Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-28-2009

[andrewducker]

• Scientists Map the Brain, Gene by Gene
  Including some nice photos of tasty, tasty brains. Mmmm
  (tags: brain neuroscience biology brains genetics)
• Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature
  Lots of supposition in here, but some interesting stuff too.
  (tags: psychology evolution science sex culture)
• Why Marriages Fail
  Some excellent advice for people in any kind of long-term relationship.
  (tags: marriage relationships psychology communication)
• The monster inside my son
  A mother who wrote about the joy her young autistic son brought her now writes about the pain he causes since he turned violent. Fascinating and heartbreaking - for both of them.
  (tags: autism children psychology)
• Achron - Time Travel is Coming
  A time-travelling RTS. Very impressive. And apparently doesn't make your head explode as much as the demo just did for me.
  (tags: timetravel games rts)
• Ron Moore posts on the end of BSG
  Including some alternate ideas that didn't get used.
  (tags: bsg scifi interview)
• Ableism in action
  Man waits in wheelchair with his luggage when a security guard attempts to wander off with it, because disabled people apparently aren't competent to watch their own luggage.
  (tags: security culture ableism disability)

Comments

[andrewducker]

This certainly applies to some of the examples - but a fair number of the items in the article don't seem, to me, to be assuming more agency on the part of either gender.

Do we have any figures on suicide bomber gender ratios?

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Not off the top of my head. I recall reading an article in a broadsheet, but I don't know which one or when.