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andrewducker) wrote2012-07-25 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2012-07-25 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 25-07-2012
- Chick-Fil-A Debuts New Homophobic Sandwich
- Some advice for authors creating their website.
- Cutting Through The Bullshit On The Dark Knight Shooting
- Huge reservoir of resurgent viruses found...in bats.
- If you thought that US Anti-Vaccination people were crazy, take a look at this Pakistani poster...
- We now have a software emulation of an entire organism at the molecular level
- BABYMETAL - where JPop synths meet shouty Death Metal. More fun than a bucket of otters.
- About 9/10 of the way through "Audition" I looked round at the audience, and they all looked like this...
- Lightning captured at 7,207 images per second
- Tony Blair would come across as intellectually inconsistent, if he didn't come across as intellectually blank
- Police failing to stop Female Genital Mutilation because of "human rights".
- Why don’t we drink other animals’ milk?
- IPv4 addresses to run out in Europe this weekend.
- Mindfulness meditation reduces loneliness in older adults
- What happens when roommates or romantic partners have different levels of tolerance for housework left undone?
- Is the Academic Publishing Industry on the Verge of Disruption?
- Newspapers frequently feign shock at the blatantly obvious in order to suck readers in.
- The bots that help run Wikipedia
- Gay marriage to be introduced in Scotland. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
- David Cameron pledges to legalise gay marriage by 2015.
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I heard a radio four interview the this week on the subject. Blaming the CPS for being too liberal is missing the point. The CPS can only pursue prosecutions it is asked to by the police. So when the article says "the CPS has not instigated one prosecution, let alone secured a conviction" this should be viewed in the context of the CPS instigating prosecutions in 100% of the cases where it could -- it has never had a case bought to it.
Also I don't think there is any significant number of people who are "liberal" who think FGM should not be stopped. Indeed there's widespread agreement that it must be stopped. The question is how to do it. The suggestions made in this article on how to do it seem extremely problematic to say the least.