Shocking Pink ([info]fionnghuala) wrote,
@ 2008-06-17 15:34:00
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Current mood: Distractable... can you tell?

This is something cool:



It's a building shaped as two towers that direct the wind into the centre where there are wind turbines...

Yea, I accidentally walked into a City and Regional Planning talk this afternoon. But hey, check out all these other cool, green buildings!

I wish I had grown up to be an architect. What a nice, sensible, shiny kind of job that would be...

In other news: Gay men and straight women have symmetrical brain hemispheres. The Guardian's write up of this is surprisingly homophobic. The online version doesn't do justice to the strange insert the paper had in it, spinning outrage from gay and lesbian groups to this kind of research as being a bit... outrageous. "These poor scientists are dogged by politics and controversy, etc, etc, etc".

I heard this headline on the news this morning just as I was waking up, and my immediate thought was that gay men and straight women's brains are developed by their shared experience of putting up with men's shit. More brain-building even than Sudoku.

Oh, and these are quite funny, too:
Black People Love Us

Stuff White People Like


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[info]davywavy
2008-06-17 03:35 pm UTC (link)
This is very old news; structural differences in homo/hetero sexuality in the Corpus Callosum have been reported for the best part of 20 years.

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[info]fionnghuala
2008-06-17 03:41 pm UTC (link)
*sigh* yea...

Although I think this is the kind of thing neuropsychology-types love to dedicate a lifetime of research to.

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[info]doctor_nemesis
2008-06-18 08:39 pm UTC (link)
"my immediate thought was that gay men and straight women's brains are developed by their shared experience of putting up with men's shit."

My, my! Such sexism towards men!

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[info]fionnghuala
2008-06-19 03:09 pm UTC (link)
That's the problem with you men. Can't take a joke ;)

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[info]doctor_nemesis
2008-06-22 01:03 pm UTC (link)
Stop oppressing me!!!

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[info]fionnghuala
2008-06-22 01:47 pm UTC (link)
:)

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[info]baloobas
2008-07-01 10:26 pm UTC (link)
Will be throwing some sort of party on Sat August the 8th if you want to come? I sorted venue etc out properrly : and I don;t have you on facebook so thought I'd best just fling you amessage :)

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[info]fionnghuala
2008-07-02 10:46 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for the invite! I'd love to come. Not 100% sure I can make the date as the start of August is chocca with stuff, but will try to !

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[info]fionnghuala
2008-07-06 12:01 am UTC (link)
Just went to put this in my diary, and noticed Aug 8th is a Friday! Which day is it?

xx

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(Anonymous)
2008-11-11 10:23 pm UTC (link)
Architects do some great things - but that doesn't mean you need to regret not being one. Issues raised in the following places suggest that sustainable energy needs social psychologists too:

doi:10.1016/S0301-4215(00)00026-4
This book chapter (http://arxiv.org/pdf/0804.3319v3)
This conference (http://www.exeter.ac.uk/climatechange/conference/conference_programme_abstracts.pdf) abstract D.2
This report (http://www.wbcsd.org/DocRoot/JE5VEiMxqIxeMoOWfcYT/EEB-Facts-and-trends.pdf)

(Sorry for severely delayed comment - I seem to do a lot of that sort of thing. Sorry also for lack-of-LJ-account anonymity. I guess I just sign here - DanH)

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