Interesting Links for 11-01-2016

[andrewducker]

• Would a progressive alliance actually work?
  • politics uk
• Can Animals Think Abstractly?
  • animals thought
• Why "Follow Your Passion" is frequently terrible advice
  • passion advice work
• In 2015, The Dark Forces Of The Internet Became A Counterculture
  • place
  • internet racism misogyny
• My friend Sonya makes awesome art. You should take a look.
  • art
• Researchers discover link between stress and unhealthy microbiomes
  • microbiome stress
• Tiger fails to eat goat. Observers declare them best-friends.
  • animals Goats tiger behaviour
• Supernormal Stimuli - how your reptile brain controls more than you'd like to think
  • comic psychology viaSwampers
• Archaeologists discover world's oldest tea buried with ancient Chinese emperor
  • china Tea archeology
• Chauvet cave paintings: A volcanic eruption from 36,000 years ago – as captured by prehistoric man
  • prehistory volcano art
• I am almost at the 97th percentile of all Twitter users
  • Of course, half my followers are probably bots...
  • Twitter statistics
• The best possible way to watch Jaws
  • sharks movies
• David Bowie dies at the age of 69 | Music | The Guardian
  • DavidBowie death cancer
• The Amazing Inner Lives of Animals
  • animals behaviour
• A Big Budget, Sci-fi Adaptation of the Card Game ‘Mafia’ Exists, Has a Trailer and Everything
  • Looks to be the same game as what I've played as "Werewolf". Also, seriously, WTF?
  • games WTF
• The “Other Side” Is Not Dumb
  • politics argument debate
• Cracking the code - on gender parity in business
  • business gender

Comments

[flick]

The Amazing Inner Lives of Animals

That is absolutely fascinating. I never knew killer whales were so interesting. Might have to buy the book!

[andrewducker]

Let us know if it's good!

[flick]

I've (thankfully) just finished the one about whales and dolphins, and I can't recommend it....

Three or four chapters that can be summed up as "waaa, anthropologists are mean for saying that only humans can have culture", four actually about observations of whales / dolphins, and another three or four of "So, see, we are right, it is culture (maybe!)".

There were about a dozen specific things about various animals (not just whales and dolphins) that made me go "huh, interesting", of which about half were cherry picked into the review.

It may be written in a perfectly usual style for (their branch of) academic writing, but it was a bit of a slog.

[andrewducker]

That's a shame. Thank you.