May 2013
3 posts
I should really be revising but instead I'm once...
a-study-in-jawn:
Q&A time
01: tell me the truth, what made you start liking the person you like right now? 02: what on your body is hurting or bothering you? 03: what was your last thought before going to bed last night? 04: what are you listening to? 05: what’s something you’re not looking forward to? 06: where do you think your best friend is right now? 07: have you kissed anybody...
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April 2013
15 posts
Animal Rights Activists
So yesterday as part of an abortive attempt to get into Wadstock we managed to walk straight into the annual giant anti-Animal Testing protest march. Hundreds of people screaming and chanting that all Oxford scientists are evil, and that the university is “torturing” animals. Every Thursday on the way to lectures we walk past a weekly protest, who harangue you and say students should...
I'm amazed that the pub where C.S. Lewis & J.R.R....
basedpaulrobeson:
Thatcher’s shitty legacy: Right to Buy policy caused lasting housing crisis, benefited her friends and donors, has links to current financial crisis: 1 2 3 Was anti-feminist, fought against EU equality leglisation and many policies hit women hardest: 1 2 Supported Pinochet, Khmer Rouge, Saddam: 1 2 3 Privitization caused inefficiency, inequality, and increased unemployment: 1 2...
“As reaction continues to pour in from around the world, it is announced she will...”
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BBC News 08/04/13
What the fuck?! Why as a country do we owe her this much?! This is just fuckin ridiculous now
(via death-on-a-pale-horse)
…and this justifies exactly why criticizing and condemning her and her legacy (i.e. the present government) is completely appropriate at this time....
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Thatcher and Oxford
My facebook feed is full of privileged private-school-educated Oxford students eulogizing Margaret Thatcher for her political achievements,
Conservative is the default political opinion in this university.
Even the lefties admire her “as a person.”
One day these red chino-wearing idiots who have never been north of Watford gap will be running the UK. They’re the bankers whose...
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Remember the privilege and comforts one must --...
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Margaret Thatcher.
simonlegend:
If you lived through the Thatcher years, from 1979 to 1990, it’s still impossible not to have an opinion on her. Anyone young enough not to have experienced her government’s policies, still will feel her influence resonate. If you were born in Yorkshire, Lancashire, South Wales, Tyneside, Teeside, the West Midlands, Greater London, Scotland or Northern Ireland… and lived through...
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Thatcher: The First (and Worst) Female Prime...
“Thatcher was an empowered woman who did what she thought was right and never backed down from what she believed in” or variants thereof.
There are three main things wrong with this:
1. Women who have done remarkable things in politics (like become the first female leader of a major Western democracy) should be celebrated for doing remarkable good things in politics, not remarkable...
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Thatcher
The rabid eulogizing of Thatcher on my facebook newsfeed is really starting to irritate me. Especially the ‘I hated her politics but I sympathize with her family’s grief/admire her as a woman/hope she finds peace line’ line from people who claim to be on the left. Not speaking ill of the dead is a good social norm for when you attend the funeral of your racist, sexist, grumpy...
themargatron:
http://www.upworthy.com/meet-the-woman-who-has-a-20-chance-of-living-because-of-one-companys-greed?c=upw1
Y’all should watch this. It’s important.
Ugh, is horrific that Myriad still have the patent nearly 20 years later - even drug patents run out after a decade, so why keep genetic tests if a company (making half a billion dollars a year) is unable to provide the level of...
Candide: Rereading Mortal Engines →
cantankerousk:
candide94:
In order to relax after this holiday’s brutal 10 hour revision sessions, I’ve been re-reading the original Mortal Engines Quartet. These (and HDM) are probably my favourite books that I read as a kid. I read ME for the first ~10 years ago, and re-read them over and over again til I was 12ish. Then…
And apparently they are making it into a film. With Peter Jackson at...
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Rereading Mortal Engines
In order to relax after this holiday’s brutal 10 hour revision sessions, I’ve been re-reading the original Mortal Engines Quartet. These (and HDM) are probably my favourite books that I read as a kid. I read ME for the first ~10 years ago, and re-read them over and over again til I was 12ish. Then I sorta moved on to other things, and it was only last year I actually got round to...
wren-natsworthy:
CAN WE HAVE A MORTAL ENGINES ROLL CALL; i think we should all know each other by name since there appear to be so few of us. so if you just reblog this with your name, thereby giving anyone else on the list the permission to go to your ask and freak out over mortal engines (ofc if you don’t want this, just write that next to your name we’re all very accepting here).
i’m Freya...
March 2013
34 posts
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FIVE REASONS WHY PHILIP REEVE SHOULD BE YOUR NEW... →
Candide: Random American Social Justice Blogger... →
eunbeag:
candide94:
I know I’m late to the discussion but I just read Melissa McEwan’s post attacking the Pixar movie Brave for appropriating Scottish culture and trading on damaging stereotypes of Scottish men. What really bugs me about this ill-informed article is that at no point does she use the word ‘Gaelic.’…
As a female, red haired, Gaidhlig speaking, Hebrides dwelling Scot….this...
Random American Social Justice Blogger Calls Out...
selchieproductions:
candide94:
I know I’m late to the discussion but I just read Melissa McEwan’s post attacking the Pixar movie Brave for appropriating Scottish culture and trading on damaging stereotypes of Scottish men. What really bugs me about this ill-informed article is that at no point does she use the word ‘Gaelic.’ The characters of Brave are medieval Gaels, they would have spoken...
