On the Beat

1. Dungeons & Dragons is great for brain health (particularly the elderly and people with disabilities)

(tags:dungeonsanddragons mentalhealth entertainment )

2. NHS threatens GP practice over trans care

(tags:transgender UK bigotry healthcare OhForFucksSake )

3. Cambridge University's oldest women-only college, Newnham, stands firm for trans inclusion

(tags:transgender Cambridge university GoodNews )

4. Novel peanut allergy vaccine shows promise to transform allergy care

(tags:allergies vaccine )

5. Petition to make schools in Scotland safe for pupils with allergies

(tags:allergies scotland school petition )

6. 20% of US UTIs are caused by contimated meat

(tags:usa meat food infection )

7. When Stick Figures Fought (A history of the stick figure combat flash animations of the early 200s)

(tags:history fighting animation web Flash )

8. The password for the Louvre's Video Surveillance System was "Louvre"

(tags:art museums security epicfail france )

Glasgow still feels much more city-like to me than Edinburgh.

Which is probably why I prefer living in Edinburgh.

(Great to visit though)

1. Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation are caused by your brain flushing itself clean

(tags:brain sleep )

2. Only 416 days until next Christmas!

(tags:Christmas )

This morning Sophia announced, as we were about to leave the house, that she couldn't find her school shoes.

Her black school shoes.

The ones that are and integral part of her Wednesday costume. For the school Halloween disco. This evening.

Jane and I frantically tore the house apart for fifteen minutes and checked *everywhere*. Eventually we forced her, crying, to put on her trainers, promising her that if her shoes turned up we would bring them in to her.

Because we left fifteen minutes late we missed the bus. And so it was that we were halfway through the walk to school when Sophia quietly said "Oh."

And then told me that she'd just remembered that yesterday she'd come home from school in her welly boots, leaving her shoes at her peg.

You'll be delighted to hear that I didn't murder her.

1. Labour Deputy Lucy Powell says EHRC's single-sex spaces draft is 'not right'

(tags:LGBT transgender GoodNews bigotry UK labour )

2. Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows

(tags:games windows Linux )

3. A satellite runs Doom from orbit, using Ubuntu on Arm

(tags:space doom games )

1. 4 Halloween Costumes That'll Make Him Say 'Oh Cool Yeah I Haven't Seen that Show'

(tags:Halloween costumes funny TV )

2. Time Immemorial turns 750: The Medieval law that froze history at 1189

(tags:history law UK viaPatrickHadfield )

3. Why Warm Countries Are Poorer

(tags:poverty economics geography temperature disease trade )

4. Chatbots Are Repeating Sanctioned Russian Propaganda

(tags:russia ai propaganda )

5. Megafauna was the meat of choice for South American hunters

(tags:prehistory SouthAmerica food animals )

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1. The nerdiest music video of all time

(tags:wargames video music history uk france )

2. The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage's Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks

(tags:politics uk wales )

3. 'Mind-boggling' poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players

(tags:poker fraud mafia )

4. Armed police surround teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun

(tags:ai guns epicfail )

5. Bad therapy is causing 'emotional Thatcherism'

(tags:therapy counselling society )

6. What the new Northern Cyprus election result means

(tags:Cyprus turkey )

7. ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web

(tags:viaPatrickHadfield browser OhForFucksSake ai )

8. Bosses of Dungeons & Dragons club in £150k court fight sparked by alleged 'dungeonmaster cuddle'

(tags:roleplaying business law UK )

1. Settlers of Catan has been licensed by Netflix. I look forward to finding out the true lore behind "I've got wood for sheep".

(tags:netflix SettlersOfCatan EpicWTF games tv )

2. Tracking down the Romans who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius

(tags:Rome history volcano viaPatrickHadfield )

3. Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time

(tags:ai news fraud )

4. Brainwave study sheds light on cause of 'hearing voices' in schizophrenic people

(tags:hearing schizophrenia )

5. Amazon unveils prototype AI smart glasses for its delivery drivers

(tags:cameras Amazon technology delivery )

6. How to get men to share their feelings, by an Army psychologist

(tags:psychology emotion men advice )