Interesting Links for 20-09-2015

[andrewducker]

• What happens when you get your period in space?
  • (tags: space menstruation women history )
• Doctor Who companions - a data story
  • (tags: data drwho )
• Lady Gaga's anti-rape video
  • (tags: music rape viaBartCalendar )
• How you tell children they have HIV
  • (tags: hiv children )
• Facebook will now be able to show you ads based on the porn you watch
  • Those of you

Comments

[bart_calendar]

My god am I going to have fun finding the weirdest porn sites with Like buttons possible just to see what kind of fucked up porn ads I can get.

Man, can I work up to gay transexual octopus porn ads?

[andrewducker]

I say go for it. Let us know what your research gets you!

[steer]

The article about stalled progress. I think they miss the point but the actual point is there within the article.

1945 to 1971. Just about everything that defines the modern world either came about, or had its seeds sown, during this time. The Pill. Electronics. Computers and the birth of the internet. Nuclear power. Television. Antibiotics. Space travel. Civil rights. This is arguably true, except most things mentioned actually started before that period -- nuclear power 1942 (fermi pile), antibiotics actually 1911, space travel arguably the V1 rocket program, television 1926, civil rights I'm not even going to try, computers 1943 (Colossus). Electronics I guess you would think of the transistor (1947) and the pill seems surprisingly quite short in its conception (sorry). Not sure how the internet gets on that list. However many of these things had their largest impacts much later (nuclear power, computers, the internet for sure, the others arguably). From the 1971 perspective, if you were of a certain political mind you might

[andrewducker]

Yeah, lots of things that constantly seem to be on the verge of transforming society/humanity. If we get genetic augmentation, VR, 3D Printing, etc. working really well then we'll be into another new age.

And I think that it's clear, looking back, that civil rights in the 60s was only a single step on a long journey that we're now taking more steps on.

(Basically, I thought the article was provocative, but flawed, and figured others would be better able to point out the flaws. So thanks for that!)

[steer]

I certainly agree with you about Civil Rights. Sometimes it's amazing how far things have come but mostly it's amazing how much further they have to go.

[andrewducker]

Civil Rights are here. They're just unevenly distributed :-)

[miramon]

The article about stalled progress is complete nonsense. It'd be interesting to know how old the author is, because it reads like the archetypical rant of someone going "we had *real* inventions in my day!" and waving their cane at the young kids to get them off their lawn. Everything takes a while to develop. Everything depends on the things that have gone before. You could equally well argue that the Golden Age was pretty much any decade in the last 150 years. How about 1900 to 1920? Invention of flight, motor cars, synthetic materials.... There are things being developed today that will be absolutely key to society in 50 years' time. No idea what they are, if I did I'd be rich. This attitude that only the things that were done in the past have any value, while the things being done now are worthless, is one that makes me surprisingly angry.

[steer]

Actually, 1900 -- 1920 was a bit of a golden age for physics, modern atomic theory, special relativity and QM all had their beginnings then.

[resonant]

If 100 is not the right number, then how many tampons would you need? 1000? More than 10,000, and you'd have to worry about weight limits.

[naath]

I think 100 is too big, for one woman, for one week.