Interesting Links for 21-08-2018

[andrewducker]

Corbynistas are doxing and *checking the ancestry* of BBC journalists.…

(tags: OhForFucksSake Jews politics uk )

In horrifying detail, women accuse U.S. customs officers of invasive body searches

(tags: usa OhForFucksSake )

Measles cases hit record high in Europe (three times what it was, because people aren't vaccinating their kids)

(tags: vaccination OhForFucksSake )

Video: Change in Queen Elizabeth's appearance on currency

(tags: money royalty video history )

Kerala needs your help (huge floods, hundreds dead, hundreds of thousands living in camps)

(tags: india charity )

Everyone expects women to do the shitty work - Women volunteer more, are asked to volunteer more, and accept requests to volunteer more

(tags: patriarchy women men society )

Announcing the 2018 Hugo Award Winners

(tags: hugo scifi awards )

The Real Reason that There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in America

(tags: Thailand food usa )

Number of Third-Party Cookies on EU News Sites Dropped by 22% Post-GDPR

(tags: privacy cookies europe web )

Doctor Who - New Series Writers and Directors announced

(tags: drwho writing tv )

Consuming milk at breakfast lowers blood glucose throughout the day

(tags: milk glucose health food )

Scientists discover the reason people believe in conspiracy theories and creationism

(tags: conspiracy psychology religion )

How Do We Measure the Distance to a Star?

(tags: physics light space astronomy )

The cosmic distance ladder

(tags: astronomy space )

Armageddon vs. Deep Impact: 20 Years Later

(tags: movies space review asteroids history )

Minigame integrated into EVE Online helps scientists understand cells

(tags: EveOnline games research biology )

First upgraded ScotRail InterCity train arrives in Scotland, rollout completed by late 2019

(tags: trains transport scotland )

Is it the end of the 9 to 5 working day?

(tags: time work )

Five-minute steam treatment that shrinks enlarged prostate offers hope for millions of men

(tags: prostate )

A Visual Git Reference

(tags: git versioncontrol )

High school students learning programming do better with block-based languages, and the impact is greatest for female and minority students

(tags: programming ux school )

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

> Scientists discover the reason people believe in conspiracy theories and creationism

Because they're ignorant monkeys who don't know any better?

[nancylebov]

That milk thing only compares cereal with milk to cereal with water. Does anyone eat cereal with water?

It wouldn't surprise me if eggs do as much good.

Happy Birthday! I enjoy your link collections a lot.

[rmc28]

I've made porridge with water quite often.

[cmcmck]

Yes! A large proportion of Scots do it this way- water and salt, not milk and sugar but then what would I know? I'm married to a Scot who loathes porridge. :o)

For myself, I do it with skimmed milk and a little runny honey.

[darkoshi]

I was wondering the same thing as Nancylebov when reading that article. I think most Americans would not semantically consider porridge or oatmeal to be "breakfast cereal", though I agree that technically, oats are a cereal grain. Cereal is the stuff that comes in boxes, which you pour in a bowl, and pour milk over for breakfast. You don't cook it. I've heard of some people who pour juice on their cereal instead of milk, but not water. I'd rather eat it dry (with a glass of water on the side) than pour water or juice on it.

On the other hand, I cook my oatmeal with water and not milk.

The study was done in Canada, so I wonder if Canadians would call cooked oatmeal a "breakfast cereal".

[agoodwinsmith]

It would likely be called hot cereal, whereas cold boxed cereal would just be cereal.

[splodgenoodles]

It's quite strange, because I understand most of those boxed cereals (Corn Flakes and such) to be loaded with sugar.

My porridge is milk based, with salt during cooking and then sugar once it's done.

[darkoshi]

Corn Flakes are actually one of the less sweet ones; per this page (http://smartlabel.kelloggs.com/Product/Index/00038000991400) about 11% sugar.
Compare that to Frosted Flakes (http://smartlabel.kelloggs.com/Product/Index/00038000937729), which are about 30% sugar.

Whey Protein

[agoodwinsmith]

Yay milk! said the eye-wateringly lactose-intolerant person. But it is the whey protein, which one can get as a powder and use as a psuedo-flour, so maybe a controlled-carb breakie muffin would do the same. I wonder whether it needs to be corn flakes, or if ground flax as the other psuedo-flour bulking ingredient in the muffin would do?

Experiments for annecdotal instances fodder shall ensue.

Re: Whey Protein

[agoodwinsmith]

psuedo? pseudo? eruditely fake? bogus?

[darkoshi]

The article on the body searches truly is horrifying.

The page with the milk article also linked to this one, which I found interesting:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180806095213.htm
"Probiotic use is a link between brain fogginess, severe bloating"

[splodgenoodles]

I also found that one interesting. Mostly because people like me (with ME/CFS) are often told to consume probiotics to help with symptoms - like brainfog.

[splodgenoodles]

I know I don't comment much, but I do like your link posts.