Interesting Links for 25-05-2017

[andrewducker]

Stop Calling It a 'Vagina'

(tags: genitals women vagina language )

Conservatives’ free school breakfast pledge costed at just 7p per meal

(tags: Conservatives food money OhForFucksSake )

Have a list of marketing tricks to avoid falling for

(tags: marketing psychology viaSwampers )

Researchers find dozens of genes (mildly) associated with measures of intelligence

(tags: Intelligence genetics )

Terrorism is mass murder with a media strategy; it’s long past time to disrupt it.

(tags: terrorism media )

Laffer curve: Everything Trump and Republicans get wrong about trickle-down economics

(tags: economics tax politics usa history )

What It's Like to Carry Your Nobel Prize through Airport Security

(tags: awards science physics security viaSwampers )

China Reaches the Moon Snapping Incredible, Never-Before-Seen High-Definition Images

(tags: moon china space photos viaDrJon )

Google starts tracking what you buy at stores in person

(tags: Google shopping surveillance )

A true, real, and accurate definition of the term "fanfiction"

(tags: fanfiction funny writing )

No, ‘The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct’ Hoax Doesn’t Prove Gender Studies Is Garbage

(tags: academia fraud fail viaSupergee )

Dog sits on the editorial boards of seven international medical journals

(tags: academia dogs fraud )

Study indicates mushrooms may be the safest recreational drug

(tags: psilocybin drugs safety )

Britain stops sharing Manchester attack intelligence with US after leaks continue

(tags: usa spying OhForFucksSake )

I am terrible with names, and would totally do this

(tags: names funny comic )

Comments

[adrian_turtle]

The first link, from vice.com, seems to take a known fact and go off in a weird direction trying to explain it. Yes, lots of people say "vagina" when they really mean "vulva." I'm dubious that the mistake is because everybody is focusing on how women's bodies contribute to men's orgasms. The other name for "vagina" is "birth canal." It's the part people focus on when they aren't interested in anybody's orgasm. (And of course jargon is self-propagating. When a person hears one word used to represent the whole set of bits, they tend to go on using it.)