Interesting Links for 05-01-2018
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andrewducker- The Transgender Scientist Who Changed Our Understanding of the Brain
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- HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel?! (amazing, funny, talk. With maths)
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- Get a grip, get a smartphone, and move into the 21st century
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- U.S. to End Policy That Let Legal Pot Flourish
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- 'Would you be willing?': words to turn a conversation around (and those to avoid)
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- Aversion to holes driven by disgust, not fear
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- Eating more foods with choline during pregnancy could boost baby’s brain
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- Having science students do lab work doesn't actually teach them anything
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- Rosamund Pike says actors won't play second fiddle to actresses
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- HBO will make Game of Thrones fans wait until 2019 for final season
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- Demolition complete at St James Centre site
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- Stop asking ‘what about men?’
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- 'Swedish death cleaning' is the new decluttering trend
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- New measurement confirms: The ozone is coming back
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- SyFy Announces Nightflyers (based on the GRRM novella)
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- Vienna ‘New Year’s Baby’ Greeted First With Hate, Then Hearts
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- Mapping technique finds links between brain connections and IQ
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- The common ancestor of all humans lived about 3,600 years ago
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- "My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright claims!"
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Date: 2018-01-05 12:05 pm (UTC)“By far, the main difference that I have noticed is that people who don’t know I am transgendered treat me with much more respect,” he wrote in Nature. “I can even complete a whole sentence without being interrupted by a man.”
The first bit is certainly true but the second bit less so, but then..............
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Date: 2018-01-05 12:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-07 04:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-05 01:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-05 01:34 pm (UTC)As soon as they make them in a size that actually fits in a pocket and isn't like a huge slab of cheese, sure.
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Date: 2018-01-05 02:03 pm (UTC)On the other hand, the smartphone article is the absolute finest in complete asshatery. It is so offensive that it makes me, one of those late-middle-age doubters it addresses, want to NEVER get a smartphone just to show them, and to write a long litany of the things I hate and fear about the prospect of having one, most of them based on the inherent escalation of frustrations I already have with existing dumbphones and computers.
Regarding Smartphones ...
Date: 2018-01-06 01:06 am (UTC)I totally see how convenient it is to have access to everything in one device that goes everywhere with you. Boarding a plane, paying for just about everything, looking things up, ordering stuff, making appointments, keeping in touch with people.
But doing my banking on phone just gives me the willies so bad that I am just one moving mound of wobbly willies. Argh.
People con and scam and thieve and and and and ... currently they will have to do multiple things to get my everything - put it all on my smartphone and then it is just one wiffle and I'm cleaned out.
Also: Canada. Data plans are insane. Less like the cost of a coffee per month and more like opening a franchise location. Many many monies. I'd rather do old fogey stuff with my monies.
As a pristine ideal, though - yes.
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Date: 2018-01-07 02:09 pm (UTC)As somebody with a < £60 smartphone, I am here to tell you that I can only engage without about three 21st century wonders, before I have to remove one app in order to install the next.
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Date: 2018-01-07 09:12 pm (UTC)I don't think the author addresses one of the strongest reasons I have to using my smartphone to pay for parking (specifically): there is a surcharge. Your parking fee is marked up by a small amount each time you use the app our city has---to buy time, to add time, whatever. In my previous city they installed smart meters with credit card readers, and those too charged a *stinking* fee---in effect it was a $5 minimum for any parking meter use if you had a credit card. The local parking cards were not easy to buy (only one retailer had them and they weren't always in stock) and the card slots frequently didn't work.
If smartphone is going to be a default payment method, then users should not be charged different rates for cash, smartphone, or card-on-the-spot payments, and the app should not be provided by a for-profit corporation skimming the revenues.
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Date: 2018-01-07 09:33 pm (UTC)http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40655333
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Date: 2018-01-07 09:41 pm (UTC)[I get the message, universe, I should simply MOVE.]
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Date: 2018-01-07 09:44 pm (UTC)no subject
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