Interesting Links for 02-12-2019

[andrewducker]

Jeremy Corbyn says UK military interventions have fuelled terrorism at home. The public agree (53% to 24%)

(tags:polls terrorism UK Labour )

Precarity the Misery Cat (a poem about academia and job security)

(tags:unions academia poetry security jobs ViaDrCross )

An Epidemic of AI Misinformation

(tags:AI fraud research )

Scientists Confirm Music Is Universal, and It Is Used in 'Strikingly Similar Ways' Across the Globe

(tags:music )

Extremism expert attacks Boris Johnson for misleading public on roots of terror risk and blames 'crazy austerity cuts'

(tags:austerity crime terrorism )

A woman tries on men's trousers and gets very angry indeed

(tags:clothing gender design )

Daily Mail owner buys the i newspaper for £49.6m

(tags:DailyMail newspapers independent OhForFucksSake )

Wildermyth is a simple, beautiful, brilliant RPG.

(tags:gaming stories )

The Tory racism problem is as severe as Labour's

(tags:racism conservatives politics UK )

Comments

[naath]

I have a 10" waist:hip difference; I have never founds 'men's' trousers that fit; I have envy.

[channelpenguin]

Was about to say the same. Though with age, the gap is narrowing. maybe one day!!!

[redbird]

I do like my "men's" jeans. On the other hand, the flip side of this is that I almost have to buy men's trousers, because most women's trousers assume that waist/hip size difference.

Having to buy men's jeans is less irritating now that I live where I can plausibly try on LL Bean jeans, rather than guess which styles will fit.

[calimac]

Puzzled by statement that tonality is universal, since I always understood it as a musicological given that scales in different cultures are entirely unalike, and listening to the music tends to confirm this.

Woman in men's trousers: Marilyn Hacker made the same discovery in the 1960s when trying on a pair of her husband's trousers. Said husband, Samuel R. Delany, tells this story in one of his essays, to point out how different perspectives can be even within the same culture.

[atreic]

Do people really pronounce BAME to rhyme with same?

[naath]

I do.