Interesting Links for 15-10-2014

[andrewducker]

• Chemical contained in broccoli extract could offer help for autism symptoms
  (tags: autism food )
• Eight signs your boyfriend is cheating
  (tags: funny relationships )
• South Korean ID system to be rebuilt from scratch (Completely unfit for purpose)
  (tags: identity korea technology )
• Ireland to abolish 'Double Irish' tax structure
  (tags: taxes ireland

Comments

[andrewducker]

Coming in slightly too late - I notice that three and a half of the five parties in the Scottish Parliament are now led by women.

[skington]

Make that three and a quarter, because you only ever hear Patrick Harvie quoted in the press, never the other co-convenor whose name I can't remember despite having googled it the other day.

[danieldwilliam]

Maggie Chapman - who awkwardly is not an MSP.

[gonzo21]

The media sure do enjoy giving UKIP one heck of a lot of coverage.

[andrewducker]

They do. But it's not a conspiracy - it's what makes eyeballs, and what's easy.

If the Greens were as good at organising interviews and working well with the press then the press would enjoy giving them coverage too.

[gonzo21]

You would think there would be a Green-orientated media-friendly celebrity ~somewhere~ that they could recruit, if the party is entirely lacking anybody with some charisma. Just... as you say, something to get some eyeballs on them.

[chess]

Unfortunately the Greens are saddled with a complex platform because they have something that might actually work, whereas it's much easier to speak clearly and charismatically about your one-track xenophobia.

[bart_calendar]

I find it very, very unlikely that the millions and millions of women who claim to orgasm from vaginal stimulation and/or G spot stimulation are lying. I find it much more likely that doctors just haven't figured out what causes vaginal and g sport orgasms yet.

[andrewducker]

They aren't saying that you can't orgasm from vaginal stimulation - they're saying that stimulating the vagina causes orgasms because it stimulates the clitoris, which wraps around a lot of the vagina.

Same, presumably, with anal stimulation - you're rubbing against the clitoris, albeit through other tissues.

[chess]

I think what the article is doing is conflating the actual research (orgasms come from the clitoris - which actually has all these huge internal structures, so this is saying nothing about whether it can be stimulated by internal stimulation or not - there just isn't a magic vaginal wall area which somehow has a completely separate mechanism of action than 'stimulate the clitoris') with their own perception of the clitoris as an external thing.

[bart_calendar]

But women I've talked to say the orgasms feel different. Which means that while they still may be caused by the clitoris they are different types of orgasms, so why not give them different names?

[danieldwilliam]

The Open Primary thing that the Tories are running in Rochester is interesting. I know they’ve done something like that before.

I like the idea but I think if I were an elector not in Rochester and Strood I’d be aggrieved and start thinking “mmmh, I get goodies if I threaten to vote UKIP…”

[supergee]

Maybe broccoli is useful as well as decorative.

[andrewducker]

Sadly, all three of the foods there are off my edible list.

Which is a shame, because I loved eating them.

[channelpenguin]

Why?

[andrewducker]

A mixture of the taste and texture.

Unless you were asking "why" about the first sentence, in which case I may have slightly spoken too soon. Cauliflower is definitely on the FODMAPs list, but it looks like broccoli is ok in small amounts (but I should be avoiding it right now while I'm on the elimination phase anyway) - and cabbage I thought was off, but it looks like it's just Savoy Cabbage that's verboten, and ordinary white cabbage may be ok. I shall have to do some more reading when I get home!