So I'm finally going to get through these tabs

[conuly]

These are all the ones I wanted to post yesterday, but didn't. There's a high preponderance of serious. I'm not sorting it, too lazy right now.

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Researchers use big-brother tech to spy on bumblebees

Why Dragonfly Wings Kill Bacteria (I can sum up the comments for you: LOL, masturbation!)

House of Cards: The Politics of Calling Card Etiquette in Nineteenth-Century Washington

Baby's sex plays a role in pregnant woman's immunity

Mo Willems’s Funny Failures

Long-lasting mental health isn’t normal

What I Learned About Life by Becoming a Landlord

Myopia cell discovered in retina: Dysfunction of cell may be linked to amount of time a child spends indoors

Striking Black And White Photos Show The Brutal Lives Of Gun-Toting Depression Era Mobs In America (A couple of pictures show non-gory images of deceased individuals)

Russia’s February Revolution Was Led by Women on the March

America's Television Graveyards

Why You Didn’t See It Coming

With 'Fake News,' Trump Moves From Alternative Facts To Alternative Language

When A Politician Says 'Fake News' And A Newspaper Threatens To Sue Back

Congress Destroying the EPA: What Was Life Like Before We Had It?

A consortium of elite, well-paid fighters from across the former Soviet Union are training jihadis in Syria. Their business model could go global.

How algorithms (secretly) run the world

Serial Killers Should Fear This Algorithm (Absolutely fascinating - although, like the police department in the beginning of the article, I would've ignored his email too and chalked it up to random internet cranks.)

Why can 12-year-olds still get married in the United States?

This leaked draft memo is the Trump administration’s starting point for a border crackdown

We're Trashing the Arctic. Literally.

Why China is building islands in the South China Sea

Comments

[stardreamer]

Calling cards: Some years back, I attended an event in a venue which had long been the headquarters of a large women's club. The walls were lined with pictures and mini-bios of former members. And virtually every woman there -- all of them socially and politically active, movers and shakers in their own right -- was identified as "Mrs. Husbandsname". The few who weren't were spinsters. It was unutterably sad. Yes, it was "the custom of the country" and I'm sure they were perfectly happy with it (never having had it suggested that any other option might be available), but it's still erasure.

Myopia cell: Oh great, now there's another reason for extrovert parents to bully introvert kids to "Go outside and DO SOMETHING!" when all we want to do is read. OTOH, there's no reason that you have to sit inside to read...

Serial killer algorithm: And then there's the elephant in the room -- most serial killers focus on classes of victim that nobody cares much about, because they know perfectly well that this increases their chances of getting away with it for a long time. The Gary killer focused on black women who were (at least sometimes) prostitutes. The Craigslist killers focused on poor middle-aged men with no family or community connections (hence the bait of a short-term job offering decent pay). Some serial killers focus on the homeless, some on gay men. But targeting sex workers (of either gender) is depressingly common, and it's done because people think they deserve whatever happens to them. And so the cops shrug and put the data in the cold-case file and go on about their day.

[conuly]

OTOH, there's no reason that you have to sit inside to read...

Absolutely, and that's what I tell the nieces. I say I don't care what they do, so long as they do it in the sunshine where they won't get rickets. But one has normal vision and the other is farsighted, so myopia isn't something they'll care about. (Then again, my vision is insanely bad. I wonder if getting more sunlight would help that?)

And then there's the elephant in the room -- most serial killers focus on classes of victim that nobody cares much about, because they know perfectly well that this increases their chances of getting away with it for a long time.

Yeah, there's that too.

[siderea]

Re serial killer algorithm. I went to the site linked in the article, because someone I know was murdered some years ago, and I never heard any resolution to the case. I discovered that the reporting tool divides cleared and uncleared cases, so I had to check both for that year in my city, separately.

The lists listed victim race.

The cleared list was 90% white. The uncleared list was 100% black.

I just closed the window and walked away before I punched something expensive.

[conuly]

Somehow, I'm not even a little surprised.

*hugs*