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  1. Wait wait by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 1 · on Reason Excoriates Paper On "Glaciers, Gender, and Science" (reason.com)

    "...A feminist glaciology framework..."

    Read no further, it's utter bullshit. More SJW horsecrap being thrown out there in an attempt to gain some measure of relevancy.

    It's as bad as "Carbon fiber masculinity: Disability and surfaces of homosociality", which, believe it or not, is apparently a real paper. Here's an excerpt from the abstract:

    Hickey-Moody, Anna Catherine - "In this paper I am concerned with instances in which carbon fiber extends performances of masculinity that are attached to particular kinds of hegemonic male bodies. In examining carbon fiber as a prosthetic form of masculinity, I advance three main arguments. Firstly, carbon fiber can be a site of the supersession of disability that is affected through masculinized technology. Disability can be ‘overcome’ through carbon fiber. Disability is often culturally coded as feminine (Pedersen, 2001; Meeuf, 2009; Garland-Thompson 1997). Building on this cultural construction of disability as feminine, in and as a technology of masculine homosociality (Sedgwick, 1985), carbon fiber reproduced disability as feminine when carbon fiber prosthetic lower legs allowed Oscar Pistorius to compete in the non-disabled Olympic games. Secondly, I argue that carbon fiber can be a homosocial surface; that is, carbon fiber becomes both a surface extension of the self and a third party mediator in homosocial relationships, a surface that facilitates intimacy between men in ways that devalue femininity in both male and female bodies. I examine surfaces as material extensions of subjectivity, and carbon fiber surfaces as vectors of the cultural economies of masculine competition to which I refer. Thirdly, the case of Oscar Pistorius is exemplary of the masculinization of carbon fire, and the associated binding of a psychic attitude of misogyny and power to a form of violent and competitive masculine subjectivity.

    Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go throw up my lunch.

  2. Electronic tutors; eTutors by Colin+Smith · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Do E-Readers Spell the Demise Of Traditional Schooling?

    Games and A.Is which teach kids best according to their abilities using the most effective teaching strategies, backed up by human teachers.

    Motivation is a problem, but it's a problem with kids sitting at desks in schools.

    http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/polovina/learnpyramid/about.htm

    I'm not sure I'd call what we have just now as "providing education".

  3. OTHER site about AIKON (accessible) by ptresset · · Score: 1 · on Low-Cost Robotic Arm Sketches Faces

    Sorry for the interruption of service http://www.gold.ac.uk/computing/showcaseofwork/aikon-researchprojectpatricktressetandfredericfolleymarie/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOtQAhblRps

  4. Re:one button mouse a failure? by argent · · Score: 1 · on Will Mac mini Lead the Charge to Smaller Desktops?

    Mac OS has a five-button mouse, it's just that four of the buttons are on the keyboard.

    Even the most extreme X11 user with a MIT double-bucky keyboard wouldn't have thought of command-option-control-click (also here and here) or command-option-shift-click (also here)...

    Having a contextual menu button from the beginning would have discouraged developers from adding a bunch of chord-combination clicks to make up for the lack...

  5. Teeline by mykdavies · · Score: 2 · on Methods For Shorthand Notetaking?

    Have a search for books on Teeline - it's a simple shorthand system used mainly in the UK. This link shows a very quick run-through from the basic letter shapes to forming words and phrases.