Interesting Links for 13-03-2013

[andrewducker]

• Babies prefer individuals who harm those that aren't like them
  (tags: psychology children )
• Your Obsessive Love Or Hatred Of Just Bieber Means Nothing In The Grand Scheme Of Geological Time
  (tags: love life hate funny )
• Boxer Hunts Down Twitter Troll - Genius!
  (tags: twitter bullying viaJackie )
• What are the best body hacks that people should know

Comments

[naath]

Getting men to do housework> oh, we mostly go with "housework, what housework" :-p

But I'm pleased that it notes, if only in passing, that "nagging people to do housework" *is work*. In fact is *a lot more work than cleaning dishes*; which is I guess one reason why so many people fall into the habit of just cleaning the dishes.

[andrewducker]

Julie and I like the place being "reasonably tidy". But neither of us is rabid about it, so we try and find moderation.

I definitely agree that it's no fun spending your time reminding your partner that they agreed to do stuff. It's also no fun being told "Get your hands off, I'll do it myself, you're rubbish at this." Somewhere in the middle is effective communication and compromise :->

[erindubitably]

But I'm pleased that it notes, if only in passing, that "nagging people to do housework" *is work*.

Oh my god yes. It often takes just as much energy and makes you feel worse than just buckling down and doing the chore yourself.

[ashfae]

But I'm pleased that it notes, if only in passing, that "nagging people to do housework" *is work*. In fact is *a lot more work than cleaning dishes*; which is I guess one reason why so many people fall into the habit of just cleaning the dishes.

God yes. That was a relief to read. The nagging (and asking inevitably turns into nagging, because it's never a matter of asking just once) is so much harder than just doing the damn chores, even if they take more time.

[danieldwilliam]

I think the boxer chap has actually made a communication of a menacing character in terms of the Communication Act 2003.

[andrewducker]

Almost certainly.

I'd hope that he wouldn't be convicted of it, as it's a borderline case. I wouldn't want everyone to go around doing it.

Fascinating to see the reaction from the troll - "It was just a laugh." - I think there's a definite empathy failure from people when dealing with others at a distance/in an abstract way. I wonder what can be done to fix that.

[danieldwilliam]

No, I wouldn’t want it happen often but occassionally is no bad thing, just to remind people that there are real life actual people on the end of one’s smart phone

[nancylebov]

I'm very disappointed that the boxer wasn't a dog.

[andrewducker]

I _really_ hope that the trams get run down to Leith in a couple of year's time. And that the redevelopment that was cancelled down there gets back on track.

(Also, that the idiots at the council didn't fuck up putting the trams down in the first place.)

[danieldwilliam]

There is, to my eye, a lot of brownfield land down in Leith.

I saw some forecasts for Edinburgh’s population over the coming decades and it looked like we were expecting a few hundred thousand extra people to want to come and live in and around Edinburgh.

I think we’ll be revisiting the trams to Leith and the rebuilding of Leith in the next couple of years. Once the trams are up and running and assuming people actually like them.

[andrewducker]

In fact, I wonder who owns that brownfield down there. Because if they do kick off the development down there then that gives a much bigger impetus for completing that chunk of the tram line.

[artkouros]

Fascinating about the + and -. Between that and the use of Roman numbers it's no wonder people chose religion over science.

[del_c]

Great content, horrible black format. If you like that sort of nerding, Keith Houston's blog "Shady Characters" is good too, and the design is nicer :-)

[steer]

Re the "body hacks" -- I've seen that sinus one dozens of times but it's never worked at all for me -- I can feel the "bone" in question rocking (presume it's not actually a bone) but it doesn't achieve anything... for me at least.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I'll try it next time, but I'm not confident!

I _have_ had some luck with gently repeated tapping of the bones under the eye-socket. But it's hard to tell how much of a difference that makes!

[steer]

I've had the opposite of luck combining that "wobbling" with putting pressure on my brow and trying to "flush" the system by moving my septum (? the nose "bone") pinching/unpinching nose to induce pressure changes rapidly. This actually greatly worsened things.