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Morning Cup of Links: Natural Gender Inequality
by Miss Cellania - January 2, 2009 - 3:36 AM
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The Natural Basis for Gender Inequality. The sexes are so different, why should we work for equal rights?
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Accusations of Photoshop! Matt Harding spills the beans about his Where in the Hell is Matt? videos.
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All you need to rent a U-Haul is a license and a credit card. A bit of hauling experience would have done this driver some good.
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Cities needlessly shine billions of dollars worth of light directly into the sky each year. Turn down the light pollution, and we’ll be able to see the Milky Way. (via Metafilter)
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What happens when Dr. Who meets Captain Kirk? Watch and see! (via Neatorama)
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Fark’s top twenty headlines of the year. The best of what they do best, but still not news.
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The Legacy of Sadako. A 12-year-old girl who died fifty-three years ago is still inspiring people around the world.

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Comments (8)

  1. Headline number ten should have been number one.

    posted by gus on 1-2-2009 at 6:10 am

  2. As a philosopher, I occasionally get taken to task by a sciencey type for what I do. Get rid of all this unverifiable talk about right and wrong, and embrace naturalism, they say, and everything will be right and fair. But would it? The gender equality thing is why many philosophers don’t do that– we’ve looked at what that sort of ethical system would entail, and, excuse the imprecise terms, it just doesn’t seem ~right.~

    posted by Zach on 1-2-2009 at 8:43 am

  3. Shouldn’t Headline #2 have read “outbox” instead of “inbox”?

    posted by Mensch on 1-2-2009 at 10:47 am

  4. I actually find it very sad the Matt video was fake. It’s a beautiful video. Bummer.

    posted by Orion on 1-2-2009 at 2:14 pm

  5. I cannot believe the gender inequality article.

    Yes, people are different. Equal work, equal time, equal ends deserves equal pay.

    It sickens me that someone would try to use science to argue against ethics.

    posted by Nicole on 1-2-2009 at 2:34 pm

  6. @ Orion:

    The video is not a fake. At first it seems very possible that it is fake, but as he continues on, especially when mentioning how they put a Boeing airplane in a pool and then just filtered the image, it is easy to tell he is just joking.

    It is all real! :)

    posted by AB on 1-2-2009 at 6:25 pm

  7. Orion, you should watch the linked video. You can skip ahead if you need to.

    posted by Miss Cellania on 1-2-2009 at 6:27 pm

  8. The Matt video is not a fake. You could tell that his “expose” was a total satire with increasingly incredulous explanations—especially the Boeing plane in the pool and the robots that they put new skins on for every scene.
    At first I was horrified that it might be a fake, since it is one of my favorite videos, but then as I continued to watch it became apparent what Matt was doing. Satire is lost on some people, I guess.

    posted by Khatti on 1-2-2009 at 8:00 pm

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