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Linketies and Life
May. 15th, 2011 10:45 pm(Comments on my love of the new Doctor Who ep moved to a different post once I realized I couldn't say what I wanted without being spoilery)
Otherwise, there isn't too much going on. I've been really dragging all week; we've been getting cycles of thunderstorms, heavy fog, all kinds of cool, fun weather. I like it, but it makes me flare. We've mostly been working on the yard and garden, finishing the tidying for Christina's home tour today (which looked like it was going well despite the rain; Lolly the Trolley was dropping folks off constantly in front of our place all morning). Grafton should be back from Hillbilly Burn tonight, and life is generally quiet and good. Also, my Mom is finally using her email regularly, so I'm back to trying to get her over here to my LJ. We'll see whether I have success. I did introduce her and Marn, though, and I think they'll enjoy sharing poetry via email.
Lazy Sunday Video: A tour de force through the history of life
Tell Congress to Fund Efforts to Save Bats
Flexibeast on sex and gender --
FWIW, I identify as genderqueer personally, although I'mcomfortable used enough to female pronouns that many folks aren't aware of that (also, my long hair works against me; most folks read it as a gender marker, not as a hippy marker, which is what it actually is). I still get a bouncy little thrill on the rare occasions when someone "misgenders" me, though. Sadly, my body and voice rather scream "girl", so this usually only happens in winter when well-bundled. I really like what Flexibeast says about gender identification vs gender roles, especially. Although I grew up as a tomboy with a pretty reflexive reaction against anything I saw as "girly", I've mostly sorted out the misogynism I picked up that way, and yet I still struggle sometimes to explain why I identify as genderqueer, when plenty of equally or more tomboyish women don't.
Laver is an edible seaweed that has a high mineral salt content, particularly iodine and iron. It is used for making laverbread, a traditional Welsh dish. -- it's just a wikipedia article, but it was something I had no idea about, and I thought it was interesting. It was brought to my attention in a discussion about nori in a previous post.
And have the more general "edible seaweed" article link as well
Photograph of the sea tractor that is used to ferry passengers between Bigbury-on-Sea and Burgh Island during high tide.
Most of us have genes that make us as hardy as dandelions: able to take root and survive almost anywhere. A few of us, however, are more like the orchid: fragile and fickle, but capable of blooming spectacularly if given greenhouse care. So holds a provocative new theory of genetics, which asserts that the very genes that give us the most trouble as a species, causing behaviors that are self-destructive and antisocial, also underlie humankind’s phenomenal adaptability and evolutionary success. With a bad environment and poor parenting, orchid children can end up depressed, drug-addicted, or in jail—but with the right environment and good parenting, they can grow up to be society’s most creative, successful, and happy people. -- This meshes well with my view of psych "disorders" especially. My family has a lot of them, and we often talk about the ways in which those traits can be leveraged to be highly useful in certain situations, despite being hugely detrimental in others.
April 2011 - Co2 Clock
New Chronology (Fomenko -- Huh. Ran across this while looking at links related to that bizarre "the Dark Ages never happened" theory I posted about yesterday. Even more bizarre. I do find this kind of stuff fascinating.
Seal whiskers sense fattest fish
NZ: Schools arrange secret abortions -- as the original poster said, "If you replace all instances of 'secret' with 'private', this article loses a ton of shock value really quickly. "
Hopeful News About an HIV Vaccine -- still in animal trials, but good results so far.
An amusing little Doctor Who comic strip
From here, for those who read hebrew and want an attribution
Religious affiliation and economic standing are intertwined, according to data compiled the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. Indeed, the economic disparities among those of different religions are significantly larger than the differences among states and even larger than those among different racial groups. -- How did they address issues of conversion? That seems to be a major confound in even beginning to approach causality here. People do sometimes change denomination as their social status changes, often to be able to network with people who are more likely to be helpful to them.
IMF Head Dominique Strauss-Kahn Arrested on Plane in NYC, Accused of Sexual Assault
Sovereign Citizens Movement
Health Insurers Making Record Profits as Many Postpone Care
The Doctor's Wife: The Lost Scenes and More -- of course the vids don't play in the US. Mostly noting this so I know what to go search for when I get on youtube.
Doctor Who really is a love story after all (spoilery for 6.04)
Syrian dissidents use donkeys to smuggle videos to Jordan
Colliding white dwarfs give each other a new lease on life
A tween girl designed the coolest TARDIS console yet
Walter Jon Williams uses pirate ebooks to rescue his backlist
Space Shuttle Endeavour readies for Monday launch
TEPCO: meltdown occurred at Fukushima 16 hours after quake
Canadian copyright collective wants a music tax on memory cards
Blackwater founder Erik Prince building American-led army of revolution-crushing mercenaries in UAE
In “Cucumber Quest,” a funny thing happens on the way to Hogwarts -- Looks amusing and worth checking out.
Why does the Moon make scorpions glow in the dark?
Nathan Fillion launches a new electric car: "It looks a little like a spaceship. I'm kind of into spaceships."
Watch the first footage from NBC's new fall genre shows, Grimm and Awake -- "Grimm" appeals to me more than "Awake" at this point, but I'll probably check both out.
The next atomic clocks could keep accurate time for the entire life of the universe (and why it matters for science)
Researchers find missing link fungi in university pond
The Art Nouveau of scifi heroines
Can hot sauce be used as a substitute for electrical shocks? -- frankly, I'd rather have an electrical shock than a hot sauce experience of equal intensity. The electrical shock stops much more effectively.
