Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-19-2010

[andrewducker]

• Klingon invasion of Scotland on the way
  (tags: scotland startrek)
• Why Ben Goldacre is battling it out with Gillian McKeith again
  (tags: science libel uk)
• Flu jab could be replaced by skin patch
  Less painful, more effective, but I'd be worried about letting people do it at home, because I'm fairly sure a large chunk of them wouldn't.
  (tags: vaccination uk technology)
• The British Government's guide to torturing children.
  (tags: prison abuse children violence humanrights uk)
• HG Wells writing competition demands handwriting, no science fiction; no one applies
  (tags: writing competition EpicFail)
• Every generation complains about its children
  (tags: children society history)
• Germans throw a 40 mile long picnic
  (tags: germany party picnic)
• Percentage of population going to university didn't actually rise under Labour.
  (tags: education politics uk labour)
• Cosplay photoshopping
  (tags: photoshop cosplay photography anime)
• Why you'll find Jeanette Winterson filed under "lgbt" rather than "fiction"
  (tags: fiction lgbt marketing)
• Omega imbalance can make obesity inheritable
  (tags: health diet obesity nutrition omega3)
• How minor differences between the genders get magnified on the playground
  (tags: school gender feminism)
• The case against women bishops in the Church of England, reduced to seven words
  (tags: christianity funny religion sexism)
• Roman Polanski Reviews 'Hannah Montana'
  (tags: funny satire film review)

Comments

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

That article about torturing children in custody is appalling!

I just read a similar article about how gay and trans-gendered kids are abused by the system.

It's not wonder they come out more fucked up than when they went in.