Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-11-2009

[andrewducker]

• A Brief Gender 101
  On the various complications that arise because, well, the universe is a complex place.
  (tags: feminism gender lgbt sex)
• The Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions
  (tags: visualization internet distractions procrastination funny)
• Why washing may hamper your attractiveness
  Tamsin Saxton of the University of St Andrews studied the influence of androstadienone by dabbling a drop of it on the upper lip of 50 women who took part in the evening trial before they "dated" a series of men.
  
  Women of all ages rated the men slightly higher on a scale of attractiveness when given the substance, compared to water or clove oil, but the effect was greatest in younger women aged between 18 and 22, Dr Saxton said.
  (tags: sex attraction psychology)
• This Is How Total Destruction On Earth Looks from Space
  A short video of a volcanic eruption - taken from the ISS. Astounding!
  (tags: science video space environment volcano)
• Effects of Alcohol on Weight Loss
  Synopsis - drinking with dinner is just asking for it. Alcohol reduces your lipid oxidation rate by 73%...
  (tags: fitness health diet alcohol)
• Gordon Brown's apology for Alan Turing's treatment
  (tags: gay apology lgbt rights UK turing)
• Home power plants project unveiled in Germany
  Thousands of home generators, each producing energy solely on demand. Now that's neat...
  (tags: energy electricity)

Comments

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I'm partway through the gender article, which is interesting and considered, but I'm slightly irritated by the way she talks about 'feminists' as though she isn't one.

[hfnuala.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that Germaine Grerr being crap about trans issues equals all feminists believing exactly what she does.

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

For the last few years I have generally done a fair amount of exercise (a couple of hours of weight training + running 10-30 miles a week), with a continued regime of weekend binge drinking. Enough to put me out of action for anything serious, for at least the entire next day.
I am fairly sure that as each Friday approaches I am down in weight on the week, which is put back on over the weekend by beer and kebabs. This annoying cycle has gone on ad infinitum and I guessed a long time ago that alcohol is the main preventer of me hitting any kind of ideal weight (ideal for what I'd like myself to look like for all the exercise I do).

For the next month I am continuing in my training for a marathon next April, while abstaining from all forms of alcohol/other foolish excesses. Obviously this means I'm liable to do _more_ exercise, but I think it'll show if alcohol has been what's been holding me back for...oooh...the last 20 years ;)

Knowing me, I'll still be eating the kebabs, but what good would this experiment be if I changed anything else.