Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-26-2009

[andrewducker]

• New high-speed rail plan unveiled
  $34Bn to join London to Glasgow - via Birmingham and Manchester. 2:16 travel time rather than 4:48 as it is at the moment. I wonder if it will actually get made...
  (tags: travel UK trains)
• Multitaskers bad at multitasking
  Now there's irony for you.
  (tags: media technology attention concentration multitasking psychology)
• What determines Caster Semenya's sex?
  It is, of course, not as simple as you might think.
  (tags: sex gender genetics hormones)

Comments

[andrewducker]

Absolutely.

Once we divide people up into groups X and Y anything that threatens to blur the lines gets treated as a threat rather than just part of the wonderful strangeness that surrounds us.

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

Wonderful strangeness that's within the bounds of normality we were bought up in. As soon as I hit 70 I fully intend to instantly transform into a bigot (probably via becoming a Daily Mail reader at 50).