Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-17-2010

[andrewducker]

• Scientists engineer a bacteria that burrows into cracks in concrete and 'glues' them back together.
  (tags: bacteria architecture biology nanotech bioengineering concrete)
• Maxim's Tips For Curing Feminists
  (tags: feminism women patriarchy)
• A scientist explains why the arts and humanities are vital
  (tags: education science humanities university)
• Unemployed English Girl to Wed Soldier from Welfare Family
  (tags: uk news royalty wedding)
• The Sound of Silence - can John Cage sue the Royal British Legion over their single of the two minute silence?
  (tags: music law)
• The age at which people in the U.K. are coming out has gone from 37 to 17 in about two generations
  (tags: uk lgbt society)
• Movie soundtracks mimic primordial sounds of animal distress
  (tags: nature movies sounds)
• Smart people are nocturnal. I knew it!
  (tags: sleep intelligence iq psychology health)
• British Government settles with ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees. Out of court, of course.
  (tags: government torture guantanamo uk)
• Police get anti-police blog taken down. Streisand Effect kicks in instantly. Do they never learn?
  (tags: police censorship uk EpicFail)

Comments

[randomchris.livejournal.com]

Two-minute silence: first observed 1919.
4'33": premiered in 1952.

If anyone's got copyright it's not John Cage.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Where can I find tips on converting a Maxim girl back to an unshaved feminist?? (I'll pass on the vegan activist bits though.)

Urban dictionary is drawing a blank on 'buttered chin' though. Do I dare ask?

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

Is there a "Feminist's tips for curing maxim readers" yet?
Sort of a "guide to getting him to see you as a whole person, not just a body" ?

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

It probably goes: sleep with one or more red-blooded girls with hairy bits who ride you senseless? I'd say go for the horsey ones generally :p

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

I definitely prefer unshaved, including 'pits (except for chest hair... despite having tons of it myself). Not interested in veganism though, I'm passionate about cheese.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Heh. Same here! We should start a backlash movement!


(I joke that my benchmark is as long as she's less hairy than I am, it's good. Which would take some doing.)

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

I'd be up for that. I think anyone as hairy as me has either got to spend half their life keeping on top of it, or just resign themselves and really be into hair. I'm lazy, guess which one I chose! :)

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

I used to have a couple of clippings that both suggested late risers were smarter. And I remember a TV item following George Bush II's first election win in which they interviewed one of the office staff about what it's like to work for the new administration. She said it wasn't too good, as they were all larks while she was a night-owl. Enough said...

[dommy-nick.livejournal.com]

That's one helluva letter from the professor of science. I know it's well known that engineers can't spell, but I wonder if the same is also true of scientists? This one appears to be atypical and most well read.

Bill and Ted would be proud.

Dommy_nick

[anef.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting the open letter from Petsko. What he said.

[andrewducker]

Yup. The idea that arts and humanities are not important boggles me. They strike me as being a major reason reason _why_ we do all the other stuff.