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[conuly]

Conlang summer camp for high school students (Where was this when I was a kid!?)

Man Buys Two Metric Tons of LEGO Bricks; Sorts Them Via Machine Learning

New heat-resistant ceramic can be squished like a marshmallow

Indian fishermen try new nets for healthier oceans

In Mumbai, Uber must compete with vibrant taxi roofs

How New Roots Are Driving An Apple Renaissance

Psychologists have shown that it’s possible to train one-year-olds’ attention skills

Kirk Drift

Hot water and antimicrobial soaps don’t get your hands any cleaner

When Schools Meet Trauma With Understanding, Not Discipline

The Mao Mango Cult of 1968 and the Rise of China's Working Class

The Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool

Cognates, False and Otherwise

What MRA’s think will happen at the Women-Only Wonder Woman Screenings (And check out the mayor of Austin's response to one of them!)

The College-Town Achievement Gap

How ‘Raise the Age’ Laws Might Reduce Recidivism

In 1931, a parking lot in Cleveland Park changed how Washington shopped

Neuroscientists rewire brain of one species to have connectivity of another (It's not just me, right? This is some serious mad scientist shit, isn't it?)

How A Theory Of Crime And Policing Was Born, And Went Terribly Wrong

‘Kill them, kill them, kill them’: the volunteer army plotting to wipe out Britain’s grey squirrels

Saving Lives and Money: The Potential of Solar to Replace Coal

Nooses showing up more in hate incidents around country

U.S. now can ask travelers for Facebook, Twitter handles

The super-rich are different: they pay less tax

First aid volunteers risk their lives at Venezuela protests

A Sacred, Sullied Space

In Damascus, a general feeling that the war is winding down

Comments

[zesty_pinto]

Hah, you're concerned about mad science, but literally the other day, someone I know posted this.

[conuly]

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[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

A lot of good links there; thanks! 'Kirk Drift' is the one I particularly like - I was a Trekkie from the very first episode of ToS, and I've always been a bit annoyed by the idea of Kirk being 'Horatio Horndog', because he so wasn't that. He was handsome, charming and gallant; he liked the ladies and they liked him back, but he was married to his ship. As for Kirk/Spock, there's obviously deep love and trust between them, and maybe occasional hints of physical attraction, but neither of them would ever consider such an unprofessional liaison.

I have to object to one point in the article:

"apparently sexually harassed nurse Christine Chapel clean off the ship:

Yeah, but we know who she's talking about: Little Miss Inappropriate Unrequited Crush, who mooned around after Spock in ToS until he finally threw soup at her to make her quit it. So I would guess that in Into Darkness, Kirk had been her crush-object, and she had bored all her friends silly with obsessing and fantasizing over him, but he never noticed her.