Interesting Links for 31-08-2022

[andrewducker]

1. The imminent BA.5 vaccine booster

(tags:Pandemic vaccine )

2. Edinburgh to apologise for role in slave trade

(tags:edinburgh slavery scotland )

3. Teenagers struggle to tell the difference between real and fake health advice

(tags:teenagers fraud psychology )

4. Associations between obese BMI and mortality are only there for people who are suffering insulin issues or inflammation

(tags:insulin diabetes inflammation obesity BMI )

5. A person and an AI cooperating on some art

(tags:ai art video )

6. Affirming parent tells how schools can support trans kids

(tags:LGBT transgender schools viaPatrickHadfield )

7. A trans man on Sandman's A Game Of You arc

(tags:LGBT transgender Sandman neilgaiman )

8. All the times someone falls off of something in the Lord of The Rings movies

(tags:lotr funny )

9. Republican candidates are changing how they handle abortion after Roe v. Wade

(tags:abortion USA republicans )

10. Eurostar to axe direct trains to Disneyland Paris, partly blaming Brexit

(tags:UK Europe Disney trains )

11. What do computers dream of (or: what happens when you feed an AI image generator into an animation?)

(tags:animation ai generation video )

12. Experimenters' sex modulates mouse behaviors and neural responses to ketamine

(tags:research experiment gender smell mice )

Comments

[calimac]

7) It's a relief to find that the article I published on Game of You some 15 years ago tracks pretty well on what the commenter says here. That Wanda is not being dismissed by the author in dying, and that her erasure is defied, was my major point: this story is a tragedy, but it's a tragedy with hope.

[original_aj]

6: I loved the head's response to the parent who didn't want their daughter sharing a bathroom with a trans woman.

[andrewducker]

Absolutely. Best possible result - smooth things over without discomfiting the student.

[original_aj]

Also supports the principle of making the bigots being the ones who are singled out and separated from the mass of people who aren't bigoted, rather than letting them feel they are the norm.

[autopope]

Your link to the news about the BA.5 booster relates to the US version of the vaccine update -- the UK and EU are going with a modified version of the Moderna mRNA vaccine based on a different strain. It should be rolling out from the middle of September.

[andrewducker]

Does it look like it will helpful?