Interesting Links for 26-06-2021

[andrewducker]

Men: Why can't they shut up?

(tags:women men talking communication psychology )

Warren Ellis issues apology over how he treated women. Waiting to see how this goes.

(tags:WarrenEllis women apology )

Why has the sea off part of Scotland turned turquoise?

(tags:scotland sea colour )

New blood test can find 50 types of cancer (accuracy levels are problematic, but it's an interesting start)

(tags:cancer blood )

It's True: Stress Does Turn Hair Gray (And It's Reversible)

(tags:stress hair colour )

The military's top officer schools congressmen on critical race theory, 'white rage' and communism

(tags:USA military racism politics )

"I Was Taught From a Young Age to Protect My Dynastic Wealth"

(tags:wealth tax society epicfail )

Brighton Palace Pier: Hundreds overcharged £2,100 for rides (system mixed up date and amount)

(tags:epicfail money computers )

Russia's Gigantic Submarine, Belgorod, Sails For The First Time

(tags:Submarine Russia )

New solar is cheaper to build than to run existing coal plants in China, India and most of Europe

(tags:viaDanielDWilliam renewables )

NFC flaws let researchers hack an ATM by waving a phone

(tags:hacking banks technology )

Explaining Derek Chauvin's sentencing

(tags:law USA prison )

Smart screens on fridge doors in shops is a terrible idea

(tags:technology awful shopping advertising )

Even mild COVID in young people often leads to long-term symptoms

(tags:Pandemic Doom )

Comments

[reverancepavane]

Anecdotally I found the grey hair thing to be quite true. Someone even commented on t (and then fell silent
when she realised why I was no longer suffering the stress I was). Sadly the reversion, probably due to new stressors, didn't last and I am now mostly white-haired.

Men: Why can't they shut up?

[haggis]

I read about that a few years ago. In the same place, there was a discussion about how women's speech was always 'wrong' depending on the social rules of the time/culture. If straightforward-to-monosyllabic was the cultural default for men, women talked too much. If fluency and elegance was the male ideal, women's speech was trivial and so on.

Men: Why can't they shut up?

[agoodwinsmith]

Because we train them not to - and we train women to let them. It starts early in family kitchens everywhere. I wrote about that here:
https://agoodwinsmith.dreamwidth.org/198797.html

Abigail Disney

[agoodwinsmith]

What she has to say is only a morsel compared to this thorough 2018 Matthew Stewart article in the Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/

[danieldwilliam]

I think the article on the algae bloom answers the question we were discussing about using calcium carbonate to hold carbon.

[andrewducker]

"the calcareous plates take up carbon dioxide from sea water and when they sink to the bottom they are removing it from the sea and the atmosphere."

Perfect!

[danieldwilliam]

That's exactly the bit.

Belgorod

[danieldwilliam]

I still don't know what to make of that Russian submarine.

Re: Belgorod

[andrewducker]

Some kind of hat?

Re: Belgorod

[andrewducker]

Do you not think it would be useful for the purposes they claim?

Re: Belgorod

[danieldwilliam]

I probably do but I'm not sure those purposes are that useful.

Cheaperer than coal

[danieldwilliam]

Serious post 3 out of 3 in my drafts folder is some thinking about the longer term impacts on the world of cheap energy along with cheap transport, vat-grown meat and recycling.

Re: Cheaperer than coal

[andrewducker]

I'd like to know if I got my reply right here: https://www.facebook.com/251475348296700/posts/3969036776540520/

Re: Cheaperer than coal

[danieldwilliam]

Yep, pretty spot on.

Re: Cheaperer than coal

[andrewducker]

Cheers!

[anna_wing]

I have indeed observed that older women in the Anglo countries get a lot less respect than in any Asian society I know, regardless of social rank. In my experience, whose speech gets precedence depends very much on the structure of the society. In a lot of Asian contexts, rank is usually the determining factor, outweighing sex and race. It will even outweigh age (the young of either sex don't generally get a lot of respect unless they are children of someone significant). A woman of sufficient seniority, however that society determines it, is usually considered in the same way as a man in public, non-familial interactions. And Westerners in many such Asian contexts do learn to adapt their behaviour.