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"The Science of Gaydar"
The Science of Gaydar [NY Magazine]
If sexual orientation is biological, are the traits that make people seem gay innate, too? The new research on everything from voice pitch to hair whorl.
(linked via imbuedblueOkay. So there are some interesting new genetic tidbits here -- I can't really argue with the statistics about finger lengths, hair whorls, left- ( Read more... ) -
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What the World Eats
What the World Eats, a Time photo essay by Peter Menzel, excerpted from his book Hungry PlanetEach photo shows one of fifteen families with their food for a typical week laid out in their living room/area, tells what they paid for it, and tells their favorite food or family recipe ( Read more... ) -
The plot thickens.
This is kind of important for anyone who's joined or planned on joining darfur_counts, so listen up ( Read more... ) -
The Numbers [Strikethrough 2007]
If, for simplicity's sake, we operate under the following assumptions:
- that all of the fandom_counts member journals are paid accounts, at $20/year each (not necessarily accurate, but the majority of them are paid accounts, and some of them have extra icons, storage, etc ( Read more... ) -
ROFL [Strikethrough 2007]
xanphibian IMed me this link to Metafilter, where anildash pretends to apologize.
The goal here was to get journals with profiles that listed "child rape" or "pedophilia" as their interests to know they're not welcome on LJ. Naturally, the list of sites submitted by groups like WFI likely included some friendly fire, including legitimate communities for abuse ( Read more... ) -
Passing it on.
Because it's a good cause, and because ezagaaikwe asked me to.
I was reading in elsaf's recent post, according to Amnesty International, one in three Native Americans is at risk for sexual violence. A battered women's shelter on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, Pretty Bird Woman House (named after the founder's sister, who was raped and murdered in 2001) is ( Read more... )
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