Interesting Links for 30-05-2013

[andrewducker]

• A genius, hiliarious, and illuminating piece about dress code at BT
  (tags: viaDanieldDWilliam clothes rules )
• When doctors and patients share in decisions, hospital costs go up
  (tags: healthcare )
• Monsters University will be the first Pixar movie to be entirely ray-traced
  (tags: animation cgi pixar light )
• Your Genes Don't Fit: Why 10,000 Hours of

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

Am I missing something about that foods article -- there's no commentary I can see about why for each of those foods.

(Also, things that LOOK like an image carousel, but incur a page load, annoy the crap out of me. Sign of how far the web has come U suppose!)

[andrewducker]

The information is on the right, under the next/prev buttons.

But yes, it's a rubbishly designed page, which I semi-regretted linking to after I did!

[cahwyguy]

Perhaps that's why Alton Brown just summarized the information on his blog (which is where I found it).

[andrewducker]

Gotcha. I think I saw this via FB, wish I'd picked up your link instead!

[artkouros]

Grits and bacon is awesome.

[xenophanean]

"7 Foods a Nutritionist Would Never Eat"

Wonder if a Dietitian would?

[anton_p_nym]

Something to consider while I'm off to the Toothiologist...

-- Steve saw a celebrity Tweet diet advice that'd been scraped from NaturalNews; the Internet (and the society that's grown around it) was clearly not designed with source authentication in mind.

[alitheapipkin]

That gender stereotyping article is depressing. I don't know whether I just have a crap memory but I don't remember primary school being such a gendered place in the 80s.

Listening to the debates about feminism on 10 o'clock Live last night and Radio 4 this morning, it strikes me that as far as British society* goes, the major step forward we haven't made yet is parental equality. Women are never going to get proper equality in the work place until it becomes just as acceptable/likely that a man will take a career break or go PT to raise his children as a woman, and we are never going to defeat the idea that men are inferior parents (and only want to work with young kids if they are pedophiles!) if we start indoctrinating children that qualities like being helpful and a good friend are only valuable if you're female.

*I'd say Western but the Scandinavians seem much better at it for a start.

[andrewducker]

That change is coming in 2015 (Nick Clegg's been championing it):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/women-in-leadership/2013/may/22/shared-parental-leave-negative-stereotypes

[alitheapipkin]

Glad to hear he is still some use for something :/

[alitheapipkin]

It'll be interesting to see how much difference it actually makes.

In the 6 months I've been in this job, 3 of the male developers have had new babies, 2 of them now have *3 young children* but none of them work PT and 2 of them were still around online during their 2 weeks paternity leave. Whereas the only woman who has a young child took her full year of maternity leave and has only come back PT. Nothing I see makes me think that is at all unusual. That's a lot of cultural baggage to overcome...

[danieldwilliam]

That solar panel price graph is eye opening.

If wind power were able to match the cost falls of solar power we’d be looking at at a levelised cost of less than a penny a kilowatthour during the 2030’s.

[ext_208701]

Inflation adjusting would change it a bit.