Miscellaneous Articles You Should Read (1 Viewer)

[Lili Marlene]

Demi Lovato Poses Topless With Banana As If Two Decades Of Internet Porn Hasn’t Completely Numbed Us

ahaha

(sfw)

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Demi Lovato Poses Topless With Banana As If Two Decades Of Internet Porn Hasn’t Completely Numbed Us

ahaha

(sfw)

The only thing that might be sexy about that is that she's famous. And it is fun seeing famous people in their skivs.

Except, when you're out of touch with who's popular, it just looks like any randomer with poor ink choices, so it loses even that.
Bah.

 

[hermie]

Squarepusher: 10 songs that taught me how to play bass

 

[nooleen]

Laughter and MIRTH (Methodical Investigation of Risibility, Therapeutic and Harmful): narrative synthesis (British Medical Journal)

It remains to be seen whether sick jokes make you ill or jokes in bad taste cause dysgeusia, and whether our views on comedians stand up to further scrutiny.

METHODS
We searched Medline from 1946 to June 2013 and Embase from 1974 to June 2013, using the search term “laugh”, removing animal studies and conference reports, and excluding papers on the Caribbean sponge Prosuberites laughlini and with authors called Laughing,3 Laughter,4 Laughton, or McLaughlin; none was particularly amusing. We discarded papers with opaque titles, such as “Gelotophobia and thinking styles in Sternberg’s theory”,5 and publications that proved irrelevant, such as “Another exciting use for the cantaloupe”6 (which described practising endoscopy on melons).

 

[Lili Marlene]

oh lol

Wealth therapy tackles woes of the rich: 'It’s really isolating to have lots of money'

coming out to people about their wealth is similar to coming out of the closet as gay. There’s a feeling of being exposed and dealing with judgment

 

[therealjohnny]

FYI @7-noTomorrow

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

FYI @7-noTomorrow

There's gotta be a word for how you make fun of me like this.

And when I find it out, I'm gonna use it on you!

 

[therealjohnny]

Hey, hey, I kid! I kid 'cause I love!

 

[nooleen]

The Odds That a Panel Would 'Randomly' Be All Men Are Astronomical

There are many possible reasons why a STEM event might have vanishingly few women among its speakers. Outright sexism and misogyny are rare these days (I hope!), but it still happens. Much more common, I believe, is that all of us carry implicit biases—internal prejudices, difficult to detect in any individual instance, against the idea that women can excel in science and math. These biases have been shown to literally alter our perception of women in STEM fields, so that we evaluate them as being less accomplished as men with identical CVs. This (unintentionally) unfair evaluation of women by conference organizers, together with the psychological tendency to first call to mind stereotypical representatives of categories (for example, male mathematicians), lead them to come up with speaker lists consisting disproportionately of male speakers.
Unless we consciously try to observe the gender composition at conferences, the same biases cause us not to even notice that there are far too few women to be the result of a fair process; and so the injustice is perpetuated.

So I think it is important to assert explicitly that the current system, in practice, is flawed and systematically biased, and that efforts to introduce gender into the decision-making is actually a subtraction of unfairness—an effort to bring reality closer to the theoretical meritocracy we all desire.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I've encountered this big time from an organising perspective, you really have to fight to get females on the same level as the males. It's nightmare stuff, particularly when older academics are leading the group.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

This is a cracking read. About disability, the lies we tell ourselves and sex!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/magazine/the-strange-case-of-anna-stubblefield.html
She told the family of a severely disabled man that she could help him to communicate
with the outside world. The relationship that followed would lead to a criminal trial...

 

[pete]

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Facepalm Pilot: Where Technology Meets Stupidity: An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar.

 

[pete]

The Little-Known Story Behind Britain’s Road Signs

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

....

 

[pete]

The Hateful Life And Spiteful Death Of The Man Who Was Vigo The Carpathian

 

[pete]

An oldie but a goodie

Guns at home more likely to be used stupidly than in self-defense

#bananas

 

[pete]

U.S. Military Used Christian NGO as Front for North Korea Espionage

 

[nooleen]

I've encountered this big time from an organising perspective, you really have to fight to get females on the same level as the males. It's nightmare stuff, particularly when older academics are leading the group.

Quality of evidence revealing subtle gender biases in science is in the eye of the beholder

These results suggest a relative reluctance among men, especially faculty men within STEM, to accept evidence of gender biases in STEM. This finding is problematic because broadening the participation of underrepresented people in STEM, including women, necessarily requires a widespread willingness (particularly by those in the majority) to acknowledge that bias exists before transformation is possible.

terrible article title though

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

U.S. Military Used Christian NGO as Front for North Korea Espionage

Was reading this on TAC last night, crazy story but hardly surprising. Is there any group the US won't subvert in pursuit of liberty?

 

[pete]

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