Urgh. I feel so ill. Felt like I might be going down with something on Thursday and have progressed through the various stages of a cold ever since. Made the mistake of going out for dinner on Sunday evening, and since then have also had a raging fever and severe aching as well. Not happy ( Read more... )

I haven't written anything here in ages, which means I probably should, simply to let people know I'm still alive. Unfortunately I have absolutely no spoons whatsoever today, so I'm just going to drop off a few links and run.

My Blind Date... With Science! Very funny, if not hugely accurate :D

Psychatric Meds Helped Me Become A Better Person. I'm ( Read more... )

Still don't have any spare brain to write commentary, and in fact today I hurt so much that even typing is an effort. So here are some links presented without comment:

Me And The Abstracted Persona of the Anti-Ism Community At Large. A couple of years old, and triggery for me by halfway through.

Certain Propositions Concerning Callout Culture, ( Read more... )

Pink Science, '50s-Style. Interesting comparison of a "Lab Technician Set For Girls" to the hideously gendered "Chemistry" kits of today.

What Milgram’s Shock Experiments Really Mean: Replicating Milgram's shock experiments reveals not blind obedience but deep moral conflict, from Scientific American.

Maps of the 2012 US presidential election ( Read more... )

NASA finds Cookie Monster on surface of Mercury. Awesome :)

Parody of anti-gay pamphlets offers detailed, behind-the-scenes view of how liars misuse real citations. Very interesting, and Relevant To Our Interests.

Sexist bastardJames Watson on The Double Helix and his changing view of Rosalind Franklin. I still want to spit at him, but I suppose ( Read more... )

You know what I've been really missing since people started spinning off to other types of social media? Awesome links that people found. I only have a couple of people left on my friends list who post cool links, and it tends to be one or two at a time rather than massive linkspams. I miss them ( Read more... )

At some point I should write up my weekend, but given that I've been in bed for two days, who knows when that'll be? It was good, anyway. My back is less good, but this is partly my own fault for neglecting to do my physiotherapy exercises for months on end.

This Friday I'm planning to go to this event from 4-11pm - would anyone like to join me?

If you're a certain kind of geek, this is awesome: the new, 2011 definition of the hydrogen bond. Turns out all those school definitions involving a hydrogen covalently bonded to an oxygen, nitrogen or fluorine atom forming a second, weak bond with the lone pair of electrons on another oxygen, nitrogen or fluorine don't go anywhere near far enough

Wow. I am so flaky. It is nearly 7 am, and I am still awake because I haven't done anything useful today ( Read more... )

This story is hilarious: How (not) to communicate new scientific information: a memoir of the famous Brindley lecture. Technically work-safe, since it describes a public lecture at a scientific conference; but the lecture was about erectile dysfunction and given by a scientist who was, er, eccentric. You'll see when you read the story ( Read more... )