Interesting Links for 15-03-2024

[andrewducker]

1. The financial burden of tackling climate change will fall disproportionately on Scotland

(tags:scotland globalwarming )

2. The Violence Of Relentless Positivity In The Workplace (or: "Negativity is an expensive signal of honesty")

(tags:work honesty complaints )

3. Why women are at greater risk of autoimmune disease

(tags:immune_system women disease )

4. The Small Company at the Center of 'Gamergate 2.0'

(tags:harassment games writing Diversity bigotry OhForFucksSake )

5. Review of "Who's Afraid of Gender?" by Judith Butler - An urgent counter to trans panic

(tags:gender society )

6. Urban humans have lost much of their ability to digest plants

(tags:humans microbiome plants food )

7. How Michael Sheen met Neil Gaiman, and the mystery they ate when they did

(tags:neilgaiman food )

8. Next-gen battery tech: Reimagining every aspect of batteries

(tags:batteries Technology thefuture research )

9. There is no EU cookie banner law

(tags:europe regulation privacy )

10. A Diversity of Novels with Transgender Protagonists

(tags:transgender lgbt fiction )

11. The Designer Who's Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge

(tags:water cities china design drought )

Comments

[simont]

#10's title made me think "yes, that seems like exactly the right collective noun".

[andrewducker]

Hah! True!

[calimac]

5) says "Calling a philosopher like Butler impenetrable is a bit like criticising a gym class for being fatiguing or dismissing a children’s book for being accessible. If you’re going to read a post-structuralist like Butler, you are likely to be doing so because you want to be challenged in your thinking."

The second sentence does not follow from the first. Challenging the reader's thinking does not require impenetrable writing; rather, the impenetrability of the prose is likelier to stand in the way of the ideas penetrating the reader's mind (see what I did there?).

No. 6

[anna_wing]

At the individual level this could presumably be resolved by eating more vegetables. I doubt if this is a problem in the majority of the global urban population, since vegetables are still much cheaper than meat pretty much everywhere.