Interesting Links for 26-03-2019

[andrewducker]

17 Million Signatures - a campaign to get the petition to match the vote count of the referendum

(tags:UK europe petition referendum )

Next time you need an alternative to "guys" for a group of people.

(tags:language gender )

Finally: Parliament takes control of Brexit

(tags:UK europe politics )

Masterplan to expand Edinburgh Waverley by 2048 goes on public display

(tags:Edinburgh trains transport )

Too poor to play: children in social housing blocked from communal playground

(tags:children inequality play OhForFucksSake uk )

Why Captain Marvel resonated with women so much

(tags:marvel movies women society )

Millennial men still don't see women as their equals

(tags:gender men women society patriarchy )

MPs take control of Brexit: What the hell happens now?

(tags:politics uk europe hope )

I forgive myself, now I can study: How self-forgiveness for procrastinating can reduce future procrastination

(tags:forgiveness psychology procrastination )

Fossil barnacles reveal whales have followed same migration routes for hundreds of thousands of years

(tags:whales prehistory )

Testosterone Increases The Aggressiveness Of Some Men More Than Others, Depending On Their Personality And Genes

(tags:testosterone aggression genetics men )

Neurons And Intelligence: A Birdbrained Perspective

(tags:Intelligence ape birds humans brain )

Comments

[skington]

It takes a peculiar amount of skill to take a graphic describing what the New Waverley would look like, and both (a) crop it so the right-hand side of the City of Edinburgh logo is missing, and (b) downsize it so it's illegible. Given that the Scotsman uses an image-resizing service automatically, it would have been easier just to upload the original image as-is!

[heron61]

The article on testosterone and aggression had this interesting bit: "Further analysis revealed that for the men with the more efficient androgen receptor, testosterone didn’t enhance the anger that they felt in response to being provoked — but it did boost the pleasure they derived from being aggressive."

That's sufficiently worrisome that it makes me wonder if one useful way to make the world a better place is develop some gene therapy technique to replace more efficient androgen receptors with standard ones and give it to everyone - start with making it free, move to mandating it for anyone convicted of violent crimes, and perhaps make it mandatory. OTOH, it would only be remotely ethical or worth doing if studies show that violent criminals are far more likely to have this variant than other people.