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Stanford researcher: Hallucinatory 'voices' shaped by local culture
'in the United States, the voices are harsh and threatening; in Africa and India, they are more benign and playful' Fairly small sample size, but still interesting differences raised.
(tags: Interesting mental-health culture braaaaaains psychology research academia )

Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals
(tags: Interesting Publish or Perish academia culture science university )
Metal 3D printing and six key shifts in the 'second industrial revolution'
'From a 3D printer that you can build from stuff lying around the house to 3D printing steel, food or plastic in the home'
(tags: 3D printing awesome interesting living in the future technology )
Growing Up Unvaccinated - Voices for Vaccines
Someone growing up on a super-healthy diet/lifestyle, but still getting lots of vaccinateable diseases
(tags: vaccination health culture healthcare )
BBC disciplines Graham Norton for wearing AIDS awareness ribbon on chat show · PinkNews.co.uk
Do you make a list of approved symbols? Essentially the question is where do you draw the line on what stuff presenters are allowed to wear and thus show their support (and arguably plug) - e.g. political party rosettes during an election.
(tags: image BBC AIDS rules symbols culture the code is more what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules )
Can young people influence Government policy by voting? | ampp3d
Politicians woo the grey vote, because it makes a difference. They shit on the young people, because they don't vote.
(tags: voting democracy UK westminster benefits age )

Launch code for US nukes was 00000000 for 20 years | Ars Technica
The codes, known as Permissive Action Links were not the pals of Strategic Command generals.
(tags: wtf what the everliving fuck the code is more what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules amusing war nuclear weapons military xandar; our reign has gone on long enough. indeed; summon the meteors. humanity; we are a fucked up species )
Minneapolis professor Shannon Gibney: Reprimanded for talking about racism.
'The American myth of rugged individualism is alive and well. We love to believe that nothing determines our life’s chances but our capacity to dream and work hard, despite reams of evidence to the contrary.'
(tags: education academia university people suck racism discrimination marketisation )
Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
The effect of pricebots
(tags: interesting money oops technology amazon business books )
Missing: hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site
(tags: Bitcoin amusing fail money oops )
Scotland's entire rail network shuts down and motorists told to stay at home | Herald Scotland
'serious travel disruption as blizzards and winds of up to 114mph strike.'
(tags: weather UK Scotland transport )

www.themediablog.co.uk
Spare a thought for academic Dr Jude Roberts who admitted on Newsnight on Wednesday night that she uses porn. A minute or so later the caption writers at the BBC had made the necessary changes to her billing and stripped her of her PhD.
(tags: BBC sex posttofacebook discrimination porn news interesting wtf academia culture )
4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
''graffiti tags in which the word “anti-social” had been corrected to read 'antisocial.''
(tags: silly posttofacebook parody amusing The Onion interesting design )
27 Pictures That Will Change The Way You Look At The World
Ahh, data :)
(tags: buzzfeed posttofacebook maps interesting the world statistics )
'I said to Klaus Barbie: I want people to see your human side' | World news | The Guardian
'French lawyer Jacques Vergès has represented some of the 20th century's most notorious criminals.'
(tags: France law history politics terrorism posttofacebook crime interesting war )
Women who fear being forced to marry abroad told to hide spoon in underwear | World news | The Guardian
Charity advises women and young girls to set off airport metal detectors to give them more time to seek help from authorities
(tags: forced marriage freedom choice crime rights travel marriage women )

Blood in Your Eye: Why We Need Violent Stories -- Vulture
'we generally demonize violent acts and violent work. We make them Other, and we just distance ourselves. They are Other, and they didn’t come from us, and we’re just going to stand over there and shake our heads sadly. And, moreover, anyone who gets closer to it in order to experience or understand it must be a freak.'
(tags: Warren Ellis braaaaaains the Other posttofacebook violence psychology films interesting media culture )
Gmail Users Shouldn't Expect Privacy, Google Says In Filing : The Two-Way : NPR
(tags: email google law privacy technology )
Newsnight strips "porn user" of her PhD - The Media Blog
Spare a thought for academic Dr Jude Roberts who admitted on Newsnight on Wednesday night that she uses porn. A minute or so later the caption writers at the BBC had made the necessary changes to her billing and stripped her of her PhD.
(tags: sex BBC discrimination porn news interesting wtf academia culture )

BBC News - Should Bank start the helicopter?
Will the giraffe accept the yo-yo? It's a discussion of a 'helicopter drop' of money into the economy, and a fairly good one at that, I just love the surrealness of the title.
(tags: posttofacebook financial crisis money economics quantitative easing amusing )
BBC News - Furby, aliens and jigsaws: Top toys get techy for Christmas
(tags: toys geeky clever living in the future technology interesting )
BBC News - A Nobel Prize for beauty – and truth
'economics can be both deeply mathematical and abstract, and deeply practical - not to say hugely useful to public and private organisations all over the world.'
(tags: academia clever economics your obvious knowledge of game theory invalidates that approach Nobel prizes awesome interesting )
‘Dredd’ shows why the 3D film format is doomed… again | Kieran Turner-Dave | Independent Arts Blogs
(tags: via James Graham technology cinema interesting )
World's biggest geoengineering experiment 'violates' UN rules | Environment | guardian.co.uk
'Controversial US businessman's iron fertilisation off west coast of Canada contravenes two UN conventions'
(tags: via Andrew Ducker environment fail money science interesting )
Lobbying scandals: All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again. | Unlock Democracy
You could almost set your watch by it. A lobbying scandal breaks. The rest of the press pick up on it, and everyone’s furious.
(tags: corruption money politics Westminster admission of interest; I work for Unlock Democracy Unlock Democracy military lobbying interesting )
I Swear, You're Famous
'This is one man's ongoing quest to make obscene gestures near people better-known than him.'
(tags: The Internet. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. via Dicky Moore culture tumblr photos posttofacebook awesome amusing )
The Grind Haus, At Comic Con today, I went as Black Cat.
People at a con, being fail and misogynist at a female cosplayer. And her forthright and awesome response.
(tags: awesome people suck fandom feminism )

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