Interesting Links for 16-06-2018

[andrewducker]

DNA previously written off as 'junk' actually determines genitals at birth

(tags: dna genitals )

'Star Trek: Discovery' fires showrunners over bullying

(tags: StarTrek abuse OhForFucksSake tv )

UK has awful social mobility - it can take five generations to reach average income

(tags: society inequality uk )

Like Joy Division? Love the cover to Unknown Pleasures? Want it on a pair of boots?

(tags: shoes design music wtf )

Upskirting: Why a new law is needed to stop mobile phones being shoved up women’s skirts

(tags: law UK abuse )

How the transistor came to be

(tags: computers technology history )

New form of matter may lie just beyond the periodic table

(tags: physics materials )

Internet over pigeon is real!

(tags: pigeons internet )

Every so often, I get the urge to drag someone into a cave, and show them something unspeakable.

(tags: prehistory art )

Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies

(tags: usa pregnancy work )

Comments

[zotz]

Enhancers aren't coding DNA, but neither were they categorised as junk.

About Star Trek: Discovery

[dewline]

The timing looks disturbing. Considering that the two people ousted are a woman and an openly gay man...

[cmcmck]

That DNA aspect might also go some way to explaining why some of us are born with anomalies 'down there'.

Interesting.