MUSICS THREAD.
Moving my earlier Monae video here first. More in the replies...
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MUSICS THREAD.
Moving my earlier Monae video here first. More in the replies...
Yo, pgh.mode. Anyone want to visit the toonseum soon?
http://www.toonseum.org/exhibits.html
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This is mostly for Yann, and for anyone else who likes bluegrassy type music :)
Also Eli & Dinah, Baltimore represent!
An emerging in-utero treatment to help ensure that girls become girly girls
In a paper published just this year in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, [Maria] New and her colleague, pediatric endocrinologist Saroj Nimkarn of Weill Cornell Medical College, go further, constructing low interest in babies and men – and even interest in what they consider to be men’s occupations and games – as “abnormal,” and potentially preventable with prenatal dex:
“Gender-related behaviors, namely childhood play, peer association, career and leisure time preferences in adolescence and adulthood, maternalism, aggression, and sexual orientation become masculinized in 46,XX girls and women with 21OHD deficiency [CAH]. These abnormalities have been attributed to the effects of excessive prenatal androgen levels on the sexual differentiation of the brain and later on behavior.” Nimkarn and New continue: “We anticipate that prenatal dexamethasone therapy will reduce the well-documented behavioral masculinization . . .”
It seems more than a little ironic to have New, one of the first women pediatric endocrinologists and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, constructing women who go into “men’s” fields as “abnormal.” And yet it appears that New is suggesting that the “prevention” of “behavioral masculinization” is a benefit of treatment to parents with whom she speaks about prenatal dex.
Terrible. Fucking terrible.
Uh, happy World Industrial Design Day?
Will the iphone 4 blend? You should know the answer by now...
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On Farmville:
The secret to Farmville’s popularity is neither gameplay nor aesthetics. Farmville is popular because in entangles users in a web of social obligations. When users log into Facebook, they are reminded that their neighbors have sent them gifts, posted bonuses on their walls, and helped with each others’ farms. In turn, they are obligated to return the courtesies. As the French sociologist Marcel Mauss tells us, gifts are never free: they bind the giver and receiver in a loop of reciprocity. It is rude to refuse a gift, and ruder still to not return the kindness.[11] We play Farmville, then, because we are trying to be good to one another. We play Farmville because we are polite, cultivated people.
I don't play myself (I hardly do anything on Facebook). Does anyone else here play? Does this analysis match your experience?
Lord Mayor of Leicester apologises for trouser drop in front of children
Naked Man Arrested At Library With Several Pounds of Stolen Cheese.
You all knew it was coming:
Al Gore happy ending scandal in CG, courtesy of Tiawan.
Video in the replies.