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Random American Social Justice Blogger Calls Out...
I know I’m late to the discussion but I just read Melissa McEwan’s post attacking the Pixar movie Brave for appropriating Scottish culture and trading on damaging stereotypes of Scottish men. What really bugs me about this ill-informed article is that at no point does she use the word ‘Gaelic.’ The characters of Brave are medieval Gaels, they would have spoken (Old) Gaelic,...
To My Friends From Home...
insideonemind:
candide94:
insideonemind:
bradburythequeen:
candide94:
bradburythequeen:
candide94:
Candide94’s original post.
I made a post about this a while ago but it wasn’t articulated as nicely as this because I wrote it in a ranting rage. But this is exactly the type of stuff that I feel more angry about now than I did when I actually went there and I want to go back in time...
To My Friends From Home...
insideonemind:
bradburythequeen:
candide94:
bradburythequeen:
candide94:
Candide94’s original post.
I made a post about this a while ago but it wasn’t articulated as nicely as this because I wrote it in a ranting rage. But this is exactly the type of stuff that I feel more angry about now than I did when I actually went there and I want to go back in time and tell myself to say...
To My Friends From Home...
bradburythequeen:
candide94:
Candide94’s original post.
I made a post about this a while ago but it wasn’t articulated as nicely as this because I wrote it in a ranting rage. But this is exactly the type of stuff that I feel more angry about now than I did when I actually went there and I want to go back in time and tell myself to say something.
When I was at school I didn’t know...
To My Friends From Home...
I’m going back home on Monday. Tonight I went with some friends to go and see Cloud Atlas, but it was sold-out, so instead I’m sitting in my room thinking about Uist and my old school. Now that I’ve spent two terms at university, there are so many things that in retrospect were seriously wrong with our school. What I find worrying is how (even if we whined a bit) we came to...
Just because I'm already cross:
whyisitalwaystrains:
I calculated the fees for two years of Eton College and three years of Oxford college tuition/battels/general maintenance.
To receive the best education that Britain’s historic institutions has to offer, you have to have a spare £112,434 knocking about.
Lets compare that to the costs of my education: Primary school - £0. Secondary school - £0 College - £50 registration...
Fertilized eggs to have more rights than 50% of... →
newroscience:
…taking this zygote = person argument to its logical extreme, should we prosecute all women trying for pregnancy with the charge of manslaughter on account of the 75% of conceptions that end in failed implantation or miscarriage? This is a neuroscience blog, and I’m sorry, but if you haven’t even got an ectoderm yet, let alone a brain, how on earth can you call it a person?
science in a can: Interested in writing about neat... →
sciencesoup:
I know it seems like this only just happened, but if you’d like your writing to be featured on sciencesoup in April, I’m now accepting guest articles again! I’ll be going to the land of FREEDOM for three weeks, staying in Texas and D.C., and although I’ll have internet…
I am Steve Pinker, a cognitive psychologist at... →
newroscience:
Steven Pinker answers questions from redditors. A really refreshing discussion. Pinker isn’t afraid too admit his ignorance, he sticks to the science and doesn’t get bogged down in politics, and clarifies his position on female equality in STEM subjects - namely, although there are tiny statistical differences, these are so tiny that they can never be used to excuse the observed...
son-and-lover-of-cain asked: Behavioural Neuroscience!
Asides from my life.: NEWSFLASH: RIGHTEOUS... →
whyisitalwaystrains:
DISCLAIMER: Read the whole thing before telling me I’m a dick. I also do not claim that my conclusions are true for every case and acknowledge that I write from a uniquely state-educated perspective.
That title makes me seem extremely arrogant, over confident, and up my own arse. Sounds about…
I’m at Oxford too. I do a hell of a lot of access work. But...
Anonymous asked: Do you have any regrets about your life?
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gallgaidheal asked: Hello, I am an American who is deeply interesting in Gaelic culture, both Scottish and Irish. What would be a good place to start studying? I would enjoy the culture from any time period. I've read one or two of the Senchas Mor (Forgive my spelling please, I'm not very good with the language) books and I have found them very enjoyable. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!
Anonymous asked: What are your ambitions for the coming years?
doctorhowmany asked: Eriskay is on my list of places to visit when I get off my own island. Only a few years to go now.
usetheforcelucius:
oenonenaga:
i’m actually really happy this fandom isn’t big b/c
- no one angry that there are religious characters
- no one angry that there are atheist characters
- no one angry that there isn’t equal gay representation
- no one angry that women don’t have equal rights in London and Murnau
- no one to say that shawworthy is abusive
- no fighting
- almost no character...
Using drugs to enhance our relationships (and... →
Like all bioethically-questionable things, I am totally in favour of this for those who want it.
Also, these treatments must be shown in double-blind clinical trials to work.
Grim Job #1
I love how the first proper job I got since going to Oxford is working at a call centre.
I literally spent the evening phoning up rich alumni and begging them for money. It sounds grim, but in fact I’ve had some great conversations with alumni, including MPs, Kennedy Scholars, and Neuroscientists. Moreover, its unreasonably well-paid.
But the best thing is, I can now say I worked in a call...
lololfaggottron-deactivated2013 asked: Just curious but which module did you take in the end? I had a pharmacology module in my first semester and it was extremely unsatisfying
