Interesting Links for 16-07-2012

[andrewducker]

• Forget teenagers, toddlers are the most terrifying creatures on Earth
  (tags: parenting children )
• 15 Rape Jokes That Work
  (tags: humour jokes funny rape )
• Coalition to unveil biggest investment in rail since Victorian era. But not until 2015. Can we not move faster?
  (tags: politics uk transport rail )
• MPs who repaid expenses got money back in secret deal
  (tags: money uk government expenses )
• The World’s Last Guinea Worm: A Dreaded Disease Nears Eradication
  (tags: extinction worm disease )
• London 2012: 32 mile queue as first Games lane opens
  (tags: driving traffic roads london olympics )
• What Google Is
  (tags: viaNWhyte google technology )
• O2 handled the Twitter rage over their outage magnificently.
  (tags: twitter o2 socialnetworking mobile_phones )
• In the Current System, I’d Be Corrupt Too:An Interview with Bao Tong (one of China’s best-known political dissidents)
  (tags: politics china corruption )

Comments

[naath.livejournal.com]

I think the problem with toddlers is that they *can't* hide it - the toddler-brain just isn't wired to understand logic like "do X now and you can have Y later" or "do X now to avoid Z later". Most adults can at least manage to channel their selfish desires through more than one step.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

true. we just get better at trying to get what we want. Emotionally it feels just the same....