Interesting Links for 08-12-2013

[andrewducker]

• Welcome to the era of the laser-controlled spider!
  (tags: spiders lasers )
• Polar bear cub vs teddy bear.
  (tags: bears cute )
• Transgender murder victim’s life not as valuable as higher class victims, says lawyer
  (tags: law crime lgbt )
• Fact-checking the Margaret Thatcher Museum petition
  (tags: petition margaretthatcher )
• There's a £60m Bitcoin

Comments

[nancylebov]

The lawyer in the transgender case is also a cold-hearted menace to society, though not personally violent.

The link on the low-GI potato lacks some information I want-- what's makes it lower GI? How much lower GI is it?

Research: It's a tasty potato.

Some numbers for the low GI, but nothing about the mechanism. Pasta is considered low GI? Really?

That how to be happy in work link has nothing about protecting yourself from unreasonable demands.

Signal-boosting: The sibling suicide link mentions image replacement (imagining better dreams) as an effective method for dealing with nightmares.

[andrewducker]

If your managers are making unreasonable demands, and aren't open to reason, then it's time to find a new job.

In the mean time, those ways of working will generally make working there more bearable, in my experience.

[bugshaw]

Like the bit in the cat/dog video where the human says to the cat "Don't be mean!" and it is such a futile chiding.

[andrewducker]

Yeah. If you actively tell a cat off from doing something it _might_ stop doing it when you're actively watching.

But that's about it.

[sttatus_quo]

Thanks for the piece on surviving sibling suicide. Lots of good information there not only for siblings but for those of us that have lost people in the "sister-by-choice".

[heron61]

10 lazy assumptions that are part of the mainstream political consensus.

I'd retitle this as 10 pieces of extreme libertarian propaganda, most of which are actually subtle (which is admittedly surprising for a libertarian, I guess they actually need to be subtle in the UK. The mention of (Friedrich) Hayek in #1 gave it away for me, and upon reflection is was pretty clear that this was written by someone who not only found the UK to be too statist, but who thought the same thing about the libertarian-infested US.

I've seen "The myth of perfectibility" used frequently by right-wing ideolouges in the US to claim that government run healthcare is inherently inefficient and doomed.

OTOH, the cancer news is beyond awesome, maybe actual progress has been made.

[andrewducker]

And it's used elsewhere too, because it is a myth. Nothing can be perfected. And corporation also believe it, and that managerialism is a good thing.

I wouldn't expect a libertarian, for instance, to argue that Hard Work is a myth, or that worker ownership is plausibly a good thing.

[holyoutlaw]

Polar bear picnic!