The musical test that reveals the extent of brain damage
Australian building crams tree-lined city street into 35 stories
Science reveals what you need to do to talk people into anything
Alejandro Jodorowsky's never-made adaptation of Dune is getting a documentary
Watch Destino, Salvador Dalí's cartoon team-up with Walt Disney
Worm regenerates a whole new body from a single cell
Otherwise, there isn't too much going on. I've been really dragging all week; we've been getting cycles of thunderstorms, heavy fog, all kinds of cool, fun weather. I like it, but it makes me flare. We've mostly been working on the yard and garden, finishing the tidying for Christina's home tour today (which looked like it was going well despite the rain; Lolly the Trolley was dropping folks off constantly in front of our place all morning). Grafton should be back from Hillbilly Burn tonight, and life is generally quiet and good. Also, my Mom is finally using her email regularly, so I'm back to trying to get her over here to my LJ. We'll see whether I have success. I did introduce her and Marn, though, and I think they'll enjoy sharing poetry via email.
Lazy Sunday Video: A tour de force through the history of life
Tell Congress to Fund Efforts to Save Bats
Flexibeast on sex and gender --
FWIW, I identify as genderqueer personally, although I'm
Laver is an edible seaweed that has a high mineral salt content, particularly iodine and iron. It is used for making laverbread, a traditional Welsh dish. -- it's just a wikipedia article, but it was something I had no idea about, and I thought it was interesting. It was brought to my attention in a discussion about nori in a previous post.
And have the more general "edible seaweed" article link as well
Photograph of the sea tractor that is used to ferry passengers between Bigbury-on-Sea and Burgh Island during high tide.
Most of us have genes that make us as hardy as dandelions: able to take root and survive almost anywhere. A few of us, however, are more like the orchid: fragile and fickle, but capable of blooming spectacularly if given greenhouse care. So holds a provocative new theory of genetics, which asserts that the very genes that give us the most trouble as a species, causing behaviors that are self-destructive and antisocial, also underlie humankind’s phenomenal adaptability and evolutionary success. With a bad environment and poor parenting, orchid children can end up depressed, drug-addicted, or in jail—but with the right environment and good parenting, they can grow up to be society’s most creative, successful, and happy people. -- This meshes well with my view of psych "disorders" especially. My family has a lot of them, and we often talk about the ways in which those traits can be leveraged to be highly useful in certain situations, despite being hugely detrimental in others.
April 2011 - Co2 Clock
New Chronology (Fomenko -- Huh. Ran across this while looking at links related to that bizarre "the Dark Ages never happened" theory I posted about yesterday. Even more bizarre. I do find this kind of stuff fascinating.
Seal whiskers sense fattest fish
NZ: Schools arrange secret abortions -- as the original poster said, "If you replace all instances of 'secret' with 'private', this article loses a ton of shock value really quickly. "
Hopeful News About an HIV Vaccine -- still in animal trials, but good results so far.
An amusing little Doctor Who comic strip
From here, for those who read hebrew and want an attribution
Religious affiliation and economic standing are intertwined, according to data compiled the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. Indeed, the economic disparities among those of different religions are significantly larger than the differences among states and even larger than those among different racial groups. -- How did they address issues of conversion? That seems to be a major confound in even beginning to approach causality here. People do sometimes change denomination as their social status changes, often to be able to network with people who are more likely to be helpful to them.
IMF Head Dominique Strauss-Kahn Arrested on Plane in NYC, Accused of Sexual Assault
Sovereign Citizens Movement
Health Insurers Making Record Profits as Many Postpone Care
The Doctor's Wife: The Lost Scenes and More -- of course the vids don't play in the US. Mostly noting this so I know what to go search for when I get on youtube.
Doctor Who really is a love story after all (spoilery for 6.04)
Syrian dissidents use donkeys to smuggle videos to Jordan
Colliding white dwarfs give each other a new lease on life
A tween girl designed the coolest TARDIS console yet
Walter Jon Williams uses pirate ebooks to rescue his backlist
Space Shuttle Endeavour readies for Monday launch
TEPCO: meltdown occurred at Fukushima 16 hours after quake
Canadian copyright collective wants a music tax on memory cards
Blackwater founder Erik Prince building American-led army of revolution-crushing mercenaries in UAE
In “Cucumber Quest,” a funny thing happens on the way to Hogwarts -- Looks amusing and worth checking out.
Why does the Moon make scorpions glow in the dark?
Nathan Fillion launches a new electric car: "It looks a little like a spaceship. I'm kind of into spaceships."
Watch the first footage from NBC's new fall genre shows, Grimm and Awake -- "Grimm" appeals to me more than "Awake" at this point, but I'll probably check both out.
The next atomic clocks could keep accurate time for the entire life of the universe (and why it matters for science)
Researchers find missing link fungi in university pond
The Art Nouveau of scifi heroines
Can hot sauce be used as a substitute for electrical shocks? -- frankly, I'd rather have an electrical shock than a hot sauce experience of equal intensity. The electrical shock stops much more effectively.
The musical test that reveals the extent of brain damage
Australian building crams tree-lined city street into 35 stories
Science reveals what you need to do to talk people into anything
Alejandro Jodorowsky's never-made adaptation of Dune is getting a documentary
Watch Destino, Salvador Dalí's cartoon team-up with Walt Disney
Worm regenerates a whole new body from a single cell
