Interesting Links for 16-12-2019
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andrewducker- Without Section 30, the law won't help Scottish independence
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- Cache of Crypto-Jewish Recipes Dating to Inquisition Found in Miami Kitchen
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- Taking Sex Differences in Personality Seriously
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- Against "the chosen one"
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- On Having Kids
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- "I'm a 37-Year-Old Mom & I Spent Seven Days Online as an 11-Year-Old Girl. Here's What I Learned."
- (tags:children abuse OhForFucksSake )
- In England, Coroners Decide What Is Treasure and What Is Not
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- Red hair, it turns out, isn't a recessive gene!
- (tags:hair colour genetics viaEatSoylentGreen )
- These chickens are *beautiful*
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Date: 2019-12-16 04:07 pm (UTC)I think there's a practical reason for this. If you don't have some chosen one thing, you have to explain why this empathisable person is the one saving the world, why are they the best person for this? But most stories do have you feel the success by making it depend on something you achieved yourself. Like, you're prophecied to succeed, but you succeed because you trust your friends. Or you have some special magic but you use it in ways no-one expected.
Like in Harry Potter. Harry is singled out. But what he does about it matters.
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Date: 2019-12-17 02:28 am (UTC)I can't bear to read 37-year-old Mom.