This (Two) Weeks’s Linky Things are Linky

Here is some stuff I read that I thought was interesting:

• July 21st – Is It Cold in Here? | Cocktail Party Physics, Scientific American Blog Network – The Chilling Effect – how subtle and not so subtle cues can affect minority participation
• July 20th – Ireland stands up to the Catholic Church – The Catholic church never fails to amaze and horrify me. Good for Ireland for telling them to go sit and spin.
• July 20th – Lab yeast make evolutionary leap to multicellularity – life – 23 June 2011 – New Scientist – This is so very very cool. Yeah nothing really to that whole Evolution thing … SIGH.
• July 20th – Black Vagina Wears Afro, Mexican Vagina Says ‘Ay-Yi-Yi’ in Douche Ad – NSFW – Adventures in Handpuppetry.
• July 19th – pandagon.net – I think this is a very interesting take on HP. And puts on paper some of the thoughts I’ve had sort of un-analysed running around in my head.
• July 14th – An Oral History of Friday Night Lights – Grantland – BEST SHOW EVER! Really, and this just makes me want to go back and watch from the beginning.
• July 14th – tansyrr.com» Blog Archive » Pratchett’s Women: The Boobs, the Bad and the Broomsticks – These are stories about witches that know fairy tales exist; witches who know about the dangers of cackling too much and getting a reputation for gingerbread houses. Wyrd Sisters is about what happens when the legends and stories about witches are used against them as a weapon; and how they fight back.
• July 14th – Peter Pronovost’s checklists better intensive care : The New Yorker – This isn’t a new story, but it is a really interesting one about how our Health industry fuctions.
• July 13th – Esoterica – A Modern tale of (sexual) assault – well kind of.
• July 13th – Google’s impressive healthy food program – this is a fascinating way to run a food program.
• July 12th – Dogs and Smurfs; Why women writers and stories about women are taken less seriously, by Max Barry – “It’s because of dogs and Smurfs. I can’t understand why no-one else realizes this. I see these knotted-brow articles and the writers seem truly perplexed. Dogs and Smurfs: that’s the answer.”
• July 12th – a new FREE eCookbook![the best of stonesoup] – This is a really nice little cook book – approx 70 recipes with nice pictures – and its FREE to download – lots of veggie recipes.