024
• How mindfulness can make you a darker person - BBC WorklifeMay 12, 2022 WT219

  This headline should be: Mindfulness works. That would get fewer clicks though. Main point, don't use mindfulness techniques to alleviate negative feelings from doing something…

• Ukraine conflict: Further false images shared online - BBC NewsMar 3, 2022 WT214

  Don't believe everything you see on the Internet. Shocking that some of this is from a video game.

• Bitcoin: El Salvador makes cryptocurrency legal tender - BBC NewsJun 10, 2021 WT190

  El Salvador made a huge announcement at the Bitcoin Miami conference and now the law has officially passed. Bitcoin is now an official currency in a country.

• 'Spy pixels in emails have become endemic' - BBC NewsFeb 18, 2021 WT174

  These invisible trackers in email are one of the biggest benefits you get using network level privacy tools like Pi-hole . It is unfortunate that, to my knowledge, no email…

• Social media damages teenagers' mental health, report says - BBC NewsFeb 4, 2021 WT172

  TL;DR: Stay off social media, particularly for teen girls. Get some movement and exercise.

• Covid vaccine: First 'milestone' vaccine offers 90% protection - BBC NewsNov 12, 2020 WT165

  Big step to getting to the other side of this pandemic!

• Denver votes to decriminalise magic mushrooms by razor-thin margin - BBC NewsMay 14, 2019

  I bet this vote doesn't go this way without Michael Pollan's recent book How to Change Your Mind . It’s a good and enlightening read.

• Emma Haruka Iwao smashes pi world record with Google help - BBC NewsMar 14, 2019

  31 trillion digits. Wow! 🤓

• Tension escalates after Russia seizes Ukraine naval ships - BBC NewsNov 26, 2018 WT82

  Things not going so well in Ukraine. 😳

• Scientists explain ancient Rome's long-lasting concrete - BBC NewsJul 5, 2017 WT9

  I recently read Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World and the chapter on concrete was fascinating. The author explores the area of "self…

• How Facebook's tentacles reach further than you think - BBC NewsMay 31, 2017 WT4
• BBC - Future - These unlucky people have names that break computersMar 27, 2016

  Article totally missed the fact that null to a programmer is not a string and that a system that thinks "null" == null is true is broken in very serious ways. The author should…

• Twitter's first TV ad confuses World Series viewers - BBC NewsOct 29, 2015

  Image copyright Twitter Image caption

• BBC - Future - The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lustSep 11, 2015
• Ukraine crisis: Deadly anti-autonomy protest outside parliament - BBC NewsSep 1, 2015

  Was about 1 mile away having dinner last night from where these protests happened. One national guard member has been killed and over 100 injured in violent protests outside…