Interesting Links for 27-12-2015

[andrewducker]

• Polyamory: taboo for religious Americans but not for the rest
  • polyamory polls religion
• Obama Is Setting Free 95 Nonviolent Drug Offenders—Including 2 Pot Lifers
  • Obama drugs epicwin GoodNews
• Hormone that controls sugar cravings found (in mice)
  • sugar hormones mice
• Coldplay: how can something so banal be so powerful?
  • music
• The difference in how men and women describe work
  • work gender
• Dolby Cinema: Twin laser projectors object-based 3D audio = awesome
  • cinema lasers
• The Everyday Sexism of Women Waiting in Public Toilet Lines
  • toilets gender patriarchy sexism architecture
• Camille Paglia on modern feminism
  • feminism history
• A cat grabbing an object in mid-air, putting in its mouth, and then landing feet first.
  • cats video
• A Psychological Exploration of Engagement in Geek Culture
  • psychology geek

Comments

[boxofdelights]

That cat video is amazing. Birds of prey will catch things with their feet and then use their beak to deliver a killing blow or rearrange their prey to be more aerodynamic while they're on the wing, but I never thought a wingless creature could do that!

[cmcmck]

The loos one is interesting as research has shown that we need approximately seven times as many as you lot and usually get a slightly lesser number.

[andrewducker]

The only time I have ever, ever seen a shorter queue for the women's toilets was for the Australian Pink Floyd.