Interesting Links for 03-08-2016

[andrewducker]

There Will Officially Be no more X-Men in Marvel Comics (tags: comics movies marvel xmen ) 23andMe Pulls Off Massive Crowdsourced Depression Genetics Study (tags: genetics depression ) New Navy Tech Makes It Easy to Land on a Carrier. (Good acronym too) (tags: airplanes ocean automation ) Millennial generation turning their backs on sex in

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[bart_calendar]

Is Deadpool considered part of the X Men or the Inhumans?

He wasn't born with his powers, so could Marvel claim him back?

[andrewducker]

Part of the X-Men universe - the origina story in the movie (and comics) has his latent mutant gene being activated.

And also he largely appears in the X-titles.

[theweaselking]

He was born with the mutant gene, it only appeared later. And he's a New Mutants villain. His movie involved two other X-Men and a number of references to X-places and X-people, and was made by Twentieth Century Fox.

Regardless of whether or not he "counts", both TCF and Marvel clearly agree he was in the same box as Wolverine and Magneto.

[cartesiandaemon]

I assume the contract had small print where they agreed on characters. If not, I would love to see the court case where they argued who counted as a mutant and who didn't :)

[bart_calendar]

Also on the sex thing.

Asexuality being widely accepted as a valid sexuality probably means a lot more people who would have had sex assuming that they'd eventually like it are simply avoiding it because they can identify as asexual.

[andrewducker]

That makes a lot of sense.

[newandrewhickey]

Two other points I noted in that study. One is that they ask how many "sexual partners" someone has had, and I *suspect* that younger people interpret "sexual partner" to mean an ongoing thing rather than casual sex. The other is that they ask two questions -- "how many male sexual partners" and "how many female sexual partners". I suspect that increased acceptance of non-binary identities also means that some are answering "none" to those question who previously would have answered one or more, because they're not categorising partners as male or female.

MegaCity Ane

[danieldwilliam]

I think Scotland ought to actively seek to integrate the urban areas of Edinburgh and Glasgow. I like the idea of an Ebinburgh-Glasgow-Central Belt greater city area. I think it's the sort of the thing that would drive economic growth in Scotland. MegaCity Ane for the win.

When I think about the tube journeys that people are happy to take - a 40 minute journey with a frequency of 6 an hour seems like an entry grade offering.

RE: MegaCity Ane

[andrewducker]

Totally.

And if they can knock it down to half an hour with 8 an hour then that massively increases the throuhput, and makes commuting a lot nicer as a choice than it currently is!

RE: MegaCity Ane

[skington]

I used to commute from Glasgow to Edinburgh, and the major pain of the commute wasn't the subway from my flat to Queen Street, or the train (especially once you started getting trains every 15 minutes), but the bus (or walk) from Waverley to the office in Leith.

RE: MegaCity Ane

[andrewducker]

Well, if the council gets its arse into gear and lays the rest of the tram track it already laid then you'll be able to take one of those. From Haymarket even, if such things would be better.

Was the bus down Leith Walk that bad though? There are a load of them that go from the top of Waverley Steps down towards Leith. Did there not used to be?

[mlknchz]

Schliemann found Troy by closely reading Homer, why shouldn't we be able to find Camelot by reading Geoffrey of Monmouth?