Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-30-2009

[andrewducker]

• Dealing With Asperger's Syndrome, With the Help of His Wife
  Interesting story.
  (tags: autism aspergers relationships)
• When divorce is the wiser option
  Professor Kelly Musick and Dr Ann Meier of Cornell University have carried out a study of children whose parents stay together for the sake of the kids.
  
  It turns out their children do worse than any other group â“ including those of divorcees or single mums. If you are raised by arguing parents who stayed together only for you, then you are 33 per cent more likely to become a binge-drinking teen than if you have a single parent, for example.
  (tags: politics marriage divorce society)
• How different states in the brain are shedding light on the way it works.
  For example, phase shifts typically last 55 milliseconds, but an additional 1 millisecond seemed to add as many as 20 points to the child's IQ. A shorter time in the stable phase-locked state also corresponded with greater intelligence - with a difference of 1 millisecond adding 4.6 IQ points to a child's score
  (tags: science intelligence brain neuroscience autism)
• Teen spends a day with a walkman rather than an iPod.
  Finds experience unsatisfactory. Not entirely convinced anyone ever found them useful...
  (tags: technology music bbc ipod walkman funny)
• The Surreal Appeal of the Falkirk Wheel
  Nice article on it. Good photos too.
  (tags: Falkirk scotland Architecture engineering)

Comments

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Re: Walkmans vs iPods

"I'm relieved that the majority of technological advancement happened before I was born."

D'oh!

Clearly that could never apply to anyone before 1996. Back in the days of the walkman, we had to invent fire, the wheel, writing, music, astronomy, cartography, electricity, the motor car, etc. in the 13 or so years between my birth and 1984!

Kids these days, don't even know they're born... blah, blah... etc., etc :)

[vereybowring.livejournal.com]

I saw that article about the walkman and laughed in several places.
I remember setting up a walkman "dock" in my room which meant I could play music through two cabinet speakers I got hold of.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

What I'd heard about divorce and children is that it's good if one or both of the parents are abusive to the other, but bad for the children if the parents divorce because they've drifted apart.

[andrewducker]

See, that sounds like "common sense" to me, which makes me immediately suspicious. Got any links?

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

http://books.google.com/books?id=gWm9mRGZJgkC&pg=PA149&lpg=PA149&dq=divorce+children+drift&source=bl&ots=qNjZRAn7in&sig=7upWyPtBexSEm-1QL-M2ZDtIPx4&hl=en&ei=iCRKSpj4GcmktweHyNyRBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5

And it's got something else I haven't heard before-- that divorce is mostly good for children if it ends the conflict between the parents. Not such a win if the conflict continues.

[andrewducker]

Cheers - that was really interesting!

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

My walkman and I were inseperable. And while I'm fond of my mp3 player, I miss the artistry of mixtapes.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I was given a Walkman II (which is a much more practical beast than the original) as my (high school) graduation present in 1982. It was wildly expensive and utterly transformative; we have become so used to carrying our music with us I think we forget. I remember very clearly how it felt, at least in part because I had the same feeling *again* when I first played with an iPod.

[matgb]

I is confused.

I has my current Walkman on my desk next to me, it's dead good, has loads of features, and is much better than an iPod in almost every respect.

The attached built in digital camera and twitter update function (SMS) is useful, I'm not quite so sold on the way it can also be used for people to "ring" me, never did quite get the point of that one.

My old tape walkman was green, still sat ina cupboard at my parents I think.