links for 2008-06-07
Jun 7th, 2008 by Viviane
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A Journal of American College Health report claims that there is a link between energy drinks such as RedBull and “toxic jock” behavior that includes unprotected sex, substance abuse and violence.
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Lots of men go gaga over other guys. The author examines the Man Crush, and why it can end in tears.
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Neuroscientist Susan Blackmore, who has studied memetics, introduces a new type of meme which she calls the ‘teme’: the technological meme. Technology, through temes, she argues, is now driving us forward, whether we like it or not.
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I can’t think of another piece of narrative art wherein a woman is wooed and won by a closet, and if nothing else, that speaks to the paramountcy of order in the film. But as much as stuff orders Carrie’s world, sex orders the worlds of the other thre
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Echidne of Echidne of the Snakes reviews a review of a 50’s-era instructional called On Becoming a Woman: A Book for Teenage Girls that, um, makes a strong case for the theory of women as the “no-sex” class.