Links: Food for thought
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soniaA Shortcut for Caring for Others (and Being Cared For Yourself) by Anne Helen Petersen via cosmolinguist. Reasons it's hard to ask for and offer help, and creating an Emergency Guide (here's an example form) to share with others.
Women Have Been Misled About Menopause by Susan Dominus. Pro-hormone therapy for menopause. Not sure I agree, but at least it takes menopausal symptoms seriously.
Cars are rewiring our brains to ignore all the bad stuff about driving by Andrew J. Hawkins.
A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in maintained by Kevin Deldyke. Not just names and time, but all sorts of categories of falsehoods programmers believe.
Semper Ubi Sub Ubi - Things They Don't Teach You In School by J. Schauma. Some good advice for fresh computer science graduates.
Rethinking COVID hegemony by Blair Williams.
The incredible story of finding my brother in my 60s by Dorothy Ellen Palmer. "Dorothy Ellen Palmer and Don Doiron were born a week apart, in the same hospital, to different mothers. They learned decades later that they were half-siblings who were both adopted. " CN: mentions of abuse, trauma, ableism.
cosmolinguist. Reasons it's hard to ask for and offer help, and creating an Emergency Guide (here's an example form) to share with others.Women Have Been Misled About Menopause by Susan Dominus. Pro-hormone therapy for menopause. Not sure I agree, but at least it takes menopausal symptoms seriously.
Cars are rewiring our brains to ignore all the bad stuff about driving by Andrew J. Hawkins.
For example, people were asked to agree or disagree with the following statement: “People shouldn’t smoke in highly populated areas where other people have to breathe in the cigarette fumes.” Then they were asked to respond to a parallel statement about driving: “People shouldn’t drive in highly populated areas where other people have to breathe in the car fumes.”
While three-fourths of respondents agreed with the first statement (“People shouldn’t smoke...”), only 17 percent agreed with the second (“People shouldn’t drive...”).
A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in maintained by Kevin Deldyke. Not just names and time, but all sorts of categories of falsehoods programmers believe.
Semper Ubi Sub Ubi - Things They Don't Teach You In School by J. Schauma. Some good advice for fresh computer science graduates.
Rethinking COVID hegemony by Blair Williams.
Living with COVID is only beneficial to those in business who desire a speedy return to a pre-pandemic capitalist status quo, or for those in government who want to shirk responsibility.
The incredible story of finding my brother in my 60s by Dorothy Ellen Palmer. "Dorothy Ellen Palmer and Don Doiron were born a week apart, in the same hospital, to different mothers. They learned decades later that they were half-siblings who were both adopted. " CN: mentions of abuse, trauma, ableism.
