This is awesome. For those of you who don’t know, Jonathan Coulton is the one who wrote Still Alive at the end of Portal and also the song at the end of Portal 2 whose name escapes me. He’s also written a bunch of other cool geeky songs.
(Source: tordotcom)
Sentinels of the Arctic
Image Credit & Copyright: Niccolò Bonfadini
Most normal people (as opposed to warrior geeks and hacker activists) can’t be bothered faffing around with torrents or cracking open DRM locks.
Quoted just for the warrior geeks. But for serious, it’s a pretty good article.
Suspended Books Magically Fill Swiss Tunnel
coolest thing ever
This is kind of awesome. I didn’t know stingrays also schooled.
(Source: cachaemic)
METHODOLOGY: Researchers led by Philippe Bernard presented participants pictures of men and women in sexualized poses, wearing a swimsuit or underwear, one by one on a computer screen. Since pictures of people present a recognition problem when they’re turned upside down, but images of objects don’t have that problem, some of the photos were presented right side up and others upside down. After each picture, there was a second of black screen before each participant was shown two images and was asked to choose the one that matched the one he or she had just seen.
RESULTS: The male and female subjects matched the photos similarly. They recognized right-side-up men better than upside-down men, suggesting that they saw the sexualized men as persons. On the contrary, the women in underwear weren’t any harder to recognize when they appeared upside down, indicating that the sexy women were consistently identified as objects.
CONCLUSION: People objectify women in sexualized photos, but not men.
SOURCE: The full study, “Integrating Sexual Objectification With Object Versus Person Recognition: The Sexualized-Body-Inversion Hypothesis,” is published in the journal Psychological Science.
via @Laura_Hudson
Reblogging for SCIENCE
Lian Hearn books in Swedish. #randomfind (Taken with instagram)
Under this cut are spoilers for City of Lost Souls, but also an in-depth discussion of sexual assault as it pertains to books in general and The Mortal Instruments in specific, with a discussion of rape culture and rape myths. There is also an excerpt from a scene that contains a violent physical assault.
There is no classier author than @CassieClare, people. She is the smartest. An IMPORTANT post.
Queen Elizabeth II: outlasting US Presidents since 1952.
Shouldn’t the last one be making allusions to the Energizer bunny? Or is that just an Australian advert?
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