Interesting Links for 10-2-2011

[andrewducker]

• One of the reasons why kids from poorer areas don't get into Oxford/Cambridge
  (tags: education academia class society uk)
• Extra testosterone reduces your empathy
  (tags: testosterone empathy psychology)
• What makes fructose fattening? Some answers found in the brain
  (tags: fructose diet health brains mri)
• Iron-deficiency is not something you get just for being a lady. 86% of women with anemia have undiagnosed gastrointestinal bleeding...
  (tags: gender health women biology)
• Saudi Arabia's oil reserves may be overstated by up to 40%
  (tags: oil wikileaks energy economics world saudiarabia)
• Spotify Is The Second Largest Source Of Revenue In Europe For Labels.
  (tags: music spotify europe)
• Aggression (bullying) increases as kids gain status.
  (tags: aggression bullying children relationships)
• the vicious middle - on status and bullying.
  (tags: status bullying children homophobia lgbt sexism)
• Russia Abolishes Winter Time. Will be on permanent Daylight Saving's Time as of March 27th
  (tags: time russia)

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Then you'd be swapping cultural shift instead of clock shift -- you'd go abroad and find that 8pm means breakfast. There's some of that already, say, with evening mealtimes in different countries.
But let the technology take the strain, eh?

[andrewducker]

Absolutely. Those people that need to worry about international coordination (a small percentage) can use UTC. The rest of us can continue to use the times we've been used to all our lives.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Well I wish they did -- as I may have remarked to you in person, am FED UP with bloody Americans who in an international context expect to be able to gives times as EST or fuckwhat. Yes -- those of us who need to talk to people in foreign climes can just use UTC and everyone knows their offset from it.