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1. Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 5 to 11 years old have little-to-no effect

(tags:obesity children research exercise diet )

2. Cannabis use associated with quadrupled risk of developing type 2 diabetes (2.2% vs 0.6%)

(tags:diabetes marijuana )

3. Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles

(tags:electricity myths solarpower windpower cars transport environment )

4. The chumbox is (still) the dirty design secret of the internet

(tags:advertising web doom )

1. If you were wondering what Bryan Fuller and Mads Mikkelsen were up to, it's a movie about a guy who will (for the right money) kill the monster under your bed. Dust Bunny (also starring Sigourney Weaver).

I wish my kids were a few years older...
(tags:monsters children movies trailer )

2. How were escalators invented, and how safe are they? (very, unless your maintenance people are corrupt)

(tags:design technology safety video history )

3. Israeli conductor condemns his country in extraordinary Proms outburst

(tags:Israel Palestine )

Rainbow over Arthur's Seat
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

Behold, Vitruvian Ducker!

(Sophia was delighted to discover that she can give Gideon piggy backs and has now been doing them whenever she can. Which is impressive when they weigh basically the same.)
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

1. New Banksy mural appears at Royal Courts of Justice

(tags:protests graffiti UK law viaSwampers )

1. Greens now leading Labour amongst LGB voters

(tags:LGBT polls politics UK )

2. Palestinian prisoners are being starved, Israel's top court says

(tags:food palestine israel OhForFucksSake )

3. How Britain built some of the world's safest roads (The death rate per mile driven has declined 22-fold since 1950.)

(tags:death safety uk driving GoodNews )

1. Graham Linehan goes on trial over harassment of trans teenager

(tags:LGBT bigotry transgender crime UK )

2. US imposes sanctions on Palestinians who asked for Israel war crimes probe

(tags:usa israel palestine OhForFucksSake )

3. M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial

(tags:UK ai government )

4. Weak Forms: Why 'natives' and 'non-natives' sound different when they speak English

(tags:English language video sounds )

5. AI company Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with authors

(tags:publishing ai law )

1. Labour's weirdness over flags is deranged, not patriotic

(tags:Labour nationalism flags weird )

2. Why bans on smartphones or social media for teenagers could do more harm than good

(tags:phones internet children )

3. One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants

(tags:ants reproduction viaPatrickHadfield weird cloning )

4. DragonCon ejects AI 'artist', to approval of all

(tags:art ai conventions )