Linkluster Terry Forster

Alia Wong looks at the history of Sesame Street, and what we did and didn’t learn from it.

As someone for whom DSL is the only broadband option available, reports of the demise of DSL are disturbing.

Women are less likely to be exonerated of their crimes. Why? Sometimes, there was no crime.

The Yakuza has an age problem.

Wolf-Coyote Hybrids are migrating to cities.

School districts are scrambling to hire teachers.

“About fifty-four per cent of [liberal arts] graduate students report feeling so depressed they have “a hard time functioning, as opposed to ten per cent of the general population.”

Evidently, your cell phone battery can be used to track you.

Aww, Canada, we 2/3 like you, too! Philippines! And Germany, you break my heart.

An… enterprising individual figured out how to use 23andme’s website to allow webmasters to block people from websites on the basis of their ancestry.

Vox has some interesting energy maps.

Unleash the power of your brain using brain drumps.

Good news! Colonizing the moon may be easier than expected!

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Will Truman (trumwill) is a southern transplant in the mountain east with an IT background who bides his time taking care of their daughter while his wife brings home the bacon. You will probably be relieved to know that he does not generally refer to himself in the third-person except when he's writing short bios on his web page.

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Oscar Gordon says:

August 26, 2015 at 9:20 am

Not surprising that libertarians are concentrated in the western states.

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Michael Cain says:

August 27, 2015 at 10:10 am

18 or so years ago I was a systems analyst and applied researcher in local high-speed data service for the only big telecom company that operated both fiber-coax cable systems and twisted-pair telephony systems. When the company split, I was one of the few who got to decide which way to go. Even then it was clear that the cable side’s tech was going to be more flexible, and I opted to go that way. I only follow the details loosely these days, but there’s no evidence that the situation has changed, except perhaps in rich dense suburbs.

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- trumwill says:
  
  August 27, 2015 at 9:16 pm
  
  I don’t think there is any question that the foundation is better for cable. Does no good for those of us without cable ISP’s, though…
  
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Dr X says:

August 27, 2015 at 12:06 pm

Didn’t realize there are coyote-wolf hybrids, but makes sense. I wonder about this one I photographed in Evanston, IL, just north of Chicago. It seemed larger than most I’ve seen. Another smaller coyote was nearby.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4051/4259058039_1dd4bf0fe5_b.jpg

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- trumwill says:
  
  August 27, 2015 at 9:16 pm
  
  Gah! Lisby chased a fox the other day, but that’s about as exciting as I’ve seen.
  
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  - Dr X says:
    
    August 28, 2015 at 10:23 am
    
    The Chicago burbs were crawling with coyotes a few years ago. A lot turned up in the city, too. Weirdest case, a coyote walked into a Quiznos sandwich shop in downtown Chicago (the Loop) and climbed into a beverage fridge.
    
    https://www.youtube.co/watch?v=kbYIPXIX5f8
    
    Working in the burbs, I had a sighting or two a week, especially around a forest preserve I used to pass through. Twice I came within a few feet of running one down with my car. Last couple of years, though, I haven’t spotted any. They’re still out there, but I’ve wondered if the population has declined a bit.
    
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Oscar Gordon says:

August 27, 2015 at 12:39 pm

I would think that deploying more than one prospector robot to the moon would be in order.

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- trumwill says:
  
  August 27, 2015 at 9:15 pm
  
  I think we should just start colonizing now. (Sorry, I’ve just been so knee-deep in colonization thinking lately, I have a hair-trigger sensibility. Pondering how a colonized Pluto might work…)
  
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  - oscar.gordon says:
    
    August 28, 2015 at 11:45 am
    
    Well, the robots I’d send up would be construction bots, things that would level ground and drill holes/drive piles, etc. while the manned aspects get assembled.
    
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    - oscar.gordon says:
      
      September 9, 2015 at 1:18 pm
      
      Speaking of Robots
      http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/connectedworld/one-big-step-for-man-as-astronaut-controls-robot-from-iss/ar-AAe3GSN?ocid=ansmsnnews11
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Prevailing theory assumes that people enforce norms in order to pressure others to act in ways that they approve. Yet there are numerous examples of “unpopular norms” in which people compel each other to do things that they privately disapprove. While peer sanctioning suggests a ready explanation for why people conform to unpopular norms, it is harder to understand why they would enforce a norm they privately oppose. The authors argue that people enforce unpopular norms to show that they have complied out of genuine conviction and not because of social pressure. They use laboratory experiments to demonstrate this “false enforcement” in the context of a wine tasting and an academic text evaluation. Both studies find that participants who conformed to a norm due to social pressure then falsely enforced the norm by publicly criticizing a lone deviant. A third study shows that enforcement of a norm effectively signals the enforcer’s genuine support for the norm. These results
demonstrate the potential for a vicious cycle in which perceived pressures to conform to and falsely enforce an unpopular norm re-inforce one another.

Source: The False Enforcement of Unpopular Norms – ecb55a2c5194fd1c16532c2c92599c6931fb.pdf

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New smoking ban in mental health units is just cruel

If there is one thing in that statement which I would take issue with, it is Mallon’s overly optimistic belief that the new policy is “well-meaning”.

That’s because anyone who has spent any time in an Irish hospital over the last few years will have seen the smoking ban enforced in draconian and nasty ways which are simply punitive and judgmental.

Even those who have been fortunate enough to stay away from hospitals in that time can see the results of such bans.

Drive by the Mater on any rainy day, for instance, and you will see patients huddled together in their dressing gowns, exposed to the elements as they take a break from the drudgery of hospital life. This, apparently, is healthier than allowing the patients an enclosed area – which they used to have – where they could smoke without bothering anyone else and, perhaps, not get soaked to the bone at the same time.

People smoke in hospitals for a variety of reasons, and one which is never considered by the authorities is that it is actually good for their head.

Certainly, when my father spent a few years in and out of James’s hospital with the terminal, non-smoking related disease which would ultimately kill him, he measured the days by increments of when he’d go out for a smoke. It broke the endless monotony of living on a ward and, like many other long-term patients, he was determined to not become a ‘lifer’, one of those lost, institutionalised souls who simply lie in bed all day staring at the ceiling.

One might be forgiven for believing that this is more about sin and repentance than concern for the welfare of the sinners.

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