Interesting Links for 30-04-2019

[andrewducker]

Simon Pegg & Nick Frost To Adapt 'Rivers of London'

(tags:tv books fantasy )

Court Case Conclusively Proves a Hash Brown is Not a Phone

I mean, not really, but it's a great headline
(tags:phones driving law )

Norway finds 'Russian spy whale' off Arctic Coast

(tags:russia spying whales )

Release of '13 Reasons Why' associated with 30% increase in youth suicide rates

(tags:suicide tv )

Arya Stark is left handed. Maisie Williams is not. She's just more badass than you thought. She made the choice to play Arya left handed when she was 12 and stuck with it for a decade

(tags:gameofthrones fighting acting impressive )

Blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome could speed diagnosis

(tags:ChronicFatigueSyndrome blood )

Corbynista left splits over Brexit referendum

(tags:UK europe labour politics )

Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me would be better if he'd read any of the Science Fiction he looks down on

(tags:scifi writing review )

Interesting piece about the latest Game Of Thrones episode

(tags:gameofthrones viaSwampers )

Gamers Blame Socialism for Making Women in Mortal Kombat 'Ugly'

(tags:beauty women games design OhForFucksSake )

Labour's process for dealing with racism accusations is shockingly awful

(tags:labour racism OhForFucksSake )

How do people see the different parties in terms of Brexit?

(tags:UK europe polls )

Why is Game of Thrones so dark? We asked the cinematographer

(tags:film tv gameofthrones )

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

"Release of '13 Reasons Why' associated with 30% increase in youth suicide rates"

Putting fact A next to fact B and linking them together is not how you do science. We don't even know if any of them had actually seen the series, if they were being harassed, etc. There may or may not be a correlation between the two events and I agree that media need to be smarter about this but this article makes the research sound shoddy as heck.

If this is science then here's my research: one of my 9th grade students did a presentation on this book last year in class. None of the students who were present have killed themselves since then (some of them had seen the series too or knew about it) or attempted to do so (one of them has fallen into self-destructive behavior though but also didn't get help from his parents...). However, several of them did presentations on books dealing with harassment, which showed that this was an important issue and that we should talk about it openly. Which we do. We also actually act to prevent it, spot it, have the kids or their friends talk to an adult as soon as possible, alert the parents and the school nurse. What you can read about school bullying and adults' inaction in the US doesn't make it seem like this is a national priority over there. Also, while they're at it, could they research the influence of the portrayal of authority figures in I dunno... cop shows? And how about real-life authority figures?