Interesting Links for 27-09-2018

[andrewducker]

Science Says Toxic Masculinity — More Than Alcohol — Leads To Sexual Assault

(tags: rape society psychology )

Walmart Requires Lettuce, Spinach Suppliers to Join Blockchain

(tags: blockchain Technology vegetables business tracking shopping )

Tackling the problem of 'noisy' electricity

(tags: electricity )

Jeremy Corbyn offers Brexit truce with Theresa May if her final deal is sensible

(tags: uk europe labour )

EU steps up plans for no-deal Brexit as Labour stance alarms capitals

(tags: Europe UK Labour doom )

Skripal suspect 'real name' revealed as Anatoliy Chepiga

(tags: Russia assassination identity )

From Russia With Blood: 14 Suspected Hits On British Soil That The Government Ignored

(tags: uk russia assassination government wtf )

UK appoints food supplies minister amid fears of no-deal Brexit

(tags: UK Europe food doom )

Nobody can say that social media isn't a book to society

(tags: funny genitals cards twitter )

Jeremy Corbyn to meet with EU chief Brexit negotiator

(tags: Labour UK europe )

Limiting children's screen time to two hours and making sure they get tons of sleep linked to better cognition

(tags: sleep children computers achievement )

After century of removing appendixes, docs find antibiotics can be enough

(tags: disease antibiotics surgery )

Reclassification recommendations for drug in magic mushrooms

(tags: psilocybin magic_mushrooms medicine psychedelics )

Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information

(tags: facebook surveillance privacy advertising )

No-deal Brexit could lead to NI electricity blackouts

No wonder reunification polls are hitting 58%!
(tags: uk europe NorthernIreland )

Emmanuel Macron says Britain could stay in the EU ‘for sure’ if it changes its mind on Brexit

(tags: europe uk france )

Customs union: What is it, what would leaving it mean and what post-Brexit alternatives are there?

(tags: uk europe trade doom )

How to look generous and get more, in one simple step

(tags: behaviour psychology )

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

> Instead, you should say something like, “Oh, go ahead – you choose a seat”, and the odds are that she or he will not only leave the better seat for you, but also think that you’re generous.

Um, no, leaving the other person realizing that you've manipulated their instinct to act politely and silently cursing you for it.

[xenophanean]

This is exactly what I thought. Putting someone where they're in a position where they have to make a social-value laden choice isn't normally a nice thing to do.

E.g.
2 people sitting in a restaurant:
Person A: "What a lovely meal, shall we split the bill"
Person B: "We could, or I could pay for it all, entirely up to you"

Unless it's couched very carefully, I think Person A would find any answer like this slightly hostile. It's Person B suggesting that they act in a manner which would lose face, an outcome which hadn't been on the table before. It can be mitigated if other meals had been paid for, or there were other social bonds, but for two strangers, this'd be very odd.

[danieldwilliam]

On principle when put in the that situation I take the best seat and then ask the other person to go to the bar for me.

[calimac]

"the odds are that she or he will not only leave the better seat for you"

That's because the people in this scenario are British, and consequently self-effacing. Americans are far less likely to make the offer postulated.

But if a Brit makes that offer to a visiting American, the American is likely to give a slightly surprised look, say "well, thanks," and take the better seat.

I know, because this situation has happened to me. I am an American.

How to look generous and get more, in one simple step

[doug]

"abdication provides a unique opportunity for people to give up their cake and eat it too"

This is underexplored as the UK's Brexit negotiating strategy.

Electricity

[danieldwilliam]

When I was an accountant for a power station we obviously made most of our money turning natural gas in to electricity but the balancing services (smoothing very short term over or under supplies) and ancillary services (frequency response - smoothing out the frequency of the electricty) was quite lucrative.

After century of removing appendixes, docs find antibiotics can be enough

[jack]

I love the stock image of a surgical team facepalming :)

[adrian_turtle]

The study of screen time and cognition is about "recreational screen time," among children 8-11. There's a brief mention at the end that the children may have had difficulty answering the questions. I am not even slightly surprised! Reading an ebook for school isn't recreational, is it? What if you like the book? Does skype or email count as recreational all the time, or only when you do it with your friends?