Interesting Links for 13-08-2014

[andrewducker]

• Testosterone in men increases their brains' response to threat
  (tags: testosterone emotion aggression )
• The world's largest scale model of the Solar System is in Sweden. Just about.
  (tags: astronomy scale sweden space )
• What happens if you write a TCP stack in Python?
  (tags: programming tcp networking )
• Finally, there will be a reversible USB

Comments

[bart_calendar]

We actually do have mandatory sex education - it's just bad sex education. (Well, mostly mandatory, your mom can write a letter saying it's against your religion and they'll pull you out of it. But it is mandatory for the schools to offer it.)

[andrewducker]

According to:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-siebold/sex-education-schools_b_3006483.html
and
http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-policies-on-sex-education-in-schools.aspx

it's only mandatory in 22 states.

[bart_calendar]

Fuck.

Thank god I grew up on the East Coast.

The more I learn about the South and the Midwest the happier I am that I have no experience with those societies.

[andrewducker]

Pretty much - I was reading something about US history in the South yesterday, and could not work out whether it was massive hyperbole, and that real life was that horrible. I'll get it posted for tomorrow and you can fill me in :->

[momentsmusicaux]

Wow. Must be quite fun, and a challenge, finding locations for new items. I guess you'd start off by getting the maximum and minimum distance from the Ericsson Globe for the body you want to add, then drawing those on a map, then finding public spaces or buildings in that area, then drawing up a shortlist of ones to contact... "Hello, can we put a planet in your museum / shopping centre / town square?"

It's a shame the articles doesn't say things like: when they came up with the idea, and how -- did they observe the Ericsson Globe was the right sort of size to do this, or what?

[andrewducker]

I assume they started with the globe, and worked out from there. Because otherwise they'd have to start from scratch with a Sun!

But yeah, that would be a great project to be involved in!

[momentsmusicaux]

[citation needed]!

[snarlish]

I've always loved this project. Didn't know about Venus being stolen!

I'm pretty sure I've read the origin story, pretty much doing what other countries (like Germany) have done, but then due to the size of the Ericsson Globe realising a new scale.

see this, including a link to a potentially larger scale one for the UK!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System_model

[andrewducker]

Talk about Sex?

God wouldn't like that!

[andrewducker]

The nipple one did baffle me.

This is what happens when your country doesn't have mandatory sex education

[drdoug]

The original Reddit thread is worth a poke through too.

Reminds me of when I had to reassure someone* who was desperately worried about their new hamster. They were really concerned because it had developed these large and unsightly lumps near its back legs, and wanted my help to take it to the vet. No vet visit was needed in the end: I was able to diagnose a serious case of ... testicles.

(In fairness, hamster bollocks are pretty unfeasibly large.)

* I am covering up their identity to spare their blushes. Of which there were many.