{"id":10465,"date":"2010-07-12T04:28:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T11:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10465"},"modified":"2010-07-12T04:28:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T11:28:03","slug":"open-thread-link-farm-baleful-stare-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10465","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread & Link Farm, Baleful Stare Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. A gallery of detailed close-up photos by Igor Siwanowicz<\/a>, mostly insects but also some other critters. Super neat stuff.<\/li>\n
  2. Oscar Grant: A Victim of American Fear<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Amanda Hess<\/a> on sexism and the lack of female corespondents on The Daily Show. The best thing I’ve read about this issue (even though I don’t agree with all of it).<\/li>\n
  4. Skinny dreams meets skinny reality:<\/a> Becoming thin doesn’t make fat people happier, just thinner.<\/li>\n
  5. The gender gap in math<\/a> is driven by social factors, not biological differences.<\/li>\n
  6. GOP candidate for governor Tom Emmer believes that some waiters get paid over $100,000 a year<\/a>; a local columnist goes to apply for one of those $100,000 waiter positions.<\/li>\n
  7. Exercise ‘won’t cure child obesity’<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Legal blog Balkinization has an excellent, excellent discussion\/debate about the recent DOMA decision in Massachusetts: First Jack Balkin<\/a>, then Andrew Koppelman<\/a>, then Balkin<\/a> again, and Koppelman <\/a>again.<\/li>\n
  9. Tea Partiers support overturn of DOMA<\/a> Hooray for a refreshing lack of hypocrisy! Alas, I’m convinced that the part of the decision they agree with is the least likely to survive appeal.<\/li>\n
  10. Being a parent reduces happiness everywhere, but the effect is weaker in welfare states<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Brad Plumer, Things Break and Jim Manzi — a conservative who I have to respect somewhat because of this post on National Review<\/a> — debate climate change and what should be done about it. Manzi begins<\/a>, then Plumer<\/a>, then Manzi again<\/a>, then Things Break<\/a>, and finally Plumer again<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  12. “A new University of<\/a> British Columbia psychological study used a new acronym to help explain why results from behavioral studies on people in Western nations don’t usually represent the rest of the world. It’s because we’re WEIRD (“Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic.”)”<\/li>\n
  13. Why we shouldn’t worry about the lack of Protestants on the Supreme Court<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  14. Immigration and the US Economy, in graphs<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  15. On Disability and the Public Service Announcement \u00bb Sociological Images<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Amanda dubunks stupid Trig Palin conspiracy theories<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. Could Joe Arpaio’s dad be a legal immigrant today?<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. Study shows that fat<\/a> people who lose significant weight have higher mortality rates than fat people who don’t. “In all, 1602 deaths were identified. After adjusting for age, race, smoking, health status, and preexisting illness, overweight men with weight loss of 15% or more, overweight women with weight loss of 5\u2013<15%, and women in all BMI categories with weight loss of 15% or more were at increased risk of death from all causes compared with those in the same BMI category who lost <5%; hazard ratios ranged from 1.46 to 2.70. Weight loss of 5\u2013<15% reduced risk of death from cardiovascular diseases among obese men.”<\/li>\n
  19. Yes, the stimulus worked<\/a>. It was, however, too small.<\/li>\n
  20. Black Power’s Gonna Get You Sucka: Right-Wing Paranoia and the Rhetoric of Modern Racism<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. I Don\u2019t Care What You Think \u2013 Seriously: Rejecting the Notion of Objective Beauty<\/a>. “The radical part about Lesley\u2019s assertion, however, is not that she doesn\u2019t care if other people find her beautiful, it\u2019s that she herself doesn\u2019t \u2013 and doesn\u2019t consider this to be negative.”<\/li>\n
  22. “…if porn\u2019s so great, how<\/a> come after more than 40 years of (relatively) legal status, there\u2019s still not much that\u2019s worth defending on anything more than principle?”<\/li>\n
  23. I really want to see the Israeli film A Matter of Size<\/a>, about fat people who take up sumo wrestling.<\/li>\n
  24. How to Tell if Someone Wants to F**k You<\/a><\/li>\n
  25. Lots of issues<\/a> about Amy’s hitting on — or sexually assaulting? — Doctor Who.<\/li>\n
  26. Musicians whose music was used as torture at Gitmo, going to Gitmo to play a concert<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  27. Who\u2019s your favorite fictional feminist?<\/a><\/li>\n
  28. Matthew Yglesias \u00bb People Want to Tax The Rich<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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